Patrick Leahy Appeals To Biden: Send Leonard Peltier Home From Prison

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Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), a former chairman of the Judiciary Committee and the longest-serving member of the Senate, delivered an urgent message Friday to his former longtime colleague, President Joe Biden: Let Leonard Peltier go home.

“I urge President Biden to commute Leonard Peltier’s prison sentence and release him from federal prison,” Leahy said in a statement. “Peltier, a prominent Native American activist, was imprisoned for crimes he and many other legal experts and advocates maintain he never committed. His trial was so riddled with flaws that even one of the prosecutors trying him has acknowledged that Peltier was wrongfully convicted. Peltier, now 77 years old and ailing with multiple health problems, has served more than 44 years in federal prison.”

Peltier “is exactly the kind of individual who should be considered for clemency,” the statement said.

Leahy, who served in the Senate with Biden for 36 years, said the criminal justice system is clearly imperfect, and that Peltier “knows firsthand just how imperfect it can be.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/patrick-leahy-appeals-biden-send-212143751.html

[dchill]

1. Yes. Long past time.

[bahboo]

2. I second this....

[LoisB]

3. Yes.

nt

[Lunabell]

4. In the words of Jean Luc Picard...

Make it so!

[ancianita]

5. Peltier jailing has been a horrible injustice. Release him before history shows

that we let an innocent man die in prison.

[hlthe2b]

6. Please let this be successful. Leahy is absolutely right (and decades late)

[wendyb-NC]

7. Yes, release him

He should never have been sent there in the first place.

[yaesu]

8. This needs to happen ASAP nt

[niyad]

9. Exactly.

[KPN]

10. Are you listening Joe?

[TreasonousBastard]

11. Yes. It is ultimately a small thing, but our humanity hangs on it.

[turbinetree]

12. Agreed ...

and I would be asking why haven't they been given booster shots.....

[Bayard]

13. Let him go

He was convicted on the flimsiest of evidence. The main witness was determined--by the FBI--to be too mentally incompetent to testify, but they sure used her statement. Weapons evidence has since been trashed by experts.

The man only has a few years left to live anyway. Wonder why Obama didn't pardon him?

[Jakes Progress]

14. President Biden. Just do it. Don't poll it or form a committee. Just do it.

You are my president. I voted for you. I campaigned for you. I donated to your election fund.

You have some failings from you long years in politics. Who wouldn't have.

Don't let procrastination on this issue be one of them. Do the positive thing. Do it now.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

15. And make a point contrasting tfg pardons and Biden justice.

[DLevine]

16. K&R