United States v. Leonard Peltier

MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Leonard Peltier appeals the district court’s 1 denial of his renewed motion under Rule 35 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to reduce the sentences imposed on him in 1977. We affirm.

Twenty-five years ago, following a five-week jury trial, the district court sentenced Mr. Peltier to two consecutive life terms in prison for the first degree murder of two FBI agents. The government tried the case on alternative theories, asserting that Mr. Peltier personally killed the agents at point blank range, or that if Mr. Peltier had not personally killed the…