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Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 08:01:49 -0400
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From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Leonard Peltier (Justice Minister Anne McLellan)
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Thursday, May 6, 1999
No evidence of lies in Peltier case -
McLellan
By CP
OTTAWA -- There is no evidence anyone lied in hearings
supporting the extradition of native activist Leonard Peltier on
charges he murdered two FBI agents in South Dakota, Justice
Minister Anne McLellan said yesterday.
And even without the controversial testimony, McLellan told the
justice committee other evidence overwhelmingly supports a
decision to send Peltier back to the United States, where he is
serving two consecutive life terms.
"The review ... does conclude that there is no evidence of any
fraud in the extradition process," said McLellan, who promised to
soon release the review conducted by her predecessor, Allan
Rock.
"I want to make it absolutely plain here today that the review
further concludes that without the (controversial) affidavits there
was sufficient evidence to justify extradition."
Peltier, onetime head of the American Indian Movement, was
convicted of first-degree murder in the 1975 shooting deaths of
two FBI agents.
The pair were initially wounded as they searched for a robbery
suspect on the Pine Ridge Indian Reserve near the legendary
Wounded Knee, then shot dead. Peltier has consistently denied
he killed the men.
Peltier fled to Alberta after the murders. He was extradited a
year later.
U.S. officials have acknowledged that some evidence used to win
Peltier's extradition was tainted, particularly an affidavit given by
a woman, Myrtle Poorbear, who said she saw him pull the
trigger. She later recanted.
The Supreme Court of Canada refused leave to appeal the case.
Since then, a witness known only as Mr. X told author Peter
Mathiesson he killed the agents in self-defence.
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