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UNITED STATES v. PELTIER

No. 85-5192.

800 F.2d 772 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Leonard PELTIER, Appellant. National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Inc. and California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, Amicus Supporting Appellant Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, et al., Amicus Certain Members of U.S. Congress, Amicus Supporting Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided September 11, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Kunstler, New York City for appellant.

Lynn E. Crooks, Asst. U.S. Atty., Fargo, N.D., for appellee.

Before HEANEY, ROSS, and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges.

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...

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