Please Support Executive Clemency for federal prisoner Leonard Peltier!
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Nov 26th, 2015Someone from Guerneville, CA writes:
Let justice reveal itself let Leonard go FREE -
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Nov 25th, 2015Someone from Brooklyn, NY signed.
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Nov 17th, 2015Someone from Yankton, SD writes:
Matt Damon: "The wrong people are in jail, and the wrong people are out of jail." So true.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 17th, 2015Someone from Vermillion, SD signed.
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Nov 9th, 2015Someone from Bellingham, WA writes:
Legally, by US law, he is not guilty.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 7th, 2015Someone from Debary, FL signed.
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Nov 3rd, 2015Someone from Auburn, WA writes:
Please, release Leonard Peltier. He never committed any crime. I grew up in Rapid City, was aware of the way the Sioux were treated. It was WRONG! White man has shown his power. It showed weakness. Leonard should be with his people. Do something right, free the innocent.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 3rd, 2015Someone from Wyoming, MI signed.
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Oct 9th, 2015Someone from Rochester, WA writes:
This man has payed the price its time for him to go home !REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 6th, 2015Someone from Los Angeles, CA writes:
Peltier is in prison for the same reason as Mumia Abu Jamal: It's not that the government believes him guilty, but because they are out to silence indigenous people so that resources can continue to be ripped out of their land.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 3rd, 2015Someone from Sevierville, TN signed.
Oct 2nd, 2015Someone from Washington, IN writes:
lpathetic misuse of pwer. Time to make this right!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 19th, 2015Someone from Binger, OK writes:
I think it's wrong! There only leaving him in prison because he's native! They pardon people who've done horrible things! If this man was white he never would of went to prison! Set him free! We are not animals!REPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 16th, 2015Someone from Sacramento, CA writes:
1) A key alleged eyewitness to the shootings was Myrtle Poor Bear, a Lakota Native woman who lived at Pine Ridge. On the basis of her statement that she had seen Leonard Peltier kill Ronald Williams and Jack Coler, Leonard Peltier was extradited from Canada, where he had fled following the shootings. Although Myrtle Poor Bear later retracted her testimony, the trial judge refused to allow Leonard Peltier?s attorneys to call her as a defense witness on the grounds that her testimony ?could be highly prejudicial to the government.? In 2000, Myrtle Poor Bear issued a public statement to say that her original testimony was a result of months of threats and harassment from FBI agents. 2) In 1980, documents were released to Leonard Peltier?s lawyers as a result of a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents contained evidence which might have assisted Leonard Peltier?s case, but which had been withheld by the prosecution at trial. However in 1986, the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Eighth Circuit denied Leonard Peltier a retrial, stating that: ?We recognize that there is some evidence in this record of improper conduct on the part of some FBI agents, but we are reluctant to impute even further improprieties to them.? 3) In 1991, Gerald Heaney, the judge who presided over Leonard Peltier?s 1986 appeal hearing, expressed his concerns about the case. In a letter to Senator Daniel Inouye, chair of the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs, Gerald Heaney wrote that he believed ?the FBI used improper tactics in securing Peltier?s extraction from Canada and in otherwise investigating and trying the Peltier case.? He added: ?Although our Court decided that these actions were not grounds for reversals, they are, in my view, factors that merit consideration in any petition for leniency filed.? 4) The U.S. Parole Commission has held a number of parole hearings on Leonard Peltier?s case. However, it has always denied parole on the grounds that Peltier did not accept criminal responsibility for the murders of the two FBI agents. This is despite the fact that, after one such hearing, the Commission acknowledged that ?the prosecution has conceded the lack of any direct evidence that you personally participated in the executions of two FBI agents.? 5) Leonard Peltier is currently imprisoned in Florida, approximately 2,000 miles from his family in North Dakota. It is a physical hardship for his family to visit him, and almost impossible financially. As a result, he is very rarely visited by his loved ones. Leonard Peltier is now aged 69 and in poor health, suffering from diabetes, among other things. In sum, Amnesty International has studied his case extensively over many years and remains seriously concerned about the fairness of proceedings leading to his trial and conviction. Amnesty believes that political factors may have influenced the way in which the case was prosecuted. Leonard Peltier?s most recent petition for release onREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 7th, 2015Someone from Austin, TX writes:
This is a disgrace...free Leonard Peltier!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 4th, 2015Someone from Santa Fe, NM writes:
At the very least a new trial is in order. There are to many unresolved questions about this case beginning with the circumstances surrounding the extradition from Canada.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 4th, 2015Someone from Santa Fe, NM writes:
At the very least a new trial is in order. There are to many questions unresolved about this case beginning with the circumstances surrounding the extradition from Canada.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 31st, 2015Someone from Oaks, OK signed.
Aug 31st, 2015Someone from Oklahoma City, OK writes:
Now I give you support as much as I can.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 31st, 2015Someone from Oklahoma City, OK writes:
Now I give you support as much as I can.REPORT COMMENTS
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