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Liberation
October 31, 2017
Native activists Dino Butler and Bob Robideaux were acquitted on charges of the FBI deaths, but Leonard Peltier, who was present in the incident but not responsible for their deaths, was persecuted by the FBI with false evidence and convicted. Peltier has remained in prison for more than 41 years, theÃâà...
Indian Country Today Media Network
May 10, 2017
John Trudell, noted activist, poet and Native thinker, walked on December 8, 2015, after a lengthy bout with cancer. His family included some of his last messages to Indian country in a press release. Among them: “I want people to remember me as they remember me.” John Trudell was a Santee DakotaÃâà...
Mic
January 18, 2017
Two other suspects — Robert Robideau and Darrelle "Dino" Butler, both AIM members — were originally charged and tried, but both were acquitted, at which point federal authorities focused their efforts on arresting Peltier, who had fled to Canada. The FBI succeeded in extraditing Peltier to the U.S. inÃâà...
Socialist Worker Online
January 15, 2017
The FBI targeted three men, Robert Robideau and Dino Butler, along with Peltier. Peltier fled to Canada while the FBI was embarrassed in court when a federal jury found Robideau and Butler not guilty. Peltier was arrested in 1976 and extradited to the U.S. to stand trial, based on what Canada's solicitorÃâà...
Democracy Now!
December 21, 2016
In fact, the first two trials of Dino Butler and Bob Robideau, Leonard Peltier's co-defendants, one of the lawyers had asked the jurors—asked the jurors who was the most believable witness, and they said Norman Brown. And he said, “See, Norman, all these years of the suffering and the hardships of yourÃâà...
Concord Monitor
February 17, 2016
Peltier's co-defendants, Bob Robideau and Dino Butler, were acquitted by a court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. After the Pine Ridge events, Peltier fled to Canada. After extradition, he was tried separately in Fargo, N.D., before a hostile new judge, Paul Benson, who barred presentation of the same self-defenseÃâà...
Socialist Worker Online
July 14, 2009
His co-defendants, Bob Robideau and Dino Butler, represented by famed radical attorney William Kunstler, were acquitted on the basis of self-defense. Humiliated by the not-guilty verdict for Robideau and Butler, the government went after Peltier with a vengeance. It lied, cheated and slammed the book onÃâà...
Workers World
March 4, 2009
He was a member of the Turtle Mountain and White Earth Ojibwa tribes. Robideau and Darrell (Dino) Butler were acquitted in the deaths of two FBI agents in 1976 on grounds of self-defense. The charges arose from a shootout with the FBI on Pine Ridge reservation in June 1975 that left two FBI agents andÃâà...
Wikinews
February 20, 2009
Robideau had been living and working in Barcelona as director of the American Indian Movement museum, after two stints as National-International Director for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. Robideau, Leonard Peltier, and Darelle "Dino" Butler were charged together for the shooting deaths ofÃâà...
