In the latest move of the ongoing struggle to free imprisoned American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier, his attorneys filed a Freedom of Information Act complaint against Executive Office of United States Attorneys on November 1, 2002. The complaint is an attempt to force U.S. attorneys to produce documents withheld during his trial that could be crucial to securing Peltier's release. Peltier's attorneys will file FOIA complaints against the FBI and CIA by next week, in addition to issuing 35 additional FOIA requests to various FBI offices. The legal team hopes that these efforts will yield withheld documents, and, ultimately, Peltier's long overdue release, 27 years after his conviction.See Spotlight Article
