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LEGAL UPDATE
July 14, 2003

APPEAL OF THE DENIAL OF LEONARD'S 1999 HABEAS CORPUS PETITION

Peltier attorneys are pursuing an appeal to the United States 10th Circuit Court of Appeals of the recent denial of Leonard Peltier's 1999 Habeas Corpus petition. Leonard seeks to overturn the U.S. Parole Commission's refusal to even consider him for parole until December 2008.

The Commission explained its outrageous departure from its own guidelines by saying that Leonard had been involved in an "ambush" of the two FBI agents, and had executed them at point blank range after the agents had been incapacitated.

The normal Parole Commission guideline for prisoners convicted of homicide offenses is 200+ months served. This means that Leonard should have been released from prison over one decade ago. The Commission, however, has repeatedly refused to consider setting a parole date until 2008 - when Leonard will have served almost double the normal time.

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