City of Boston  in City Council

RESOLUTION OF COUNCILLOR SCONDRAS

WHEREAS   Leonard Peltier, an influential leader in the American Indian
Movement,was convicted of the murders of two FBI agents; and

WHEREAS   The US Government admits that the affidavits which were used to
arrest and extradite Peltier were false and that Peltier's  shell casings
did not match the bullets which killed the  agents; and

WHEREAS   The misconduct and judicial impropriety, such as coercion of
witneses, perjury, evidence fabrication, and supression by the  FBI and the
Government, is clearly an abuse of the moral standards of American Justice;
and

WHEREAS   Worlwide, numerous and respectable law, religious, and political
groups, including fifty-five members of the US Congress and sixty members of
the Canadian Parliament, have filed "Friends of the Court" briefs calling
for a re-evaluation of Peltier's case; and

Whereas Boston, as a capital city for one of the thirteen original founding
constitutional states, is a symbol of the basis of American law and judicial
order and observed by the media nationwide;

Now, Therefore, Be it Resolved  That the Boston City Council, in meeting
assembled does hereby  call for an investigation of the judicial
improprieties involved with the conviction of Leonard Peltier and urge the
commutation of Peltier's sentence to end these past sixteen years of
injustice. 

Please contact Chuck Turner and other BCC members and ask them to re-affirm
this resolution. 

Charles.Turner@ci.boston.ma.us
chuckturneroffice@yahoo.com
(617)635-3510/4203 FAX
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