tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39346984234584795472024-03-13T11:20:16.620-04:00No Parole Peltier Association (NPPA)Destroying the folklore and myth surrounding Leonard Peltier.Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comBlogger272125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-28525420006760635862024-01-12T14:00:00.001-05:002024-01-12T14:00:43.140-05:00SA Jack R. Coler: 1947 – 1975, Rest in Peace. PELTIER UPDATE<br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Dear Supporters:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">This is another important occasion to take a moment and remember one of our own. Jack, would now, January 12<sup>th</sup>, be turning a respectable seventy-seven and considering the stamina and energy he displayed during his law enforcement careers in the LAPD and FBI, he would most likely be an active, productive, even enviable, septuagenarian. Jack was many things beyond a loyal husband, devoted father, and beloved son and brother. For those who had the pleasure and honor to know and work with him, he was a consummate dedicated and courageous professional. These were just some personal traits that come to mind when we remember Jack Coler. Others are partner, friend and the unquestionable character qualities of Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity. Jack left behind a loving wife, and two young sons who may have only a faint memory of their devoted, caring and courageous father. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">At this point there is no way of knowing what these last many years may have brought. Those who knew him could easily imagine a life rich in accomplishments with strong family ties. Long retired from a productive Bureau career and with Jack’s commitment and dedication to law enforcement, he may have pursued another career as a Chief of Police. These intervening years would certainly include his love of Nature and the outdoors, exploring new and exciting places with his sons and grandchildren.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">All the potential enjoyment, happiness, successes and challenges conquered, could have been of a life that was stolen from him by the cowards of Jumping Bull on that agonizing and tragic day in 1975.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">To see Jack as he was then, and to imagine meeting him today, please see the remarkable video produced by the <i>Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI</i>, available on YouTube. There, you will learn about the incredible Jack Coler and his equally brave and courageous partner, Ron Williams<span style="background-color: yellow;">. <a href="applewebdata://0C645799-49B4-4207-8799-E6AA9D3A123F#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Brush Script Std"; font-size: 14pt;">Ed Woods</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b>PELTIER UPDATE<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">There will come a time as Peltier soon turns eighty, that at one point, likely sooner than later, he will meet his Creator. He will then, for the first time ever, be compelled to finally tell the truth and separate himself from a lifetime of falsehoods. Although the Christian belief in Heaven and Hell are not entirely accepted in Native American culture, perhaps there is a Hell and also a Hell on Earth, that for these past years Peltier has rightly experienced when he aptly told us, “<i>There’s an ever-present background chorus of shouts and yells and calls, demented babblings, crazed screaming, ghostlike laughter. Maybe one day you realize one of those voices is your own, and then you really begin to worry</i>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Native culture accepts the belief that after death, life continues, regardless if in their Earthly life they were a good or bad person. There certainly may have been many times that Leonard Peltier looked back and wished he had taken different actions and made other decisions that fateful day. If the ‘<i>unprovoked attack’</i> on the Agents had ended there, and Peltier was later arrested and convicted for assault or attempted murder and aiding and abetting, his sentence may have been already served and over<span style="background-color: yellow;">. <a href="applewebdata://0C645799-49B4-4207-8799-E6AA9D3A123F#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a></span> He could have been free a long time ago. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Nonetheless, he was compelled to take that final step and brutally murder two wounded and defenseless human beings. That assumes, of course, that as Peltier and the other cowards fled, aid would have reached the Agents in time. Jack’s nearly fatal and massive wound likely left him unconscious. But Agent Williams was alive and faced his killer; a defensive hand raised against the barrel of Peltier’s AR-15. The fake warrior had figured out one thing for certain, <i>dead men make poor witnesses</i>. Moreover, adding to the depravity of his actions, in an unrelated murder trial, sworn testimony revealed that Peltier described Agent Williams’ final moments; “<i>The M-F was begging for his life, but I shot him anyway</i>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The result, had Jack succumbed to his devasting wound, would have ultimately ended as it did anyway for Peltier. Murder has no Statute of Limitations and life-sentences are the result. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Today, on Peltier’s somewhat dated website homepage, an oversized banner recognizes his past birthday, last September. Scattered amongst many unrelated commercial advertisings are the same tired rhetoric and falsehoods. The website, and perhaps Peltier’s “committee” is getting a bit stale, not unlike it has a number of times in the past.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Aside from hearing his own voice echoing from concrete walls, perhaps among those voices Peltier may hear those of his victims. He may also faintly hear the phantom Mr. X. No, wait, that can’t happen; Peltier’s only alibi is a proven lie<span style="background-color: yellow;">. <a href="applewebdata://0C645799-49B4-4207-8799-E6AA9D3A123F#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://0C645799-49B4-4207-8799-E6AA9D3A123F#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a> The incredible video dedicated to Jack and Ron: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozhEumzwgKA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozhEumzwgKA</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn2"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://0C645799-49B4-4207-8799-E6AA9D3A123F#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a> Response to Peltier attorney’s public misstatement regarding an ‘unprovoked attack’<o:p></o:p></p> <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2023/04/peltier-sharps-disinformation4.html">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2023/04/peltier-sharps-disinformation4.html</a></div><div id="edn3"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://0C645799-49B4-4207-8799-E6AA9D3A123F#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></a> The years-long lie of Mr. X: <a href="https://www.noparolepeltier.com/lie.html" target="_blank">https://www.noparolepeltier.com/lie.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></p></div></div>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-43876547604930987162023-10-24T15:34:00.000-04:002023-10-24T15:34:56.181-04:00PELTIER: MYTHS FROM CONGRESS <br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy9c6G3pmruhRngPxjZOifdEZ0DtW7-CToNIOFKLib9AFHMqVD_oA4ZToepZ0mbRdrHgd-h8P6f78xv47D1fWQZIqR_ZT-ulFmzRPIqumCZ_GbxzyFFQDNugevIaOu-cGoK_K2TGkuRc62nNwLq_PUpM5J6QuJNOzsTkLfoHJ9O6I-RuGZy7CLJOQ7zZE/s228/Peltier%20Arrest%202-6-1976.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="228" data-original-width="188" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy9c6G3pmruhRngPxjZOifdEZ0DtW7-CToNIOFKLib9AFHMqVD_oA4ZToepZ0mbRdrHgd-h8P6f78xv47D1fWQZIqR_ZT-ulFmzRPIqumCZ_GbxzyFFQDNugevIaOu-cGoK_K2TGkuRc62nNwLq_PUpM5J6QuJNOzsTkLfoHJ9O6I-RuGZy7CLJOQ7zZE/s1600/Peltier%20Arrest%202-6-1976.jpg" width="188" /></a></div><br />Dear Supporters:<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">With little surprise, thirty U.S. legislators and three U.S. Senators, known for their far-left views, signed an October 6, 2023 letter to President Biden calling for the release of the convicted brutal murderer, Leonard Peltier<span style="background-color: yellow;">.<a href="applewebdata://C8E86E0C-D608-4B8E-8756-598074AB1559#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Even less surprising, they demonstrate a fundamental lack of knowledge of the facts surrounding the brutal murder of FBI Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams. The letter provides more of the same perpetuated Peltier myth, folklore and easily challenged misinformation.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Peltier was undoubtedly excited to read this letter but missed the obvious point; the pathetically minor support it offered. Six percent (6.17%) of the entire U.S. Congress is hardly a ringing endorsement. They call for clemency (that he could never deserve), commutation (not quite adding up to two consecutive life sentences plus an additional seven years for an armed prison escape) or a compassionate release that hardly breaches the depth of his unprovoked attack and brutal slaying of two already severely wounded human beings<span style="background-color: yellow;">.<a href="applewebdata://C8E86E0C-D608-4B8E-8756-598074AB1559#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[2]</span></span></span></a></span> Peltier is old and has health issues. Nonetheless, he showed none of the compassion for his victims that he now demands for himself. Both Jack and Ron are still dead, robbed of their ability to grow old, while Peltier remains as remorseless as ever.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">This collectivist herd offers little support for their cause by even mentioning the now deceased World War II hero and highly respected federal court of appeals jurist, Gerald Heaney. They failed to understand the significance of Judge Heaney’s involvement in the Peltier matter.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Yes, Judge Heaney, based on his own personal feelings concerning the history of Native Americans, called for some compassion. However, Judge Heaney, who twice authored Peltier appellate decisions, along with many other federal judges, had no difficulty identifying Peltier’s guilt and fate, based on facts and the law, not emotions. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The Thirty-three failed miserably to recognize a very obvious fact that the most critical decision in the entire Peltier saga was authored, with a unanimous panel, by none other than Judge Heaney<span style="background-color: yellow;">.<a href="applewebdata://C8E86E0C-D608-4B8E-8756-598074AB1559#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[3]</span></span></span></a></span> Judge Heaney played a critical role in Peltier’s appellate history, a history where none of well-over two-dozen appeals altered his conviction or sentence<span style="background-color: yellow;">.<a href="applewebdata://C8E86E0C-D608-4B8E-8756-598074AB1559#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[4]</span></span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">This letter provides the President with an issue that has been through the courts and thoroughly dismissed; “…(Peltier) <i>is serving two life sentences in a maximum-security prison for <u>Aiding and Abetting</u></i>.” For Aiding and Abetting? Well, of course, because it suits their purpose, they only offer half the facts and a not so minor detail of his conviction.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Among many other appellate decisions, even Peltier’s initial <u>Direct Appeal</u> clearly stated, “After a twenty-five-day trial, Peltier was convicted by a jury of both counts of <i>first-degree murder</i>.<span style="background-color: yellow;">”<a href="applewebdata://C8E86E0C-D608-4B8E-8756-598074AB1559#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[5]</span></span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The issue of <i>Aiding and Abetting</i> was argued by Peltier attorneys and resulted in a final decision by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on July 7, 1993: “<i>Peltier’s arguments fail because their underlying premises are fatally flawed. 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</i>.<span style="background-color: yellow;">”<a href="applewebdata://C8E86E0C-D608-4B8E-8756-598074AB1559#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[6]</span></span></span></a></span> Exactly what part of “<i>fatally flawed</i>” do the Thirty-three not comprehend, or more precisely, why they elected to keep it hidden and buried under years of Peltier myth and folklore<span style="background-color: yellow;">? <a href="applewebdata://C8E86E0C-D608-4B8E-8756-598074AB1559#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[7]</span></span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Their letter also fails to offer the President proper context by quoting a ‘<i>benign’</i> statement from former U.S. Attorney James Reynolds; “<i>his conviction and continued incarceration is a testament to a time and system of justice that no longer has a place in our society</i>.” The signers obviously avoided quoting some of Reynolds provably false and outrageous public statements. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">For some reason, known only to Reynolds, he completely misrepresented his authority and involvement regarding the prosecution of Leonard Peltier. Reynolds’ public statements are<i> a gross misstatement of the record</i>. <i>Reynolds contributed nothing what-so-ever to what went into the final brief on Direct Appeal or into any of the subsequent government briefs resisting Peltier’s numerous attempts to obtain Post Conviction Relief </i>(taken from a direct quote)<span style="background-color: yellow;">. <a href="applewebdata://C8E86E0C-D608-4B8E-8756-598074AB1559#_edn8" name="_ednref8" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[8]</span></span></span></a></span>Reynolds, despite his previous position, is devoid of any credibility. Nonetheless, the Thirty-three have little conscience when it comes to providing the whole truth. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams<span style="background-color: yellow;">” <a href="applewebdata://C8E86E0C-D608-4B8E-8756-598074AB1559#_edn9" name="_ednref9" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[9]</span></span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Ed Woods<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">cc:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">33-Signatories of the October 6, 2023 letter<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">1-President Joseph Biden, Washington, DC (In letter form)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">1-U.S. Attorney General, Merrick Garland, Washington, DC (In letter form)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">1-U.S. Pardon Attorney, Honorable Elisabeth G. Oyer, Washington DC (In letter form)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">1-Hon. Christopher Wray, Director, FBI, Washington, DC (In letter form)<o:p></o:p></p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://C8E86E0C-D608-4B8E-8756-598074AB1559#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a> <a href="https://democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/doc/moc_letter_to_president_biden_re_leonard_peltier.pdf" style="color: #954f72;">https://democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/doc/moc_letter_to_president_biden_re_leonard_peltier.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">(Last accessed 10/17/2023)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn2"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://C8E86E0C-D608-4B8E-8756-598074AB1559#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[2]</span></span></span></a> “Unprovoked?” During a publicly broadcast interview, Peltier’s most recent attorney, Kevin Sharp, made a materially false statement to support his pro bono client. Contrary to Sharp’s public claim, Agents Coler and Williams were subjected to an unprovoked attack by Peltier and other American Indian Movement cowards. The trial record, testimony, evidence and the federal Courts of Appeal clearly demonstrate that Sharp, like so many others, is willing to fabricate and promote the Peltier myth. It was clearly proven that there was an eyewitness to the initial unprovoked attack; Agent Ronald Williams.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2023/04/peltier-sharps-disinformation4.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2023/04/peltier-sharps-disinformation4.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn3"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://C8E86E0C-D608-4B8E-8756-598074AB1559#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[3]</span></span></span></a> 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit Court of Appeals decision 9/11/86: <a href="https://www.noparolepeltier.com/800.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.noparolepeltier.com/800.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn4"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://C8E86E0C-D608-4B8E-8756-598074AB1559#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[4]</span></span></span></a> Judge Heaney: A thorough review of his involvement in the Peltier matter:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2017/10/peltier-heaney-factor.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2017/10/peltier-heaney-factor.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn5"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://C8E86E0C-D608-4B8E-8756-598074AB1559#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[5]</span></span></span></a> 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit Court of Appeals, Direct Appeal, decision 9/14/78: <a href="https://www.noparolepeltier.com/585.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.noparolepeltier.com/585.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn6"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://C8E86E0C-D608-4B8E-8756-598074AB1559#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[6]</span></span></span></a> 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit Court of Appeals, decision 7/7/93: <a href="https://www.noparolepeltier.com/997.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.noparolepeltier.com/997.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn7"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://C8E86E0C-D608-4B8E-8756-598074AB1559#_ednref7" name="_edn7" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[7]</span></span></span></a> Peltier wanted poster: another early example of charges. Indicted 11/25/75 for ‘murder’ and ‘aiding and abetting.’ <a href="https://www.noparolepeltier.com/images/warrant.gif" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.noparolepeltier.com/images/warrant.gif</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn8"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://C8E86E0C-D608-4B8E-8756-598074AB1559#_ednref8" name="_edn8" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[8]</span></span></span></a> Two of six previous Blogs castigating James Reynolds’ erroneous pubic statements. See the ‘James Reynolds’ portions of the following:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/01/peltier-president-biden-james-reynolds.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/01/peltier-president-biden-james-reynolds.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2021/06/" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2021/06/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn9"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://C8E86E0C-D608-4B8E-8756-598074AB1559#_ednref9" name="_edn9" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[9]</span></span></span></a> The Thirty-three letter quotes retired FBI Agent Coleen Rowley. Rowley had no personal involvement in the Peltier matter, the RESMURS, Reservation Murders investigation, Peltier’s trial and conviction or the multiple appeals that followed. She is entitled to her opinion, no matter how irrelevant it may be. <o:p></o:p></p></div></div>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-8649918089352059732023-07-30T10:30:00.000-04:002023-07-30T10:30:10.327-04:00FBI AGENT Ronald A. Williams, 1947 – 1975 R.I.P.<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Dear Supporters:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">On July 27<sup>th</sup> Ron would be reaching his 76<sup>th</sup> birthday and the questions to ask are “What if” and over these past decades, how much was stolen from this dedicated and brave young Agent?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Those who personally knew Ron were fortunate to have had that opportunity. By all accounts he was a personable, charming, intelligent and dedicated friend and a consummate professional.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">To understand just who Ron was, please see this tribute dedicated to both he and his partner, Jack Coler<span style="background-color: yellow;">. <a href="applewebdata://30736278-A0D1-4010-BE4A-FDEEC0D336ED#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Ron was single on that fateful June day in 1975 and the promise of a rewarding life and career lay ahead. It is more than likely he would have married and by now enjoying time with grandchildren. There certainly would have been another career after the FBI; Ron had mentioned plans to attend law school and he was also a licensed pilot. But we will never know the rewards and pleasures of a life that was brutally stolen. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">We will never forget Ron and his partner Jack Coler’s bravery and sacrifice in the Line of Duty by the violent criminal acts of Federal Inmate # 89637-132 and the other AIM cowards on that fateful day, June 26, 1975.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Rest in peace brother and watch over those men and women who place themselves in harm’s way to enforce and uphold the law and protect the citizenry. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Brush Script Std";">Ed Woods<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><u>PELTIER UPDATE</u>: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Peltier remains at USP Coleman, Florida, rightfully serving the remainder of his consecutive life sentences, plus seven additional consecutive years. His attorney, Kevin Sharp, lamely parrots the same decades old myth and folklore while claiming to have an understanding of the Peltier trial and many appellate decisions. Those decisions prove and support Peltier’s unquestioned guilt and never altered his conviction or sentence. Examples of Sharp’s misinformation campaign are available from the homepage <a href=" www.noparolepeltier.com "> www.noparolepeltier.com </a> and blogs dated,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">4/20/23, 3/31/23, 3/24/23. 3/11/23, 11/26/22, 10/7/22, 8/14/22, 4/2/22, 2/21/22, 1/31/22.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">As faulty as Keven Sharp’s Peltier rhetoric may be, another attorney, former U.S. Attorney, James H. Reynolds, for some unknown and bizarre reason has gone far beyond the truth and facts making unsupportable claims regarding his own alleged involvement in the Peltier matter. Further examples in blogs dated, 1/5/17, 12/2/17, 1/1/18, 6/26/21, 1/20/22. <o:p></o:p></p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://30736278-A0D1-4010-BE4A-FDEEC0D336ED#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a> A production for The Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI by The James Hoyer Law Firm Production Unit:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozhEumzwgKA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozhEumzwgKA</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">Personal notes about Ron Williams:<span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> <a href=" http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2015/07/i-never-met-ron-williams.html,"> http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2015/07/i-never-met-ron-williams.html,</a> </span><a href=" http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2016/07/"> </a></span><span style="color: #954f72;"><a href=" http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2016/07/">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2016/07/</a></span><u><span style="color: #0563c1;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p></div></div>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-48482756579559902572023-06-26T18:03:00.002-04:002023-06-27T09:46:14.410-04:00PELTIER: JUNE 26, 1975, PINE RIDGE, SD<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Dear Supporters:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Peltier fled to Canada where he was arrested on February 6, 1976 for the brutal slaying of two already severely wounded FBI Agents, Jack Coler and Ron Williams. Peltier and other American Indian Movement cowards started the ‘<i>unprovoked’</i>attack on the Agents who were lawfully acting in the Line of Duty.<a href="applewebdata://D56BB594-3D06-486A-B8F5-CF0E91CC024E#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a> Severely wounded, Agent Coler was likely unconscious, Agent Williams attempted to surrender.<a href="applewebdata://D56BB594-3D06-486A-B8F5-CF0E91CC024E#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a> That effort and a plea for his life was ignored. Instead, Peltier shot them both in the face at point-blank range with his AR-15. Agent Williams had a defensive wound to his right hand.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Peltier, his supporters and attorneys, like James H. Reynolds and Kevin H. Sharp, erroneously make public claims that fail to disclose the fact that Peltier’s conviction has been considered during over a dozen appeals and reviewed by multiple federal judges. It is a matter of undisputed fact that every allegation made by Peltier has been reviewed in infinite detail, and his conviction and consecutive life sentences have consistently been upheld. Yet, Peltier, his supporters and several of his attorneys derive far greater satisfaction promoting years of false narratives based solely on myth, folklore and lies. <a href="applewebdata://D56BB594-3D06-486A-B8F5-CF0E91CC024E#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">How it all began: Cowards and an <i>unprovoked</i> attack:<a href="applewebdata://D56BB594-3D06-486A-B8F5-CF0E91CC024E#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[iv]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 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float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="534" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGjZ_sqZ4Fh6I0332HGjmyyBF81V8Qpxit7oxA8B_1L8gNdWCjXndzwnPpWjyzosCysPIKaHfZ7pzLNcrEOmvprcM9iXM7UIW11bgB-Q-sHzIymLS3iCP5ui7icsA7vgqYQt-L5pUeCJGp-yUi3ZYMBGtw1lIaCRXQYmSJOni44SOjEy4rd3RCKThGX9I/w288-h235/Jack.png" width="288" /></a></div><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">And how it ended: Brutally murdered and manhandled after death: Wounded, both shot point blank in the face, yet found like this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFulQAfebHCVAAAUDuMZ5z8prCieZ-vc8o7GntQCcOUEdFh_tGGHtEX2uiXdVPhjfIre1u2qLihGIdfgktJFImpP8lFNlIGH96FQveAy6rERTYtha6jgf6-P6CWsF9uJ3xbaEivcuDafvZZO5nTPNLg0ISPEnFdiliv0lsOw3JR3MpkQ0VuhyUeEdEZiA/s320/June%2026,%201975%20%20%20%20%20Pine%20Ridge.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFulQAfebHCVAAAUDuMZ5z8prCieZ-vc8o7GntQCcOUEdFh_tGGHtEX2uiXdVPhjfIre1u2qLihGIdfgktJFImpP8lFNlIGH96FQveAy6rERTYtha6jgf6-P6CWsF9uJ3xbaEivcuDafvZZO5nTPNLg0ISPEnFdiliv0lsOw3JR3MpkQ0VuhyUeEdEZiA/s1600/June%2026,%201975%20%20%20%20%20Pine%20Ridge.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Today, a marginally small and bemused group of AIM members and Peltier supporters gathered on Pine Ridge to celebrate an unrepentant cold-blooded murderer, as Peltier remains where he belongs, at the U.S. Penitentiary, Coleman, Florida for the remainder of his consecutive life sentences and the seven additional consecutive years for an armed escape. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Ed Woods<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://D56BB594-3D06-486A-B8F5-CF0E91CC024E#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a> Erroneous public statement by Peltier attorney Kevin H. Sharp regarding the ‘unprovoked attack’<o:p></o:p></p><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2023/04/peltier-sharps-disinformation4.html">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2023/04/peltier-sharps-disinformation4.html</a><br /><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn2"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://D56BB594-3D06-486A-B8F5-CF0E91CC024E#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a> White Flag of Surrender and further background: <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/flag.html">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/flag.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn3"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://D56BB594-3D06-486A-B8F5-CF0E91CC024E#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></a> The factual challenges to Peltier attorneys:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><b>Kevin H. Sharp</b>:<o:p></o:p></p><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/11/peltier-unsharpening-aiding-abetting-1.html">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/11/peltier-unsharpening-aiding-abetting-1.html</a><br /><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2023/03/peltier-sharps-disinformation1.html">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2023/03/peltier-sharps-disinformation1.html</a><br /><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com</a><br /><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2023/03/peltier-sharp-disinformation3.html">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2023/03/peltier-sharp-disinformation3.html</a><br /></p><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2023/04/peltier-sharps-disinformation4.html">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2023/04/peltier-sharps-disinformation4.html</a><br /><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><b>James H. Reynolds</b>;<o:p></o:p></p><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2017/01/peltier-reynolds-false-claims.html">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2017/01/peltier-reynolds-false-claims.html</a><br /><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2017/12/james-reynolds-part-ii-letters-public.html">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2017/12/james-reynolds-part-ii-letters-public.html</a><br /><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2018/01/peltier-james-reynolds-part-iii-dancing.html">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2018/01/peltier-james-reynolds-part-iii-dancing.html</a><br /><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2021/06/">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2021/06/</a><br /><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/01/peltier-president-biden-james-reynolds.html">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/01/peltier-president-biden-james-reynolds.html</a><br /><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/02/peltier-february-6-1976-more-james.html">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/02/peltier-february-6-1976-more-james.html</a><br /><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn4"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://D56BB594-3D06-486A-B8F5-CF0E91CC024E#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[iv]</span></span></span></a> Peltier and his only alibi; the lie of Mr. X: <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/lie.html">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/lie.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-12411613487666790672023-04-30T10:42:00.001-04:002023-04-30T10:42:40.888-04:0023 Years. NOPAROLEPELTIER.COM<p> Dear Supporters:</p><p>April 30th marks twenty-three years since the founding of the <i>No Parole Peltier Association</i> and its website.</p><p>This, of course, was the result of a chance meeting with Jack Coler's younger son on April 3, 2000, which led to initial research and considerably more that followed with over 70 Editorial Essays, 268 blogs and hundreds of letters to discredit the myth, fabrications and provable lies from Peltier and his supporters.</p><p>Please see the 23rd Anniversary Statement available from the homepage by clicking on the "<b>23</b>" icon.</p><p>Sincere thanks to all our supporters as we ensure that justice prevails and we honor the memory and sacrifice in the Line of Duty of Jack and Ron.</p><p>"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"</p><p>Ed Woods</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMe7pNI6fGjlg9rd6eHxuD5h2Oh-NRyJxmr9JdY8cr_0f0lDa1Yx7ipg590tH0AKrJcbSjz8msxq5ePyq3BPre-6IrBhp6bkBYhxsxdrD2ZaABKaxq3me828PGAjTJov24K_Vk2e86bXRBqUo1jNH2MtWiZ5iV3f_MC5ixdYPLGDAAZocQtkkEGw35/s769/RING---.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="769" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMe7pNI6fGjlg9rd6eHxuD5h2Oh-NRyJxmr9JdY8cr_0f0lDa1Yx7ipg590tH0AKrJcbSjz8msxq5ePyq3BPre-6IrBhp6bkBYhxsxdrD2ZaABKaxq3me828PGAjTJov24K_Vk2e86bXRBqUo1jNH2MtWiZ5iV3f_MC5ixdYPLGDAAZocQtkkEGw35/s320/RING---.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-57876302672694423512023-04-20T11:01:00.001-04:002023-04-20T11:06:03.059-04:00PELTIER: SHARP’S DISINFORMATION….#4<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">PELTIER: SHARP’S DISINFORMATION….#4<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Unprovoked Attack<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Dear Supporters:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">As a further follow up to the February 15, 2023 <i>Native America Calling</i> podcast, Peltier <i>pro bono</i> attorney, Kevin Sharp, responded to a statement from Ed Woods.<a href="applewebdata://5332CBFC-64BE-48A6-BEE4-329E44DA6B66#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">It is apparent that the more Sharp promotes the Peltier agenda, built on a foundation of myths, folklore, fabrications and provable falsehoods, he only further reinforces Peltier’s unquestioned and remorseless guilt.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Responding to a question from the moderator if anything would change the NPPA’s position, Ed Woods replied; “<i>No, and let me tell you why. This was an unprovoked attack</i>…”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Sharp responded with; “<i>Well, it’s not accurate, right, it’s inconsistent with the evidence in this case. That, that there began a shootout. Now we know Peltier was part of that</i>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Inconsistent? Let’s visit that again counselor. Since Sharp claims to know the evidence, his statement must be intentionally false while providing his own further proof supporting Peltier’s conviction.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">From the very first day of testimony in the Peltier trial, there is absolutely no dispute that there was, as a factual matter, an eyewitness to exactly how the <i>unprovoked</i> attack began against the Agents.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Hearing the radio transmission from Agent Williams that morning, Agent Gary Adams testified: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“<i>Then he (</i>Williams)<i> said, ‘Looks like they’re going to shoot at us.” Then he said, “We’ve been hit</i>.” “<i>There was sounds of gunfire over the Bureau radio</i>.” Agent Adams was questioned; <i>“How long was it from the time that he said, “It looks like they’re going to shoot at us” to “we’ve been hit?</i>” Answer: “<i>It was just one communication after the other</i>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">To any sensible person, ignoring the disinformation campaign, it is without question that Agent Williams, transmitting on the Bureau radio, established that Peltier and the others fired the first shots. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">However, Sharp makes another admission contrary to his previous statements and against his client’s best interests. Obviously, it is impossible to remove Peltier from the scene, but when Sharp publicly states “<i>Now we know Peltier was part of that</i>,” clearly establishes one of the two theories upon which Peltier was tried and convicted; murder, and Aiding and Abetting. Thanks to Mr. Sharp, Peltier’s attorney, for clarifying that. <a href="applewebdata://5332CBFC-64BE-48A6-BEE4-329E44DA6B66#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Yet, there is another significant piece of Peltier history supporting this wanton violence. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Since the beginning of the Peltier Committee and his website—perhaps three decades now, they have proclaimed on the homepage that Peter Matthiessen is the foundational source of Peltier’s history and innocence. Matthiessen, in his book, weaves his own suspicions and narrative throughout the Peltier and the American Indian Movement saga, but nonetheless makes some telling revelations and conclusions that cannot be ignored.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">To this very day, the homepage of Peltier’s website carries this proclamation:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.8in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">Note: Much of the information contained on this site is derived from “In the Spirit of Crazy Horse” by renowned author Peter Matthiessen. The book is the definitive work on the American Indian Movement and the Peltier case…As acknowledged by the courts, Matthiessen’s reputation for not being sensationalistic or scandalous is well known. He is a highly respected author and his works have received wide acclaim.” <a href="applewebdata://5332CBFC-64BE-48A6-BEE4-329E44DA6B66#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">In a moment of honesty, what was Matthiessen’s assessment of the unprovoked attack?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.8in 0.0001pt 0.5in;">“On the other hand, the evidence suggests – to me at least – that Coler and Williams had indeed been chasing one or more vehicles…the agents pulled up in that vulnerable place down in the pasture because they heard a warning shot or came under fire; if there is another persuasive explanation of the location and position of their cars, <b>I cannot find it</b>.” (p.544) <a href="applewebdata://5332CBFC-64BE-48A6-BEE4-329E44DA6B66#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[iv]</span></span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Contrary to Sharp’s blather, even Peltier’s Peter Matthiessen supports the fact of Agent Williams’s radio call and the unprovoked attack. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">When asked about who killed the Agents, Sharp responded: “<i>So, should somebody be behind bars for it, you know go find out who did it</i>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Sharp would be hard pressed to answer a very simple question.