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News Article April 22, 2010 The following news article has been posted or forwarded in full, no material or data has altered or changed, please leave intact as is. This news article can be located at the following web site link: http://www.google. com/hostednews/ ap/article/ ALeqM5gMu04Phkqb evIKCEyJqyUxHuCK ZgD9F8B7AO0 Jury acquits suspect in '75 SD reservation slaying By DAVE KOLPACK RAPID CITY, S.D. — A federal jury Thursday found a man not guilty in a killing on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation 34 years ago, during the height of the militant American Indian Movement. Richard Marshall was accused of providing the gun that was used to kill American Indian Movement activist Annie Mae Aquash in December 1975. Jurors deliberated for less than two hours Thursday before reaching the verdict on the seventh day of the trial. Marshall hugged his attorney when the verdict was read, and cheering erupted in the courtroom. Marshall nodded and smiled at jurors as they departed. Aquash, a member of the Mi'kmaq Tribe of Nova Scotia, participated in the AIM's 1973 armed occupation of the Pine Ridge village of Wounded Knee, a two-month siege that included ferocious gunbattles with federal officers. Prosecutors believe AIM leaders later ordered Aquash killed because they thought she was a government informant. Federal investigators have denied Aquash was a snitch. Marshall was found not guilty of murder or aiding and abetting murder. During the trial that began April 14, the government's key witness described Marshall as an enforcer for a leader of AIM, a group that clashed with tribal and federal agents in the 1970s. Arlo Looking Cloud, who is serving a life sentence for his role in Aquash's death, testified that Marshall provided the murder weapon. Looking Cloud also acknowledged years of drug and alcohol abuse and lying to authorities. Dana Hanna, Marshall's attorney, said Looking Cloud's testimony was not credible. Posted/Forward by: Larry Kibby - l.kibby@frontier. com
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