“They treated Leonard Peltier differently ... Wray dismissed Peltier’s claims of an unfair trial as meritless and accused his sympathizers of “wrongly promot[ing] him as a standard-bearer ...
Free Leonard Peltier,” a persuasively well-researched and often infuriating documentary about the American Indian Movement activist convicted nearly a half-century ago of killing two FBI agents, had ...
“Leonard has always wanted to live ... but no one actually saw the killings. Supporters of Peltier have said the evidence produced at trial was unreliable, while the FBI has categorically ...
This is something that we always prepared for," producer Jhane Myers told Yahoo Entertainment about the documentary's contingency plan.
"President Biden was right to commute the life sentence of Indigenous elder and activist Leonard Peltier given the serious human rights concerns about the fairness of his trial," Amnesty ...
Leonard Peltier, citizen of Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe, gave an interview to MIGIZI Communications while standing trial in Wisconsin for the attempted murder of a police officer. Peltier was ...
Leonard Peltier spent nearly 50 years in federal prison ... arguing that he was unjustly convicted after an unfair trial. But former and current F.B.I. officials, including Christopher Wray ...
The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his remaining days in home confinement.
Joe Biden on Monday granted clemency to Leonard Peltier, the ailing Native American rights activist whom the U.S. government put in prison nearly 50 years ago after a trial riddled with misconduct ...
and Leonard Peltier. The case was the subject of Incident at Oglala, a social justice documentary still relevant today. Although Butler and Robideau were acquitted during their murder trial ...