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">If, as he feebly attempts to cloak Peltier with innocence, then why, for the better part of two decades, did Peltier lie about his only alibi: that the phantom Mr. X killed the Agents, and then added the red-herring of the infamous red pickup? Does former judge Sharp understand that an innocent man does not have to lie about his facts, lie about the truth that is, or have to keep track of the lies? Nevertheless, Peltier said, “<i>This story is true</i>.” Of course, it wasn’t. Peltier has altered his claims about Jumping Bull many times over the years, only to be called out by one of his own people, Dino Butler, and later by one of his own attorneys.<a href="applewebdata://5332CBFC-64BE-48A6-BEE4-329E44DA6B66#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[v]</span></span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Sharp’s agenda-driven disinformation advocacy is a shameless ploy, repeating, adnauseam, the same talking points and court motions of previous, and unsuccessful, Peltier attorneys. This is all the more apparent by his blatant public defamation of the many Peltier-related federal judges, implying that he is much smarter than more than seventeen of them, and their decisions were corrupt.<a href="applewebdata://5332CBFC-64BE-48A6-BEE4-329E44DA6B66#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[vi]</span></span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">More to follow.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Ed Woods<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn7ruv_b5qMioYvOv5Fkf77ZOakuc0yMdPjBXh4rYukIlcEtPj8T7YwfTVuC0C1gZIe1KO1olr0zKQkjmSCGzfLB1R6UwLBKUheUDj_F4VB8z9gG0aFyB7CCBZv14XtXQEIbKbgU2DPFfbptDR0NHQQQDSkdzMWp3AjtOt0aL2I_nzfmms75nubypB/s320/RV-OREGON%20WEAPONS.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn7ruv_b5qMioYvOv5Fkf77ZOakuc0yMdPjBXh4rYukIlcEtPj8T7YwfTVuC0C1gZIe1KO1olr0zKQkjmSCGzfLB1R6UwLBKUheUDj_F4VB8z9gG0aFyB7CCBZv14XtXQEIbKbgU2DPFfbptDR0NHQQQDSkdzMWp3AjtOt0aL2I_nzfmms75nubypB/s1600/RV-OREGON%20WEAPONS.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://5332CBFC-64BE-48A6-BEE4-329E44DA6B66#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a> Native America Calling podcast; <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2023/03/peltier-sharps-disinformation1.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2023/03/peltier-sharps-disinformation1.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn2"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://5332CBFC-64BE-48A6-BEE4-329E44DA6B66#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a> Sharp’s failure to convince on the Aiding and Abetting issue:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/11/peltier-unsharpening-aiding-abetting-1.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/11/peltier-unsharpening-aiding-abetting-1.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn3"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://5332CBFC-64BE-48A6-BEE4-329E44DA6B66#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></a> This has been brought to Peltier’s attention previously: Matthiessen passed away in 2014.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn4"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://5332CBFC-64BE-48A6-BEE4-329E44DA6B66#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[iv]</span></span></span></a> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">However, notwithstanding Peltier’s website statement: Harvard Law professor, Alan Dershowitz on Peter Matthiessen; The New York Times Book Review, March 6, 1983: “Mr. Matthiessen is at his worst when he becomes a polemicist for his journalistic clients.* He is utterly unconvincing-indeed embarrassingly sophomoric-when he pleas the legal innocence of individual Indian criminals.” “Mr. Matthiessen not only fails to convince; he inadvertently makes a strong case for Mr. Peltier’s guilt. Invoking the cliches of the radical left, Mr. Matthiessen takes at face value nearly every conspiratorial claim of the movement, no matter how unfounded or preposterous.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">*Matthiessen was essentially on Peltier’s royalty payroll and being provided with unencumbered access to Peltier and others involved in the murder of the Agents.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn5"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://5332CBFC-64BE-48A6-BEE4-329E44DA6B66#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[v]</span></span></span></a> Mr. X The Movie: <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/movie.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/movie.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> Mr. X The Interview: <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/interview.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/interview.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> Mr. X The Lie: <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/lie.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/lie.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">Peltier Attorney refutes Mr. X, <span style="color: red;">tinyurl.com/2s3nzxd5 </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">Peltier Attorney refutes Mr. X, Part II: <span style="color: red;">https://tinyurl.com/49sasaas </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn6"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://5332CBFC-64BE-48A6-BEE4-329E44DA6B66#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[vi]</span></span></span></a> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Kevin H. Sharp, public statement 2/15/2023, “<i>There were evidentiary rulings that appear to be, from someone who made a lot of evidentiary rulings from the federal bench</i> (referring to his own six years as a federal judge), <i>slanted so that the prosecutor got the upper edge</i>.” Sharp does not qualify his public statement. He is stating that the judges’ decisions were deliberately made to favor the government over Peltier’s interests. There is no other way to interpret or lessen his traduced plain language; “slanted so that the prosecutors got the upper edge.”<span style="color: red;"> </span> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">For further background see NPPA Blogs, available from the homepage, <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/" style="color: #954f72;">www.noparolepeltier.com</a> : <span style="background-color: yellow;">1/31/22, 2/21/22, 4/2/22, 8/14/22, 10/7/22, 11/26/22, 3/11/23, 3/22/23, 3/24/23, 3/31/23</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;">See also, erroneous and unsupported statements by former U.S. Attorney, James H. Reynolds;<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">1/5/17, 12/2/17, 1/1/18, 6/26/21, 1/20/22, 2/7/22</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-16537660884654061092023-03-31T16:53:00.001-04:002023-03-31T16:53:29.161-04:00PELTIER: SHARP DISINFORMATION…#3<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Appeals: Errors of Law<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dear Supporters:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Peltier’s <i>pro bono</i> attorney and former federal judge, Kevin H. Sharp, is suffering under the weight of his own inconsistent and purposefully agenda-driven rants. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Sharp’s fallback position in many public ramblings is quoting <u>appellate</u> statements from Assistant U.S. Attorney, Lynn Crooks before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. However, therein lies the fallacy of deliberately ignoring a fundamental and obvious cornerstone of the criminal justice system. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">There is a crucial factor that Sharp desperately wants uninformed Peltier supporters, and his client—the convicted brutal double-murderer Peltier—to overlook; not only to dismiss, but to completely disregard. Sharp plays the look-over-here game, ignoring a fundamental fact that he cannot deny, avoid or refute.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Sharp’s quoting of AUSA Crooks was accurate, but irrelevant. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Sharp would have to agree that post-conviction, Peltier’s many attorneys appealed what they believed were either constitutional violations or trial errors that could result in either overturning his conviction or remanding for retrial. None of their efforts were successful, but for one issue, the Freedom of Information release of the October 2, 1975 FBI Laboratory Teletype. That subject went through the courts five (5) times before it was ultimately dismissed by the Eighth Circuit. One of many other attempts was the appellate court dismissing an appeal that was “<i>fatally flawed</i>.” That appeal was the result of an “<i>unartfully phrased</i>” appellate statement made by AUSA Crooks, which is not unlike the distraction Sharp continues to promote today. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">But Sharp, as he has done, would only dismiss these court decisions, and specifically the judges who made them, with his slanderous public claim that implied the decisions were corrupt<span style="background-color: yellow;">.<a href="applewebdata://4AA87401-95FE-46AA-B47E-E53172ACD468#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Throughout the lengthy appellate history, and even to an issue unrelated to Peltier’s conviction, and in a different Court of Appeals; as late as November 4, 2003, the Tenth Circuit came to the same obvious conclusion: “<i>Previous federal court decisions provided the </i>(Parole)<i> Commission with ample facts to support its conviction that Mr. Peltier <u>personally shot Agents Coler and Williams</u></i>.” And, “<i>As the Eighth Circuit recognized, ‘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 their murder as an aider and abettor</i>.’” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Anything post-conviction is legally academic relative to the more than twenty-two appeals that followed. Those appeals were designed to find something, anything, that would sustain the pursuit to find some relief for their client. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">However, there was an endpoint, that for obvious reasons escapes Sharp. Beyond April 18, 1977, after watching and hearing all the evidence, the jury came to their own inescapable conclusion; Peltier was guilty of murdering Agents’ Coler and Williams. That fact is undisputed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">What Sharp is attempting to do is alter the conviction by fantasizing that anything AUSA Crooks may have said during the appeals has any relevance or meaningful effect on the jury’s decision.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The appeals, regardless of what AUSA Crooks said, does not alter the outcome. As Sharp should understand, the appeals are designed in an effort to find <i><u>errors of law, not facts</u></i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">That obvious and fundamental principle escapes Sharp, albeit, deliberately, as he attempts to go back in time and alter the facts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Sharp’s disinformation is a dishonest attempt to confuse Peltier supporters, and engender undeserved sympathy, by wrongfully inferring that anything stated post-conviction would change the guilty verdict or the conviction.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">More to follow. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ed Woods<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://4AA87401-95FE-46AA-B47E-E53172ACD468#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a> <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Kevin H. Sharp, 2/15/2023, “<i>There were evidentiary rulings that appear to be, from someone who made a lot of evidentiary rulings from the federal bench</i> (referring to his own six years as a federal judge), <i>slanted so that the prosecutor got the upper edge</i>.” Sharp does not qualify this public statement. He is stating that the judges’ decisions were deliberately made to favor the government over Peltier’s interests. There is no other way to interpret or lessen his traduced plain language; “<i>slanted so that the prosecutors got the upper edge</i>.” For further background see NPPA Blogs, available from the homepage, <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/" style="color: #954f72;">www.noparolepeltier.com</a> : <span style="background-color: yellow;">1/31/22, 2/21/22, 4/2/22, 8/14/22, 10/7/22, 11/26/22, 3/11/23, 3/22/23, 3/24/23.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-53452842034632735722023-03-24T17:12:00.001-04:002023-03-24T17:33:28.822-04:00PELTIER: SHARP'S DISINFORMATION...#2<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">SHARP’S DISINFORMATION…#2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Constitutional Violation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Dear supporters:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The answer for Mr. Sharp is: No, I do not agree. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Sharp is only <i>grasping at straws</i> and agitating Peltier supporters with agenda-driven, tired and shallow claims. He is trying to blow life into arguments that have long since died of natural causes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Continuing with the February 15, 2023 <u>Native America Calling</u> podcast (see previous Blog dated 3/11/23 <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com</a></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">when Peltier attorney Kevin Sharp made the following public statement in response to a comment by Ed Woods regarding Constitutional violations:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">KEVIN SHARP: “<i>There was a sixth Amendment violation to a fair and impartial jury, when one of the jurors admitted she was prejudiced against Indians. Those were her words. And she admitted it. Now that is a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to a fair and impartial jury. So, I think Mr. Woods will have to agree with me that if we start there, let’s have a new trial, and today that would get you a new trial. Problem was that Leonard’s attorneys didn’t appeal that. And, at that time you could waive the issue, you can’t waive that issue today. It’s just ineffective assistance of counsel and that issue alone gets you a new trial</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Kevin Sharp offers a premise that would not survive a court challenge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Brief background</span></b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">: (Note: The trial transcript of this juror issue is available here.<a href="applewebdata://6127FB17-053A-4C58-AB10-215382724ACE#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a> Readers are strongly encouraged to review the entire document.) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">On the first day of Peltier’s trial in Fargo, North Dakota, during a break in the proceedings, Chief U.S. District Court Judge Benson, on the record, advised the federal prosecutors and Peltier’s two defense attorneys (Peltier was physically present during all these proceedings) that his office had been contacted by an individual who claimed that one of the jurors, Shirley Klocke, made a statement disparaging Native Americans. Judge Benson had his clerk secure an affidavit from the complainant and provided it to the attorneys and Peltier. At the close of that day’s testimony there was a lengthy discussion. The person who submitted the affidavit, along with two other witnesses who overheard the juror’s comment during a coffee break where they all worked, appeared voluntarily in the Judge’s chambers. Individually, there was a <i>voir dire </i>(questioning) of the three women by Judge Benson, Peltier’s attorneys (Taikeff and Lowe) and the prosecutors (U.S. Attorney Hultman and Assistant U.S. Attorney Crooks). They also <i>voir dired</i> the juror, Mrs. Klocke. There was further discussion between the lawyers and Judge Benson, each offering their opinion as to whether Mrs. Klocke should remain on the jury. That discussion ended with Judge Benson directing both sides to take the evening to consider the matter. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> It is more than apparent that Peltier attorneys, Taikeff and Lowe, discussed the issue with Peltier, and as well, his three other attorney investigators, and there was obviously further discussion with the prosecutors. The following morning the result was that the government joined the defense motion to allow the juror to remain. Judge Benson accepted the motion for the record and the trial continued with Mrs. Klocke remaining on the jury. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">A flawed allegation</span></b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">What follows are the reasons why Kevin Sharp’s allegation of a wrongful conviction, based on the Sixth Amendment lacks merit, beginning with an appropriate observation; </span>“<i>The allegation of Peltier’s counsel on appeal amounts to no more than hindsight and second-guessing by one lawyer concerning trial tactics used by another lawyer. <u>Peltier was equally well-represented at trial and on appeal</u>.”</i> 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit, 9/14/78. Sharp is just another second-guesser.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Peltier’s appellate attorneys reviewed the trial record and came to an apparent conclusion that neither the Sixth Amendment nor ineffective assistance of counsel were appealable issues or even rising to harmless error by the court. Considering how thoroughly this juror issue was resolved, they surely recognized these two issues. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The chambers’ record is crystal clear that the prosecutors and defense lawyers, with Leonard Peltier present the entire time, witnessed the <i>voir dire</i> of the three witnesses and Mrs. Klocke. They were each privy to, and involved in, the questioning of these four women and especially Mrs. Klocke’s demeanor, responsiveness, candor, and body language. In other words, did she appear to be honest with her replies? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">They were all there, witnessing it for themselves. <b>Kevin Sharp was not</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">It is important to note here that it was the government and the court that had reservations about keeping this juror, out of concern that it could have a chilling and adverse effect regarding her attitude toward the government’s case:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">AUSA Crooks stated, “<i>I think it was pointed out with Mr. Hultman, this experience of coming in here may have adverse consequences to the United States and we are not really prepared to say whether or not we might not at this point want to challenge this juror</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Judge Benson offered, “<i>I have some concerns in my own mind about this juror</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Peltier’s attorney Lowe summarized the situation and Constitutional considerations:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">“…<i>. And we feel he has a constitutional right not to have that juror removed without his motion in a situation that could lead to a constitutional detriment. We’re not just waiving the fact, we’re objecting to people with prejudice during the voir dire and now we say we want to keep the juror. There are different factors that play</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The following morning in court:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">U.S. Attorney Hultman, “<i>There is one other matter…that the Government would like to put on the record at this time is the fact <b>that we join in the motion</b> that the defendant made late yesterday afternoon</i>.” (Emphasis added.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Judge Benson acknowledged, “<i>The Court will then proceed pursuant to the agreement of counsel on that matter</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">As did Peltier attorney Taikeff, “<i>Yes, Your Honor</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">What Sharp needs to recognize is the result of trial strategy. Peltier, his two attorneys, and undoubtedly discussions with Peltier’s other three attorneys, carefully considered Mrs. Klocke’s responses. They must also have considered that both the government and the court had their own doubts. Peltier and his five attorneys surely <i>smelled blood in the water</i>, and for the very reasons of government concern, felt that Mrs. Klocke may just as likely react to her experience in the Judge’s chambers, as detrimental to the government, but beneficial for the defense. They made a tactical and strategic decision after certainly serious consideration with their client.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">As for Peltier’s Direct Appeal, the record noticeably reflects the obvious:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">“<i>We have carefully examined the record in the trial court and on appeal, and have concluded that the defendant’s trial counsel were aggressive, capable, and informed, and engaged in sophisticated trial decisions on strategy</i>.” 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit, 9/14/78.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Of course, these are the same Peltier-related judges that Sharp publicly slandered by inferring that their actions were corrupt. In Sharp’s mind their studied conclusions do not measure up to his imagined standards.<a href="applewebdata://6127FB17-053A-4C58-AB10-215382724ACE#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Sharp’s word-salad conclusion: “<i>Problem was that Leonard’s attorneys didn’t appeal that. And, at that time you could waive the issue, you can’t waive that issue today. It’s just ineffective assistance of counsel and that issue alone gets you a new trial</i>.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">This leads to an obvious challenge; if Sharp really believes this, then he should move forward and file something, anything; step up and put his name on it. He needs to stop the pandering and act on his derisive instincts. But that hasn’t happened, and never will. Sharp has to be creative because the facts are elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Sharp makes claims of constitutional violations but has quoted no legal references or citations, only a broad-brush stroke with a Sixth Amendment broom, searching in a desperate struggle to find any basis, no matter how irrational or misleading, to engender support for his double-murder client. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">More to follow. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Ed Woods<o:p></o:p></p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://6127FB17-053A-4C58-AB10-215382724ACE#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">The entire relevant trial transcript is available at <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com</a> and also at the following: Volume II, Morning Session, Thursday, March 17, 1977, </span><a href="https://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/LEGAL/VOL02.htm" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">https://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/LEGAL/VOL02.htm</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, Sections {118} to beyond {299}, and Volume III, Morning Session, Friday March 18, 1977, </span><a href="https://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/LEGAL/VOL03.htm" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">https://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/LEGAL/VOL03.htm</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, between Sections {303} and {304}.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn2"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://6127FB17-053A-4C58-AB10-215382724ACE#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a> <span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;">Kevin H. Sharp, 2/15/2023: “<i>There were evidentiary rulings that appear to be, from someone who made a lot of evidentiary rulings from the federal bench</i> (referring to his own six years as a federal judge), <i>slanted so that the prosecutor got the upper edge</i>.” Sharp does not qualify this public statement. He is stating that the judges’ decisions were deliberately made to favor the government over Peltier’s interests. There is no other way to interpret or lessen his traduced plain language; “slanted so that the prosecutors got the upper edge.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-11410172058369892142023-03-22T18:34:00.006-04:002023-03-22T18:36:10.040-04:00FARGO: TRIAL TRANSCRIPT REGARDING PELTIER ‘JUROR’ Shirley Klocke<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><u>Note:<o:p></o:p></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">-Peltier attorneys; Elliot A Taikeff (deceased), John Lowe (deceased). US Attorney Evan Hultman (deceased), AUSAs Lynn Crooks, Robert Sikma (deceased), Chief USDCJ Paul Benson (deceased)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">-Highlighted statements for reference purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">{118}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">(Whereupon, at 10:50 o'clock A.M. the following proceedings were had in <span style="background-color: yellow;">judge's chambers</span>:)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: The reason I asked Counsel to come in is because the Clerk of Court received a call this morning from a <b>Patricia O'Day</b><span style="background-color: yellow;"> relating to one of the jurors</span> and I instructed the Clerk to have her present it in affidavit form which has been done. I will pass it around to Counsel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Just read it, Elliot.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> May I do that, Your Honor?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Surely<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF: It's <span style="background-color: yellow;">dated 3/17/77</span>. "I hereby swear that on the 10th day of March, 1977 I in the presence of two witnesses at a coffee break heard <b><span style="background-color: yellow;">Shirley Klocke</span></b> say these words during our conversation about her eminent jury selection process in the Peltier case: She said, quote "`I am so prejudiced against Indians.'" unquote. She also made this statement back in the office in more general terms.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">I swear this statement to be true as I was prompted by no one to make this statement and make it as a matter of principle to my own conscience." Signed Patricia O'Day, witness to the conversation. And it is sworn to before a notary public of this state.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: She names two persons who apparently were witnesses to the conversation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF: I'm sorry. I did not read that correctly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">{119} It doesn't say to the conversation it says, "witnesses to the conversation," and then two people have signed their names. They appear to be <b>Margaret Loss</b>, L-o-s-s and <b>Carol Schatzke</b>, S-c-h-a-t-z, or S-c-h-a-t-z-k-e.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">May I return it to Your Honor?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Unless you wish to.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Could I look. Fine. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">Your Honor, could I at least make a query or a response of some kind introductory?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: That's the reason I asked Counsel to come.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: First of all, Your Honor, of course, I know nothing about what we're looking at and I would like to inquire, and again with no, certainly no reflection on Counsel, and Counsel understands this, but --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF: The answer to the question is no, we know nothing about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Your Honor, see, the problem is we went through exactly the same thing when you have a juror forced out, as I understand just from the discussions that have gone on, and things that have been said and done up to this time. I have no knowledge of it other than what I've learned in the courtroom and discussion with Counsel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">When you have two groups, as Counsel has indicated, and, one, I'm not sure who makes up one and certainly the second one is so large that maybe it's 500 or 1,000 people that have {120} an interest in this case of some kind that are all over the courthouse, they are all over the community, I run into them every place I go, which have to do, as I say, and it's no reflection or any way directed in terms of counsel or control. I clearly understand that and Elliot Taikeff and I understand that he has no control over that. But it seems to me, Your Honor, that if an inquiry of this kind is to be made, there are two precautionary matters and one is, and that's the reason for my motion I filed a little bit ago with reference to the sequestration as far as witnesses from this point and looking to people that are in the courtroom, that I in no way am implying that searching matters of this kind and interposing is going on. But because of the numbers of people that are involved and their interest in it, in the case out here, it seems to me that the Court has to be doubly cautionary in the terms of, one, finding out the source and how matters of this kind are generated, and I'm not suggesting, because I have no knowledge, that is the case here and I don't want the inference of that kind. I know Counsel understands that that's the motive in which I state what I state now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">I think unless a careful approach is made from that kind, and maybe even some precaution from the Court's standpoint alone, and that's the very reason why again the government requested the sequestering of this jury, because of the opportunity of people to interject themselves and create a problem of the {121} kind here where there is a response of some kind which then leads to a hearing and leads to discussions and so forth. So all I'm saying is, Your Honor, one, I have no knowledge of any kind as to what this event is, but, two, I wanted to state to the Court the genesis of a general problem because it was the same kind of problem that, John, if you remember, we had a discussion --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. LOWE:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> That's a complete misstatement of what happened last summer. We never had that last summer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> I'm, excuse me. I'm not going to get into what may or may not have happened last time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">Let me make a comment at this point. The only thing I'm concerned about is whether or not this <span style="background-color: yellow;">juror did actually make that statement</span> at the time. That's the <span style="background-color: yellow;">reason I asked for a sworn affidavit</span> from this person as to whether or not this juror did in fact make such a statement and unless Counsel have some different ideas, <span style="background-color: yellow;">I propose that she be brought in sometime today in chambers</span> and shown this statement and asked to comment on it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="background-color: yellow;">I have an idea in conflict with that, Your Honor</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: All right.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="background-color: yellow;">I think we should not confront the juror now that she's a sitting juror because it may have some affect upon her as a juror.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">{122}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">I would propose that instead <span style="background-color: yellow;">we bring in the three people whose names appear</span> there. That would accomplish two purposes: first, it would avoid the necessity of, or possibly avoid the necessity of any confrontation with the juror unless it becomes absolutely necessary. Secondly, it would allow defense counsel to discover for the first time the <span style="background-color: yellow;">identity of this person and exactly who she is and what relationship, if any, she has to the defendant supporters,</span> if I may use a term of no great precision, and perhaps satisfy Mr. Hultman that the defendant or the defense team did not come here with legions who have infiltrated this state. There is an implication of a sinister conspiracy --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: I didn't mean that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF: Not that Counsel has any connection with it or responsibility for --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: I think I understood what Mr. Hultman said and I understand what you're saying</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">What is your response to the suggestion made by Mr. Taikeff? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: I have no objection, Your Honor. I think the Court --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Well, I'm not going to bring anybody in without the lawyers being present.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: I understand.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF: I understand.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">{123}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: So I do think --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: <span style="background-color: yellow;">I have no objection, Your Honor, to that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Mr. Taikeff's solution is probably a better solution than mine.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">If there are three persons that will, if the other two people substantiate or corroborate what has been said here, then I think my duty is to make a decision as to what should be done as far as this juror is concerned.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Your Honor, could I ask a question? I would take it from the procedure that's been suggested that it would be the Court that would first make the inquiry of these particular witnesses in the presence of all of us.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF: I would hope so.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: That is my intention. I would make the inquiry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: I want it to be done on the record and the lawyers be present.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR HULTMAN: Government would have no objection and join in it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="background-color: yellow;">I would like to voluntarily bind myself not to contact those people or to have any of my investigators or other legal workers contact them. I'd like these people to come into the courthouse without any interference or inquiry {124} made of them until such time as they appear before the Court.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. LOWE:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="background-color: yellow;">Are you willing to make a similar offer?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: No question.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE CLERK: I wonder, Your Honor, would you like to go to the extreme of having Summons issued for these three persons and served upon them by the marshals to appear before you at a certain time?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: I don't think I have any authority to issue Summons.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> Your Honor, <span style="background-color: yellow;">a Subpoena could be issued</span>. I would think if these people were asked to come they undoubtedly would come. They apparently did this as a voluntary act.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> As long as you're here, I have been thinking about the request made by Mr. Lowe yesterday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">We'll follow that procedure and I'll leave it up to you to see if you can arrange for them to come in at some time. And <span style="background-color: yellow;">I assume then that Counsel are agreeable that this juror will remain on the jury</span> until I get these people in? We'll try to get them in today.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="background-color: yellow;">Yes, Your Honor.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE CLERK: Any particular time of the day, Judge?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Find out when they can come in. We may have to accommodate the court proceedings accordingly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. CROOKS: I would suggest that be done after court and after the jury has left. If these are fellow employees, {125} that in itself might create a problem. I would suggest it be done with as few spectators as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. LOWE:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="background-color: yellow;">It won't be a problem if they're brought to chambers.</span> The jury will be in their jury room. It can't create problems possibly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Ralph, would you find out when they can come. I would like to see all three of them.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">Just one thing more. I have given some thought to the suggestion made by Mr. Lowe that the marshals be required to monitor the TV shows to exclude any police shows and I think the only authority, I have kind of concluded the only authority the Court has on sequestration is to prevent the jury from reading or hearing any report on the case and I don't really believe that I have got any authority to move into the area of normal TV programming that they might otherwise be entitled to watch.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. LOWE: Would you be willing to receive from authority from that, Judge, other than -- there's a district court decision that just recently did that. Would you be willing at least to tell the jury in your judgment it would be wiser for them not to do that because it might, you asked them as a matter of grave not to do it?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: The other thing is the jurors do not have a TV, they do not have radios, they do not have the TV in their room.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">{118}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">(Whereupon, at 10:50 o'clock A.M. the following proceedings were had in <span style="background-color: yellow;">judge's chambers</span>:)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: cyan; font-size: 9pt;">Pages 118-125 placed by Clerk in sealed envelope in file, upon order of the Court.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">{125}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Ralph, would you find out when they can come. I would like to see all three of them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lime; font-size: 9pt;">XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">{270}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">The Court is in recess until 9:00 o'clock tomorrow morning.