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  Welcome to The Official Website Of Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
Peltier’s attorneys uncovered, in the FBI’s own documents, that more than one weapon of the type attributed to Peltier had been present at the scene and the FBI had intentionally concealed a ballistics report that showed the shell casing could not have come from the alleged murder weapon.
Peltier was convicted of committing the crime of murdering two FBI agents, even though the prosecution has since admitted in open court (Oct. 15, 1985) that the government did not have proof of who killed their agents.
Leonard Peltier is an advocate of peaceful resolution of all issues and has been instrumental in getting people from different tribes with a history of animosity to come together in peace.
www.leonardpeltier.net /theman.htm   (0 words)

  
 Leonard Peltier | The Case of Leonard Peltier | Peltier's Biography
Leonard Peltier, a citizen of the Anishinabe and Lakota Nations, is a father, a grandfather, an artist, a writer, and an Indigenous rights activist.
Leonard Peltier and one of the organizers on the reservation went from household to household before the arrival of the investigating party to tell the local people to hide what little food they had.
Leonard Peltier's participation in the American Indian Movement led to his involvement in the 1972 Trail of broken Treaties which took him to Washington D.C., in the occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs building.
www.freepeltier.org /story.htm   (0 words)

  
 Leonard Peltier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement.
Peltier was born on the Anishinaabe (Chippewa) Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota.
Leonard Peltier was convicted and is currently incarcerated for the murders of FBI Special Agents, Ronald A. Williams, 27, and Jack R. Coler, who died during a 1975 shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leonard_Peltier   (2522 words)

  
 USA: Appeal for the release of Leonard Peltier - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Peltier was extradited from Canada partly on the testimony of Myrtle Poor Bear, an American Indian woman who signed a statement saying she had seen Peltier shoot the agents at close range.
Leonard Peltier's attorneys were not permitted to call Myrtle Poor Bear as a defence witness to describe to the trial jury how she had been coerced by the FBI into signing false affidavits implicating Peltier.
In June 1999 Peltier's lawyers filed a habeas corpus petition in a federal district court, claiming that the parole board's decision not to hear the case again for 15 years was arbitrary and unconstitutional, and a violation of guidelines which should be applied to the case.
web.amnesty.org /library/index/ENGAMR511601999   (0 words)

  
 Leonard Peltier Trial - HiddenMysteries Conspiracy Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Leonard Peltier was one of several high level AIM leaders present during the shoot out.
Leonard Peltier was extradited from Canada on the basis of an affidavit signed by a Myrtle Poor Bear, a local Native American woman known to have serious mental problems.
Peltier has served time for a significantly longer period of time than normally would be served before a grant of parole in similar cases.
www.hiddenmysteries.org /conspiracy/conspiracy/peltier.html   (0 words)

  
 AWOL Magazine: Free Leonard Peltier!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
As you know, Leonard Peltier is a federal prisoner serving two consecutive life sentences at the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, in connection with the 1975 deaths of two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Peltier's continued incarceration and the failure of the United States to release him on parole is based on animus.
On appeal, Leonard's legal team argued that the Commission erred because its stated reason: (1) is not supported by Leonard's convictions or the Eighth Circuit decisions addressing post-conviction petitions; (2) is not supported by the evidence before the Commission; and (3) is undermined by the material exculpatory evidence the government improperly withheld at Leonard's trial.
awol.objector.org /articles/peltier.html   (0 words)

  
 Leonard Peltier
Peltier's murder trial, did not permit the jury to learn of the FBI's pattern and practice of using false affidavits and of intimidating witnesses in recent related cases.
Peltier is the fact that he was present at the Jumping Bull ranch during the fatal shoot out.
Leonard Peltier's prompt release from prison, by urging the United States Parole Commission to grant him parole, for which he is nine years overdue.
www.snowwowl.com /nativeleaders/leonardpeltier.html   (0 words)

  
 Leonard Peltier - No Parole Peltier Association (NPPA)
Its central focus will be to review and analyze public statements made by Leonard Peltier which further indicate his guilt, and to provide interested readers and researchers with a another view, long missing from the public debate, of this very serious matter.
The NPPA opposes parole or clemency for Leonard Peltier.
Concerted efforts by Leonard Peltier and the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee to secure Executive Clemency and a pardon from the President of the United States have been unsuccessful.
www.noparolepeltier.com   (0 words)

  
 Leonard Peltier - Updates
Leonard Peltier or the AIM leadership, I would remind you, are not on trial for the 1975 murder of Annie Mae Aquash.
Peltier attorneys Carl Nadler and Barry Bachrach are pursuing an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit of the recent denial of Leonard's 1999 Habeas Corpus.
Leonard maintained his position throughout, that he was on the Pine Ridge Reservation with AIM to support the traditionalists and defend the elders, women and children, and that he was innocent.
www.alphacdc.com /treaty/peltier6.html   (0 words)

