Dawn's Digression.

Anybody know anything about this? I learned a bit about it when I saw IG at an Honor the Earth benefit concert in Kansas a few years ago. According to what I learned there, Leonard was basically a scapegoat. Last I heard, he is a very sick individual, and will likely not live to the end of the sentence. There was some information that he has not been offered adequate health care. Anyway, this just sparked my interest since The Girls raised my awareness of him. I haven't really been following the case.

Yahoo! News - Supreme Court Rejects Indian Activist Peltier's Appeal: "They said the appeals court 'erroneously' affirmed the commission decision and claimed government misconduct during prosecution of the case because of withholding of evidence and coercing witnesses to testify falsely.
Because of the commission decision, Peltier will have to serve at least double the sentence he would have received under federal guidelines, his lawyers said. They said he should have been eligible for parole after more than 16 years in prison. "