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">(Whereupon, the following proceedings were had in the Judge's <span style="background-color: yellow;">chambers,</span> the <b>Defendant being present in person:</b>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> There are <span style="background-color: yellow;">three persons -- I think most of you are aware of why we're here</span>. There are three persons who have alleged that one of the jurors in this case <span style="background-color: yellow;">prior to {271} being selected as a juror made a statement</span> in their presence that she was prejudice against Indians and so I've asked those three persons to be brought in and it is my intention to question them about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">You may have them brought in.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Your Honor, could I make a request of the Court, Your Honor?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Yes. Just a moment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">: Your Honor, as is normally the case and as I indicated, we had an experience of this kind before and I would make a request to the Court that the Court interview each of these three individuals, not singularly but <span style="background-color: yellow;">not in the presence of each other</span> because on a previous experience we found that the observations as happens in the courtroom, likewise when you set three people down in a group you get a group discussion but when you get three individuals individually you get what they heard without two others then having heard what one of them said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="background-color: yellow;">We have no objection, Your Honor.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: So I would request of the Court that the Court deal with them <span style="background-color: yellow;">individually</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Well, okay. Bring in, it looks like <span style="background-color: red;">Margaret Foss</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> Would Your Honor among the questions being asked include the question what <span style="background-color: yellow;">relationship</span> if any this {272} person has to the courthouse or any of the participants.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: And also we would make a request, Your Honor, that if it would be Your Honor's wish, that you pursue the chain. We think that it is very important.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Pursue what?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: The chain of individuals, Your Honor, on how this came about that, the event itself plus who overheard and then how does it end up being brought to the Court's attention, whether or not there has been any communication of any kind that may have in any way contributed to this act.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="background-color: yellow;">We concur</span>, Your Honor.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: It's a very unusual act. That's what I'm attempting to go beyond, whether it was an act that had no influence or not.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Have a chair. Are you Margaret Foss?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: Yes, sir.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> The people in the room here are lawyers <b><u>and the defendant</u></b> in this lawsuit and other persons connected with the case.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">Patricia O'Day called the Clerk</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> of this court this morning and gave the Clerk a message and I ask that she reduce it to a <span style="background-color: yellow;">sworn statement</span> and she did do that and I have the statement in my hands.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">And what she has said is that one of the jurors, Shirley Klocke, in the presence of her and you and one other {273} made a statement with reference to her possible jury, her possible, the possibility of her being selected on this jury.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">Do you recall that that happened?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: Yes, sir.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: And where did it happen?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: In the cafeteria of Blue Cross-Blue Shield.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: And when did it happen?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: The day I'm not sure. It was in the afternoon, coffee break.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Who was present?</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: Patty O'Day, Shirley Klocke, Carol Schatzke and myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: What was said by Miss Klocke?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: At the time she said that <span style="background-color: yellow;">she was very prejudice against Indians</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: What caused her to say that? I mean, what led up to her saying that?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: That I don't remember.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: What were you talking about at the time?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: It was just general things at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Do you remember any other part of the conversation?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: Just that and that she didn't, and {274} Patty O'Day started defending them, the minority and <span style="background-color: yellow;">Shirley said that she didn't want to talk about it. "Let's just drop the subject."</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Who opened the subject?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: As far as I remember if was Shirley.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: And you don't remember what you were talking about when it was opened?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: No. Because at our coffee breaks we, everybody in general and --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: How do you happen to remember that she made this comment that she was prejudice?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET <span style="background-color: yellow;">FOSS: Because I was shocked at the time that she said it.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Did Carol Schatzke say anything?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: Yes, sir. I believe she did.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: What did she say?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: That I don't remember either.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Did Patty O'day say anything?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: Yes. She was the one that did the most talking.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: And what did she say?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: Well, to the effect that there are good and bad in all nationalities and why should be pick on this one particular person or --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: You don't remember who initiated the {275} conversation or do you remember who initiated the conversation?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: No, sir, I do not.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: I got the impression that you did not.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">Was there any other conversation among this group?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: Not on this particular subject; no.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: On this subject at this time or any other particular time?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: No.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Not to your recollection?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: No.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Do you work with Miss Klocke?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: I work with them but I am not socially involved with them so whatever is said after work I do not know.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Mr. Hultman, do you have anything else you want to ask this lady?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> Are you saying that this is the only part that you recall of the conversation concerning this matter or are you saying <span style="background-color: yellow;">this is all that was said concerning this matter?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: <span style="background-color: yellow;">At coffee break this is about all that was said</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">Like I say, I am not socially involved with these people. What is said after --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: What do you mean by the response that "I am not socially involved with these people"?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">{276}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: Because of our age differences, these other people and myself, I do not chum around with them let's say.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">I am workers with them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Did you feel it was something at that time that was just a matter of conversation?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET <span style="background-color: yellow;">FOSS: No. She was very strongly, she was very emphatic on her statement</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: But you don't remember anything else about the conversation other than that one statement, is that right?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: That's right.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Were you the one then, I'm asking a question, were you the one that brought the matter to the Court's attention?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: No.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: No. No. I wanted to question the two witnesses before I --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: All right.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">Who have you had conversation with since -- what time of day approximately did this take place?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: About 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: And approximately when was this, what day was it?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: Well, it was last week. Wednesday or {277} Thursday I assume.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">I'm not sure on the date but it was in the afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Who else was present? It was in a coffee room you say?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Who were all the people that were present?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: You mean just at our particular table?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Yes. First, who was at your table?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: The four that I named previously.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Were there other people in addition to the four of you that were at your table?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: No. There was just the four of us.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: So you were the only ones in the room, is that --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: Yes. Well, not in the room.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">We have a big cafeteria. There's several employees down at this time having their coffee break.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: But you don't remember who initiated the conversation in any way or any discussion about it?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: No. I'm sorry, sir. No.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Who have you talked to since that afternoon around 3:00 p.m. about --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: Myself?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">{278}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: -- this statement? Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: No. Nobody.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: You had no further conversation with anybody about it?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: No .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR.HULTMAN: This is a conversation that only took place last week, is that correct, and yet I'm just trying to probe, ma'am, but it seems to me that you would remember something beyond the one statement that was said, what may have led up to the discussion or something else about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET <span style="background-color: yellow;">FOSS: The only thing that I can vaguely remember, if it is correct, is that she was going to be called for jury duty. That was about the only thing.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Do you recall whether anybody asked her any questions about the fact that she was being called as a juror?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: No, sir.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: I have no further questions, Your Honor. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Mr. Lowe or Mr. Taikeff, do you have any?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. LOWE: No.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF: I have --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Could I have just one -- go ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> I have one question.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">You said that you did not speak with anyone about this. {279} Did anyone attempt to speak with you or to otherwise contact you about this subject --</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: No, sir.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF: -- since the time it occurred?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: No.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Do you know, has there been anybody at your place of business to your knowledge at Blue Cross-Blue Shield asking questions about prospective jurors at all?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: Not to my knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Did you respond in any way to the conversation?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET <span style="background-color: yellow;">FOSS: No. I didn't because we were shocked when she said it and we just tried to kind of, I myself do not want to get involved in that because I have my own feelings.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Well, when you say you have your own feelings, what are your <span style="background-color: yellow;">feelings</span>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: I'm not, we're going too far.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: All right. I just wanted to know, I wanted to know whether or not this conversation had in fact, did you in fact hear this conversation?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MARGARET FOSS: Yes. I did.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: All right. Ralph, you may, Mrs. Foss, you may leave.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">Bring in --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. LOWE: Do you want her to stand by, Your Honor?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">{280}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Yes. Have her stand by</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> and bring in <span style="background-color: red;">Carol Schatzke.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">You are Carol Schatzke?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: The people in this room are the defendant, the lawyers and some other people connected to this case which is now being tried.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">The reason you were asked to come down here is that Patricia O'Day has made a statement concerning one of the witnesses, or one of the jurors in this case and that she states that at a coffee break apparently sometime in the latter part of last week she made a reference to Indians and apparently had something to do with her prospective service on the jury and apparently it was made in the presence of you and Margaret Foss. Do you remember such an incident?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: Yes. I do.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Who was present?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: It was Margaret and I and Patty and Shirley.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: And what was the occasion; how did you happen to be together?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: Oh, it was coffee time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Who initiated the conversation related to jury or Indians or trial?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: I can't really remember but I think {281} Shirley must have started it. Yeah. <span style="background-color: yellow;">I think Shirley started it</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: And what did she say?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: I really can't remember exactly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">Other than the fact that she disliked Indians, she really didn't like them and she was prejudice against and Patty said, "Well, why," and she said, <span style="background-color: yellow;">"Well, I just don't know but I am," and that was about it.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">And then they ended the conversation. It wasn't much more to go on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Have you heard any other conversation around -- you work for Blue Cross-Blue Shield?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Have you heard any other conversation around there with reference to Miss Klocke being a juror in this case?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: No.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Do you know of any people that came around to investigate her background or anything?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: No.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Do you know anything other than what you've told me?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: No.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Mr. Hultman.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Have you talked with anybody since that {282} afternoon about the event that the Court has just asked you some questions about?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: Not until today when all this came about.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Who have you talked to today?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: Well, Patty and Margaret and a couple of the girls at work. That's about it. It's all been in one area.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Did, what was the name of the lady, Your Honor, that was just here? I'm sorry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Margaret Foss.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Did you talk to her today about it?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: Yeah.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: What did you talk to her today about it?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: Oh, we've been talking about it all day at different times.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Did, do you remember how the conversation started with reference to this particular matter?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: No. I really don't.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Do you remember what any of the other people said in the conversation at all?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: No. I -- just that Shirley said she was prejudice and Patty said why and Shirley said she didn't really know, that she was and that was about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Now what was the last sentence that you {283} said? Would you repeat that? I'm sorry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: Oh, she said that she was and she didn't really know why she was prejudice but she just was.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: She was but she really didn't know why, is that it?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: Yeah.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Did she make any other explanation of any kind?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: No.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">At that time she said she didn't want to talk about it any more so then we just dropped it.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: When, when did this conversation, what day did this take place, do you recall?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: I think maybe it was Thursday of last week.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: And what, what was the occasion?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: We had coffee break at work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: What time of day then: would this have been in the morning or the afternoon?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: I think it was <span style="background-color: yellow;">morning</span> coffee. I'm <span style="background-color: yellow;">not too sure</span>. I can't remember.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: But there's no question that the four of you have discussed it today, is that right?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: There's three of us that discussed it today.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">{284}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Three of you discussed it. I'm sorry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">Who emanated that discussion? How did that start about?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: Well, we found out that Shirley was on the jury and then Patty got upset and said she didn't see how she could be on the jury if she was prejudiced against Indians and she made a few phone calls and we got to talking about it and she was told to write a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Whom did she call? In your conversations today who did she say she called?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: Well, she said this morning that she had talked to the Clerk. She called here and I don't know who else, she must have talked to Judge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> No. She didn't. Excuse me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">It was reported to me</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> that she called my chambers. My secretary referred her to the Clerk.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Beyond the Court or anything that happened as far as the courthouse, who else did she say she called or had conversations with about it?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: She had, well, I don't know. She had the thing notarized.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">I suppose she said, she talked to one of our supervisors and one of the notary publics and that's about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: No further questions, Your Honor,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> I believe I have only one question, Your {285} Honor.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">At the time of the coffee break when the conversation took place, either at the beginning or at the end of that conversation, or that coffee break, did you know that Miss Klocke was a prospective juror in the case?</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">CAROL SCHATZKE: No.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="background-color: yellow;">I have no further questions.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">And would you ask Patricia O'Day to come in.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="background-color: darkgrey;">While that's happening, Your Honor, may I ask Your Honor to take judicial notice of the fact that in today's Forum there is a front page article on the trial and at the end of the article is a list of the names and addresses of all the jurors, the last being on page 2 of the Forum.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: When I see the paper I'll take judicial notice of it. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF: All right. I was speculating on the chance that Your Honor had already read the paper.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: All right.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">You are <span style="background-color: red;">Patricia O'Day</span>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: The people in this room are the defendant and lawyers and others who are connected with the trial that's going on here.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">{286}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">Is that your statement?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: Yes. It is.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Would you just tell us what led up to this conversation that you had with Miss Klocke<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: We were <span style="background-color: yellow;">just discussing the trial</span> and stuff. She was on, going to be selected, or not selected for the jury but she was in the jury process and we just talked about the trial and we talked about Indian people in general and she had made the statement that, <span style="background-color: yellow;">"I am so prejudiced against Indians,"</span> <span style="background-color: yellow;">and I felt that she meant it,</span> you know. Now whether, I don't mean that maliciously or anything. Okay.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">But she just said, "I'm so prejudiced against Indians," and I said, "Well, do you understand the background for do you understand what's going on or", I just kind of felt around as far as compassion or whatever, what I felt. Okay.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">And she just said she didn't want to talk about it any more.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">So then we just left it at that. We were starting to fight.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: When did this happen?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: Last Thursday at coffee in the afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: To your knowledge has there been anyone checking on her background or anything about it --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: No.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">{287}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: -- with reference to her prospective jury service?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'Day: No.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Did you have any further conversation with her?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: No.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: What do you mean in that statement when you stated that later discussion about general terms?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA <span style="background-color: yellow;">O'DAY: Oh, when we got back from coffee we were up in the offices and all, there was maybe five or six girls and we were all talking at one time about it, you know.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Was she in the group?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: Yeah.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: What was said there?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: I don't remember exactly because I really wasn't listening.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">There are other girls that had heard some of the conversation. They made that known to me today, that they had heard some of the conversation, you know, that she was saying. <span style="background-color: yellow;">It was obvious to everyone that her feelings towards Indian people wasn't in the best judgment as far as I was concerned and, that's the impression I got.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Are you having any problems, are there any problems between you and her at work?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">{288}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: <span style="background-color: yellow;">No. I consider her one of my best friends. She probably won't be any more though.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: You drew a comparison and you said your feelings or your position. What are your feelings or your position as different from hers, vis-a-vis her position?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: My feelings?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Yes. And your discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: More of an objective point of view I think.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">I, I would rather deal with people on a one-to-one basis as people rather than race or creed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">I believe in human rights very strongly and I don't think it matters whether a person is an Indian or a black or whatever.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Did the other, did Mrs. Foss say anything in response to what was said?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: Did she say anything?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: No. We discussed it today and they agreed that, well, at that time, you know, we all generally felt that Shirley felt this way. Okay.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">But today they agreed that they felt that she had meant it when she said it,</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> you know.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Well, did you, is it fair for me to conclude that -- what did you conclude from the statement that {289} she made?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: That she was prejudiced against Indians, that she had a greater sense of bias towards the Indian point of view rather than the man being on trial.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">I think she -- that's the impression I got.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Would it be fair for me to conclude that you have just the opposite feeling?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: I would say that I do but I, consciously.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF: Which feeling may I ask Your Honor is Mr. Hultman inquiring about?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: The reverse of the attitude that was expressed because she brought it up in her own words.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF: No. Your Honor I think two attitudes have been spoken about. One of them is the consensus of the three workers. The other --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: I'm referring to this woman and the woman that made the statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF: Oh. I understand. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> Would you feel then with the feeling and the attitude that you have that <b>you could not come into a courtroom</b> and set aside that feeling that you've expressed on that occasion to her and be fair and impartial to someone who is not?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA <span style="background-color: yellow;">O'DAY: No. I'm not saying that at all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">{290}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">I'm saying that I questioned, I questioned the process because I didn't know what process, legal process you go through to select a juror and I was just wondering if her, I don't know if Shirley can separate the two. That's your judgment or that's the Judge's judgment. That's not my judgment to make.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">I'm merely stating my point of view and what I heard and I felt it was relevant. It was something that I had to say, something I had to question.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Well, that's good. That's good.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">I have no further questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> I have but one question.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: All right.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="background-color: yellow;">Did you read the Forum today?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: No. I haven't yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF: How did you know she was on the jury?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: I work with her and she had to call in and tell that she was going to be gone. Word travels fast in an office.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF: And what motivated you to call the Clerk? Not general principles. What immediate specific fact?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: I felt it was unfair. I felt that, I had heard her make the statement and I didn't want there to be any question as to the credibility of any juror that I knew of as to how they were going to try that man.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF: Has anyone contacted you and motivated {291} you in any way to take the action which you took?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: No.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF: I have no further questions, Your Honor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: May I just ask one more, Your Honor.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">What is your relation; how good a friend are you?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: Very good friends.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: How long approximately have you known Miss Klocke?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: Five years, going on five years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: I have no other questions, Your Honor. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> I have just one additional question.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">In the five years that you've known her have you had any other discussion about the Indian race of people or bias or prejudice or human rights?</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: Well, in the, saying many generalities certainly. Probably there are many things that go on in society and we try to discuss them, you know, and we try to be as intelligent in some things in life as we can.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: No. I mean you and Miss Klocke.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">PATRICIA O'DAY: Oh. No. Not specifics; no.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: May I have the statement. Thank you for coming.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. LOWE:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="background-color: yellow;">Your Honor, before these three witnesses are released I would suggest that the appropriate, I would like {292} the Court to extend thanks to these ladies for coming forward. It's certainly an act of bravery for coming forth in the peer pressures in society and secondly I would think there could be some measure taken to the extent possibly to keep them from being embarrassed by this.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: You may leave the room.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">Mike, would you contact whoever's going to appear in this sentencing and tell them we're going to be a little late.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MICHAEL NELSON: I just did.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE CLERK OF COURT: Can they leave the building, Your Honor, the witnesses?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Just have them stand by for a moment. It will just be a moment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">{293}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT</span></b><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">: <span style="background-color: yellow;">I now have to decide what to do with reference to Miss Klocke's service on the jury. Do you desire to express yourself on that?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">MR.HULTMAN</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">: No, Your Honor. The government certainly knows the seriousness of a matter of this kind. I think there is a good question that goes to whether or not <span style="background-color: yellow;">one single remark</span> and the circumstances and from the point of view, and without knowing the <span style="background-color: yellow;">total conversation</span> and remarks as just made, she's evidentily shown no prejudices of any kind <span style="background-color: yellow;">in any other conversations</span>. But at the same time I want to in no way minimize the impact. So I would certainly indicate to the Court that I think the Court should give the highest consideration to the impact of what the juror has said and <span style="background-color: yellow;">the government will certainly in no way resist in any way whatever the Court's decision is.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Mr. Taikeff, do you have any thoughts on that?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">: If Your Honor is asking generally what we think should be done, I would have an answer, but I think Your Honor is asking whether we are specifically <span style="background-color: yellow;">asking whether she should be stricken from the jury</span>. If that's Your Honor's question, we are <span style="background-color: yellow;">not able to say yes or no at this time</span>. Then that would bring me to the answer of the other question; namely, what I think we should do.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: What do you think we should do?</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">{294}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> I think we should <span style="background-color: yellow;">have a voir dire of her</span> after which defense will take a position on it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: I have concluded that certainly if she is released that she should be told why she's being released.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF: I would have no objection to that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: I don't know what Mr. Lowe feels about that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. LOWE:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> I only know the difficulty in getting people to come forward to do something like that and <span style="background-color: yellow;">unless there is some purpose to be gained in the trial, if the decision is made eventually to release her, I wonder whether there is really any need to release her.</span> Didn't we last summer with that woman, did the Court tell her why or was there just --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: He brought her in and questioned her, remember, John.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. LOWE</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">: <span style="background-color: yellow;">I have real apprehensions when those three people are going to be on the spot but I don't take a firm position.