Priscilla Durham's step-brother, Kenneth Pate, who was imprisoned with Abu-Jamal on other charges, has since claimed that Durham admitted she had not heard the "hospital confession" she had testified to [REF].
On March 26, 2012 the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania rejected his appeal for retrial that asserted, based on a 2009 report by the National Academy of Science, that forensic evidence presented by the prosecution and accepted into evidence in the original trial was unreliable [REF].