In 1975 American Indian Movement members Kenny Loud Hawk, Dennis Banks, Leonard Peltier, Anna Mae Aquash, KaMook Banks, and Russ Redner were arrested and charged with possession of eight illegal weapons and seven cases of dynamite. What followed was the longest pretrial criminal case in United States history. The author was a first-year law student in 1975 and before the case ended in 1988 he appeared as lead counsel in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the defendants.
