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Leonard Peltier:
No change in continuing to a fifteen year reconsideration hearing, December 2008. Reasons: The December 1995 hearing led to a re-examination by the hearing examiner of the issues beyond the normal scope of an interim hearing, including the previous findings made by the Commission that you participated in the execution of two FBI agents. The limited purpose of an interim hearing under 28 Code of Federal Regulations 2.4 is to determine whether circumstances that have changed since the last hearing warrant a different decision. The Commission declines to reopen your case to re-examine your role in the offense since there are no significant changes regarding information on this issue from the information presented at your last parole consideration. You have not given a factual, specific account of your actions at the time of the offense that is consistent with the jury's verdict of guilt. Considering either theory of your participation in the crimes outlined by the government at the trial, the Commission therefore has no reasonable basis to find an explanation of the facts concerning the agents' execution other than the version presented by the government. See 28 Code of Federal Regulations S2.19C. The government has not changed its position that circumstantial evidence presented at your trial established your complicity in the executions of the agents. Their circumstantial evidence described in several of the decisions of the Eighth Circuit rejecting your appeals supports the previous findings that you participated in the executions. A full consideration of your case will not be appropriate until your 15 year reconsideration hearing.
Appeal Procedures: The above decision is not appealable.
3/18/96 National Commissioners, Document Number DNJ OJ Referral
Call or fax:
United States Parole Commission:
(301) 492-5952, -5821;
fax -6694, -5307, -6516, -5525
Janet Reno:
(202) 514-2001, -4195,
fax -4371, -4507
Jamie Gorelick,
Deputy Attorney General:
(202) 514-2101; fax -0467, -4699
White House Chief of Staff:
fax (202) 456-2883
Legal Counsel to the President:
fax (202) 456-1647
White House Comment Line
(202) 456-1111.
For more information contact:
Peltier Defense Committee
Box 583, Lawrence, KS 66044
tel: 913-842-5774; fax: -5796
e-mail: lpdc@idir.net
internet: http://www.unicom.net/peltier/index.html
Fourth World Bulletin • Spring/Summer 1996
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