#529 The Wrongful Conviction of Leonard Peltier - Part 3

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In part three of this three-part series, at Leonard’s trial in 1977 federal prosecutors changed the failed narrative from the Butler / Robideau trial, claiming that Leonard executed the agents with an AR15 that they claimed matched casings found near the bodies.

Bruce Ellison and Ron Kuby explain how false evidence was used to secure a conviction that survived our appellate system and 8 presidencies. But through it all, Leonard never gave up, and with the help of tribal advocate Holly Macarro, he was finally granted clemency in the final minutes of the Biden Administration.

The Wrongful Conviction of Leonard Peltier is a production of Lava For Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1. It follows the January 2025 Sundance premiere of the documentary FREE LEONARD PELTIER, a searing investigation of the case from Public Square Films and directors David France and Jesse Short Bull.

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1:43.0	Previously on our coverage of the wrongful conviction of Leonard Peltier, federal prosecutors
1:48.5	used false evidence to extradite Leonard Peltier from Canada to the United States,
1:54.1	where his co-defendants had just been acquitted on the grounds of self-defense for the June
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