Legal Update regarding Eighth Circuit appellate brief filed June 8, 2007

On June 8, 2007, attorneys, Ron Kuby and David Pressman filed with the Eighth Circuit an appellate brief asking the Court to review and release some 11,000 pages of documents related to the investigation and prosecution of Leonard Peltier. Oral Arguments scheduled by the Court Of Appeals for the 8th Circuit on January 18, 2008 at Thomas F. Eagelton Courthouse, 110 S. 10th Street has been postponed.

The Leonard Peltier Defense Committee will send out an announcement once the new oral argument date has been rescheduled, and confirmed by legal parties.

Respectfully,

Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
website: http://www.leonardpeltier.net/

Note:
Please click here for copy of appellate brief for the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ( filed June 8, 2007) :
http://leonardpeltier.net/documents/Brief5.pdf

Please click here for copy of reply brief for the United States Courts of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. ( filed Oct 9, 2007) :
http://www.leonardpeltier.net/documents/Reply%20Final%20filed.pdf