Dear Supporters:
There has been a slight delay in reporting on Peltier’s
latest public statements; this is due in large part to several other NPPA
projects that needed attention.
In the meantime it is important to remind Peltier supporters
and detractors of just a few, but very crucial events, in the legal history of
the Peltier saga:
“The trial witnesses unanimously testified that there was
only one AR-15 in the compound prior to the murders, that this weapon was used
exclusively by Peltier and carried
out by Peltier after the murders.”
(Emphasis added) (Footnote.1)
“Peltier’s arguments
fail because their underlying premises are fatally flawed. (A) The government
tried the case on alternative theories; it asserted that Peltier personally
killed the agents at point blank range, but that if he had not done so, then he
was equally guilty of the murder as
an aider and abettor.”
“The Government’s
statement at a prior oral argument, upon which Peltier relies, was not a concession.” “In any event, this eight-word comment in response to Judge
Heaney‘s statements, is a totally inadequate basis for asserting that the
government conceded that it had not proved
that Peltier personally shot the agents
at close range…” (Emphasis added) (Fn.2)
“The direct
and circumstantial evidence of Peltier’s guilt was strong…” “…Peltier’s
contention of manufactured evidence are far from convincing.”
[Direct
Appeal; 8th Circuit, 9/14/78]
“The record as a whole leaves no doubt that the jury accepted
the government’s theory that Peltier had personally
killed the two agents, after they were seriously wounded, by shooting
them at point blank range with an AR-15 rifle.” [Rule 35 Motion, 8th
Circuit, 12/18/02]
"Previous federal court decisions provided the (parole) Commission with ample facts to support its conviction that Peltier personally shot Agents Coler and Williams." "Neither the conviction nor any subsequent court decisions have been overturned."
[10th Circuit Court of Appeals, 11/4/2003]
“I believe he got a fair trial,
not a perfect trial, but a fair trial.” [8th Circuit Court Judge Gerald Heaney].
Fn.3
“In the
Spirit of Coler and Williams”
Ed
Woods
Footnotes:
2)
Fatally flawed: http://www.noparolepeltier.com/997.html
3)
The Heaney factor: http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2017/10/peltier-heaney-factor.html
