Post by Okwes on Jul 7, 2007 11:02:49 GMT -5
Man charged in killing of AIM activist remains free
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A Canadian man charged with killing American Indian Movement activist
Anna Mae Pictou Aquash can remain free at least another few months
because his lawyer met a filing deadline.
John Graham is on house arrest in Vancouver, British Columbia, and
fighting extradition to South Dakota to stand trial for the 1975 slaying
on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
At a court hearing in early January, a judge with the British Columbia
Court of Appeal granted a request from Graham's lawyer to postpone a
hearing on his appeal until May 17.
However, the judge required Graham's attorney to file paperwork by the
end of February outlining why he wants a judicial review of an earlier
decision by a judge who ordered him to be committed for extradition.
The document was filed on time, so Graham's freedom will continue until
the May hearing, said Lyse Cantin, spokeswoman for Department of Justice
in Vancouver.
After the May hearing, a judge will decide whether the court's decision
to extradite Graham will stand, though he could then appeal to the full
Canadian Supreme Court, Cantin said.
Another man charged with Aquash's killing, Fritz Arlo Looking Cloud, is
serving a mandatory life prison sentence and currently is housed at a
federal penitentiary in Louisiana.
A Rapid City jury convicted him in 2004 of first-degree murder committed
in the perpetration of a kidnapping.
Aquash's slaying on the Pine Ridge reservation came amid a series of
bloody clashes between federal agents and AIM. She was among the Indians
who occupied the village of Wounded Knee for 71 days in 1973.
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A Canadian man charged with killing American Indian Movement activist
Anna Mae Pictou Aquash can remain free at least another few months
because his lawyer met a filing deadline.
John Graham is on house arrest in Vancouver, British Columbia, and
fighting extradition to South Dakota to stand trial for the 1975 slaying
on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
At a court hearing in early January, a judge with the British Columbia
Court of Appeal granted a request from Graham's lawyer to postpone a
hearing on his appeal until May 17.
However, the judge required Graham's attorney to file paperwork by the
end of February outlining why he wants a judicial review of an earlier
decision by a judge who ordered him to be committed for extradition.
The document was filed on time, so Graham's freedom will continue until
the May hearing, said Lyse Cantin, spokeswoman for Department of Justice
in Vancouver.
After the May hearing, a judge will decide whether the court's decision
to extradite Graham will stand, though he could then appeal to the full
Canadian Supreme Court, Cantin said.
Another man charged with Aquash's killing, Fritz Arlo Looking Cloud, is
serving a mandatory life prison sentence and currently is housed at a
federal penitentiary in Louisiana.
A Rapid City jury convicted him in 2004 of first-degree murder committed
in the perpetration of a kidnapping.
Aquash's slaying on the Pine Ridge reservation came amid a series of
bloody clashes between federal agents and AIM. She was among the Indians
who occupied the village of Wounded Knee for 71 days in 1973.