Blog 2: The American Justice System: Leonard Peltier

In 1977 he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for first degree murder in the shooting of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents during a 1975 conflict on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. There were other strong indications of misconduct as well. The jury found both men not guilty. Thirty-five years ago today, Native American activist Leonard Peltier was illegally arrested in Canada for the murder of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota in June 1975. Following coerced and fraudulent testimony, he was then illegally extradited to the United States, tried and convicted in federal court and sentenced to serve two life terms in what was one of the most infamous and shameful political miscarriages of justice in modern U.S. history. Leonard Peltier is an imprisoned Native American considered by Amnesty International, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, National Congress of American Indians, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rev. Jesse Jackson, among many others, to be a political prisoner who should be immediately released. leonard peltier's case is a blot on the judicial system of this countrythat ought to be  corrected as quickly as possible