[Announce-DAN] Urgent alert: Clinton To Review Clemency Cases

[Chuck0 <buildingbridges@mindspring.com> (by way of Mark Cohen <buildingbridges@mindspring.com>)]

NPR, the Washington Post, and other media outlets are reporting today
that the White House is now considering Peltier's request for clemency.
It is vital to this effort that you call, fax, or write the White House
this week. 

For more information: http://www.infoshop.org/freepeltier.html

Chuck0

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Clinton To Review Clemency Cases
The Associated Press
Sunday, Nov. 26, 2000; 4:18 p.m. EST

WASHINGTON –– The White House says President Clinton will review all
pending
requests for executive clemency before he leaves office in January,
including that of Leonard Peltier, the American Indian activist
convicted of
murdering two FBI agents in South Dakota.

The president "will focus on all of the clemency cases after the
election
and that will be one of them," White House spokesman Daniel Cruise said
Sunday.

Also Sunday, the White House released the transcript of Clinton's Nov. 7
interview with radio station WBAI-FM in New York City in which the
president
was asked about the Peltier case.

Clinton said then that he would review all clemency applications "and
see
what the merits dictate ... based on the evidence."

Asked specifically about Peltier, Clinton said he has "never had time
actually to sit down myself and review that case."

"I know it's very important to a lot of people, maybe on both sides of
the
issue," he said. "And I think I owe it to them to give it an honest
look-see."

On June 26, 1975, FBI agents Ronald A. Williams and Jack R. Coler
pursued a
robbery suspect into the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
A
shootout erupted with activists from the American Indian Movement.

Two suspects were acquitted and a third freed for lack of evidence.

Peltier, after fleeing to Canada and being extradited to the United
States,
was convicted and sentenced to consecutive life terms in 1977, despite
defense claims that evidence against him had been falsified.

Peltier, 56, is serving the terms at the U.S. Penitentiary in
Leavenworth,
Kan. He has suffered from health problems in recent years.

In June, a parole examiner recommended that Peltier's sentences be
continued
until his next full parole hearing in 2008.

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