  
 Demand Clemency for Leonard Peltier Petition
Peltier was convicted for the June 26, 1975 murders of 2 FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Peltier's innocence was not allowed in his trial or if it was allowed it was not allowed in front of the jury.
The Demand Clemency for Leonard Peltier Petition to All People for the Release of Leonard Peltier was created by People for the Release of Leonard Peltier and written by L.
www.petitiononline.com /Release/petition.html   (0 words)

  
 The persecution of Leonard Peltier
Peltier was arrested in Canada for a crime he did not commit--the murder of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota in June 1975.
For many years, Peltier’s case has been better known outside the U.S. than inside, due to the self-censorship of the U.S. media (which scoff at the idea that there are “political prisoners” in the U.S.) and the fanatical determination of the FBI to keep him in prison.
PELTIER, A citizen of the Lakota and Anishinabe nations, was an active member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the early 1970s in the upper Midwest and on the West Coast.
www.socialistworker.org /2006-1/575/575_08_Peltier.shtml   (0 words)

  
 Leonard Peltier Native American Political Prisoner
Leonard Peltier is a 49-year-old Anishinabe/Lakota born on the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota.
Peltier was found guilty of two counts of first degree murder on the basis of fabricated evidence and coerced testimony.
Peltier was sent directly to USP Marion, disproving recent media allegations that it is used only for prisoners who have committed crimes in prison.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/9118/peltier.html   (0 words)

  
 Leonard Peltier Page--STORIES for American Indian Youth
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee--The committee is run by Leonard's fianceè in Kansas.
The Martyrdom of Leonard Peltier--Online Magazine's reporter Scott Anderson says the "myth" of Leonard Peltier--and some of his supporters--may be hurting his chances for release.
The painting of Peltier is used by his defense committee as their page logo; artist is Leonard Peltier..
www.kstrom.net /isk/stories/peltier.html   (0 words)

  
 Politics1 - Guide to the 2004 Peace & Freedom Party Presidential Candidate
Peltier, a prominent Native American activist, has been serving a life sentence in federal prison for the murder of two FBI agents in South Dakota in 1975, when they came onto the reservation.
Peltier -- who fled to Canada because he did not believe he would receive a fair trial -- was later captured, returned to the US, tried and convicted.
Peltier has proclaimed his innocence from start, claiming he was framed for the shootings because of his leadership role in AIM.
www.politics1.com /pfp04.htm   (0 words)

  
 LEONARD PELTIER: CLEMENCY WHAT HAPPENED?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Leonard Peltier -- a man sentenced to two life terms in a Kansas prison in 1977 for the murder of two FBI agents, but whose case has been mired in controversy since it began -- had dared to hope that outgoing President Bill Clinton would grant him executive clemency.
Peltier's supporters pointed out that unlike numerous pardons that were granted, Peltier's application for executive clemency went through all the appropriate Justice Department channels and had been pending throughout the Clinton presidency.
Peltier was among those members of AIM who came to lend his hands to an Indian cultural revival and movement for social justice.
ishgooda.org /peltier/clemency.htm   (0 words)

  
 "the People's Paths!" Special Paths - Leonard Peltier & AIM Information
Peltier NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on the latest moves in the decades-old campaign to win a pardon for Leonard Peltier, an American-Indian activist convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975.
Story: Peltier Supporters Mount Month-Long Campaign Seeking Clemency Supporters of Leonard Peltier, including survivors of the 1975 FBI Pine Ridge shootout and others, are at Lafayette Park in front of the White House today, kicking off a month-long campaign for clemency for the Native American leader and political prisoner.
Leonard Peltier: 23 Years behind Bars "This weekend marks the twenty-third anniversary of the imprisonment of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who is currently serving two consecutive life sentences for the murder of two FBI agents, a crime that his supporters say he did not commit.
www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net /lpeltier.html   (0 words)

  
 LEONARD PELTIER APPEAL FOR LETTERS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Peltier is plagued with a multitude of other potentially life-threatening disorders, including a condition similar to lockjaw, whereby the atrophied muscles and the jaw bones are immobilized.
However, Peltier along with the other AIM members, were responsible for the protection of the Indian youths and, once the shootout began, Peltier was among the group to lead some of the youngsters to safety through a hailstorm of flying bullets fired to and from every direction.
Peltier's Canadian lawyers, Stuart Rush and Don Rosenbloom, ultimately received the Feb. 19, 1976 Poor Bear affidavit and with this new evidence, the two lawyers appealed the decision to the B.C. Court of Appeal, but were turned down.
www.execulink.com /~hkoehler/peltier.htm   (0 words)

  
 Brief Overview - Leonard Peltier - No Parole Peltier Association (NPPA)
A massive FBI investigation (RESMURS) (Reservation-Murders) was conducted which resulted in the indictments of Darrelle (Dino) Butler, Robert (Bob) Robideau, and Leonard Peltier for the murder of the two agents and aiding and abetting in those murders.
Peltier was arrested in Canada and eventually extradited to the U.S. Butler and Robideau were tried before U.S. District Court Judge Edward McManus at a jury trial in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in June and July, 1976, and were acquitted based on self-defense.
Peltier was tried before U.S. District Court Judge Paul Benson at a jury trial in Fargo, North Dakota in March and April, 1977, convicted, and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences.
www.noparolepeltier.com /brief.html   (0 words)

