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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're desperate. He's a complete and total disaster. He left 1500 criminals out of jail. Go back to wherever you came from and go to college.[/quote]

Your president sent a murderer of FBI agents from jail to his home. Sit down. You have no moral high ground here.[/quote]

Both have disastrously misused pardon power.[/quote]

Peltier was not a pardon. It was a commutation for an elderly (80) year old man who is in very poor health. The federal appeals judge who wrote the opinion upholding his conviction (and saying it was possible he was not guilty, just not probable) cited pervasive misconduct by the government during the protest and in the course of the prosecution (including falsified affidavit used to secure extradition from Canada) when he RECOMMENDED the President take "positive action", such as commutation, decades ago. That judge had to read the entire transcript of the trial and review the entire record to come to that conclusion. [/quote]

It was a sketchy case full of holes to begin with.
Critical evidence was either mishandled or withheld by the prosecution. For instance, the ballistics evidence that linked a weapon to the shootings was later questioned.  Witnesses have claimed that they were coerced into providing testimony against Peltier. The coercion of witnesses raised doubts about the integrity of the trial.  Two other individuals who were also part of the shootout were acquitted of the same charges that Peltier was convicted of. This discrepancy has fueled arguments that Peltier's trial was unfair.[/quote]

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