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">MR. CROOKS</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">: Your Honor, if I could make an observation. This is a rather perplexing thing, obviously. If in fact what this woman has said is true and if in fact that is an opinion, then she has at the very least placed her responsibility on the question and creates a serious problem and <span style="background-color: yellow;">my suggestion would be that whether she's going to be {295} released or not, the matter should be taken up with her. If for no other reason than fairness to her.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: I feel that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. CROOKS: Because certainly this is on the face of it a very devastating type of thing to have to go on without an opportunity of some sort to explain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">MR. SIKMA</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">: Your Honor, it's possible she may not even remember the conversation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: There's no question about it. <b>I'm going to bring her in</b> and -- is she still here?</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE CLERK: I asked the marshal to retain the jury.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> Your Honor, while that's happening, I would like not just by way of making small conversation but because I recognized that we take a small legal position at the early stages of this case to most respectfully call to Your Honor's attention how difficult it is to root out this kind of fact of life in spite of the fact that Your Honor spent a most generous portion of the Court's time in a thorough voir dire <span style="background-color: cyan;">and allowed Counsel to inquire</span>. I say this not so much by way of making a record, I'm motivated primarily by the opportunity to perhaps plant the seed in Your Honor's mind for future cases where some attorney may come forward and suggest to Your Honor that although there are some and many very fine citizens in the city, there are some serious problems along these lines.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">{296}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: <span style="background-color: red;">Mrs. Klocke</span>, we asked you to come in to show you this statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">Do you care to make any response to that?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">MRS. KLOCKE: Yes. Your Honor, I did say this. And like I said in court that I would put all prejudices aside and I would render a fair verdict and I still mean that, too.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Okay. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">Do you have any questions?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">: <span style="background-color: yellow;">Could I confer with Mr. Lowe and the defendant for a moment</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF: I would like to put a limited number of questions to the juror, Your Honor.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: You may.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="background-color: yellow;">Do you understand that you will have to make a very serious, conscious effort to make sure that the opinion which you have and expressed does in any way come to play in this case because of the seriousness of the consequences?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MRS. <span style="background-color: yellow;">KLOCKE: Yes, I do</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF</span></b><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">: <span style="background-color: yellow;">We're satisfied, Your Honor.</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Mr. Hultman. Do you desire to examine?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Yes, I would just like to have a few questions, Your Honor.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">Mrs. Klocke, were you expressing something on that occasion which was a feeling that you had and is a feeling that, {297} as you expressed in the court, that without any question you could set aside, as I think I asked a number of questions about it, all having various feelings and emotions and so forth in varying degrees, that that expression that you made at that time is not so deep rooted or so strong or so firm with you that in a matter of this kind that you could honestly and fairly --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MRS. KLOCKE: Yes, sir.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: -- do what the Court has discussed and the lawyers have discussed?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MRS. KLOCKE: Yes, sir.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> Without the fact that the experience now that you in effect, somebody said something and returned it here, would that <span style="background-color: yellow;">in any way have any impact now on you in going back to the jury room?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR<span style="background-color: yellow;">S. KLOCKE: No.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: Would you now, feeling that you might have some compunction to do something for the defendant that otherwise maybe had this occasion not occurred that you would be feeling different about?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">MRS. KLOCKE: No, I don't. I would still base any verdict on the evidence and the court alone and I really feel I could do it.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: I have no further questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: Thank you for coming in. I will have to {298} make a decision as to what your status will be and for the time being you can return to the jury and I would suggest you just not comment on it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">The jury may now be taken back to their rooms.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">: <b><span style="background-color: yellow;">Your Honor, so that the record is clear, when we said we're satisfied, we not only meant with the scope of the inquiry but we do not wish to move to exclude the juror.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> I interpreted your remark that way<b>. <span style="background-color: yellow;">I have some concern in my own mind about this juror.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><u><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">MR. CROOKS</span></u><u><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">: Your Honor, could the government have overnight to fully make a response? I think it was pointed out with Mr. Hultman, this experience of coming in here may have adverse consequences to the United States <span style="background-color: yellow;">and we are not really prepared to say whether or not we might not at this point want to challenge the juror.</span><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><u><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN: She now may feel an obligation, Your Honor, in order to purge herself from what others have now accused her of, this would be her genuinely and honestly<span style="background-color: yellow;">, I'm just saying the impact of genuinely trying to purge herself and this experience and the accusation would have an impact upon what her decision would be.</span><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. LOWE:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> May I make two comments. First of all, it is interesting to hear Mr. Hultman make that argument because he was making the other argument when we uncovered prejudiced, and although it would interfere -- but secondly, we had a {299} potential problem, in any case, where <span style="background-color: yellow;">we only have two alternates that we could end up with a mistrial if more than two people become disabled or sick or anything of that nature</span>. That is one of the facts that the defendant at this early stage of what will be a long trial is considering. <b><span style="background-color: yellow;">And we feel he has a constitutional right not to have that juror removed without his motion in a situation that could lead to a constitutional detriment</span></b><span style="background-color: yellow;">.</span> <b><span style="background-color: yellow;">We're not just waiving the fact, we're objecting to people with prejudiced during the voir dire and now we say we want to keep the juror. There are different factors that play.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: I'm aware of that. That is why I said I wanted to <b>think about it overnight</b>.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">MR. CROOKS:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> I realize, obviously, there are considerations on both sides. A normal reaction from strictly the government wishes of a to win position would be this is a great juror, but obviously that's not our concern<u>. <span style="background-color: yellow;">Our concern is a fair juror and contrary to what Mr. Lowe may believe.</span> Secondly, as we expressed the possible <span style="background-color: yellow;">rebound affect</span> which would in effect affect our outcome and have just a reverse consequence. I simply ask we be allowed to think about it <b><span style="background-color: yellow;">overnight</span></b>.</u><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: I suppose if I think about it overnight you will have an opportunity to think about it overnight.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">Thank you for coming in.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="center" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt; text-align: center;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">VOLUME III</span></b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt; text-align: center;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">Pages 300-520</span></b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">{300}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">J. GARY ADAMS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">FRIDAY MORNING SESSION<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">March 18, 1977<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">Whereupon, the following proceedings were had and entered of record on Friday morning, March 18, 1977, at 9:00 o'clock, a.m., the <span style="background-color: yellow;">Defendant being present in person</span>:</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">MR. HULTMAN</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">: I understand.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">There is one other matter, Your Honor, and that is, on the record I would like to indicate to the Court that, as <span style="background-color: yellow;">concerning the matter that was taken up in chambers without referring to it specifically other than that.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">The Court indicated that the Government would have until the morning to make an indication and the indication that the Government would like to put on the record at this time is the fact that <b><u>we join in the motion that the defendants made late yesterday afternoon.</u></b></span><b><u><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><b><u><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: The Court will then proceed pursuant to the agreement of counsel on that matter.</span></u></b><b><u><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><b><u><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: lightgrey; font-size: 9pt;">MR. TAIKEFF:</span></u></b><b><u><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="background-color: yellow;">Yes, Your Honor.</span></span></u></b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;">THE COURT: The jury may now be brought in.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0.25in 3.75pt 0.25in 15pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-64051413727695478782023-03-11T13:11:00.003-05:002023-03-26T12:29:05.161-04:00PELTIER: SHARP’S DISINFORMATION….1<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> Native America Calling Podcast - Kevin H. Sharp </span></span></span></span></span></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Dear Supporters:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">On February 15, 2023, Peltier attorney Kevin H. Sharp, and others, along with Ed Woods, the founder of the <i>No Parole Peltier Association</i>, were on a <i>Native America Calling</i> podcast. The topic was Leonard Peltier and his chances for clemency.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Once again, Sharp made it clear that he believes he is the smartest attorney and former judge around, adding yet an even greater insult to others in the legal profession. His hubris goes well beyond simply excessive pride, revealing a disturbing character flaw. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Referring to the many decisions rendered in the Peltier case by federal judges, Sharp stated:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;">“<i>There were evidentiary rulings that appear to be, from someone who made a lot of evidentiary rulings from the federal bench</i> (referring to his own six years as a federal judge), <i>slanted so that the prosecutor got the upper edge</i>.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">This public statement, without ambiguity of his plain language, implies that those Peltier judges were <i>corrupt</i>, which is a very serious and slanderous allegation.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Sharp is mimicking what Peltier has been whining about for decades. It is part and parcel of the Peltier myth; some grand conspiracy between the government and judiciary to get Peltier and keep him where he belongs. Sharp’s “<i>slanted</i>” remark is just another way to describe it. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">There have been no fewer than seventeen (17) federal judges, one District and the remainder Court of Appeal judges, and no fewer than (17) seventeen Peltier attorneys who have been through the Peltier case in microscopic detail, analyzing every word from the trial to the final appeal, motions, hearings and oral arguments. Collectively, all those many years of judicial and legal experience, in Sharp’s skewed and troubled reasoning, somehow deliberately tipped the scale in the government’s favor. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">As for Peltier’s prior attorneys that Sharp shamelessly disabuses, the Court of Appeals clearly addressed this question: “<i>The allegation of Peltier’s counsel on appeal amounts to no more than hindsight and second-guessing by one lawyer concerning trial tactics used by another lawyer. <u>Peltier was equally well-represented at trial and on appeal</u>.”</i> And, “<i>We have carefully examined the record in the trial court and on appeal, and have concluded that the defendant’s trial counsel were aggressive, capable, and informed, and engaged in sophisticated trial decisions on strategy</i>.” 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit, 9/14/78<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Sharp has been thoroughly blinded by his obvious and vocal contempt for the justice system while being enamored by the likes of Peltier’s feigned innocence and the publicity it draws. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">True to form, during the podcast, Sharp repeated his laundry list of Peltier folklore, believing evidentially, that since he’s an attorney and former federal judge, that his claims have more validity today than they did when first offered decades ago by prior Peltier attorneys.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Sharp claims he has reviewed the record of Peltier’s conviction and numerous appeals, yet his hubris and fallback claim of Peltier’s alleged innocence, nevertheless, provides a different story. Based on his legal experience, Sharp’s assertions and alleged intimate knowledge of the Peltier matter, makes him accountable for all his public statements. Beyond his opinions, most often stated as facts, this is especially so for his statements that run contrary to the historical record.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">What follows is the first of several blogs that challenge Sharp’s assumptions and public statements supporting Peltier’s alleged wrongful conviction, with facts, proving those statements amount to nothing more than a pattern of disinformation. Sharp brings nothing new to the debate not already previously created over the years by purveyors of the Peltier myth.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">1) Regarding certain facts of the Peltier case: “<i>That hasn’t been denied, the courts have said, those things happened, right, what was denied was his appeal to overturn his conviction to get a new trial…</i>”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">On the surface, this is a naïve comment from a former federal judge. A very simple but clearly obvious question is exactly on what basis did the Court of Appeals deny Peltier’s (many) appeals? Did they not have before them the trial transcript, Peltier’s motions and legal arguments, along with hearings, all for reference in their deliberations; let alone the law and collectively innumerable years of judicial experience?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Those decisions were not <i>manufactured</i> out of thin air, but based on the Courts’ addressing Peltier’s motions and claims with a detailed review of the record. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">So, following Sharp’s logic, the courts did not take all those facts into consideration? However, clearly they did, and did so repeatedly. They addressed them, explained them, and provided decisions based on the facts, and the law. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">2) Sharp mentions “<i>coerced witnesses</i>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> “<i>All three witnesses (Anderson, Draper, Brown) testified that when they were Interviewed, at early stages of the investigation, their answers to the F.B.I. questions were inconsistent with the truth for one reason or another. However, upon further questioning at the trial by the government attorney, they stated that the testimony they gave at the trial was the truth, as they best remembered it” </i> 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit, 9/14/78<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">3) Sharp makes a claim of “<i>manufactured evidence</i>.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> “<i>We note, furthermore, that Peltier‘s contentions of <u>manufactured evidence</u> are far from convincing. The district court allowed Peltier to present the following evidence relating to his theory of defense:”</i> (The court then goes on to provide examples.) 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit, 9/14/78<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Since judge Sharp knows the Peltier case, with the courts’ decisions to the contrary, then could it be that former judge Sharp is just honestly mistaken? One would trust that he is not knowingly offering a lie to the public, but rather has been swayed by Peltier propaganda that he is desperately trying to memorialize. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">In closing, briefly, was Peltier given more consideration than other persons tried for murder? Yes, indeed he was. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Normally, a federal criminal defendant is entitled to a single court-appointed attorney chosen by rotation. Peltier received five (5) lawyers—two as trial attorneys and three as investigators. All were chosen by Peltier, rather than the normal rotation process, and, of course, all were paid for by taxpayers. The defense received almost double the normal number of preemptory challenges during jury selection. Pelter’s lawyers were allowed to personally question the jury, which is highly unusual in federal criminal cases. The trial court provided daily transcripts of testimony to the defense, a very expensive measure which is rarely done. After conviction, Peltier was allowed to dismiss four of his five attorneys, and hire at government expense, his selection of new appellate attorneys.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333;">There is considerably more to follow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333;">“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333;">Ed Woods</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMhFOEw-8cCkamHp62Zw48vCexYiCJUR-g_dHpgxWOKELjsifUzoMJ_2w8yvqMzXanKobFuQ7iX-o_tOTzLfLklI1XsM5HG_y1tlJpb0xpDRQ7BIiWuzFzN0Fzena9jJRgYiSZXVMvNnojnsbkOaOvLFSImhUZfs8-n7bncidqUA3jbX5mnFJfNqGa/s320/June%2026,%201975%20%20%20%20%20Pine%20Ridge.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMhFOEw-8cCkamHp62Zw48vCexYiCJUR-g_dHpgxWOKELjsifUzoMJ_2w8yvqMzXanKobFuQ7iX-o_tOTzLfLklI1XsM5HG_y1tlJpb0xpDRQ7BIiWuzFzN0Fzena9jJRgYiSZXVMvNnojnsbkOaOvLFSImhUZfs8-n7bncidqUA3jbX5mnFJfNqGa/s1600/June%2026,%201975%20%20%20%20%20Pine%20Ridge.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><p></p>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-47468467988144735132023-01-12T00:04:00.000-05:002023-01-12T00:04:04.649-05:00KNOWING FBI AGENT, JACK R. COLER<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Dear Supporters:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Yet another year has passed since that fateful June day in 1975.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Jack would have now reached his seventy-sixth birthday and as characterized by his interests and career choices would undoubtedly be an active septuagenarian. Jack loved the outdoors. He was passionate about camping, fishing, skiing, hiking and exploring; doubtless the result of summer vacations to Yosemite with his parents and three younger siblings. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The weekend following that tragic Thursday in June, Jack had plans to go trout fishing in Wyoming with a fellow Agent.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Within his all-to-brief career, Jack had many notable accomplishments, one of which occurred as a new Agent at the FBI Academy. Jack’s name was added to the “Possible Club” wall by shooting a perfect firearms qualification score. Being part of that exclusive group was ever more challenging in those days of iron-sight revolvers. As another reminder, the name, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>J.R. Coler</i>, is listed on the wall to this very day.<a href="applewebdata://B8DFE709-B42E-480A-B34E-30A320CD5EE4#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">According to all who knew him personally and professionally, Jack, a former LAPD officer, was the quintessential G-Man; law enforcement to his core along with enviable intelligence and character traits that epitomized the tradition of Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">As a dedicated family man, son, brother, husband, and father, Jack had the promise of a great future, but instead left behind a widow and two sons who were too young to have memories of their doting and devoted father. Two sons who grew into fine and successful men, with families of their own and the legacy of Jack’s grandchildren.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The promise of a long and productive Bureau career and those precious times with family and friends was brutally stolen from him in a desolate corner of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation by the cowards of Jumping Bull.<a href="applewebdata://B8DFE709-B42E-480A-B34E-30A320CD5EE4#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[2]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Jack and his partner, Ron Williams, will never be forgotten. The memory of their bravery and sacrifice in the Line of Duty will forever remain in the annals of FBI history. And for those of us who remain, we will never forget.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Rest in Peace brothers. End of Watch, June 26, 1975 <a href="applewebdata://B8DFE709-B42E-480A-B34E-30A320CD5EE4#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[3]</span></span></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams” <a href="applewebdata://B8DFE709-B42E-480A-B34E-30A320CD5EE4#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[4]</span></span></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Ed Woods </p><div><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://B8DFE709-B42E-480A-B34E-30A320CD5EE4#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a> Video; “<u>In Memory of FBI Special Agents Jack Coler and Ron Williams</u>,” produced by; <i>Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation</i>; Courtesy of James Hoyer, P.A., Tampa, Florida.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> <a href=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozhEumzwgKA " target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozhEumzwgKA </a> at 4:49, Panel 2, line 32.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn2"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://B8DFE709-B42E-480A-B34E-30A320CD5EE4#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[2]</span></span></span></a> Peltier; the sham ‘political prisoner’ <a href="https://bit.ly/3X7rsgh">https://bit.ly/3X7rsgh</a> Beyond Peltier’s deceptive claims of innocence; </p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">The Big Lie: <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;"> <a href="https://bit.ly/3jUFhA9">https://bit.ly/3jUFhA9</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">Peltier’s attorney, Kevin H. Sharp, who is incapable of seeing beyond the myth or the actual record:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/11/ " target="_blank">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/11/ </a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn3"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://B8DFE709-B42E-480A-B34E-30A320CD5EE4#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[3]</span></span></span></a> Officer Down Memorial Page <a href="https://bit.ly/3Ive1CG" style="color: #954f72;">https://bit.ly/3Ive1CG</a><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">-Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: red;"> <a href=" https://bit.ly/3ijFXyP "> https://bit.ly/3ijFXyP </a> </span> <span style="color: red;"> & <a href="https://bit.ly/3GI7J1q ">https://bit.ly/3GI7J1q </a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">-White Flag of Surrender, Aiding and Abetting & National Law enforcement Memorial: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/flag.html " target="_blank">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/flag.html </a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></p></div><div id="edn4"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://B8DFE709-B42E-480A-B34E-30A320CD5EE4#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[4]</span></span></span></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOvLwh6wNTY6NdoQbs6NfE6Y9F6PCDOFD6Kzxgt6asxJgi-hWYJqz-KI5U-OubRzBjnX6k2QrgYHWEuUjb3FOg93KiaqGKswmEuOj5toy0R80NzdxCC0zLHWIH-HIvLe7-LTM6FYuSuYynKZFA5Azgw0GeEK2GND0p_zafLQbgWmQPRkxTx3Wwcf-W/s769/Coler%20Ring%20%233.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="769" height="109" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOvLwh6wNTY6NdoQbs6NfE6Y9F6PCDOFD6Kzxgt6asxJgi-hWYJqz-KI5U-OubRzBjnX6k2QrgYHWEuUjb3FOg93KiaqGKswmEuOj5toy0R80NzdxCC0zLHWIH-HIvLe7-LTM6FYuSuYynKZFA5Azgw0GeEK2GND0p_zafLQbgWmQPRkxTx3Wwcf-W/w231-h109/Coler%20Ring%20%233.jpg" width="231" /></a></p><br /></div></div>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-48646992579948059792022-11-26T11:59:00.000-05:002022-11-26T11:59:45.843-05:00PELTIER: UNSHARPENING AIDING & ABETTING #1<br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p>Dear Supporters: </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Is Leonard Peltier’s latest attorney, Kevin H. Sharp, acting in the best interests of his client?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">What follows describes the reasons why the NPPA is convinced he is not.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The answer to this central question, as Sharp continues to promote provable falsehoods, would be based on either of two assumptions:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">One is that for some inexplicable reason an attorney and former federal judge has failed to grasp the facts.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The other is that he does understand that he is provably wrong, but that it matters little in his blind pursuit to attempt to secure Peltier’s release.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Sharp, as a Peltier activist, and like Peltier himself, has become a public figure. As such he is held to a higher standard than ordinary citizens. Sharp’s many public statements are thus subject to scrutiny to explore why he is incapable of comprehending a fairly simple and straight-forward factual conclusion. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">What follows challenges—once again—the repeated refrain from Kevin Sharp, that the government changed its theory of its prosecution during Peltier’s lengthy appellate process to one of <i>Aiding and Abetting</i>. In other words—after Peltier’s conviction and during his appeals.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Aiding and Abetting is not the only issue Sharp has adulterated<span style="background-color: yellow;">.<a href="applewebdata://5B21F9AB-97F6-4D9B-A1EF-568C2C447F65#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">It is unmistakable that Sharp cannot claim any credit for mouthing what is an obvious fallacy. He is certainly not that creative or possessing extraordinary legal acumen, at least in the Peltier case. Why? Because, this <i>Aiding and Abetting </i>delusion has been around for years—three decades actually—before Sharp crawled into the Peltier teepee. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Previous Peltier attorneys, seeing what they believed was a legal opportunity and weakness in the government’s case, initially attempted the <i>‘changed the government theory’</i> approach for the first time in 1991<span style="background-color: yellow;">.<a href="applewebdata://5B21F9AB-97F6-4D9B-A1EF-568C2C447F65#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a></span> It failed miserably, of course. According to the court it was a “fatally flawed” argument and all Sharp did was purloin their legal failure. The original effort was attempted collectively by five (5) Peltier attorneys.<a href="applewebdata://5B21F9AB-97F6-4D9B-A1EF-568C2C447F65#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></span></a> Perhaps Sharp, as he has done publicly already—criticizing prior Peltier related judges—believes he is more capable than all these prior attorneys as well.<a href="applewebdata://5B21F9AB-97F6-4D9B-A1EF-568C2C447F65#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[iv]</span></span></span></span></a> Actually, and to the contrary, even the Court of Appeals recognized that Peltier “<i>was equally well-represented at trial and on appeal</i>.” (8<sup>th</sup> Circuit, 9/14/78). <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">How can Sharp promote, misinterpret or misunderstand this <i>Aiding and Abetting</i> falsehood when the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals in 1993 clearly dismissed this issue.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Supporters, whether attorneys or not, if at least familiar with basic criminal law procedures and the justice system or can understand straight-forward and plain text language, are strongly encouraged to review the entire decision for themselves. <a href="applewebdata://5B21F9AB-97F6-4D9B-A1EF-568C2C447F65#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[v]</span></span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The highlighted words that follow are impossible to misinterpret or fail to understand. Sharp succumbs to the axiom that <i>People are entitled to their own opinions, they are not entitled to their own facts</i>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;">It is <b>impossible</b> to conclude that, in all the circumstances, (AUSA) Crooks…intended…to abandon one of the two theories upon which the government had tried the case and <b>upon which</b> the case was submitted to the jury</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;">. (i.e., Alternative theories; murder and aiding and abetting)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“For the second time, the appellant, Leonard Peltier, seeks by a proceeding under 28 U.S.C. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">§ 2255 (1988) to set aside his 1977 conviction for the premeditated 1975 murder of two agents… <b>The district court denied relief</b>, ruling that (1) the record <b>does not support</b> Peltier‘s contention that an alleged concession by government counsel during oral argument before this court in the prior section 2255 appeal resulted in <b>a change in the theory</b> of the government’s case and, therefore, produced a conviction that could not be supported by the evidence introduced at trial and…”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">(Peltier Trial; Defense opening argument; Tr. at 34)</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Finally, if as the government has told you they will prove or expect to prove that one or more people shot and killed these two agents at very close range, it will be <b>important for you to be able to determine</b> whether anybody not actually close in, was around the edges, either knew this was taking place or <b>was supporting or aiding and abetting</b> them in some way, that would make them <b>culpable</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">(8<sup>th</sup> Circuit Opinion) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Defense counsel urged the court to require the government to elect <b>between the two theories</b>. The court responded: ”It seems to me the government’s response was to present all of the available relevant evidence and it‘s up to the jury to make the determination on the basis of that evidence whether one or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>{F.2d 467}</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>either of these situations [occurred]</b>.“ Tr. at 3449.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Both the government and the defense submitted proposed jury instructions on <b>aiding and abetting</b>. <b>Defense counsel, however, urged</b> the court not to give the jury any aiding and abetting instruction. In response, the <b><u>government supported</u> such instruction:</b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.8in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">With regard to the area of aiding and abetting, I would state that aiding and abetting is helping. <b>Aiding and abetting is seeing to it or assisting someone in the commission of a crime. </b>Now even if the jury did not believe that the defendant himself walked up to the agents and shot them from close range, from one foot or point blank range, they could nevertheless believe beyond a reasonable doubt under the state of the evidence that the <b>defendant helped the person who did</b> and the government is not required under the law in the eighth circuit to prove that this defendant actually pulled the trigger if the defendant is responsible in <b>aiding and abetting</b>. There is evidence to show circumstantial evidence by his contact both before and after the offense to prove that he <b>aided and abetted</b> those who were involved with him. (Tr. at 4929-30)</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">The (District) court gave the jury four instructions on aiding and abetting.</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> Instruction Number 38 explained: ”The burden is on the Government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, not only that the offenses were committed as alleged in the indictment, but that the defendant was the person who <b>committed them, or aided and abetted the person or persons who committed them.</b> (8<sup>th</sup> Circuit opinion)</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">On direct appeal this court, in outlining the evidence, stated: ”Viewed in the light most favorable to the government, the strongest evidence that Peltier committed or aided and abetted the murders is as follows . . . .“ 585 F.2d at 319 (footnote omitted).</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">The foregoing discussion establishes <b>beyond question</b> that <b>from the beginning of this case</b> through its <b>submission to the jury</b> (1) the government pursued alternative theories -- that Peltier either himself directly killed the two agents, or <b>aided and abetted others</b> in doing so, <b>(2) the defense was fully aware of these alternative theories and unsuccessfully attempted to compel the government to elect between them</b>, and (3) the district court recognized the alternative theories and <b>charged the jury in accordance with them</b>.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Peltier contends that by stating ”we can‘t prove who shot those agents,“ government counsel conceded that the government had not proved that Peltier personally shot the FBI agents, and that he thereby recognized that the only basis for supporting Peltier’s conviction was that he aided and abetted the murders.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">First, as the district court recognized in this section 2255 proceeding, it is unclear whether the references to ”those agents“ was to the ”two marshals“ mentioned two sentences earlier who had recently been murdered, or to the two FBI agents killed in this case. In any event, this eight-word comment in response to Judge Heaney‘s statements, is <b>a totally inadequate basis </b>for asserting that the government conceded that it had not proved that Peltier personally shot the agents at close range, or that that was the sole basis upon which the government tried the case. <b>Earlier in the argument, the government had stated several times that its theory was that Peltier was guilty of murdering the FBI agents because he either killed them personally</b> <b>or aided and abetted their killing</b>: </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">It is unmistakable that Aiding and Abetting, from the very beginning, was not only on the table but integral to the prosecution. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">What Sharp is accomplishing by his public campaigning is only harming his client by repeating claims that have been consistently rejected. In other words, he risks becoming just another shill promoting the tired and threadbare Peltier myth and folklore. <span style="color: #333333;">No mystery, no secrets, no magic, yet the provable falsehood is repeated as if saying it enough times will make it true. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Sharp is hamstrung because he is unable, and by inference, unwilling, to tell the truth and the whole story. Either way, it would be devastating to Peltier and the alleged ‘political prisoner’ narrative.<a href="applewebdata://5B21F9AB-97F6-4D9B-A1EF-568C2C447F65#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[vi]</span></span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Ed Woods<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">cc: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">With cover letter via FedEx<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(17)<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://5B21F9AB-97F6-4D9B-A1EF-568C2C447F65#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a> <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/04/peltier-judge-kevin-h-sharp-part-3.