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4 Wounded Knee Trial: Victory [photo caption]RUSSELL MEANS AND DENNIS BANKS SHORTLY AFTER JUDGE NICHOL DISMISSED ALL CHARGES AGAINST THEM ON SEPTEMBER 16 IN ST. PAUL, MINN. The people won a victory when Judge John Nichols dismissed all charges against Dennis Banks and Russell Means, leaders of the American Indian Movement. The ruling ended the eight month trial stemming from the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee, which was part of the Indian people's militant fight for their treaty rights and for a better life. The U.S. government has used the FBI, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the courts in an attempt to destroy the Indians' growing fight because they see it as a threat. The trial of Means and Banks came first. Another defendant, Pedro Bissonette, died last October in a confrontation with a Bureau of Indian Affairs policeman. In all, the government indicted 130 persons. Thirty-one cases were disposed of at Sioux Falls, S.D., or Lincoln, Neb. The other defendents were acquitted or chargers were dismissed. One defendent pleaded no contest. The government was totally shown up and exposed in the trial. The testimony of the government's key witness, Louis Moves Camp, was proved to almost all lies. Several witness, including his mother, testified that he was in California when the claimed to be in Wounded Knee. His wife testified that he had told her the FBI promised him a job, a house and $200 a week and all the charges against him dropped if he testified for them. Last April, Nichol issued a finding that the government illegally tapped a phone at Wounded Knee and said at the same time he was almost at the brink of dismissal. He also stated that Asst. U.S. Atty. R.D. Hurd had deceived him about one government witness. The sympathy of the American people and the jury lay clearly with the Indian people. The government asked for a mistrial when the only juror they could count on to find the defendants guilty became sick. The government as forced to use bribery and frameups because they could not divide the Indian people from the support they have. The prosecution can appeal the dismissal within 30 days (from AP and the MILWAUKEE WORKER)
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4 Wounded Knee Trial: Victory [photo caption]RUSSELL MEANS AND DENNIS BANKS SHORTLY AFTER JUDGE NICHOL DISMISSED ALL CHARGES AGAINST THEM ON SEPTEMBER 16 IN ST. PAUL, MINN. The people won a victory when Judge John Nichols dismissed all charges against Dennis Banks and Russell Means, leaders of the American Indian Movement. The ruling ended the eight month trial stemming from the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee, which was part of the Indian people's militant fight for their treaty rights and for a better life. The U.S. government has used the FBI, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the courts in an attempt to destroy the Indians' growing fight because they see it as a threat. The trial of Means and Banks came first. Another defendant, Pedro Bissonette, died last October in a confrontation with a Bureau of Indian Affairs policeman. In all, the government indicted 130 persons. Thirty-one cases were disposed of at Sioux Falls, S.D., or Lincoln, Neb. The other defendents were acquitted or chargers were dismissed. One defendent pleaded no contest. The government was totally shown up and exposed in the trial. The testimony of the government's key witness, Louis Moves Camp, was proved to almost all lies. Several witness, including his mother, testified that he was in California when the claimed to be in Wounded Knee. His wife testified that he had told her the FBI promised him a job, a house and $200 a week and all the charges against him dropped if he testified for them. Last April, Nichol issued a finding that the government illegally tapped a phone at Wounded Knee and said at the same time he was almost at the brink of dismissal. He also stated that Asst. U.S. Atty. R.D. Hurd had deceived him about one government witness. The sympathy of the American people and the jury lay clearly with the Indian people. The government asked for a mistrial when the only juror they could count on to find the defendants guilty became sick. The government as forced to use bribery and frameups because they could not divide the Indian people from the support they have. The prosecution can appeal the dismissal within 30 days (from AP and the MILWAUKEE WORKER)
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