Legal Opinion
United States v. Banks
District Court, D. South Dakota
Decided October 9, 1974No. CR73-5034, CR73-5062, CR73-5035 and CR73-5063PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION
NICHOL, Chief Judge.
This memorandum decision concludes the trial stage of the government’s case against two leaders of the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, the historic Indian village. 1 The occupation lasted seventy-one days and the trial lasted slightly over eight months. Although the trial was often protracted and tedious, it came to a swift end. After deliberating the case for about nine hours, one of the jurors became ill and could not continue deliberations. The government would not agree to accept the verdict of the remaining eleven jurors. In the…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Berger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
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- McNabb v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Mesarosh v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- William B. Barbee v. Warden, Maryland PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1964
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