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/04/peltier-judge-kevin-h-sharp-part-3.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">Including, among others: alleged 60 murders of AIM members, killing of Joe Stuntz, Peltier extradition from Canada, the .223 shell casing and FBI Laboratory teletype, referencing the discredited James H. Reynolds, misrepresenting the Myrtle Poor Bear episode and alleged Constitutional violations.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn2"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://5B21F9AB-97F6-4D9B-A1EF-568C2C447F65#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a> <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/997.html" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/997.html</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> (1991)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="edn3"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://5B21F9AB-97F6-4D9B-A1EF-568C2C447F65#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></a> <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/997.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/997.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">William M. Kunstler, Eric A. Seitz, Lawrence W. Schilling, Ramsey Clark, and Bruce “I’ll take the Fifth” Ellison.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn4"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://5B21F9AB-97F6-4D9B-A1EF-568C2C447F65#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[iv]</span></span></span></a> Kevin Sharp publicly demeans former federal judges who heard and ruled on Peltier’s case:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/08/peltier-kevin-h-sharp-apology-4.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/08/peltier-kevin-h-sharp-apology-4.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn5"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://5B21F9AB-97F6-4D9B-A1EF-568C2C447F65#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[v]</span></span></span></a> <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/997.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/997.html</a> United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 997 F.2d 461, 1993 U.S. App. Decision July 7, 1993, Filed<o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn6"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://5B21F9AB-97F6-4D9B-A1EF-568C2C447F65#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[vi]</span></span></span></a> <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/05/" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/05/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">Dispelling the spurious claim and myth that Peltier is a political prisoner.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-86349285056007292062022-10-31T16:06:00.001-04:002022-10-31T16:28:29.481-04:00PELTIER: SHOOT NORMAN BROWN....!<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Dear Supporters:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The question to ask is how naive does the <i>International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee</i> (ILPDC) believe Peltier supporters really are? Or, to ask another way, to what length will the ILPDC go to perpetuate the false Peltier narrative? <a href="applewebdata://C4D6A355-E1D0-48C8-82FD-72342755A99C#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">This is only one of many factually inaccurate claims, which is too kind a description, but peddling Peltier lies from the myth playbook is precisely their intention. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">On this page, <a href="https://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/LEGAL/RESMURS.htm" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/LEGAL/RESMURS.htm</a> <a href="applewebdata://C4D6A355-E1D0-48C8-82FD-72342755A99C#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a> from the <i>Who is Leonard Peltier </i>website<i>, </i>there is a statement that reads:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i>FBI Memorandum<o:p></o:p></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i>Observation of the Need to “Shoot and/or<o:p></o:p></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i>Interview” Norman Brown When Located</i>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">That statement, which makes no practical or literary sense, links to a document. Opening the document there is an editorial note which makes even less sense, as it is also misleading.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><i>On April 18, 1977 Leonard Peltier was convicted of two counts of first degree murder and sentenced to two consecutive life terms. Later, because of FOIA documents that were released the government would attempt to change its theory to “aiding and abetting” in order to maintain Peltier’s conviction. <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">(Using the verb “<i>attempt</i>” contradicts Peltier’s attorney Kevin H. Sharp’s repeated public claim that the government, according to Sharp, <u>did</u> change its theory.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">This linked document is actually a transcribed portion of the verdict in Peltier’s trial.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">But what happened to “Shoot and/or Interview” Norman Brown? He’s not there! Even if the ILPDC did offer some other document, it is implausible that an FBI document exists promoting to “shoot or interview” anyone. Such a claim is senseless. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">One would think that Peltier, the ILPDC and particularly Kevin H. Sharp would want to offer, at a minimum, more accurate theories to its supporters and the public. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">As for the “Aiding and Abetting” issue, the ILPDC and Attorney Sharp are grossly inaccurate by offering factually unsupportable statements claiming that the government changed its theory of Peltier’s prosecution—after—Peltier was convicted.<a href="applewebdata://C4D6A355-E1D0-48C8-82FD-72342755A99C#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a> In other words, during Peltier’s lengthy appellate process. Nonetheless, this issue was definitively settled by the courts.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">This same page continues with additional distortions. There are ten (10) frames labeled “<i>Other Suspects</i>” with linked documents, each with additional editorial notes. “<i>Other suspects</i>” is pointless with no relevance to Peltier’s eventual conviction. The ILPDC hasn’t figured out that there are always “other suspects” in criminal cases of this magnitude. Jimmy Eagle, for one, received a lot of attention in the <i>Reservation Murders</i> investigation. Any other individuals were eliminated as suspects as Peltier’s guilt became more evident, which ultimately led to an indictment, trial and conviction, with numerous appeals that only reinforced his guilt. As a result, Peltier’s conviction and sentence have never been altered. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">And unless Sharp and the ILPDC needed reminding, on more than one occasion Peltier admitted his involvement. In a sworn affidavit Peltier stated, “<i>I did not wake up on that June 26 planning to injure or shoot federal agents, and did not gain anything from <b>participating</b> in the incident</i>.” (Emphasis added) <a href="applewebdata://C4D6A355-E1D0-48C8-82FD-72342755A99C#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Further links indicate: “<i>FBI Teletype Shows the .223 Shell Casing Was Not Compatible With the ‘Wichita AR-15.’</i> ” This statement is taken completely out of context and skews the actual timeline. This matter was unconditionally resolved with a three-day ballistics hearing in the District Court and before and after with the 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit Court of Appeals, all of which were ruled against Peltier’s interests. “<i>When all is said and done, however, a few simple but very important facts remain. The casing introduced into evidence had <b>in fact</b> been extracted from the Wichita AR-15. This point was not disputed; although the defense had its own ballistics expert, it offered no contrary evidence</i>.” 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit, September 11, 1986. (Emphasis added) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“<i>Inconsistencies in the FBI’s story are noted</i>.” This entry links to nineteen (19) lines of Peltier trial transcript testimony along with a note, “<i>During Peltier’s trial the prosecution’s witness and AIM member Michael Anderson testified of FBI coercion.”</i> Hardly inconsistencies. Native witnesses <i>Swore on the Pipe</i> and acknowledged that their testimony was truthful. For a detailed and comprehensive review of the <u>Critical Witnesses Against Peltier</u>; Michael Anderson, Wilford Draper, Norman Brown and Angie Long Visitor, see footnote.<a href="applewebdata://C4D6A355-E1D0-48C8-82FD-72342755A99C#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Several additional entries regarding statements from the <i>U.S. Civil Rights Commission</i> may be of interest to Peltierites, but hold no sway in Peltier’s conviction. Peltier’s numerous appeals, and the court decisions on the merits, are controlling. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">All this on just one page of <i>Who is Leonard Peltier</i>, and there is no mystery of exactly who and what Leonard Peltier is, an unrepentant, cold-blooded convicted murderer.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Ed Woods<o:p></o:p></p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://C4D6A355-E1D0-48C8-82FD-72342755A99C#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a> Peltier’s committees have morphed several times over at least the last two decades. Much of the Peltier material pushed by the original Leonard Peltier Defense Committee (LPDC) was carried forward by later committees and websites without fundamental vetting, review or revision. Thus, the perpetual inaccuracies.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn2"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://C4D6A355-E1D0-48C8-82FD-72342755A99C#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[2]</span></span></span></a> Last accessed 10/28/2022. Duly noted to see if the ILPDC can correct at least this one obvious flaw.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn3"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://C4D6A355-E1D0-48C8-82FD-72342755A99C#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[3]</span></span></span></a> <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/04/peltier-judge-kevin-h-sharp-part-3.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/04/peltier-judge-kevin-h-sharp-part-3.html</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn4"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://C4D6A355-E1D0-48C8-82FD-72342755A99C#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[4]</span></span></span></a> Peltier’s sworn Clemency Application, February 17, 2016. This ends with the following attribution; “I do solemnly swear that the foregoing information is true and correct to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief.” Obviously, difficult for the ILPDC and Sharp to grasp; 'participating' and 'aiding and abetting' are synonymous.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn5"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://C4D6A355-E1D0-48C8-82FD-72342755A99C#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[5]</span></span></span></a> <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#critical" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#critical</a> Critical Witnesses against Peltier.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-22526140183458335422022-10-07T17:07:00.000-04:002022-10-07T17:07:19.146-04:00PELTIER: U.N. ARBITRARY DETENTION & KEVIN H. SHARP<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Dear Supporters:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><u>The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention</u>, (WGAD) published a document, June 7, 2022, calling for the release of convicted murderer, Leonard Peltier<span style="background-color: yellow;">.<a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">It will become evident that although this U.N. document supports Peltier’s release, a thorough review provides conflicting conclusions. The WGAD quite simply offers an ‘opinion’ and ‘recommendations’ regarding Peltier’s conviction and incarceration while making demands on the United States government. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The WGAD, with all its many evidentiary and factual flaws, appears to have relied on a singular source. It mentions “the source” sixty (60) times in its seventeen page, 110 paragraph and 49 footnoted attempt to make Peltier into something he certainly is not; an alleged political prisoner who should be released from the U.S. Penitentiary, Coleman, Florida<span style="background-color: yellow;">.<a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[2]</span></span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><u>The WGAD (and the SHS, further described below) makes a fatal error by providing the very proof that negates their underlying argument; the amount of time Peltier should continue to be incarcerated.</u> More on this follows.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The first question to ask: Who exactly is “The Source” they so heavily relied upon?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Although there is no definitive proof of the WGAD apparent single source, the circumstantial evidence is ‘open and obvious’ about where many of their details originated. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">There is an Internet link to <i>Sanford, Heisler, Sharp LLP</i>, (SHS); none other than Kevin Sharp’s law firm<span style="background-color: yellow;">.<a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[3]</span></span></span></a></span> It includes an article entitled, “<i>Human Rights Working Group on Arbitrary Detention calls for the immediate release of Leonard Peltier</i>.” Above the title is the SHS logo and immediately below is the notation; “July 26, 2022, 10:33 ET; Source: Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP.” This is the first obvious clue to the WGAD’s source.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Based on the SHS public statement, it becomes logical to assume—and for this purpose—it is the opinion that Kevin Sharp is the WGAD source. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Within the SHS (Sharp’s) post, there are several provably false assertions. All these spurious claims have been rebutted <i>ad nauseum</i> over the past twenty-two years, by factually challenging Peltier, his various committees and attorneys. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">An obvious example, constantly repeated by Peltier and others, and rebutted with factual proof, is Sharp’s frequent allegation that <i>“…on appeal, prosecutors switched to an ‘aiding and abetting theory…</i>” Repeating this a thousand more times will never make it true, because the Court has spoken very clearly about this canard. Sharp, Peltier and Peltierites can believe that in their minds this is a valid argument to make; but it is not. So, once more, to literally waste the time and ink, we will repeat and counter this yet again, because, in just about every sense one could imagine, Peltier and the truth are strangers to one another. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">In 1993 the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals could not have been more transparent; they could not have made this point any more precise than when they concluded:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><i>It is impossible to conclude that, in all the circumstances (AUSA) Crooks…intended…to abandon one of the two theories upon which the government had tried the case and upon which the case was submitted to the jury.</i><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">This statement was part of the same “fatally flawed” decision dismantling another one of Peltier’s defective appeals.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">So why does it continue to be one of the incessant mantras of Peltier, and now Kevin Sharp? Lord only knows, but perhaps in this instance, advocacy has become so blinded, that to them, facts are meaningless, or at best, irrelevant or an annoyance. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The SHS/Sharp post includes a statement that conflicts with what Peltier had previously offered as proof to President Obama supporting that he was entitled to clemency:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.4in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><i>“Since his (Peltier’s) conviction was upheld on <b>little more</b> than evidence demonstrating that <b>he was present </b>at the reservation on the day of the <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.4in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><i>shoot-out.”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“That he was present?” Really? This claim raises another serious conundrum for Mr. Sharp.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Perhaps Peltier has forgotten, or maybe Sharp ignored, Peltier’s previous February 17, 2016 clemency petition where he then offered a telling and damning admission. In Part 1 of that petition, entitled, of all things, <i>Remorse</i>, he memorialized for both the legal record and President Obama:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.6in 0.0001pt;"><i>“I did not wake up on that June 26 planning to injure or shoot federal agents, and did not gain anything from <b>participating</b> in the incident.” <a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[5]</span></b></span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">So, which is it? Sharp’s inaccurate and questionable claim that Peltier was only ‘<b>present</b>,’ or Peltier’s admission, in writing, to the President of the United States, that he <b><u>participated</u></b>? Sharp would undoubtedly favor the former, but the latter is forever etched in stone.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">No matter to what degree Peltier and Sharp want to argue a negative, is it too difficult to grasp the nexus between admitted <b><u>participation</u></b> at Jumping Bull and the elements of Aiding and Abetting? Do they not comprehend the connection; participation in the events at Jumping Bull equates to nothing less than, Aiding and Abetting; Title 18 USC <span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 10.5pt;">§ 2.<a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="color: #202124; font-size: 10.5pt;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">However, do Sharp and Peltier want to be reminded of an even more significant public statement from Peltier? Likely not.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;">“I seen Joe when he pulled it out of the trunk and I looked at him when he put it on, and he gave me a smile.<span style="background-color: yellow;">”<a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[7]</span></span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“He gave me a smile,” as Joe Stuntz steals Agent Coler’s FBI jacket while two dead and mutilated human beings lay at their feet. This, without question, places at least Peltier and Stuntz <b>participating</b> at the crime scene. A fact Peltier and Sharp cannot refute, and within this context, it is surely not that complicated.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">There are other flaws in the SHS/Sharp public statement, but it’s time to return to the United Nations’ fallacies in the WGAD document, beginning with another glaring issue.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">* * *<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The WGAD’s references to their principal source came with some qualification and skepticism as they clarify; “<i>The source claims, The source reports, from the source, according to the source, the source notes, The source adds, the source recalls, The source’s allegations, Additional comments from the source, and The source asserts</i>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The WGAD contains numerous errors but the first question to ask is why Paragraph #8 contains this statement:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.7in 0.0001pt;">“<i>However, his (Peltier’s) case was moved, at the Government’s request, to a judge who had previously presided over a criminal trial that was overturned as a result of his use of anti-indigenous stereotypes in his instruction to the jury</i>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;">This reference—dutifully carried forward from a prior U.N. report—relates to Peltier’s trial judge, who also ruled on subsequent Peltier motions; the Honorable Paul Benson.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;">This case reference is to the <u>Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals</u> decision in United States v. Lavallie, decided December 18, 1981. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;">Lavallie was convicted of “<i>carnal knowledge of a female under 16 years of age</i>.” The trial was presided over by USDC Judge Paul Benson. Lavallie appealed his conviction to the 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit on three grounds, two of which were dismissed. However, regarding jury instruction No. 16 “<i>voluntary intoxication is not a defense to a crime of carnal knowledge such as charged in the indictment</i>,” the appellate court held that “<i>In the present case we find that the intoxication instruction so prejudiced Lavallie’s case as to deny his right to a fair trial</i>.” The conviction <i>was <u>reversed</u> and <u>remanded</u></i> back to the district court. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;">In order to clarify and repudiate this shallow assault on Judge Benson’s judicial expertise, the 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit did not ‘<i>dismiss</i>’ Lavallie’s case ‘<i>with prejudice</i>,’ which would have ended the matter entirely, precluding Lavallie from being tried again, and as such, leaving an indelible mark on Judge Benson’s judicial record. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;">Instead, Lavallie’s case was ‘<i>reversed,’</i> meaning the lower court was simply <i>incorrect</i> on this one issue, but that Lavallie could be tried again. Whether he was or not is immaterial and this obviously minor error, in the grand scheme of judicial actions, was not, as is being implied to the contrary, a significant issue. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;">To be clear, the inclusion of the Lavallie decision had but one purpose, to demean Judge Paul Benson, and by inference, cast doubt on the validity or fairness of Peltier’s conviction. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;">In addition to this claim against Judge Benson, Peltier attorney Kevin Sharp, made public statements denigrating <i><u>all</u></i> the judges who rendered decisions during Peltier’s lengthy appellate history, the details of which are reviewed and available <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/08/peltier-kevin-h-sharp-apology-4.html" style="color: #954f72;">here</a><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #0070c0;">.<a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn8" name="_ednref8" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 12pt;">[8]</span></span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;">Judge Benson was the Chief Judge of the District of North Dakota from 1971 to 1986. Including later senior status, he served honorably for thirty-three years; over five times that of attorney Sharp’s federal judgeship. No other reversals of Judge Benson’s judicial tenure could be located, yet, for the purpose of promoting Peltier, this appears in the U.N. Document.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;">These comments were also purposely intended to distract from the fact that <u>none</u> of Leonard Peltier’s appeals of judge Benson’s Peltier decisions were reversed on appeal by the Eighth Circuit. One issue was remanded back to Judge Benson’s district court for an evidentiary (ballistics) hearing. A three-day hearing was conducted with Judge Benson rendering an opinion against Peltier’s interests. That opinion was appealed and upheld. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;">(Further, with no less irony of Sharp’s personal and public animosity toward Peltier related judges; Eighth Circuit judge, Theodore McMillian, who ruled in the Lavallie case, also concurred in a July 7, 1993, opinion against Peltier.)<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">* * *<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Among the many factually unsupportable and provably false claims within the WGAD report, what follows are just <i>some examples</i> (with paragraph references):<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">#5 (“From the Source”) <i>“Mr. Peltier suffers…kidney disease, a heart condition, diabetes, high blood pressure, bone spurs, a degenerative joint disease, shortness of breath and dizziness, painful injuries to his jaw and near blindness in one eye due to a stroke. Several of these conditions put Mr. Peltier at high risk of death from coronavirus disease (COVID 19) while detained.” </i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">On September 12, 2022 Peltier turned 78. By all accounts, he’s elderly, which brings with it the expected challenges of the human condition. The average life expectancy today for non-Hispanic, males is currently 76. According to a recent study by the Center for Disease Control, Native American males die at an earlier age, averaging 71 years. (An assumption here is that perhaps most of these Native Americans live on Reservations which may contribute to the shortened lifespan.) Peltier, on the other hand, has exceeded his native brethren while incarcerated. He has undergone by-pass surgery, been treated for many ailments and recovered after contracting Covid-19 this past January. In the grand scheme of life, Peltier is paradoxically ahead. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">However, the real point here is that Jack Coler and Ron Williams are DEAD; attacked, mortally wounded, then brutally executed by a remorseless murderer. A killer who described the shooting (in later sworn witness testimony during an unrelated trial describing Agent Williams final moments): “<i>The M….. …..r was begging for his life but I shot him anyway.” <a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn9" name="_ednref9" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[9]</span></b></span></span></span></a></i> Jack and Ron would have chosen to live full lives; lives that were ruthlessly stolen, and to deal with the predicable challenges of aging. Peltier, however, is still alive to complain and seek sympathy and freedom he does not deserve. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">#8 “<i>The source claims…Peltier was convicted…on the basis of evidence that was later discovered to have been <b>manufactured</b>. A ballistics report…”</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">False. Although Peltier did receive documents pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, there is nothing in the district or appellate record that supports Peltier’s claim and contention that any evidence was “manufactured.” <a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn10" name="_ednref10" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[10]</span></span></span></span></a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">#25, 26, 27 “<i>Nevertheless, although Mr. Peltier’s conduct during incarceration has been exemplary for more than four decades…He was the target of an attempted assassination plot in 1979.”</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">False, as well as misleading. Although mentioning the July 20, 1979, completely fabricated and alleged government plot to assassinate Peltier, one not so minor point of his armed escape was that guards were shot at with weapons staged outside the prison walls. Further, the deceptive “four decades” “exemplary” claim ignores at least one instance, and there were more periods of solitary confinement (for which Sharp offers shallow excuses), and is quite possibly the reason why Peltier wound up at USP Coleman<span style="background-color: yellow;">.<a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn11" name="_ednref11" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[11]</span></span></span></a></span> <a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn12" name="_ednref12" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[12]</span></span></span></span></a> In 1979 Peltier was re-captured after five days, tried, convicted and received a <i>consecutive</i> seven-year sentence.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">#30 “…<i>Killing of more than 60 indigenous people on the Pine Ridge Reservation between, 1973 and June 1975</i>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> False. This decades-old fable, now being nurtured by Kevin Sharp, is just part of the Peltier-AIM folklore. Refuting this fiction dates back to July 2000.<a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn13" name="_ednref13" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[13]</span></span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">#31 “<i>The source notes that the examiner…intended to punish Mr. Peltier for actions committed by an unknown person because the killer appeared to have been part of his indigenous group</i>.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> It is strangely odd, bewildering and bordering on bizarre, that Kevin Sharp would make even a passing reference to Peltier’s second biggest lie. This relates to the nearly two-decade fabrication and Peltier’s only alibi that someone they knew, the phantom Mr. X in the infamous red pickup, killed the Agents. One of Peltier’s AIM cohorts (Dino Butler) and even one of his own attorneys (Michael Kuzma), publicly admitted that Mr. X was a hoax. Much has been written about Mr. X, and early-on, in Robert Redford’s <u>Incident at Oglala</u> film, Peltier stated, “This story is true.”<a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn14" name="_ednref14" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[14]</span></span></span></span></a> It never was. By Sharp even broaching this demonstrates a serious lack of common sense and flawed judgement emanating from an overly zealous and distorted sense of advocacy. Nevertheless, rather than waste any more time on Mr. X, the details are available here <a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn15" name="_ednref15" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[15]</span></span></span></span></a>. However, beyond Mr. X, we cannot ignore or forget Peltier’s Big Lie.<a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn16" name="_ednref16" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[16]</span></span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> #33 “<i>A Bureau memorandum from April 1975 showed that it was preparing to engage in armed confrontation with the Movement</i>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> False and utterly absurd. This relates to the infamous “Sanctioned Memo” that has been the topic of Peltier fiction for decades. Anyone, with even an ounce of common sense and the ability to read, can understand the purpose of this government Memo that had nothing to do with “preparing to engage,” but was a <i>position paper</i> on the difficulties managing multi-jurisdictional incidents, specifically like Wounded Knee II in 1973.<a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn17" name="_ednref17" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[17]</span></span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">#35 “<i>On 16 December 2000 (sic), around 500 Federal Bureau of Investigation agents marched near the White House…Bureau agents had never made such a public and virulent display against the potential release of a prisoner. The protesters delivered…signatures of more than 8,000 current and former Bureau agents.”</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> As it turned out, on December <u>15</u>, 2000, this writer was there that day. There were closer to 700 and all took personal time to attend; there were over 10,000 signatures on petitions expressing the reasons why President Clinton should not release Peltier. That day was not “virulent” by any measure. To the contrary, proper permits were obtained and it was a dignified procession around the ellipse to the White House with agents in business attire. The double-line of Agents was preceded with a banner “In Memory, June 26, 1975” and large photos of Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams. It was silent and dignified, and without question nothing like AIM or Peltier supported <i>virulent </i>demonstrations. An Agent representative was allowed into the White House to deliver the large binders of petitions. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">This was an unusual event. Nevertheless, with the dignity they displayed, as American citizens, the Agents had every right to express their First Amendment rights that the unrepentant murderer of two of their own should continue his consecutive life sentences. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">#44 “<i>Such a finding </i>(murder vs. aiding and abetting) <i>would have violated the United States extradition treaty with Canada, which requires that the crime with which a person is charged in the United States be the crime upon which that person was extradited.” </i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> False. WGAD and Sharp need to reassess their faulty logic and reexamine this erroneous claim. Murder, by treaty, is an extraditable offense.<a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn18" name="_ednref18" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[18]</span></span></span></span></a> The Canadian government made it appropriately clear why Peltier was extradited. “<i>In my opinion, given the test for committal for extradition referred to above, the circumstantial evidence presented at the extradition hearing, taken alone, constituted sufficient evidence to justify Mr. Peltier’s committal on the <b>two murder </b><b>charges</b>. My conclusions in this regard are consistent with the arguments made by Department of Justice counsel before both the Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada</i>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Quite simply, Peltier was lawfully extradited for murder.<a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn19" name="_ednref19" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[19]</span></span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">#52 “<i>Mr. Peltier has accomplished substantial charitable and advocacy work while incarcerated</i>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> This is utter nonsense, exaggerated and engrained in the myth and folklore. Peltier has repeatedly made alleged claims of philanthropic activities that do not hold up to even casual scrutiny. Aside from erroneously claiming that donations to an incarcerated felon are “tax-deductible” (a fraudulent claim, that with little doubt the I.R.S. was notified and took action), Peltier’s alleged charitable activates and “fund-raising” have been monitored and largely dispelled for years.<a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn20" name="_ednref20" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[20]</span></span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">#67 “<i>…the Government does not dispute that Mr. Peltier has engaged in charitable work during his incarceration…”</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> Really? WGAD and Sharp would have to provide any proof that the U.S. Government has made such a claim. The probability is that this is not a factual or true statement but more likely that the government was never asked, nor commented, on Peltier’s alleged “charitable work.” Certainly though, others have questioned Peltier’s shallow claims.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">69. “<i>Lastly, one of the prosecutors recently explained that the prosecution theory changed at least three times during Mr. Peltier’s trial and appeals.”</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> False. This references a December 20, 2021 opinion piece by Jonathan P. Baird<span style="background-color: yellow;">.<a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn21" name="_ednref21" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[21]</span></span></span></a></span> It should come as no surprise that nowhere in Baird’s pathetically inaccurate drivel is there any mention of “<i>the prosecution theory changed at least three times</i>…” The WGAD penned, albeit apparently deliberately, yet another falsehood to add to the Peltier lexicon of myths. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> Baird does reference another even faultier source of Peltier noise, former U.S. Attorney, James H. Reynolds. Reynolds has been repeatedly brought to task and challenged to <i><u>defend any</u></i> of his alleged involvement in Peltier’s prosecution or the laundry list of alleged claims of a wrongful conviction. Baird and Reynolds are <i>utterly unconvincing—indeed embarrassingly sophomoric</i> when making claims on behalf of Peltier’s innocence or right to a commuted sentence<span style="background-color: yellow;">.<a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn22" name="_ednref22" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[22]</span></span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><u>Parole Commission</u>: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">The WGAD, and “the Source,” Kevin Sharp, provide many details regarding Peltier’s history with the U.S. Parole Commission. Assuming that some, most, or all these details are accurate; and based on previous public statements from the Peltier camp, the presumption is that they are not, then the obvious recourse is to litigate these alleged claims of Parole Commission violations. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b> </b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>* * *<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">In conclusion, what follows are several of the WGAD’s apparently honest statements regarding Peltier’s legal status and the major fault in the WGAD and Kevin H. Sharp’s argument for Peltier’s commutation:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;"> <i>The Working Group emphasized its purpose is not to substitute itself for the national authorities. It refrains from examining matters that are for the national authorities to determine</i>. #75. (i.e., the United States and the Department of Justice.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">“<i>While the sentence currently being served by Mr. Peltier is extremely long and <b>appears</b> to be significantly longer than those being served in similar cases in which other detainees were granted parole, the <b>Working Group is not convinced that this renders his detention arbitrary and without legal basis</b>. The two consecutive sentences of life imprisonment imposed on Mr. Peltier—whether imposed for an offence categorized as murder or aiding and abetting—<b>relate to the death of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents who were shot with a firearm</b>, <b>an extremely serious offence</b></i>.” #78. (Emphasis added.