Imprisoned Native American Activist Leonard Peltier Again Denied Parole : Indybay

The imprisoned Native American activist Leonard Peltier has been denied parole again. The US Parole Commission told the 64-year-old Peltier on Friday that his release would “depreciate the seriousness of [his] offenses” and “promote disrespect for the law.” It was Peltier’s first full parole hearing in 15 years and he will not be eligible for parole again until July 2024, at the age of 79.

Leonard Peltier has been in prison for 33 years and was convicted of killing two FBI agents during a shootout on South Dakota"s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975.

Peltier has long maintained his innocence and is widely considered a political prisoner who was not granted a fair trial. He is now being held at the Lewisburg prison in Pennsylvania.

I’m joined now on the line by Eric Seitz, the attorney who represented Peltier at his parole hearing. He joins us now on the phone from his home in Hawaii.

Eric Seitz, Leonard Peltier’s attorney.

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