  
 DENNIS BANKS ON LEONARD PELTIER
Peltier was also a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) which had been targeted and labeled by the FBI as a terrorist organization.
Peltier was tried later after an extradition from Canada based on fabricated accounts by Myrtle Poor Bear, who was coerced by government agents.
Peltier was not permitted to use the self-defense theory preventing much of the evidence from being presented to the jury.
members.aol.com /Nowacumig/peltier.html   (0 words)

  
 FREE Leonard Peltier page
Leonard had been previously identified as an AIM leader by the FBI and targeted by their notorious COINTELPRO program which "neutralized" people by slander, attack, and arrest.
Fearing no possibility of a fair trial and at the request of his elders, he fled to Canada where he was later arrested and extradited by affidavits manufactured by the FBI that the government now concedes were false and fabricated.
According to the final decision of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, Peltier's trial and previous appeals had been riddled with FBI misconduct and judicial impropriety including: coercion of witnesses, perjury, fabrication of evidence, and the suppression of exculpatory evidence which could have proved his innocence.
www.aics.org /peltier.html   (0 words)

  
 Leonard Peltier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This testimony was also repudiated by the witness, who claimed to have signed her damning affidavits under duress, as part of what one court of appeals judge would refer to as a 'clear abuse of the investigative process by the FBI.
Whatever the nature zand degree of his participation at Oglala, the rutless persecution of Leonard Peltier had less to do with his own actions than with underlying issues of history, racism, and economics, in particular Indian sovereignty claims and growing opposition to massive energy development on treaty lands and the dwindling reservations.
Over the years the case of the wrongful imprisonment of Leonard Peltier has been a unifying factor all across "Indian Country" and among our allies worldwide.
www.dlncoalition.org /dln_issues/leonard_peltier.htm   (0 words)

  
 Leonard Peltier Defense Committee Official Store : CafePress.com
After a long and agonizing odissey, Leonard was moved on August 15th, 2005 to USP Lewisburg, PA, and we need money to re-establish an office in that area, for legal filings and to pay to get government documents released through the Freedom of Information Act.
His wrongful incarceration is the result of gross government misconduct that has even been acknowledged by the US courts.
By supporting Leonard, you add your light to that of countless luminaries like His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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 AIM - American Indian Movement Store
Peltier's trial clearly show that a covert, illegal counter-intelligence program targeting the American Indian Movement leaders and members was first hatched by the Nixon White House.
Peltier's conduct since his imprisonment, factored severity rate of the crime he was convicted of, and determined to be eligible for release after 188 months (16 years) of imprisonment under Parole Commission guidelines.
Peltier’s conviction is deeply rooted in the Pine Ridge “Reign of Terror.” During this period, the FBI cooperated with vigilantes who killed over 60 members and supporters of the American Indian Movement and terrorized, assaulted and battered scores of others.
www.aimovement.org /peltier   (0 words)

  
 LEONARD PELTIER
Peltier is not the guilty party just seems to mount.
Leonard Peltier came to the reservation as part of AIM to provide security.
Leonard Peltier to be extremely unjust and a blight upon the principles
members.tripod.com /~ellis_smith/peltier.html   (0 words)

  
 Leonard Peltier | The Case of Leonard Peltier
Peltier Attorney Urges Congress to Investigate Official Misconduct
to the House Judiciary to include Leonard Peltier's case and the RESMURS in their investigation of FBI misconduct in the Deegan case.
It includes a sampling of images from Leonard's collection of original oil paintings, randomly displayed on your screen, and are accompanied by a background music clip selected from the CD, "Shaman 2 - Free Leonard Peltier Now!"
www.freepeltier.org   (0 words)

  
 Free Leonard Peltier!
Many Peltier supporters put their trust in a politician named Bill Clinton, who told them that when he got elected he “wouldn’t forget” about the popular Native American leader.
I won’t re-state the obvious: Leonard’s innocence; the blatantly unfair trial; the crooked tricks that led to his extradition—others may do that.
What Leonard needs is a renewed, revitalized, powerful people’s movement fighting for his freedom.
www.workers.org /2006/us/mumia-peltier-0309   (0 words)

  
 Leonard Peltier for President
P.O. Leonard Peltier's campaign coordinator is one of his lawyers:
This website's library of printable leaflets includes a general campaign brochure, a pamphlet on Leonard's case, and a joint flyer for the Peltier/Jordan ticket and Marsha Feinland's Senatorial candidacy in its Leonard Peltier/Janice Jordan section.
Leonard Peltier's Statement for the Secretary of State's Voter Guide
www.peaceandfreedom2004.org /lpeltier   (0 words)

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