Quote from: K-Dog on Dec 12, 2024, 09:13 AMLeonard Peltier is a Native American activist and a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who was convicted of two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a June 26, 1975, shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment and has been imprisoned since 1976.  Peltier became eligible for parole in 1993.

There is no proof Leonard was the shooter that day.

Two salient points.
1) 12 jurors who's job it was to determine the facts of the matter disagree with you, at least in terms of him being guilty of murder. It is possible to be convicted of murder while just hanging around with the people doing the murdering. So Leonard might not have been the shooter, but he was wrapped up deep enough in it to be part of the gang held responsible.
2) No political crimes at all, just typical murdering and stuff.

I just finished up nearly 2 weeks as a juror in a murder trial. It was the most amazing experience. In the end, it was just little ol' me and a guy with a PhD doing advanced research with large language models, having a BLAST going over the jury instructions, debating the meaning of words, when is a robbery perhaps not a robbery, the nuance was wonderful and it was the best intellectual exercise I've had in months.

In this case there were 7 people in a room about the size of what any good communists living room in any million dollar home looks like. One person fired a gun. One died. No one saw who fired the gun. All were arrested ultimately except the wife of the deceased.

We did this cool thing, examining the evidence, understanding the perspective of all the witnesses (4 of the 7 testified, one refused to testify, one died, and the defendant wasn't talking), used our brains and stuff, no one was allowed to be smoking hallucinagenic substances because we were, you know, supposed to do that thinking thing, etc etc.

According to someone trying to duck the murder charge...NO PROOF!!!

I completely agree with my original statement that Leonard wasn't convicted of any political crimes. I heartily recommend not murdering people, and if one does, don't get caught.