Legal Opinion
United States v. Leonard Peltier
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 28, 2006No. 05-3194PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Leonard Peltier appeals the denial by the district court 1 of his motion filed under former Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(a) (applicable to offenses committed before November 1, 1987), in which he challenged his sentence to two consecutive life terms. He contends that his sentence was illegal because the court that tried him had no subject matter jurisdiction over the crimes of which he was convicted. We affirm.
Mr. Peltier was convicted under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1111, 1114 (1970) of two counts of murder in the first degree in connection with the 1975 shooting of two…
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