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> “<i>The source has established a credible case that Mr. Peltier is experiencing significant health issues and is at high risk of COVID-19 complications. However, the Working Group <b>is not convinced that his detention lacks legal basis</b>. The legal basis for Mr. Peltier’s detention remains <b>his conviction at trial, confirmed on appeal, that he was responsible for the death of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents</b>.”</i> #83 (Emphasis added.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> “<i>For these reasons, the Working Group is unable to find that Mr. Peltier’s detention is arbitrary under category 1</i>.” #84 <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> <i>The Working Group does not condone the killing of law enforcement officers and this opinion should not be understood as in any way <b>minimizing the gravity</b> <b>of the events</b> that took place in 1975 in South Dakota, which led to Mr. Peltier’s conviction</i>.” #100 (Emphasis added.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><u>Can these statements by the WGAD be any clearer that they recognize Peltier’s guilt</u>?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">* * *<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The WGAD concludes in #107 that “the source” and the United States Government meet the requests and respond regarding their June 7, 2022 document. However, the U.S. justice system has spoken repeatedly, clearly and finally on Peltier’s guilt, conviction and sentence.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">77. “<i>According to the source, Mr. Peltier’s detention is arbitrary because it is prolonged. The source compares Mr. Peltier’s sentence with the average time served by individuals sentenced by federal courts to life imprisonment for murder before they were released on parole, which was 8.8 years in 1985 and 27.4 years in 2015</i>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">(We do not accept the source’s {Kevin Sharp’s} representation of 8.8 years without some basis of proof. To the contrary, during Peltier’s period of incarceration the average time when a convicted murderer was ‘<i>eligible</i>’ for ‘<i>parole</i>’ was roughly 25 years.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The central point missed or ignored by Kevin Sharp, but obviously not by the WGAD, is the critical issue of “consecutive” life sentences. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">At footnote 29 the WGAD clarifies and points out what Sharp ignores:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;">“<i>It is not clear whether the 27.4 years cited by <b>the source </b>has been <b>doubled</b> to serve as an appropriate point of comparison with Mr. Peltier’s two consecutive life sentences</i>.” (Emphasis added.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">It did not. Accepting the 27.4-year figure and not ignoring that Peltier was sentenced to <b>consecutive</b> life sentences for <b>two</b> murders, that would represent 54.8 years. However, the WGAD and Sharp, and repeatedly Peltier and his ‘committees’ over the years, deliberately forget or ignore, <i>Lompoc</i>. That armed prison escape resulted in an additional seven (7) year <b>consecutive</b> sentence. The total then would be that Peltier owes 61.8 years. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Sometime in 2024, Peltier will be eligible for his next full parole hearing. We’ll have to see how that one goes.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">And then there’s Peltier’s and Sharp’s hope of January 19, 2025. As the clock ticks, time will tell. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Peltier begs for compassion and freedom but he should be shown as much mercy as he gave to Jack Coler and Ronald Williams; and that would be none.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Ed Woods<o:p></o:p></p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWUvyUar8dqVn74T_AOhtvbppBU4YUCiaF6yYffi3zwzSBfc_TnYYdVQeuyeWjszPiIw6XUoreHATJeZx4POUrc5bcgiZlLmYjmOKZeVhWb9Z8bASit8EcJoe8PGikyj4LYH8m5Y3GVxdEO86yNZXmwxacY7Q12LZFL9vWPNSWl77Yp3mEt-sILnnN" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWUvyUar8dqVn74T_AOhtvbppBU4YUCiaF6yYffi3zwzSBfc_TnYYdVQeuyeWjszPiIw6XUoreHATJeZx4POUrc5bcgiZlLmYjmOKZeVhWb9Z8bASit8EcJoe8PGikyj4LYH8m5Y3GVxdEO86yNZXmwxacY7Q12LZFL9vWPNSWl77Yp3mEt-sILnnN" width="320" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">June 26, 1975, Pine Ridge, SD <span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="color: #954f72; vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_edn23" name="_ednref23" style="color: #954f72;" title="">[23]</a></span></span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="color: #954f72; vertical-align: super;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><br /></span></span></span></p><div>cc:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkE3yxtuSNqfy0aYRe6UoZsNCh73LrCXem_i57zN8nLOtMV53-L8OUs-lqdNaK4mUnRxhqqZwyE8HqItzM0CYyaonPSQlZT9MeNKU5fKO3wSpFHEIy79Mfx4NhsvT1qPPBcX8XIWDNz-ct_NYqt977skdGVnOiOpSINf6dXtsW-spLXTr2XYU5adbQ/s320/Envelopes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="76" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkE3yxtuSNqfy0aYRe6UoZsNCh73LrCXem_i57zN8nLOtMV53-L8OUs-lqdNaK4mUnRxhqqZwyE8HqItzM0CYyaonPSQlZT9MeNKU5fKO3wSpFHEIy79Mfx4NhsvT1qPPBcX8XIWDNz-ct_NYqt977skdGVnOiOpSINf6dXtsW-spLXTr2XYU5adbQ/w57-h76/Envelopes.jpg" width="57" /></a><br /><br /><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">U.N. Working Group re Arbitrary Detention, June 7, 2022:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2022-06/A-HRC-WGAD-7-2022-USA-AEV.pdf" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2022-06/A-HRC-WGAD-7-2022-USA-AEV.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(Last accessed, 8/13/2022: The document is poorly presented by repeatedly merging and convoluting disparate issues within the same paragraphs. It is overly repetitive and could have been greatly reduced to make the same points.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p></div><div id="edn2"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[2]</span></span></span></a> An explanation of why Leonard Peltier is not a political prisoner:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/05/" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/05/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn3"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""></a><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[3]</span></span></span> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Press release posted from Sharp, et. al.</span> <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/07/26/2486145/0/en/Human-Rights-Working-Group-on-Arbitrary-Detention-calls-for-the-immediate-release-of-Leonard-Peltier.html" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/07/26/2486145/0/en/Human-Rights-Working-Group-on-Arbitrary-Detention-calls-for-the-immediate-release-of-Leonard-Peltier.html</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(Last accessed 8/14/22)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="edn4"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""></a><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[4]</span></span></span> Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, 997 F.2d 461, July 7, 1993:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/997.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/997.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn5"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="color: #954f72;" title=""></a><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[5]</span></span></span> Peltier, another admission: <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2017/01/peltier-another-admission.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2017/01/peltier-another-admission.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn6"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="color: #954f72;" title=""></a><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[6]</span></span></span> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">(a) Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal.</span><span style="color: #171e24; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> (b) Whoever willfully causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him or another would be an offense against the United States, is punishable as a principal. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> The come-back would obviously be what Peltier was convicted of, murder, the retort is then to repeat the above 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit Court’s definitive decision, that it is “impossible” to conclude otherwise of the two theories of Peltier’s prosecution, murder and aiding and abetting. We cannot ignore either, that the defense and prosecution debated over the language of the jury instruction on Aiding and Abetting. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn7"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref7" name="_edn7" style="color: #954f72;" title=""></a><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[7]</span></span></span> Peter Matthiessen, <u>In the Spirit of Crazy Horse</u> (New York: Penguin Books, 1992) 552. A direct quote from Peltier to Matthiessen in Peltier’s biography. <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/06/peltier-admissions-of-guilt-and-lack-of.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/06/peltier-admissions-of-guilt-and-lack-of.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn8"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref8" name="_edn8" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[8]</span></span></span></a> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Re Kevin H. Sharp:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/08/peltier-kevin-h-sharp-apology-4.html" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/08/peltier-kevin-h-sharp-apology-4.html</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="edn9"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref9" name="_edn9" style="color: #954f72;" title=""></a><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[9]</span></span></span> <a href="https://www.jfamr.org/doc/kmtest1.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.jfamr.org/doc/kmtest1.html</a> (Last accessed 8/28/22) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;">Testimony of Darlene Nichols, 2/3/2004, at the trial of Arlo Looking Cloud for the murder of AIM activist Anna Mae Aquash: “…<i>he (Peltier) started talking about June 26, and he put his hand like this </i>(gesturing with a weapon) <i>and started talking about the two FBI agent</i>s.” “<i>He said the m----- -----r was begging for his life, but I shot him anyway</i>.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;">(Referring to the final horrifying moments and murder of FBI Agent Ron Williams.)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="edn10"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref10" name="_edn10" style="color: #954f72;" title=""></a><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[10]</span></span></span> “We note, furthermore, that <u>Peltier’s contention</u> of manufactured evidence are far from convincing. The district court allowed Peltier to present the following evidence relating to his theory of defense:” USCA, Eighth Circuit, 585 F.2d 314, September 14, 1978. <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/585.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/585.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn11"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref11" name="_edn11" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[11]</span></span></span></a> 2011, Peltier spends six months in solitary: <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2011/08/" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2011/08/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn12"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref12" name="_edn12" style="color: #954f72;" title=""></a><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[12]</span></span></span> “Exemplary” inmate Peltier whines about having a cellmate: <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2011/04/" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2011/04/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn13"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref13" name="_edn13" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[13]</span></span></span></a> See: Issue “Reign of Terror” and Indian murders never investigated section:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/response.html#7" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/response.html#7</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn14"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref14" name="_edn14" style="color: #954f72;" title=""></a><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[14]</span></span></span> Film <u>Incident at Oglala</u>; (Last accessed 9/4/2022)<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/home/resources/multimedia/" style="color: #954f72; font-size: 10pt;">https://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/home/resources/multimedia/</a></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><br /></div><div id="edn15"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref15" name="_edn15" style="color: #954f72;" title=""></a><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[15]</span></span></span> The fabrication and lie of Mr. X:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/movie.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/movie.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/interview.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/interview.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/lie.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/lie.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2012/12/peltier-kuzma-closes-circle-much-more.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2012/12/peltier-kuzma-closes-circle-much-more.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2019/09/peltier-really-mr-x-is-back.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2019/09/peltier-really-mr-x-is-back.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn16"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref16" name="_edn16" style="color: #954f72;" title=""></a><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[16]</span></span></span> Peltier’s Big Lie: <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/03/peltiers-big-lie-dinos-truth.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/03/peltiers-big-lie-dinos-truth.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">And admission of guilt and lack of remorse: <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/06/" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/06/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn17"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref17" name="_edn17" style="color: #954f72;" title=""></a><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[17]</span></span></span> The alleged Sanctioned Memo: <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#critic" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#critic</a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn18"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref18" name="_edn18" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[18]</span></span></span></a> Treaty on Extradition Between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America; E10123-CTS 1996 No. 3 (Peltier was extradited in December 1976):<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://www.treaty-accord.gc.ca/text-texte.aspx?id=101323" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.treaty-accord.gc.ca/text-texte.aspx?id=101323</a> (Last accessed, 9/22/2022)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn19"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref19" name="_edn19" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[19]</span></span></span></a> Canadian Minister of Justice letter to U.S. Attorney General, October 12, 1999.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/canadaletter.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/canadaletter.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn20"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref20" name="_edn20" style="color: #954f72;" title=""></a><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[20]</span></span></span> Charity & Finances: 2004: <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#fraud" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#fraud</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">2016 <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2016/09/peltier-attention-irs.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2016/09/peltier-attention-irs.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">2016 <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2016/10/peltier-list-irs.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2016/10/peltier-list-irs.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn21"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref21" name="_edn21" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[21]</span></span></span></a> <a href="https://www.concordmonitor.com/Jonathan-P-Baird-It-is-time-to-release-Leonard-Peltier-44028190" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.concordmonitor.com/Jonathan-P-Baird-It-is-time-to-release-Leonard-Peltier-44028190</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">To even suggest that this ‘opinion’ piece is fatally flawed would be too kind. It is so filled with errors that any further review would be meaningless. (Last accessed 9/21/2022)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn22"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref22" name="_edn22" style="color: #954f72;" title=""></a><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[22]</span></span></span> Challenges to James H. Reynolds public statements:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2017/01/peltier-reynolds-false-claims.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2017/01/peltier-reynolds-false-claims.html</a> Part 1<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2017/12/james-reynolds-part-ii-letters-public.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2017/12/james-reynolds-part-ii-letters-public.html</a> Part II<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2018/01/peltier-james-reynolds-part-iii-dancing.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2018/01/peltier-james-reynolds-part-iii-dancing.html</a> Part III<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/01/peltier-president-biden-james-reynolds.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/01/peltier-president-biden-james-reynolds.html</a> <span style="font-size: 9pt;">Part IV</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn23"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://8BA7D613-3D71-4A13-8438-ECC2293EA320#_ednref23" name="_edn23" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[23]</span></span></span></a> During an unprovoked attack, both Agents were mortally wounded and then shot at point-blank range, destroying their faces. Yet, when the bodies were discovered, they had been rolled over to face the ground. After death, the mutilated bodies were manhandled by the AIM cowards at Jumping Bull.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-23331601176446213742022-09-24T10:33:00.004-04:002022-09-24T10:39:29.456-04:00PELTIER: LOSES WASHINGTON STATE PAINTINGS CASE<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Dear Supporters:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Leonard Peltier has lost another court battle. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">As a recap, this began as a federal civil suit concerning the removal of his prison paintings from the Washington State, Department of Labor and Industries (L&I), Native American Art exhibit in November 2015.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The convicted brutal murderer’s prison paintings were on display and advertised for sale, which prompted a predictable response among current and retired FBI Agents. Retired Agents were interviewed by local media and two separate letters were written to the Governor and L&I officials objecting to the display; from the then President of the <i>Society of former Special Agents of the FBI</i>, Larry Langberg, and the founder of the <i>No Parole Peltier Association</i>, <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2015/11/peltier-dear-governor-inslee.html" style="color: #954f72;">Ed Woods</a><span style="color: #0070c0;">.<a href="applewebdata://58B14631-3AD3-4330-A04C-483FFA67B553#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 12pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">On March 21, 2017 on behalf of Peltier, <i>pro bono</i> attorney Lawrence Hildes filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court (USDC) for the Western District of Washington against Woods and Langberg and several Washington State officials, including Joel Sacks, Director of the L&I facility and Governor Inslee. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">On July 25, 2017, after further motions, the suit against Woods and Langberg was dismissed “<b>with prejudice</b>,” meaning that it was a final judgement and dismissed on the merits that barred Peltier and Hildes from bringing any further action on this claim.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">At the same time, the USDC dismissed all but one of Peltier’s claims except that the case could proceed against Washington State. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Peltier did appeal the District Court’s decisions regarding several issues to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. A detailed review of the L&I case can be found<span style="color: #0070c0;"> </span><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2018/09/" style="color: #954f72;">here</a><span style="color: #0070c0;"> <a href="applewebdata://58B14631-3AD3-4330-A04C-483FFA67B553#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 12pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Over the next several years, and the passing of attorney Hildes, the Ninth Circuit Court gave Peltier significant time and deadlines to find another attorney, or proceed <i>pro se’</i>. This would allow Peltier—a convicted murderer serving consecutive life sentences—to represent himself from prison, without an attorney. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">On July 11, 2022, the Ninth Circuit granted a motion filed by Appellant Joel Sacks to dismiss the case. The Ninth Circuit disposed of this matter pursuant to rule 42b, stating “This order shall constitute the mandate.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Peltier’s loss was the result of a few mitigating factors.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> The passing of attorney Lawrence Hildes. USDC Judge Leighton criticized Hildes motions on a couple of legal matters. In regard to Peltier himself, Hildes’s motions were filled with many repetitive and arguably meaningless adjectives as well as false and inaccurate statements, some echoing the same myth and folklore taken directly from Peltier and the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee website. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> Peltier certainly did not have the wherewithal, even with assistance from prison inmate jailhouse lawyers, to make meaningful arguments through motions to the Ninth Circuit. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">It is curious, and perhaps not all that understandable, that Peltier’s current <i>pro bono</i> attorney, <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/08/" style="color: #954f72;">Kevin H. Sharp</a> didn’t step up this time.<a href="applewebdata://58B14631-3AD3-4330-A04C-483FFA67B553#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #0070c0;"> </span> Sharp’s advocacy parrots most of the misinformation about Peltier’s conviction, appeals and public statements, yet he was not willing to continue defending Peltier’s interests in a case with little, if any, publicity. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Ed Woods<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_Tppm_6d190zmQHAw4Qz2TqpSEFpFMK7Ov19al417Q_JRuhqywn1PawNIc0am1rxH-V6v0ysHwhMgH4GR73XosLszQZj6e-LuNxtp6-VM-D1kbgCyiucgx8BHt2a6ZLeplDNN9J0qxvGt44-fTvmnoW4-D-eIhKc0qZEv1eF3-W4OxPAOyfNYdz5/s840/COLER%20WILLIAMS%202022-08-30%20145611.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="840" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_Tppm_6d190zmQHAw4Qz2TqpSEFpFMK7Ov19al417Q_JRuhqywn1PawNIc0am1rxH-V6v0ysHwhMgH4GR73XosLszQZj6e-LuNxtp6-VM-D1kbgCyiucgx8BHt2a6ZLeplDNN9J0qxvGt44-fTvmnoW4-D-eIhKc0qZEv1eF3-W4OxPAOyfNYdz5/w187-h114/COLER%20WILLIAMS%202022-08-30%20145611.jpg" width="187" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/09/jack-coler-ron-williams-ring.html">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/09/jack-coler-ron-williams-ring.html</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://58B14631-3AD3-4330-A04C-483FFA67B553#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a> Letter to Governor Inslee:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2015/11/peltier-dear-governor-inslee.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2015/11/peltier-dear-governor-inslee.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn2"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://58B14631-3AD3-4330-A04C-483FFA67B553#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a> Review of Peltier federal civil suit:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2018/09/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2018/09/</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn3"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://58B14631-3AD3-4330-A04C-483FFA67B553#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></a> Peltier attorney, Kevin H. Sharp: <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/08/" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/08/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-47387702845122378712022-09-09T12:32:00.005-04:002022-09-09T12:34:56.976-04:00JACK COLER, RON WILLIAMS: THE RING<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Dear Supporters:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In order to further honor the Line of Duty sacrifice of FBI Agents Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams, the following ring was created in their memory.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijHhPD4xf_zxmTcYy34jQspQHpB3e2KqWAT3jfmdiyTxqc7shTnZDtdG-P1Dpx-v4ZxyYjahsUuOt7s8zUQp_pXXc0Ou1uNbxh9ITqqc_3YeFIBt011KWhBZeBp0f0m2JYd3YgifyYfXwdKatndCK34IdOcnPLl_kS6X9p6eQElApGGLe6RCUPQsgW/s840/COLER%20WILLIAMS%202022-08-30%20145611.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="840" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijHhPD4xf_zxmTcYy34jQspQHpB3e2KqWAT3jfmdiyTxqc7shTnZDtdG-P1Dpx-v4ZxyYjahsUuOt7s8zUQp_pXXc0Ou1uNbxh9ITqqc_3YeFIBt011KWhBZeBp0f0m2JYd3YgifyYfXwdKatndCK34IdOcnPLl_kS6X9p6eQElApGGLe6RCUPQsgW/w389-h238/COLER%20WILLIAMS%202022-08-30%20145611.jpg" width="389" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Designed with their names above the FBI seal and badge and the year they entered on duty with the FBI and the year they made the ultimate sacrifice. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">End of Watch, 1975.*</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Inscribed inside the band is: </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">June 26, 1975 Pine Ridge, SD Rest in Peace</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Ed Woods</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">* <a href="https://www.odmp.org/officer/3262-special-agent-jack-r-coler">https://www.odmp.org/officer/3262-special-agent-jack-r-coler</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://www.odmp.org/officer/14279-special-agent-ronald-a-williams">https://www.odmp.org/officer/14279-special-agent-ronald-a-williams</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Meet Jack and Ron: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozhEumzwgKA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozhEumzwgKA</a></span></p><p><br /></p><p>For information about this ring or similar FBI retirement rings: <a href="mailto:jeff.leach@jostens.com">jeff.leach@jostens.com</a></p>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-1390409599783029652022-08-14T16:01:00.000-04:002022-08-14T16:01:44.680-04:00PELTIER: KEVIN H. SHARP - APOLOGY, #4<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Dear Supporters:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">A public statement by Peltier’s attorney, Kevin Sharp, raises some serious questions. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">On March 10, 2022, Sharp was interviewed on K103.7, KAHNAWAKE radio.<a href="applewebdata://0F2246F4-6AE3-40A0-A731-4C0EC87A8F99#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a> In addition to what follows, Sharp made a number of arguably false or demonstrably inaccurate statements regarding Peltier’s conviction and appellate history: <a href="applewebdata://0F2246F4-6AE3-40A0-A731-4C0EC87A8F99#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.4in 0.0001pt;"><b><i>Sharp unmistakably offered that he had sworn an oath several times in his life, including, the Bar and a federal judgeship, and made a solemn vow to uphold the U.S. Constitution. Sharp repeated, at least twice, that in Peltier’s case “<u>Constitutional violations were open and obvious</u>,” and were “<u>committed by others who took the same oath</u>.”<o:p></o:p></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">This assertion, standing alone, would not readily rise to the level of a slanderous statement against the more than two dozen judges who heard, and made their lawful decisions against Peltier’s interests. Sharp is offering his <i>opinion</i>—as questionable as it is, that he, among all those others, is the smartest person in the (court) room. In and of itself, an insult is not slanderous unless it includes provably and knowingly false statements. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">However, there is no mistaking Sharp’s meaning; his words and intent are clear and unambiguous. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">(Before fully considering Sharp’s insult and personal attack on federal judges, perhaps Sharp may also believe he is more capable than the many attorneys who represented Peltier at trial and throughout lengthy appeals.<a href="applewebdata://0F2246F4-6AE3-40A0-A731-4C0EC87A8F99#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></a> It would logically follow that if there were Constitutional violations or reversible errors, that Peltier’s attorneys could have been a contributing factor. If Sharp does believe this, he needs to articulate what he would have done differently or better than the others. Notwithstanding Sharp’s apparent hubris, a court has already spoken on this issue:<i> “We have carefully examined the record in the trial court and on appeal, and have concluded that the defendant’s trial counsel were aggressive, capable, informed, and engaged in sophisticated trial decisions on strategy.” “Peltier was equally well-represented at trial and on appeal</i>”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Sharp publicly claims that the “Constitutional” violations would have been readily apparent to these jurists. Nevertheless, the stark reality that escapes Sharp is that there were none, otherwise, the Peltier matter would have since been relegated to the dustbin of legal history. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">At least a few apparent conclusions flow from such a serious, demeaning and castigating accusation. If these judges, according to Sharp, ignored “obvious” Constitutional violations; then a crucial question to ask is: Why? <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Did they recognize the Constitutional violations and deliberately ignore them? <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Were they not as astute as Sharp, but incompetent by not recognizing any errors? <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Or worse, for some inexplicable reason, knowingly made decisions to ensure that Peltier’s appeals were denied? Could it be that Sharp implies (as Peltier has done for many years), some overarching collusion between the Department of Justice and the judiciary? Sharp likely isn’t, but the implication cannot be ignored either.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Was Sharp’s public statement simply the braggadocio of a self-serving ego, cloaked under the guise of advocacy for an unrepentant cold-blooded murderer? <a href="applewebdata://0F2246F4-6AE3-40A0-A731-4C0EC87A8F99#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[iv]</span></span></span></a> A murderer, aside from the prevailing myth and folklore, who is saddled with his own <i>Big Lie</i>.<a href="applewebdata://0F2246F4-6AE3-40A0-A731-4C0EC87A8F99#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[v]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">An essential question is whether Peltier attorney, Kevin H. Sharp, owes a number of federal judges—at a minimum—an apology? <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Is Sharp telling the public that his experience as an attorney and six years on the federal bench places him in a class by himself; smarter and more capable than judges who collectively may have had, if not decades, but likely a hundred or more years of distinguished judicial service?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">There has been a ‘minimum’ of eighteen judges who participated in Peltier decisions, none of which had been decided in Peltier’s favor, with the exception of a remand to the district court for an evidentiary (ballistics) hearing, that was ultimately, on appeal, also decided against Peltier. <a href="applewebdata://0F2246F4-6AE3-40A0-A731-4C0EC87A8F99#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[vi]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">A number of these judges have since passed away; several are either inactive or in senior status, but three remain on the crucial 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit Court of Appeals, including the current Chief Judge, the Honorable Lavenski R. Smith. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Would these justices—or their surviving family members, find Sharp’s public denigration of their reputations and honorable public service, at least offensive, or worse? <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">How would those surviving judges, or the family members of those who passed, react to Sharp’s public insult and apparent character assassination? <a href="applewebdata://0F2246F4-6AE3-40A0-A731-4C0EC87A8F99#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[vii]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">They could react negatively and demand a retraction and public apology.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Or, they could simply dismiss Sharp’s comments as just another attorney who may be seeking his own <i>fifteen-minutes of fame</i> by attaching his fortunes to the likes of Leonard Peltier, hoping perhaps, for some recognition or at a minimum, some publicity. Thus far, he’s popular among Peltier sycophants, and perhaps not much else. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Sharp would likely remain rigidly unapologetic and linger in the camp of an unrepentant, cold-blooded murderer. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Ed Woods<b><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://0F2246F4-6AE3-40A0-A731-4C0EC87A8F99#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a> Sharp interview: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tuMvVGP3TyFwvKGtvQnvN68n5YX59DN6/view?fbclid=IwAR295jel5SiyjVWTq8FnKxNOEUC7D2iBC3-RsPJ5MfFWZWFLJXYYGiBdpZI" style="color: #954f72;">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tuMvVGP3TyFwvKGtvQnvN68n5YX59DN6/view?fbclid=IwAR295jel5SiyjVWTq8FnKxNOEUC7D2iBC3-RsPJ5MfFWZWFLJXYYGiBdpZI</a> (Last accessed July 3, 2022; 47.16 minute interview of <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Kevin H. Sharp by Kenneth Deer)</span></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn2"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://0F2246F4-6AE3-40A0-A731-4C0EC87A8F99#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a> <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/04/peltier-judge-kevin-h-sharp-part-3.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/04/peltier-judge-kevin-h-sharp-part-3.html</a>, and <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/02/peltier-judge-kevin-h-sharpmisplaced.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/02/peltier-judge-kevin-h-sharpmisplaced.html</a>, Among statements made supporting Sharp’s allegation that prior Peltier-matter jurists violated their solemn oath by knowingly allowing or ignoring “open and obvious” Constitutional violations, as well as investigative errors: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> -AIM murders “that were not investigated.” False<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> -(Peltier) “Not extradited because there was no evidence.” False<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> -Withheld “exculpatory” (ballistics) evidence. Acknowledged, but rejected on Appeal (Bagley decision) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> -The Government changed its theory of the Peltier prosecution. False<o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn3"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://0F2246F4-6AE3-40A0-A731-4C0EC87A8F99#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></span></a> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Peltier Attorneys: Elliott Taikeff, John Lowe, Stanley Engelstein, Terry Gilbert, William Kunstler, Michael Tigar, Arthur Kinoy, John Privateer, Bruce Henry Ellison,* Mark Gombiner, Lewis Gurwitz, Eric Seitz**, Lawrence Shilling, Ramsey Clark, Carl Nadler, Barry Bachrach, B. Ray Huff, <i>and others</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">* http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2016/02/peltier-bruce-ellison-esq-co.html<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">** </span><a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#paroledenied" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#paroledenied</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="edn4"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://0F2246F4-6AE3-40A0-A731-4C0EC87A8F99#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[iv]</span></span></span></a> Admissions of guilt and lack of remorse: <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/06/peltier-admissions-of-guilt-and-lack-of.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/06/peltier-admissions-of-guilt-and-lack-of.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn5"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://0F2246F4-6AE3-40A0-A731-4C0EC87A8F99#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[v]</span></span></span></a> The Big Lie: <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/03/peltiers-big-lie-dinos-truth.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/03/peltiers-big-lie-dinos-truth.