Legal Opinion
United States v. Peltier
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 11, 1986No. 85-5192PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HEANEY, Circuit Judge.
On April 18, 1977, Leonard Peltier was found guilty of the June 26, 1975, premeditated murder of Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The record as a whole leaves no doubt that the jury accepted the government’s theory that Peltier had personally killed the two agents, after they were seriously wounded, by shooting them at pointblank range with an AR-15 rifle (identified at trial as the “Wichita AR-15”).1 The critical evidence in support of *773this theory was a casing from a .223 caliber Remington cartridge recovered…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- United States v. BagleySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Giglio v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Napue v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- United States v. Leonard PeltierCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1978
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3Cited by22 opinions
- State v. JohnstonOhio Supreme Court · 1988
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PLAINTIFF—APPELLEE v. FRITZ ARLO LOOKING CLOUD, DEFENDANT—APPELLANTCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2005
- David Price v. Viking Penguin, Inc. And Peter Matthiessen, William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, Alfred Kazin and Susan Sontag, Amicus CuriaeCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1989
- Ashker v. SolemSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1990
- Taitano v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1987
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