A while ago, I reported Leonard Peltier's lawyer, Barry Bachrach, filed an appeal that said federal laws did not apply to his client because FBI agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler were killed in Pine Ridge. A Fargo judge has rejected that appeal:
A federal judge in Fargo has rejected an appeal by imprisoned American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, who said the government did not have right to sentence him for killing two federal agents in 1975. ...
U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson denied the appeal, saying the government has the right to prosecute people who kill federal agents, no matter where the crimes occur. Williams and Coler were shot in the head at point-blank range after being injured in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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