From the Rapid City Journal:
A Canadian man charged with killing American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Pictou Aquash earned at least a few more months of freedom by getting a judge to delay his next hearing.
John Graham is on house arrest in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is fighting extradition to South Dakota to stand trial for the 1975 slaying on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
At a court hearing this week, a judge with the British Columbia Court of Appeal granted a request from Graham’s lawyer to postpone a hearing on his appeal until May 17. It had been scheduled for Jan. 29.
However, the judge did require Graham’s lawyer to file paperwork by Feb. 28 outlining why he wants a judicial review of an earlier decision by a judge who ordered him to be committed for extradition.
If Graham’s lawyer doesn’t file that factum — the U.S. equivalent of a written brief — by the deadline, Graham must turn himself the next day, and his bail would be revoked, according to Lyse Cantin, spokeswoman for Department of Justice in Vancouver.
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