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn6"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://0F2246F4-6AE3-40A0-A731-4C0EC87A8F99#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[vi]</span></span></span></a> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Some of the judges who ruled on Peltier appeals and the dates of those decisions: Paul Benson (1918 – 2004) Peltier trial & appeals, John R. Gibson (1928 – 2014) 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit, 9/14/78, 4/4/84, 9/11/86, Donald R. Ross (1922 – 2013) 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit, 9/14/78, 4/4/84, 9/11/86, Roy L. Stephenson (1917 – 1982) 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit, 9/14/78, Gerald Heaney (1918 -2010) 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit, 4/4/84, 9/11/86, 12/18/02, Theodore McMillian (1919 – 2006) 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit, 7/7/93, Daniel M. Friedman (1916 – 2011) 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit, 7/7/93, Morris Sheppard Arnold, Senior status, 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit, 7/7/93, 12/18/02, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">David R. Hansen, 1938, Senior Status, 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit, 12/18/02, Paul A. Magnuson, 1937, Senior Status, District of Minnesota, 12/18/02, Stephanie Kulp Seymour, 1940, Former 10<sup>th</sup> Circuit Court of Appeals, 11/4/03, Stephen H. Anderson, 1932, Inactive Status, 10<sup>th</sup> Circuit Court of Appeals, 11/4/03, Wade Brorby, 1934, Inactive Status, 10<sup>th</sup> Circuit Court of Appeals, 11/4/03, Ralph R. Erickson, 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit Court of Appeals, 7/22/05, Kermit E. Bye (1937 – 2021) 5/1/09,<sup> </sup>Lavenski R. “Vance” Smith, Chief Judge, 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit Court of Appeals. 5/1/09,* Steven M. Colloton, 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit Court of Appeals, 5/1/09, Donald W. Frank, District of Minnesota, submission to the 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit 5/1/09.<sup><o:p></o:p></sup></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">* </span><a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/8th_decision.pdf" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/8th_decision.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="edn7"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://0F2246F4-6AE3-40A0-A731-4C0EC87A8F99#_ednref7" name="_edn7" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[vii]</span></span></span></a> Attorneys and Judges are generally reluctant to criticize other members, at least not publicly. However, the current judges, and families of former Peltier-related judges, may at least be interested in hearing Sharp’s public criticisms.<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-10234604252102338562022-07-30T17:19:00.000-04:002022-07-30T17:19:01.507-04:00SA RONALD A. WILLIAMS, 1947 - 1975, R.I.P.<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Dear Supporters:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Yet another year has passed, this one reaching what would have been an earthly milestone, </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">July 30th, Ron’s seventy-fifth birthday. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">How much he would have accomplished is not known, but for those who had the privilege of personally knowing him, and others who have learned about this incredible young Agent, they know these would have been successful and productive years. His FBI career could have been followed by one of his personal interests, flying, and his other ambition to attend law school. Certainly, a family would have followed, and by now, grandchildren. We just don’t know, but surely believe it would have been a great life. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Ron certainly reflects the profile of his birth sign, a Leo, with intelligence, generosity, faithfulness and always showing a great deal of initiative combined with a handsome and charming smile and engaging personality. All of which would have taken him to untold heights and achievements. It is difficult to look beyond and speculate on what might have been, but we can see what was, and in his short twenty-eight years, Ron did leave a lasting impression on the lives he touched.<a href="applewebdata://DB2D8AD2-3322-4803-86E2-732B2DC72582#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">But all that potential was horribly destroyed on that fateful day at Pine Ridge at the hands of an unrepentant, low-life, cold-blooded, and remorseless killer.<a href="applewebdata://DB2D8AD2-3322-4803-86E2-732B2DC72582#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a> A murderer who remains a pathetic excuse for a human being.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">I believe, as many others, that Ron is watching over us and likely wonders what has happened over these years: Almost irreversible social and political division, economic upheaval and the progression of disrespect for all law enforcement with many injured or killed in the Line-of-Duty, as two more Special Agents have been added to the list of FBI Service Martyrs.<a href="applewebdata://DB2D8AD2-3322-4803-86E2-732B2DC72582#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Ron’s dedication and bravery, and that of his partner, Agent Jack Coler, will never be forgotten.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Every effort will continue to ensure that their ruthless executioner serves his consecutive life sentences until that eventual day when he will face his final judgement. On that day the myth, folklore, fabrications and lies will finally come to an end. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Our prayers and thoughts remain for the entire Williams’ family as we ask Ron to continue to watch over us.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Ed Woods<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://DB2D8AD2-3322-4803-86E2-732B2DC72582#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a> Meet Ron Williams and Jack Coler: <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/meet.html" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, serif;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/meet.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="edn2"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://DB2D8AD2-3322-4803-86E2-732B2DC72582#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a> Admissions and lack of remorse: <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com</a> The Big Lie: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/03/peltiers-big-lie-dinos-truth.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/03/peltiers-big-lie-dinos-truth.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn3"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://DB2D8AD2-3322-4803-86E2-732B2DC72582#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></a> Special Agents, Laura Schwartzenberger and Daniel Alfin; <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/history/wall-of-honor" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.fbi.gov/history/wall-of-honor</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">Officer Down Memorial Page: <a href="https://www.odmp.org/" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.odmp.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-43447969292245934862022-06-26T10:06:00.000-04:002022-06-26T10:06:02.678-04:00PELTIER: ADMISSIONS OF GUILT AND LACK OF REMORSE<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dear Supporters: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">What follows, <u>offered </u><i><u>within proper context</u></i>, relates to Leonard Peltier’s admissions of guilt and his lack of remorse for the June 26, 1975 brutal murder of FBI Agents Jack Coler and Ron Williams: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">“<i>I seen Joe when he pulled it out of the trunk and I looked at him when he put it on, and he gave me a smile.”</i> <a href="applewebdata://6DE801E2-40AF-4781-9C38-89B89C640386#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><u><span style="font-size: 11pt;">So the deaths of those agents are not murder?</span></u><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> “<i>Not to Indian—not in Indian people’s eyes</i>.” <a href="applewebdata://6DE801E2-40AF-4781-9C38-89B89C640386#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">“<i>The m----- -----r was begging for his life but I shot him anyway</i>.” <a href="applewebdata://6DE801E2-40AF-4781-9C38-89B89C640386#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">“<i>I cannot see how my being here, torn from my own grandchildren, can possibly mend your loss. I swear to you, I am guilty only of being an Indian. That’s why I’m here. Being who I am, being who you are—that’s Aboriginal sin</i>.” (Peltier’s insult to his victims’ families.) <a href="applewebdata://6DE801E2-40AF-4781-9C38-89B89C640386#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[iv]</span></span></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">“I never thought my commitment would mean sacrificing like this, but I was willing to do so nonetheless. <i>And really, if necessary, I’d do it all over again because it was the right thing to do</i>.” <a href="applewebdata://6DE801E2-40AF-4781-9C38-89B89C640386#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[v]</span></span></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">“<i>I don’t regret any of this for a minute</i>.” <a href="applewebdata://6DE801E2-40AF-4781-9C38-89B89C640386#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[vi]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">“<i>I did not wake up on that June 26 <b>planning</b> to injure or <b>shoot</b> federal agents, and did not gain anything from <b><u>participating</u></b> in the incident.”</i> <a href="applewebdata://6DE801E2-40AF-4781-9C38-89B89C640386#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[vii]</span></span></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ed Woods<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://6DE801E2-40AF-4781-9C38-89B89C640386#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a> Peter Matthiessen, <u>In the Spirit of Crazy Horse</u> (New York: Penguin Books, 1991) 552. (Peltier places himself and at least Joe Stuntz at the crime scene with two dead and mutilated human beings at their feet.)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn2"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://6DE801E2-40AF-4781-9C38-89B89C640386#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a> <a href="https://members.tripod.com/~ellis_smith/peltier.html" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">https://members.tripod.com/~ellis_smith/peltier.html</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> (Last accessed 3/1/22); CNN Interview 10/10/99. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mark Potter: “What are they?” (the murders) Peltier: “<i>Self-defense</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="edn3"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://6DE801E2-40AF-4781-9C38-89B89C640386#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></a> <a href="https://www.jfamr.org/doc/kmtest1.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.jfamr.org/doc/kmtest1.html</a> (Last accessed 2/27/22) Testimony of Darlene Nichols, 2/3/2004, at the trial of Arlo Looking Cloud for the murder of AIM activist Anna Mae Aquash: “…<i>he (Peltier) started talking about June 26, and he put his hand like this </i>(gesturing with a weapon) <i>and started talking about the two FBI agent</i>s.” “<i>He said the m----- -----r was begging for his life, but I shot him anyway</i>.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">(Referring to the final horrifying moments and murder of FBI Agent Ron Williams.)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn4"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://6DE801E2-40AF-4781-9C38-89B89C640386#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[iv]</span></span></span></a> Leonard Peltier, <u>Prison Writings</u> (New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1999) 114 (Peltier autobiography) An insult as related from the Coler and Williams’s families.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn5"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://6DE801E2-40AF-4781-9C38-89B89C640386#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[v]</span></span></span></a> <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#confession" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#confession</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, </span><a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/confession.pdf" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/confession.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Peltier references “<i>Joe Stuntz”</i> and excludes nothing else: The murder of Agents Coler and Williams is certainly one of the “…whole series of events…” Peltier is referring to.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="edn6"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://6DE801E2-40AF-4781-9C38-89B89C640386#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[vi]</span></span></span></a> Message from Leonard Peltier, 9/12/2014; “Anyone who has looked at my case knows it is outrageous to an absurd degree; often people simply cannot believe the sheer amount of constitutional violations and injustices.” Peltier ignores over a dozen appeals that upheld his conviction and sentence. <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/court.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/court.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn7"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://6DE801E2-40AF-4781-9C38-89B89C640386#_ednref7" name="_edn7" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[vii]</span></span></span></a> <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2017/01/peltier-another-admission.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2017/01/peltier-another-admission.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">Quote from February 17, 2016 clemency petition; admission to ‘participating’ and aiding and abetting on June 26, 1975. <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2016/05/peltier-clemency-application-thank-you.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2016/05/peltier-clemency-application-thank-you.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-72401794876670265112022-05-19T18:25:00.005-04:002022-05-21T10:57:20.005-04:00LEONARD PELTIER: POLITICAL PRISONER?<p> <span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Dear Supporters:*</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“<i>I’m hit</i>” were the last words the FBI heard from Agent Williams. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">His very last words were heard by Leonard Peltier.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><u>June 26, 1975, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota.</u><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Just before noon, FBI Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, in separate vehicles, were searching for a fugitive, Jimmy Eagle. The Agents followed a suspect Suburban containing three individuals from a rural highway onto a dirt road leading to the Jumping Bull family farm in a remote corner of the Reservation. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The Suburban stopped at a distance, as did the Agents, who were now exposed in an open field.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The beginning:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUAPhk4DcW5vIytqRxc2os6y6RGg6k9RJx5gTg1JvoDA0ZBerg_2gMS3Usr5AaXSWb2k2kLDagOhvO-oClj0mTEVojK_Umpk2q6NPIM_6CTIQirwZWaGHF9-YEvMqcM0Od9Ra73KPO40MzTBFWvBIfRlhegZlCSmuu5fteQ_w2nuHZOfrLVonwv2JK/s281/Rons%20vehicle.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="281" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUAPhk4DcW5vIytqRxc2os6y6RGg6k9RJx5gTg1JvoDA0ZBerg_2gMS3Usr5AaXSWb2k2kLDagOhvO-oClj0mTEVojK_Umpk2q6NPIM_6CTIQirwZWaGHF9-YEvMqcM0Od9Ra73KPO40MzTBFWvBIfRlhegZlCSmuu5fteQ_w2nuHZOfrLVonwv2JK/w224-h196/Rons%20vehicle.jpeg" width="224" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEMQk-1fKMFD23bZWcoH2cKJ7LXWhDqbDzonF-ysbg0R7oDAS8xdmUqvy_ZAMPnDtmYL-Z_1VL4ekeGNHA1q2AmBd652FuHPPGAFsXLFqB6a8fdfOhbM3qA7ZmB294jrK7vHROxJtOd8hIcAcj3F0g-8UXJ1tVnZfWWRyeB6t6ycl8eRJt8ya0CKfu/s534/Jack%20vehicle.png" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="534" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEMQk-1fKMFD23bZWcoH2cKJ7LXWhDqbDzonF-ysbg0R7oDAS8xdmUqvy_ZAMPnDtmYL-Z_1VL4ekeGNHA1q2AmBd652FuHPPGAFsXLFqB6a8fdfOhbM3qA7ZmB294jrK7vHROxJtOd8hIcAcj3F0g-8UXJ1tVnZfWWRyeB6t6ycl8eRJt8ya0CKfu/w235-h191/Jack%20vehicle.png" width="235" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The unprovoked attack and what followed is undisputed. Agent Williams was on the FBI radio describing that the three individuals were getting out with rifles and were about to fire at them. As gunfire erupted, personnel in the FBI’s Rapid City office heard Agent Williams trying to describe their location. The radio call for assistance ended with, “<i>I’m hit</i>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Unknown to the FBI, and the two Agents, was the presence of an American Indian Movement (AIM) camp nearby and that they had actually followed Leonard Peltier, who was also a fugitive at the time. When the shooting began, others from the AIM camp, with rifles, pinned the Agents in a deadly crossfire. The attack didn’t last long with no fewer than 125 bullets holes in the FBI vehicles. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Agent Coler received a devasting wound to his right arm. Agent Williams, wounded three times, removed his shirt and waved it as a sign of surrender—which was ignored, and crawled to his critically wounded partner, using his shirt as a tourniquet on Agent Coler’s shattered arm. Williams waited, hoping that help would arrive quickly, not knowing that the first to find the Jumping Bull farm were also fired upon and forced back to the highway. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Later trial testimony placed the three older AIM Indians, Leonard Peltier, Bob Robideau and Dino Butler at the Agents’ vehicles. Agent Williams faced his killer as the muzzle of Peltier’s AR-15 was placed against a raised hand and fired—fingers blown through the back of his head. It was hoped that Agent Coler was unconscious as the weapon turned towards him, with two more, point-blank bullets to his face. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Peltier and others, stole what they could, shot at responding law enforcement, but managed to elude capture. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Eight months later, FBI Top Ten Fugitive, Leonard Peltier was arrested in Canada, extradited and in April 1977 in Fargo, North Dakota was convicted of murder and aiding and abetting, receiving consecutive life sentences.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The Peltier myth quickly emerged, resting on the notion that since Native American history with the government was dismal at best, that Peltier’s plaintive cries of innocence must be true, and that someone had to pay for murdering the Agents.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Feigned innocence aside, a number of times Peltier changed his version of that June day and along the way, considered within the context of his public statements, made tacit admissions of guilt while showing no remorse at all. Over nearly two decades his alibi was that someone else, someone they knew but would not name, the phantom Mr. X in the infamous red pickup, was the one who killed the Agents. “<i>This story is true</i>” Peltier falsely claimed in a television interview. The lie continued until one of his own, Dino Butler, publicly denied it, and later, one of his own attorneys as well. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Peltier’s involvement with AIM was mostly as a bodyguard and enforcer with one documented incident of placing a gun in the mouth of a suspected FBI informant. Time has proven that the loyal Anna Mae Aquash wasn’t, but nonetheless, AIM leadership ordered her execution. Aside from AIM’s purported and enticing goals, its history of disruption and violence leaves little doubt that while some leaders became rich and famous, they collectively contributed nothing to the betterment of their people.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Peltier supporters come in a few categories: Those who disdain America and will use any excuse, whether they believe in Peltier or not, while most are not even Native Americans; those who have bought into the Peltier folklore without the slightest effort to verify his fabricated claims; and by individuals who fail to comprehend Peltier’s voluminous and detailed appellate history. This also includes recent attorneys, in their zeal and advocacy, who would remarkably rather repeat the myth while ignoring or misrepresenting the facts.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">What followed Peltier’s conviction was an endless stream of motions and appeals, well over a dozen, raising efforts to distort the record and often with frivolous filings. The result was that every single issue raised; and this bears repeating, <i>every single issue Peltier raised</i> was reviewed in minute detail by the appellate courts; some replying with disparaging critiques. One later court decision made Peltier’s guilt unmistakably clear, <i>“Previous federal court decisions provided the (Parole) Commission with ample facts to support its conviction that <b>Peltier</b> <b>personally shot</b> Agents Coler and Williams.” “Neither the conviction nor any of the subsequent court decisions have been overturned.”</i> (10<sup>th</sup> Circuit Court of Appeals, 11/4/03)<i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">On that June day, there was no question that the two white men, in civilian clothes, driving late model sedans with additional antennas, were the Feds. This was common knowledge on the Reservation. Added to this was that one of the passengers with Peltier was questioned the prior evening by the same two FBI Agents, pursuing their search for fugitive, Jimmy Eagle. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Knowing he had been followed by federal Agents, and that he was also a fugitive himself at the time and obviously not wanting to be arrested; disproven fabrications aside, Peltier portends a motive for the unprovoked attack. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Peltier, unsurprisingly, fails to recognize that adding <i>political prisoner</i> to his criminal <i>resume</i> creates a serious conflict: Because, it then follows that the deaths of Agents’ Coler and Williams weren’t murder after all, but, <i>assassinations</i>. Nevertheless, neither Peltier, his supporters, nor his attorneys want to venture down the path of, <i>Peltier the assassin</i>. Yet, Peltier shamelessly promotes this deception to the public as if it has any legitimacy. Peltier was not engaging in political activity, discourse or dissent that day, but in a purely senseless and maliciously lawless act. However, Peltier did grasp that dead men make poor witnesses.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Considering an obvious reality, if Peltier’s name was, say, James Maloney, and the murders took place in, let’s say, El Centro, California, no one would know his name, or for that matter, even care. But for the fact that Peltier is what he is and where it happened, is the <i>only difference</i>; clearly, making both incidents violent and felonious criminal acts. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The final moments of Ron Williams life were revealed during sworn testimony in a later, unrelated trial. During their escape from Pine Ridge Peltier made a stark admission; <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“<i>The ‘M-expletive’ was begging for his life, but I shot him anyway</i>.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The End:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwnJsjbbdiY0U1SJToHqyg0mQvLtJCk-lIAYxQ1-BqD7zAnFbiEm_Vg-RxiAnZlYFCKsdMwDcCRreDmmv565cW17j5S2mLxYtQeokQLxUfqfLeBdwLgb3VeTWj2dCzaRRObBPhgKmIe2hHFZIjPF9b3I5JFtoS_qN9n9quPOKydX947NAU3SW8PbBz/s320/June%2026,%201975%20%20%20%20%20Pine%20Ridge.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwnJsjbbdiY0U1SJToHqyg0mQvLtJCk-lIAYxQ1-BqD7zAnFbiEm_Vg-RxiAnZlYFCKsdMwDcCRreDmmv565cW17j5S2mLxYtQeokQLxUfqfLeBdwLgb3VeTWj2dCzaRRObBPhgKmIe2hHFZIjPF9b3I5JFtoS_qN9n9quPOKydX947NAU3SW8PbBz/s1600/June%2026,%201975%20%20%20%20%20Pine%20Ridge.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Jack Coler on the left, a shirtless Ron Williams on the right. Both Agents, shot in the face, are found face down; manhandled in death as the final insult to the brutal murders. Adding further offense to the carnage, in a June 2, 2004 email to this writer, Bob Robideau said, </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“<i>…they died like worms</i>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Ed Woods</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b>* As appeared on May 19, 2022 in The American Thinker.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/05/the_case_of_the_murdered_fbi_agents.html">https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/05/the_case_of_the_murdered_fbi_agents.html</a><br /></b></p><p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-77558540815234646002022-04-30T17:42:00.003-04:002022-04-30T17:49:50.428-04:00NO PAROLE PELTIER...22 YEARS LATER<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1FigKCf5oClONuqVGRBhEZqoud2kmoL1BAAjdCyiz_w57QmAYCRZNr1AFROnHldnAcEmhV4fsZaJrCxj_569H27BkcafOEW7FWCds-hLia-fim0eKnwjY6hWNGw81yHTuHTKK_4et7oVhaCfmBisNlo28as8_45GTvfTNmhsg-IT6N9tZyIhkhqh2/s450/Pin6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="450" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1FigKCf5oClONuqVGRBhEZqoud2kmoL1BAAjdCyiz_w57QmAYCRZNr1AFROnHldnAcEmhV4fsZaJrCxj_569H27BkcafOEW7FWCds-hLia-fim0eKnwjY6hWNGw81yHTuHTKK_4et7oVhaCfmBisNlo28as8_45GTvfTNmhsg-IT6N9tZyIhkhqh2/w165-h165/Pin6.jpg" width="165" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Dear Supporters:</p><p>Today, April 30, 2022 marks twenty-two years since the creation of the <i>No Parole Peltier Association</i> and its related website, that also added the NPPA blog in 2009 reporting on timely developments in the Peltier matter.</p><p>Much has happened over the past year as Peltier believes his best chance of commutation is at hand. </p><p>That remains to be seen as America witnesses a disturbing rise in violent crime and an increase in law enforcement officers injured or killed in the line of duty. </p><p>The Attorney General and the Department of Justice recognize this alarming trend and are certainly sensitive that an unrepentant convicted murderer received a fair trial and a just sentence. Notwithstanding the Peltier myth, the courts have repeatedly confirmed this basic fact.</p><p>Please see the past eighteen blogs that review in detail the past year, especially the more recent ones regarding former U. S. Attorney James Reynolds and current Peltier attorney, Kevin Sharp, for some telling and certainly challenged comments, and Huffpost articles that are totally detached from the facts and reality and lost in the Peltier folklore weeds.</p><p>"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"</p><p>Ed</p><p> To all the officers killed in the line of duty, </p><div style="text-align: left;"> And in 2021, FBI Agents Daniel Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd3I0Ygm0zaqmIklE1614TKl-GmcV2o5ZdZFdqcCVPvamF-0EjJqG2UGGR7ICwUiEHRAdsxuWyOQHqPBATVP3tgMOY7nByhBSqaQAo_BrWRf_5I-nQqknA0rZMZGt790ml64wnDqpBXiMKjz8ybErd9WBN_cWHwiCikv15kCOSpkbaRKn-94Wa0Zoe/s320/Bureau%20Badge%20-%20Ed%20W.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd3I0Ygm0zaqmIklE1614TKl-GmcV2o5ZdZFdqcCVPvamF-0EjJqG2UGGR7ICwUiEHRAdsxuWyOQHqPBATVP3tgMOY7nByhBSqaQAo_BrWRf_5I-nQqknA0rZMZGt790ml64wnDqpBXiMKjz8ybErd9WBN_cWHwiCikv15kCOSpkbaRKn-94Wa0Zoe/s1600/Bureau%20Badge%20-%20Ed%20W.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-88291114679505937512022-04-25T15:04:00.002-04:002022-04-26T22:17:38.309-04:00HUFFPOST/JENNIFER BENDERY...BOGUS "REPORTING"<p>Dear Supporters:</p><p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Bendery tells us that Huffpost has been reporting on Peltier for months, but she still hasn’t gotten it right. Apparently, Bendery was absent from Journalism 101 the day it was explained that when using quotes, one has to be both accurate and put a little effort into corroboration. Bendery references a recent FBI letter to the U.S. Pardon Attorney, as ‘bogus.’</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Bendery’s April 20, 2022, “The FBI says…” article is so rife with factual errors that it would take days to correct all the inaccuracies, but here is just a sample of what is truly “bogus,” one-sided references that amount to no more than a Peltier press release. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Bendery claims that the “FBI’s statement is outdated, misleading or flat-out wrong.” But accusing the FBI of what this article purports as factual, is precisely what <i>she</i> is doing. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Bendery feebly alleges that Peltier’s FOIPA receipt of an October 2, 1975, FBI Laboratory Teletype somehow “…had unequivocally ruled out Peltier’s gun as the murder weapon.” Yet, Bendery deliberately ignores a 1984, three-day evidentiary (ballistics) hearing that when it reached the 8<sup>th</sup> Circuit Court of Appeals (9/11/86, Judges’ Heaney, Ross and Gibson) concurred:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“That when all is said and done, however, a few simple but very important facts remain. The casing introduced into evidence had <b>in fact</b> been extracted from the Wichita AR-15. This point was not disputed; although the defense had its own ballistics expert, it offered no contrary evidence.” (Throughout Peltier’s trial and numerous appeals, the <i>Wichita AR-15</i> was identified as Peltier’s weapon.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">In other words, Bendery’s ‘unequivocally’ statement is false and Peltier had nowhere to go with what he imagined the Teletype meant. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Aiding and Abetting:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Bendery repeats the falsity that the government changed its theory from one of murder to aiding and abetting. This fiction, also promoted by former (South Dakota—Peltier was prosecuted in North Dakota), U.S. Attorney, James H. Reynolds, and current Peltier attorney, Kevin H. Sharp, totally ignores that this issue had been thoroughly discredited in a clearly definitive appellate decision (8<sup>th</sup> Circuit, 7/7/93), that read, in part: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“It is <b>impossible</b> to conclude that (AUSA) Crooks…abandon(ed) one of the two theories upon which the government had tried the case and upon which the case was submitted to the jury.” “Peltier’s arguments fail because their underlying premises are <b>fatally flawed</b>. (A) The Government tried the case on the alternative theories; it asserted that Peltier personally killed the agents, but that if he had not done so, then he was equally guilty of their murders as an aider and abettor.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">What part of “impossible” and “fatally flawed” for Bendery, and for that matter, Reynolds and Sharp, is so difficult to understand? The legal conclusion and language are clear enough. No one at Huffpost should be confused on that point.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Bendery attempts to claim that “…there was never evidence that Peltier aided and abetted anyone.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Really, is that so? Then Peltier must have been in Seattle that June day. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Testimony placed Peltier at the crime scene with Robideau and Butler, but even if Bendery wants to discount that, there’s Peltier’s own statement to Peter Matthiessen (Spirit p. 552). “’I seen Joe when he pulled it out of the trunk (of Agent Coler’s vehicle) and I looked at him when he put it on (Agent Coler’s FBI jacket) and he gave me a smile.’ Leonard remembers. ‘I didn’t think much of it at the time; and all I could think of was, we got to get <i>out</i> of here.’”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">There’s Peltier, in his own words—at the crime scene—with at least one other person, Joe Stuntz. This, while two dead, mutilated and manhandled bodies lay at their feet. (More on that follows.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">It’s Bagley, not Brady.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Bendery confuses the issue and misses the final conclusions regarding recovered shell casings and Peltier’s ‘Wichita AR-15.’<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The October 2, 1975 Teletype was appealed on the basis of a discovery issue, Brady v. Maryland. (The Government considered the teletype a preliminary document and had provided complete Laboratory Reports to the Defense. The District of North Dakota Court {12/30/82} concurred that the teletype was <i>cumulative</i> in light of trial testimony.) Nevertheless, this unanimous decision, authored by Judge Heaney (8<sup>th</sup> Circuit. 9/11/86), rested on U.S. v. Bagley.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Bendery claimed that “…the court ruled it was possible that a jury would have come to a different conclusion but could not say definitively yes.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">So much for journalistic research to determine the facts. That’s not how it ended. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Although Judge Heaney said this was a difficult decision, he made it based on the law, concluding “Yet, we are bound by the Bagley test requiring that we be convinced, from a review of the <b>entire record</b> that had the data and records withheld been made available, the jury probably would have reached a different result. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b>We have not been so convinced. <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">What part of ‘entire record’ and ‘We have not been so convinced’ is so difficult to comprehend? (The “We” of course, were Judges’ Heaney, Ross and Gibson.) This conclusion, contrary to Bendery’s imagination that the court “could not say definitively yes,” was very much a <i>definitive</i>,<i> </i>yes.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Quoting Justin Mazzola of Amnesty International, without even the slightest effort to verify its accuracy, is another example of Bendery’s <i>Peltier press release</i> reporting. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Mazzola references Peltier’s extradition from Canada (relating to the Myrtle Poor Bear affidavits), and in the FBI’s letter that “It denies the FBI’s own role in using perjured testimony to secure his extradition from Canada…”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">News Flash: This is pure Peltier folklore. For one, Myrtle Poor Bear never testified. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">A simple review of the Canadian Government’s position on Peltier’s extradition makes this issue crystal clear (Canadian Minister of Justice, A. Anne McLellan’s letter to A.G. Janet Reno, 10/12/99).<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The Canadian Government was fully aware of the three Myrtle Poor Bear affidavits and determined, “I have concluded that Mr. Peltier was lawfully extradited to the United States. In my opinion, given the test for committal for extradition referred to above, the circumstantial evidence, <b>taken alone</b>, constituted sufficient evidence to justify Mr. Peltier’s committal on the two murder charges.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Bendery misses even more readily available evidence that places the Poor Bear issue in its proper perspective. During Peltier’s trial, when the defense believed the Government may have planned calling Poor Bear as a witness, Peltier’s own attorney, John Lowe, had this to say “…a witness whose mental imbalance is so gross as to render her testimony unbelievable.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Anyone missing the point here? Mazzola’s erroneous statement, and Bendery’s lack of any research, failed to show that Peltier certainly didn’t want Poor Bear to testify, either for or against him at trial. This was the conclusive ending to the Poor Bear saga.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">As anyone familiar with this case understands, Judge Heaney, a respected jurist, played a critical role in the Peltier matter. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Bendery editorializes Judge Heaney’s 4/18/91 letter (important to note it was written eight years before the Canadian Government’s affirmation of Peltier’s extradition), and although Judge Heaney felt very strongly about Native American issues and the Peltier case, he nevertheless and honorably, made his decisions based on the law. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">In Judge Heaney’s letter, Bendery didn’t note or share that “No new evidence has been called to my attention which would cause me to change the conclusions reached in this case.” Nor, that he stood firm on Peltier’s guilt, “…the record persuades me that more than one person was involved in the shooting of the FBI Agents. Again, this fact is not a justification for Peltier’s actions, but is a mitigating circumstance.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Bendery, Reynolds and Sharp: Do you comprehend the subtle irony here?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Judge Heaney, perhaps inadvertently, we will never know for certain, fortified the notion of Peltier’s <i>aiding and abetting </i>charge, “…more than one person was involved.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Further, in a televised interview Judge Heaney was asked if Peltier received a fair trial; “<i>He got a fair trial, not a perfect trial, but a fair trial</i>.” Anyone even remotely familiar with the criminal justice system recognizes that ‘perfect’ trials are indeed rare.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Citing erroneous statements could go much further, however, just a couple more points:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Bendery, from the entire history of the Peltier legal process, ironically quoted one of only <i>two</i> negative comments from the courts (the one other was relegated to the status of a footnote, along with a clarification and explanation). This decision was unrelated to Peltier’s murder conviction but addressed a parole appeal issue. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“Much of the government’s behavior at the Pine Ridge reservation and in its prosecution is to be condemned. The government withheld evidence. It intimidated witnesses. These facts are not disputed.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">This gratuitous comment aside, the government did dispute these allegations during hearings and motions to the courts. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Bendery casually acknowledges that this court ruled against Peltier on the parole question, but she didn’t, and likely would not include, the court’s preceding review and conclusion of the record regarding Peltier’s actual guilt and conviction:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“Previous federal court decisions provided the (Parole) Commission with ample facts to support its conviction that Peltier <b>personally shot</b> Agents Coler and Williams.