Sioux Falls, South Dakota (AP)
A federal judge dismissed a key charge April 30 against one of two men accused in the 1975 slaying of a fellow activist American Indian Movement member.
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Piersol filed an order dismissing one count of aiding and abetting murder against John Graham, who faces federal murder charges along with Richard Marshall in the slaying of Annie Mae Aquash on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
A federal judge dismissed a key charge April 30 against one of two men accused in the 1975 slaying of a fellow activist American Indian Movement member.
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Piersol filed an order dismissing one count of aiding and abetting murder against John Graham, who faces federal murder charges along with Richard Marshall in the slaying of Annie Mae Aquash on the Pine Ridge Reservation.