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PHOENIX — Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier was denied parole on Tuesday after serving nearly 50 years in federal prison for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota, a case that ...
For nearly five decades, Leonard Peltier has remained behind bars ... recanted witness testimony, and the court’s decision to exclude ballistics and other evidence surrounding the shooting ...
Leonard Peltier, the 80-year-old activist and "remorseless ... including two that reached the Supreme Court. "For nearly 50 years, no fewer than 22 federal judges, multiple parole boards, and ...
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) — A nearly 50-year-long legal saga is coming to an end after President Biden commuted the life prison ...
“Mr. Peltier is a guilty man,” Schneider said. One appeal court described the 1975 murders of Williams and Coler as “executions,” he said. Leonard Peltier “remains remorseless ...
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life ... at his options for filing an appeal to a federal district court, Sharp said. Parole was rejected at Peltier's last hearing ...
With Free Leonard Peltier, filmmakers Jesse Short Bull (Lakota ... federal courts, the U.S. Supreme Court and three U.S. presidents, alleging numerous incidents of misconduct by the FBI in ...
Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist controversially ... and said she did not know Peltier. A federal appeals court in 1978, while upholding the conviction, called the use of affidavits ...
Leonard Peltier, an Indigenous activist imprisoned ... and he received his commission as a federal district court judge in 2011. He served on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District ...
Leonard Peltier recently turned 80 years old ... a result I strongly doubt would be upheld in any court today. I believe that a grant of executive clemency would serve the best interest of ...
Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement activist ... Wray, then the F.B.I. director, noted that Mr. Peltier had repeatedly lost in court on several issues, such as his attempts to downplay ...
"Our work to ensure Leonard Peltier is free will not stop," he added. "We will immediately begin an appeal to the Parole Commission’s Appeals Board and in federal court. I have not lost hope ...