Legal Opinion
United States v. Leonard Peltier
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 27, 1978No. 77-1487PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
On June 26, 1975, two Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, were murdered on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Leonard Peltier, Robert Eugene Robideau, Darrell Dean Butler, and James Theodore Eagle were charged with the murders in a two-count indictment for first-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 1111, and 1114. Robideau and Butler were jointly tried by a jury and were acquitted. The government dismissed the charges against Eagle. Subsequent to the Robideau-Butler trial, Peltier was tried by a…
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3Cited by105 opinions
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