The AR-15 rifle recovered from a car carrying Peltier and several American Indian Movement members had a different firing pin than the rifle used to kill agents Jack Coler and Ron ...

Peltier set to live on his tribal land in North Dakota His supporters say he was falsely convicted in an unfair trial Peltier release long opposed by FBI His incarceration symbolized injustice ...

BELCOURT, N.D. (AP) — More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant. Despite being convicted and ...

Peltier maintains his innocence ... I've worked as an investigator on the defense side of criminal cases in the federal system. I know the degree to which the deck is stacked against the defendants.

Misconduct by the government in the investigation and prosecution of Mr. Peltier has been a stain on our system of justice.” The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 1986 that evidence ...

Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement activist, returned to North Dakota, where, under home confinement, he will serve the remainder of his life sentence for the murders of two F.B.I. agents.

SUMTERVILLE, Fla. — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his ...

SUMTERVILLE, Fla. — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting ...

Leonard Peltier, an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, was convicted of first-degree murder in 1977 for the killing of two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout at the ...