Leonard Peltier is an indegenous rights activist, writer, great grndfather, and citizen of the Anishinabe and dakota/lakota Nations, and has been unjustly imprisoned since 1975. While participating in a American indian movement he went to assist the Oglala Lakota people on the Pine ridge reservations when a shoot out occured on June 26, 1975. He was accused of the shooting deaths of two FBI agents . Peltier believing he would never get a fair trial in the United States(for obvious reasons) fled to Canada, but was later apprehended on February 6, 1976. The FBI presented fraudulent affidavits to the canadian court, and Peltier was returned to the U.S for trial. Key witnesses were banned from testifying about the FBI's misconduct. Mr Peltier's attorney's found in the FBI's documents that more than one weopon of the type attributed to Peltier had been present at the scene, and the FBI concealed a ballistics report that showed that the shell caseings coudlnt have come from the alleged murder weapon. At this time the jury was unaware of these facts, and Peltier was sentenced to two consecutive life terms. Leonard Peltier is currently imprisoned at the U.S. Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Help free Leonard Peltier http://www.leonardpeltier.org/theman.htm
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