The So, This is a clip from Kevin Sharp, a former federal district court judge in Leonard Peltier's

current attorney. Leonard Peltier is the longest serving indigenous political prisoner in the United States.

And Judge Sharp lays out his case in plain details in the following talk, which is excerpted

from a November 14th, 2022 panel discussion called Inside the American Indian

Movement and the Trial and Clemency case for Leonard Peltier, which you can find the full

audio version on our Patreon by subscribing to our

Patreon at patreon.com back slash red media PR that's Patreon judge, a good judge, and lay Leonard's case out on the table in front of him, he'd free Leonard Peltier.

I don't think it was necessarily the way she envisioned it, but a good judge came along and has a story that can pull a lot together,

connect a lot of dots.

So I now get to introduce you anyway. That's Judge Kevin Sharp, you know, has a story of his own about.

Well, I hope I had to I had to step down and not be a judge in order to get involved in this case.

Part of my involvement comes in after all of this, right?

This after Leonard's life as a child on the reservation,

after at nine years old,

he's taken from his grandmother and sent to a boarding school.

You know, after he escapes and returns, after he spends three years there, sometimes in his

own solitary confinement as did Dennis Banks and

as did Dick Wilson who and one of the things that

I'm learning about that piece of it and is that they all

came out of this with their own trauma and I include Dick Wilson in that. He took his in a direction that was that was dangerous and detrimental to his own people.

But I think that that happened because of what happened to him as a child.

And you can't discount that.

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