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">To place a finer point on this, here is a court that criticized the government but after reviewing the legal history had no difficulty expressing Peltier’s guilt.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Bendery references, but does not understand that the public statements by former (South Dakota) U.S. Attorney, James H. Reynolds and his outlandish public comments and claims of involvement in the Peltier matter have been completely discredited. (AUSA Lynn Crooks, the attorney who managed the Peltier appellate process: “<i>This claim is a gross misstatement of the record.” “To the best of my knowledge, he {Reynolds} contributed nothing what-so-ever to what went into the final brief on Direct Appeal or into any of the subsequent government briefs resisting Peltier’s numerous attempts to obtain Post Conviction Relief</i>.”)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">For Reynolds to publicly claim that, “<i>We were not able to prove that Mr. Peltier personally committed any offense on the Pine Ridge Reservation</i>,” is sadly disturbing and only demonstrates an overwhelming lack of understanding of the Peltier trial and voluminous appellate history. His motivation for such a provably false claim (Was Peltier not convicted of murder and aiding and abetting?) is suspect at best, and troubling at worst. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Finally, Kevin H. Sharp, as quoted by Bendery, has made a number of claims that cannot be supported by the record, yet recently, in a public radio interview, he ventured well into the realm of libel. Sharp casts serious aspersions and allegations on the integrity, competence and fidelity to their judicial oath, against all the judges and jurists, some twenty or more, who rendered decisions in the Peltier case. This would also include sullying the memory of war hero and respected jurist, Gerald Heaney.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">It's apparent that Ms. Bendery has no interest in the facts, record, or truth, but rather subscribes to, and promotes the Peltier myth and folklore—folklore decades in the making and manufactured on a mountain of falsehoods and provable lies. Perhaps she should write Leonard and ask him to explain what Mr. X was all about. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Reality check: June 26, 1975 was a purely criminal act. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">If Peltier’s name was James Maloney, and the murders occurred in, let’s say, El Centro, California, no one would know his name, or for that matter, care. But for the fact that Peltier is what he is, and where it happened, is the <i>only</i> difference. Nevertheless, after numerous appeals, the courts upheld Peltier’s conviction for being guilty of wanton and unprovoked murder.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Ed Woods<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Bendery article: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fbi-leonard-peltier-clemency-biden_n_62473d07e4b0587dee695e6e/amp" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fbi-leonard-peltier-clemency-biden_n_62473d07e4b0587dee695e6e/amp</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The Beginning:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKpXlVO_BJO8w5juRFsAwmwyIiGB0JH8SDY9l3_pdHnn4Dvt8TVFU5Vnk6xUpTCZq54U3dHJkOix_b5mbvJnyVm1p5bihM-jhktoxth1WcaxsllmIDLw1flWXL7BIn0jf6PvYyaljQWjubFN91GBDpgw_NotbnxZIQROdHAi2eyXyHBYR_nlAYyW5m/s281/Rons%20vehicle.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="281" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKpXlVO_BJO8w5juRFsAwmwyIiGB0JH8SDY9l3_pdHnn4Dvt8TVFU5Vnk6xUpTCZq54U3dHJkOix_b5mbvJnyVm1p5bihM-jhktoxth1WcaxsllmIDLw1flWXL7BIn0jf6PvYyaljQWjubFN91GBDpgw_NotbnxZIQROdHAi2eyXyHBYR_nlAYyW5m/s1600/Rons%20vehicle.jpeg" width="281" /></a><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhceHcJgB-iudrWksrTRf53x2Xm8o9-veJyKR_Bm1Itc3H21v7QW1ytsTHsQgGRRB0hcCg4sZ37DNnDKLWD_L02ESlz06T-aSymM1wn4A7WvY9ZSKXZnZLn4frOLWL4JCYJjaEXeIADx_4xMr81B8FPPemUv_ltkogd48GREIXcjFI0eyp8J-PkkWYE/s534/Jack%20vehicle.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="534" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhceHcJgB-iudrWksrTRf53x2Xm8o9-veJyKR_Bm1Itc3H21v7QW1ytsTHsQgGRRB0hcCg4sZ37DNnDKLWD_L02ESlz06T-aSymM1wn4A7WvY9ZSKXZnZLn4frOLWL4JCYJjaEXeIADx_4xMr81B8FPPemUv_ltkogd48GREIXcjFI0eyp8J-PkkWYE/s320/Jack%20vehicle.png" width="320" /></a><span style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="text-align: center;">The End:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHWjX4BIF_-gBwTMORt7VaGcOnNsUODOeAgiVeViD62NgvwGHfCffD_QRVkMsv2kxzKsWDqUdzqh_dQCQz4PY6LdvNiDf2utkhpuDEfvw_71o_v372XggrqaJeYWy1GLySYYYjwPPp_aI_KjBJoxoGLDbcxMBcpAbxwxu_OK48WTLhKvsx-8jS_fes/s320/June%2026,%201975%20%20%20%20%20Pine%20Ridge.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHWjX4BIF_-gBwTMORt7VaGcOnNsUODOeAgiVeViD62NgvwGHfCffD_QRVkMsv2kxzKsWDqUdzqh_dQCQz4PY6LdvNiDf2utkhpuDEfvw_71o_v372XggrqaJeYWy1GLySYYYjwPPp_aI_KjBJoxoGLDbcxMBcpAbxwxu_OK48WTLhKvsx-8jS_fes/s1600/June%2026,%201975%20%20%20%20%20Pine%20Ridge.JPG" width="320" /></a></p><div><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Jack is on the left, Ron on the right. Both shot in the face. Ron was alive and faced Peltier, a hand raised against the muzzle of an AR-15, blowing his fingers through the back of his head. Yet, here they are, faces destroyed, lying face down. Ask Peltier which one of the cowards that day manhandled the mutilated bodies, perhaps ending their final deadly act with callous insult by <i>counting coup</i>. Odds are, they all did.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-85812990065841981612022-04-02T12:24:00.007-04:002022-04-06T13:09:30.979-04:00PELTIER: JUDGE KEVIN H. SHARP, PART 3<p>Dear Supporters:</p><p>The following email was sent to Peltier's attorney, Kevin Sharp, responding to a March 10th radio interview.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Dear Judge Sharp:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">I listened to your March 10<sup>th</sup> interview on K103.7, KAHNAWAKE Radio and found it compelling. Of the many topics you discussed, there are several that beg for a response:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">1) <i>60 Murders of AIM members and supporters</i> “<i>that were not investigated by the FBI</i>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Actually, they were, and they were not all AIM members or supporters. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">In July 2000 the FBI responded to allegations from the original Leonard Peltier Defense Committee (LPDC) claiming, <u>at that time</u>, 64 ‘murders’ on Pine Ridge were never investigated, although then, 10 were not even named by Peltier or the LPDC. (The Peltier ‘committees’ number of ‘murders’ has varied over the years.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">In any event, of the 57 named victims provided to the FBI, the deaths included: Child abuse 3, domestic violence 4, alcohol related 5, robbery 2, fights/personal disputes 14, vehicular homicide 4, accidental shooting 2, health reasons 2, suicide 1, accidental 2, and no record, 1. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Of those named; 21 resulted in federal convictions and/or trials, 1 in a local conviction, 22 were investigated but did not result in convictions for a number of valid reasons and 11 were not within FBI jurisdiction. One very important name, Anna Mae Aquash, who was murdered in December 1975 (the same Anna Mae who Leonard stuck a gun in her mouth accusing her of being an informant—she wasn’t—but AIM ordered her execution anyway). Decades later, AIM members, Arlo Looking Cloud (2004) and John Graham (2014) were convicted of her murder. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">During the interview you claimed that these “murders” were of “AIM members or supporters.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Clearly, these should not include; Michelle Linda Tobacco, age nine months, Floyd Sherman Binals, age sixteen months and Yvette Loraine Lone Hill, age seven; especially considering how they died. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">However, what this comes down to is that the Peltier “murders never investigated” claim, is fiction. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Mr. Sharp, as a former federal judge, and now Peltier attorney, who undoubtedly desires to preserve your reputation, have you verified whether Peltier’s claims are true? If you haven’t been able to, then this is promoting a false narrative and supporting more Peltier myth and folklore. <b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Please take a moment and review the names and circumstances of their deaths that—were investigated; <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/response.html#7" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/response.html#7</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Attached for further reference is the May 2000 FBI booklet; <i>Accounting for Native American Deaths, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota</i>.<u><span style="color: #0563c1;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Now that you have the opportunity to research and determine the truth, I would hope that this Peltier fable can be put to rest. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Please feel free to challenge—or debate, any of the findings. As we both know and understand, in some investigations, especially involving situations where tensions are high, that securing cooperation and corroborating and supporting evidence, is very challenging. No excuse, just a realistic fact.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">2) “<i>Why did he shoot him</i>?” Well, Joe (Killsright) Stuntz (who was still wearing the FBI jacket he stole from the trunk of Agent Coler’s vehicle—as he gave Leonard a smile), was shooting at responding Agents and law enforcement. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Peter Matthiessen can help you understand this unfolding event. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">After the Agents were murdered and Peltier and the others were making their getaway “…Peltier, Robideau, and Butler returned to the camp to load Sam Loud Hawks’ red and white van for an escape: they left Joe Killsright and Norman Charles as a rear guard in the compound to delay anyone who tried to approach.” “…Wish Draper went back up the hill to tell Joe to hurry up. He returned with Norman Charles, followed by Anderson and Brown: Charles told the older men that Joe was dead.” (Crazy Horse, p. 159-160)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“Delay anyone” didn’t mean that Stuntz and Charles would greet responding Agents and Police with casual conversation. They were armed and the “delay” meant using their rifles.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“Why did he shoot him?” It's a fairly simple premise that if you shoot at law enforcement, chances are pretty strong they will shoot back. Hence, the defensive shooting of Joe Stuntz.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">3) “<i>Not extradited because there was no evidence</i>.” This was your discussion concerning the Myrtle Poor Bear affidavits. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Actually, the Canadian Government was pretty clear about Peltier’s extradition. I would offer for you to read what the Canadian Department of Justice stated about this matter, in case the Peltier committee didn’t share it with you, (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, A. Anne McLellan, 10/12/99): <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“<i>As I indicated above, I have concluded that Mr. Peltier was lawfully extradited to the United States. In my opinion, given the test for committal for extradition referred to above, the circumstantial evidence, <b>taken alone</b>, constituted sufficient evidence to justify Mr. Peltier’s committal on the two murder charges.” “Further, the third Poor Bear affidavit was considered by the Federal Court of Appeal and the Minister of Justice before Mr. Peltier was extradited to the United States. Subsequently, <b>further submissions</b> respecting the third Poor Bear affidavit were made to the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as the appellate courts in the United States</i>.” <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/canadaletter.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/canadaletter.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">During your interview, the sole inferred conclusion that Poor Bear was “…how they got extradition,” is incorrect. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Exactly what part of ‘taken alone’ and ‘further submissions’ is so difficult for Peltier and his supporters to understand?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Further, regarding Myrtle Poor Bear, Peltier’s own attorney, John Lowe, believing the Government may have planned calling her as a witness at Peltier’s trial, said <i>“…a witness whose mental imbalance is so gross as to render her testimony unbelievable</i>.” In other words, the affidavits notwithstanding, Peltier certainly didn’t want her to testify, for or against him, at his trial. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">4) The critical shell casing and the 10/2/1975 FBI Laboratory teletype: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The government did not believe the teletype was part of the discovery process because it was a preliminary document, rather than the final lab ‘reports.’ Eighth Circuit Court Judge Gerald Heaney disagreed and sent Peltier’s appeal back to the District Court for a 1984, 3-day evidentiary (ballistics) hearing. The District Court denied, and Peltier appealed again to the Eighth Circuit and we all know what happened then. Judge Heaney, with a majority opinion, denied Peltier’s motion for a new trial based on the Bagley test, “<i>…that we be convinced, from a review of the <b>entire record</b>, that the jury probably would have reached a different result. We have not been so convinced</i>.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Exactly what part of ‘entire record’ and ‘not convinced’ is so difficult for Peltier and his supporters to comprehend?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Any thorough discussion regarding the ballistics evidence must include that it was resolved. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">It was obvious that Judge Heaney felt strongly about Native American issues and the Peltier case. However, he made his decision based on the <u>law</u> and in his letters, recommending clemency, he never suggested that Peltier was not guilty. He also stated in a television interview “<i>He got a fair trial, not a perfect trial, but a fair trial</i>” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">5) Judge Sharp, respectfully, even just a mention of James H. Reynolds weakens any support of Peltier. Reynolds’s claims in letters and an interview are unsupportable. Reynolds has no credibility regarding Peltier’s conviction or appellate process. If there is any doubt, please read what follows and give him a call: <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/01/peltier-president-biden-james-reynolds.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/01/peltier-president-biden-james-reynolds.html</a> Further references regarding James H. Reynolds are included here in footnotes: <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2021/06/peltier-is-forgotten-story-james.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2021/06/peltier-is-forgotten-story-james.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">6) You stated during the interview that “<i>We know they were not in the pickup</i>.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">This presumes you reference the government’s position that Peltier, Norman Charles and Joe Stuntz were in Sam Loud Hawk’s suburban (alternately describe as a van, and known to be used regularly by Peltier after he repaired it), and this was the vehicle followed by Agents’ Coler and Williams and the same vehicle and occupants from which (according to eyewitness Ron Williams on the FBI radio), started the unprovoked attack on the Agents. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">I would be very interested in seeing the origin and proof of where “We Know” comes from.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Could it be from Peltier himself, who has repeatedly changed his version of events and has a proven track record of lies? <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">As a former federal judge, now defending Peltier, his lack of consistency over the years regarding the facts makes your advocacy very difficult. Passions aside, your position carries the ethical duty of not misrepresenting the facts, while endeavoring to vigorously defend your client. This is made all the more difficult because there are no remaining legal avenues to pursue; only commutation or parole. In the light of day, however, the truth and facts weigh heavily against your client.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Peltier claimed he was in the AIM camp about to eat pancakes and have some hot black coffee that “…was cut short by the staccato sound of gunfire” (Prison Writings, p. 121). That’s what he claimed anyway. Remember too, for nearly two decades Peltier also promoted the lie of Mr. X as the killer.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Yet, according to Peltier’s defense team, Angie Long Visitor was characterized as a “critical and material” witness. Angie testified to seeing the red and white (1966 Chevrolet) van, owned by Sam Loud Hawk, but used by Peltier, at the “Y” fork on the Jumping Bull property. (Testimony & Matthiessen’s, Crazy Horse, p. 332) (The location of the van at the “Y” fork is significant to the unfolding events. Please, at least view Matthiessen’s map of the Jumping Bull property; in the Crazy Horse-Introduction.) <span style="background-color: lightgrey;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">A shell, or bullet, casing located in <u>this van</u>, (along with the shell casing from the trunk of Agent Coler’s vehicle) were referenced in a court decision as a result of the three-day ‘ballistics’ hearing: “Later examination of the remaining .223 bullet casings submitted in connection with</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> {F. Supp. 1159} the RESMURS case, resulted in approximately 114 positive identifications with the Wichita AR-15.” (U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota, May 22, 1985)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The location of Peltier’s red and white van at the “Y” fork on the Jumping Bull property, and a hundred and fourteen (114) shell casings matched with Peltier’s AR-15, could certainly account for a number of the bullet holes in the Agents’ vehicles, along with Peltier’s location at the time of the unprovoked attack.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b>AND HERE ARE MORE, IMPORTANT POINTS:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b>7) The Oath:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">You made the analogy that several times in your life, the Navy, the Bar, the federal bench, you took an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution, and repeated at least twice, that in Peltier’s case “<i>Constitutional violations were open and obvious</i>,” and that were “<i>committed by others who took the same oath</i>.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Judge Sharp, I’m certain you recognize that this is a seriously consequential accusation. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">We both understand the emotional nexus in the Peltier saga. However, by implying that the justice system, and those jurists involved, ruled against Peltier with deliberate malice, may tarnish your reputation through overzealous advocacy. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">I have not tallied all of Peltier’s motions and appeals, only those related to Peltier’s conviction and appeals. I am aware that there were many others, including at least parole and FOIPA issues. As a result, the Peltier matter has been before a number of judges. The total could reach twenty or even more over the years, and yet you imply that these judges all <i>missed or allowed</i> <i>open and obvious Constitutional violations</i> to occur.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Would all those Judges who served, arguably many decades of professional judicial service, with dignity and honor, have deliberately violated their <i>oath</i> to the Constitution in the Peltier case? Certainly, one would hope you are not implying (as Peltier has repeatedly) some grand, over-arching conspiracy against Peltier, or perhaps rampant judicial incompetence and possible misconduct. There are significant odds that those jurists would find your characterization offensive, or worse. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">By your own implication, one of those who failed their <i>oath</i> would include Judge Gerald Heaney; certainly, someone who played a critical role in the Peltier matter. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">To place this in its proper perspective, this is how the Honorable Gerald Heaney, (May he Rest in Peace), was described in <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/" style="color: #954f72;">www.noparolepeltier.com</a>:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“<i>Gerald Heaney was truly one of America’s Greatest Generation. At the outbreak of WWII, as a young lawyer, he could have avoided the heat of battle and used his legal qualifications in a safe stateside, or behind the front-lines, assignment. Instead, he enlisted as a private and then sought a U.S. Army commission and became a young infantry officer, qualified as a prestigious Army Ranger and participated in the D-Day invasion. He earned a Silver Star, and fought in several battles through the end of war in Europe. His courage can neither be denied nor ignored. Judge Heaney was also a jurist of impeccable reputation and experience</i>”—obviously, by upholding the oath he swore to<b>. <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Yet, you apparently appear to so casually demean, and dismiss his character and years of judicial service. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Can either of us, with our predictable human faults and personal achievements, measure up to such an incredible person as Judge Heaney? As for myself, I would be humble and suggest not.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">As you described your judicial quest, you had met the professional traits necessary to become a judge, acknowledging your own <i>temperament</i>, <i>integrity</i> and <i>judgement</i>; qualifications you ascribe for yourself but apparently and openly deny to others.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b>8) Changed Theory:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">It is bewildering that an attorney and former federal judge, who has purportedly reviewed the Peltier matter, the trial transcript and multiple appellate decisions, can continue the false narrative that the government changed its theory of the prosecution. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Judge Sharp, you have repeatedly made this claim but have not provided specifics as to how this actually occurred. As a former federal judge, you certainly understand that broad and sweeping claims are just not sufficient and now only echo Peltier’s fabrications regarding his conviction and appeals. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">As previously mentioned, aiding and abetting was on the table from day one. That bears repeating; aiding and abetting was integral to Peltier’s prosecution from the very beginning. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Peltier was indicted on November 17, <u>1975</u> for ‘murder’ and ‘<u>aiding and abetting</u>’ and warrants were issued based on those charges: And, at the conclusion of Peltier’s trial, even jury instructions that included <i>aiding and abetting</i> were agreed upon by the government and defense. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">No mystery, no secrets, no magic, yet the provable falsehood is repeated as if saying it enough times will make it true. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">This “<i>fatally flawed</i>” conclusion was rejected by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1993:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“<i>It is <b>impossible</b> to conclude that, in all the circumstances, (AUSA) Crooks…intended…to abandon one of the two theories upon which the government had tried the case and <b>upon which</b> the case was submitted to the jury</i>.” (i.e., aiding and abetting)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">What part of ‘impossible’ and ‘upon which’ are such a challenge for Peltier supporters to grasp?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> * * *</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">I have not seen the latest clemency petition, but would certainly like to. I can’t imagine that it contains anything new or exceptional but would like the opportunity to respond to the issues it offers. I would appreciate a copy. Previously, Peltier posted the petitions on his website.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">It would be encouraging if any future media statements included more elements of the actual record. However, removing ‘<i>contested facts’' </i>from the Peltier narrative would result in a very short interview. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Most respectfully, for your reputation and posterity, I would urge you to review the facts in greater detail, contrasting the entire record with Peltier’s public statements, feigned innocence, years of fabrications and an alleged wrongful conviction. On balance, you may just find the actual truth disturbing. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams<br />Ed Woods<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The Beginning: </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqLACvTrDnivgvEEq3sBm8WGchbl8KUwKy340ncekh_dKV7YP_JySmOxqA3dR520ukA6wDK7YxqhX5EejaO60y9ho_Z5RA7OB9TS_AZniWnyc3n41kjDCvP84vqR_eu655oAxoHqJXa9rUCxtosFHC4TCz8sV6iP_NeFk3HUmGSnctykVI-ARmBnff/s281/Rons%20vehicle.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="281" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqLACvTrDnivgvEEq3sBm8WGchbl8KUwKy340ncekh_dKV7YP_JySmOxqA3dR520ukA6wDK7YxqhX5EejaO60y9ho_Z5RA7OB9TS_AZniWnyc3n41kjDCvP84vqR_eu655oAxoHqJXa9rUCxtosFHC4TCz8sV6iP_NeFk3HUmGSnctykVI-ARmBnff/w183-h160/Rons%20vehicle.jpeg" width="183" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhMgAsUdlF89a2BhWXNByYiWrOS2_W0SQK0nH_9jpA-8FHq-7LCiq21IAEpqhWxMmpcIMZEmGE74h86fjRSXyzy5vu4yu-0EE8tYDGSVKujzqYVBwkKMrSOtimSeheXC7-3t-W6-RKszsfuxU-4_0FJd74SEwyP89LPpSRYJku6ILfMhLMHRHmphME/s534/Jack%20copy.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="534" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhMgAsUdlF89a2BhWXNByYiWrOS2_W0SQK0nH_9jpA-8FHq-7LCiq21IAEpqhWxMmpcIMZEmGE74h86fjRSXyzy5vu4yu-0EE8tYDGSVKujzqYVBwkKMrSOtimSeheXC7-3t-W6-RKszsfuxU-4_0FJd74SEwyP89LPpSRYJku6ILfMhLMHRHmphME/w201-h164/Jack%20copy.png" width="201" /></a></p><o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The End: Jack is on the left, Ron on the right.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS-Cm7aZM8kCcd1xjDOF8jaR7tfPt7logHsyL55OVVc29_JOHoQaaBm58rlJe0tcobbVMgV21OJ1ypca9d9O9rDievPEEJAeZsyMEahRH9RJmlyD8xmrE4KAI70LZ-YKkEZDNPW11H6Uk7iA6aJJ4N_f9Oy65m_UIMTj8r5F71rAouyHZdtQVgG7rB/s320/June%2026,%201975%20%20%20%20%20Pine%20Ridge.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS-Cm7aZM8kCcd1xjDOF8jaR7tfPt7logHsyL55OVVc29_JOHoQaaBm58rlJe0tcobbVMgV21OJ1ypca9d9O9rDievPEEJAeZsyMEahRH9RJmlyD8xmrE4KAI70LZ-YKkEZDNPW11H6Uk7iA6aJJ4N_f9Oy65m_UIMTj8r5F71rAouyHZdtQVgG7rB/s1600/June%2026,%201975%20%20%20%20%20Pine%20Ridge.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Interview, March 10, 2022:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tuMvVGP3TyFwvKGtvQnvN68n5YX59DN6/view?fbclid=IwAR3PjYxZ84wPWCE0XZUnjttY1x3ETl2IEZJfBSgEqjoElGCaBCJ7EkM7ceA" style="color: #954f72;">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tuMvVGP3TyFwvKGtvQnvN68n5YX59DN6/view?fbclid=IwAR3PjYxZ84wPWCE0XZUnjttY1x3ETl2IEZJfBSgEqjoElGCaBCJ7EkM7ceA</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><br /></p></div>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-66352276996646965962022-03-26T15:27:00.002-04:002022-03-26T15:31:55.195-04:00What often stands between law enforcement and the criminal element...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4phRoxmckVURSeKJyLMvQITCkd7jPKLrY0lQgZuwBNoP1de0Q1A3e2wRmchzDUMU4ifXaZvpEjOEPbUax0qFhYN6_OpyTR57TUPOUeB_r_UsMn0ACV_MrQdC8OowYeX4LBWBcT4loxaSDisbTfK1UEInkQmYotXumnczeMbtgJgpA80pxrgwGN-rp/s320/Bureau%20Badge%20-%20Ed%20W.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="461" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4phRoxmckVURSeKJyLMvQITCkd7jPKLrY0lQgZuwBNoP1de0Q1A3e2wRmchzDUMU4ifXaZvpEjOEPbUax0qFhYN6_OpyTR57TUPOUeB_r_UsMn0ACV_MrQdC8OowYeX4LBWBcT4loxaSDisbTfK1UEInkQmYotXumnczeMbtgJgpA80pxrgwGN-rp/w346-h461/Bureau%20Badge%20-%20Ed%20W.JPG" width="346" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Pacifico;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148);">June 26, 1975</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Pacifico;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148);"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Pacifico;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148);">Special Agent Jack R. Coler</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Pacifico;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148);">Special Agent Ronald A. Williams</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Pacifico;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148);"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Pacifico;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148);">REST in PEACE</span></span></div><br /> <p></p>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934698423458479547.post-61891952548272684642022-03-09T17:45:00.002-05:002023-01-22T21:21:35.735-05:00PELTIER’S BIG LIE & DINO’S TRUTH<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Dear Supporters:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">What follows further dispels and exposes Peltier’s Big Lie, as was referenced in the February 21, 2022 Blog, ‘Judge’ Kevin H. Sharp…Misplaced passion, Part 2: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;">“—<i>We AIM spirit-warriors weren’t about to sit quietly and wait to see just who was in those two unidentified cars that came roaring unannounced in a cloud of dust and confusion and flying bullets into our compound that morning</i>.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;">(Peltier autobiography, <u>Prison Writings</u>, p. 114) <a href="applewebdata://92346355-67B1-44E2-B46C-2E5150202BF3#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Indisputable proof of Peltier’s lies comes from one of his co-conspirators, Darrel ‘Dino’ Butler. <a href="applewebdata://92346355-67B1-44E2-B46C-2E5150202BF3#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Butler participated, with others, in the initial unprovoked attack on FBI Agents Coler and Williams. His precise involvement at the Agents’ vehicles is known only to him and those who were there.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Previously, and for the better part of two decades, Peltier and others claimed that someone they knew, <i>the phantom Mr. X</i>, who was allegedly bringing dynamite to the AIM camp that day, was the one who first wounded and then murdered the Agents; driving off in the infamous red pickup. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">In the Robert Redford narrated film, <u>Incident at Oglala</u>, Bob Robideau describes in significant detail what he allegedly saw Mr. X do that day. In the very next sequence, Leonard Peltier states for the camera “<i>This story is true</i>.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Well, it wasn’t, and how do we know this? Nearly two decades later, in 1995, Dino Butler came out publicly and admitted:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> “<i>That is all totally false. Totally untrue. That never happened</i>.” <a href="applewebdata://92346355-67B1-44E2-B46C-2E5150202BF3#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Butler’s denial was later validated by one of Peltier’s own attorneys. <a href="applewebdata://92346355-67B1-44E2-B46C-2E5150202BF3#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[iv]</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Butler told the Truth. Peltier lied.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">In a filmed sequence, Butler is at Jumping Bull and describes what he saw that morning:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt;">“<i>They drove in past that white house down there and went down between those hills, </i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">(Gesturing and pointing with his right hand into the distance on the property<i>)</i></span></u><i> they took up a position right down there. Most of our, all our people were over here. </i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">(Gesturing and pointing with his left hand to his left</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">)<i>.</i></span><i> <b>No fire, no fire, was coming from them,</b> I couldn’t understand why they didn’t just pull around and drive back out.”</i><a href="applewebdata://92346355-67B1-44E2-B46C-2E5150202BF3#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[v]</span></span></span></a><i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Butler’s eyewitness description is clear enough: The Agents were in an open field and they were not shooting at anyone. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Butler observed this at a most critical moment. Agent Williams was on the FBI radio calling for assistance and describing that they were about to, and did, come under fire. He said that if they didn’t get there soon, they would be dead. They then heard him painfully say “I’m hit.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Butler also came to his own obvious conclusion; why didn’t they just turn around and drive off the Jumping Bull property? <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">They didn’t because it was too late. Early on at least Ron Williams was wounded (three times before he was murdered), and Jack Coler received that probably fatal wound that left him defenseless.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Butler told the truth. Peltier lied</b>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Darrel Butler told the truth because he had no incentive or reason not to, even to the extent of going public and also on film. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Peltier has lied repeatedly about the events of that day, changed his alleged details of what took place, pretending, or hoping, that the myth and folklore will somehow replace the truth. Peltier has to live with his lies. Lies that only further diminish his shallow claims of innocence. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">A question to ask is why did Peltier over-react? (When he was arrested by the Canadian Mounties in February 1976, he said he would have blown them out of their shoes had he known they were coming to arrest him.<a href="applewebdata://92346355-67B1-44E2-B46C-2E5150202BF3#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[vi]</span></span></span></a> Yet, another question to ask is why did Peltier brutally murder the already severely wounded Agents? The answer is obvious. Ron Williams saw his attackers, and Peltier, the <i>spirit-warrior,</i> knew all too well that dead men make poor witnesses. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Ed Woods<o:p></o:p></p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://92346355-67B1-44E2-B46C-2E5150202BF3#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a> Leonard Peltier, <u>Prison Writings</u> (New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1999) 114.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">See also <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#amazon" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#amazon</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">Yet another lie; there was ‘no cloud of dust.’ “June 26, 1975, started out as a beautiful early summer day, the air sweet and heavy after an especially violent overnight thunderstorm that all but blew our tents away. The downpour had kept us up late, and I’d slept in our makeshift tent city as we called it.” p.123. Further, Peltier’s lie of omission: There is literally no sense of irony that Peltier never mentions Mr. X or the red pickup in his autobiography.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn2"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://92346355-67B1-44E2-B46C-2E5150202BF3#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a> Darrel Butler, an AIM member, was not a co-conspirator in a legal sense because neither he, Bob Robideau or Peltier were charged with conspiracy. However, their participation in the unprovoked attack and murder of FBI Agents, Jack Coler and Ron Williams, in a real sense, made them co-conspirators. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn3"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://92346355-67B1-44E2-B46C-2E5150202BF3#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></a> Mr. X the lie: <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/lie.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/lie.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn4"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://92346355-67B1-44E2-B46C-2E5150202BF3#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[iv]</span></span></span></a> Michael Kuzma Esq. <a href="http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2012/12/peltier-kuzma-closes-circle-much-more.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2012/12/peltier-kuzma-closes-circle-much-more.html</a> 11/3/2012<o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="edn5"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://92346355-67B1-44E2-B46C-2E5150202BF3#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[v]</span></span></span></a> <a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/video.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/video.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1;"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none;"> Butler filmed on the Jumping Bull property.</span><span color="windowtext"> Original statement: Warrior- life of Leonard Peltier; </span></span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsYAYf_2WQU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsYAYf_2WQU</a> at 56:47.</p><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="applewebdata://92346355-67B1-44E2-B46C-2E5150202BF3#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="color: #954f72; font-size: 10pt;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[vi]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.noparolepeltier.com/usapressrelease.pdf" style="color: #954f72; font-size: 10pt;">http://www.noparolepeltier.com/usapressrelease.pdf</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> U.S. Department of Justice statement, August 21, 2009.</span></p></div><div id="edn6"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p></div></div>Justicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059810539682417508noreply@blogger.com