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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...
CounterPunch
October 14, 2016
AIM members Dino Butler and Robert Robideau were later acquitted for the killings for which Peltier was ultimately convicted, but no one has ever been held accountable for Joe Stuntz's slaying. Decades later, Brown described June 26 as a “horrifying day” that resulted in the loss of three “beautiful lives.
Mother Jones
May 18, 2016
Two other Native Americans, Robert Robideau and Darrelle Dean Butler, were arrested for the deaths of the two FBI agents, but only Peltier was convicted in a trial that contained a number of irregularities, including sworn affidavits from witnesses who said they'd been coerced by the FBI. While RobideauÃâà...
San Francisco Bay View
February 17, 2016
For 40 years, former American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier has been in the clutches of the U.S. prison system –The Iron House of the whites, as indigenous people call them – on trumped up murder charges. Now, as he suffers poor health and an abdominal aortic aneurism, time is noÃâà...
Reason (blog)
June 26, 2015
Authorities also arrested Robert Robideau and Dean Butler, two other members of AIM, after their car, full of ammo and weapons, exploded on a highway in Kansas. The two were tried in federal court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, while Peltier was able to flee to Canada. Robideau and Butler were found not guiltyÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 18, 2013
Dino Butler and Robert Robideau, arrested in the United States, were also charged with the killings. However, both of them were acquitted of these charges by a federal jury in Cedar Rapids,Iowa, on the grounds of self-defense. The jury decided that had they been among what was reported to be up to thirtyÃâà...
Socialist Worker Online
July 27, 2009
One of Peltier's co-defendants was Robert Robideau, a fellow leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM). Robideau was acquitted along with Dino Butler in a separate trial from Peltier, but he devoted himself to winning justice for his comrade. Robideau died February 16 this year in Barcelona, Spain,Ãâà...
Workers World
March 4, 2009
Robert Robideau, a member of the American Indian Movement since 1973, died Feb. 17 at his home in Barcelona, Spain, where he was the founder and director of the American Indian Movement Museum. He was a member of the Turtle Mountain and White Earth Ojibwa tribes. Robideau and Darrell (Dino)Ãâà...
Wikinews
February 20, 2009
Robert E. "Bob" Robideau, an Ashinaabe activist who was acquitted of killing two FBI agents and who was involved in the Leonard Peltier case, died on Tuesday February 16 after suffering seizures at his home in Barcelona, Spain, Robideau's family and Spanish authorities say. He was 61-years-old.
