Biography
Richard Marshall was an Oglala Lakota member of the American Indian Movement known to supporters as the Oglala political prisoner. In 1976 he was convicted of the 1975 shooting death of Martin Montileaux in a bar in Scenic, South Dakota. The prosecution relied in part on Myrtle Poor Bear — the same witness whose fabricated statements were later discredited in the case of Leonard Peltier — and Marshall and AIM maintained the prosecution was a frame-up meant to neutralize an AIM leader. He served twenty-four years in prison before being paroled in 2000. In 2008 federal prosecutors indicted Marshall in the killing of AIM activist Anna Mae Aquash, but he was acquitted at trial in 2010.
Oglala Lakota AIM member convicted in Sioux Falls, South Dakota for the March 1975 killing of Martin Montileaux in a bar in Scenic, SD. Sentenced to life in prison in a case AIM supporters considered a frame-up; conviction was later overturned and he was eventually released. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.
On November 30, 2010, Judge John J. Delaney ruled that Richard Marshall must testify under immunity in John Graham’s trial. Marshall’s counsel continued to challenge the subpoena; this proceeding did not itself establish a new period of imprisonment.
