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Resolution of Councillor Scondras,
City of Boston in City Council

WHEREAS: Leonard Peltier,an influential leader in the American Indian Movement,was convicted of the murders of two FBI agents;and

WHEREAS: The U.S. Government admits that the affidavits which were used to arrest and extradite Peltier were false and that Peltier's shell casings did not match the bullets which killed the agents;and

WHEREAS: The misconduct and judicial impropriety, such as coertion of witneses, perjury, evidence fabrication,and supression by the FBI and the Government,is clearly an abuse of the moral standards of American Justice; and

WHEREAS: Worlwide,numerous and respectable law, religious,and political groups,including fifty-five members of the US Congress and sixty members of the Canadian Parliament,have filed"Friends of the Court "briefs calling for a re-evaluation of Peltier's case; and

WHEREAS: Boston, as a capital city for one of the thirteen original founding constitutional states, is a symbol of the basis of American law and judicial order and observed by the media nationwide;

Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved That the Boston City Council, in meeting assembled does hereby call for an investigation of the judicial improprieties involved with the conviction of Leonard Peltier and urge the commutation of Peltier's sentence to end these past sixteen years of injustice.