is named Leschi Town in his honor. A fireboat of the Seattle Fire Department, Leschi, also bears his name. In March 2004, both houses of the Washington state legislature passed resolutions stating that Leschi was wrongly convicted and executed, and asking the state supreme court to vacate Leschi's conviction. The court's chief justice, however, said that this was unlikely to happen. It was not clear that the state court had jurisdiction in a matter decided 146 years earlier in a territorial court. On December 10, 2004, Chief Leschi was informally exonerated by a unanimous vote by a Historical Court of Inquiry following a definitive trial in absentia. The exoneration was not legally binding. Category List of wrongful convictions in the United States References Further reading External links Leschi: Justice In Our Time, provided by the Washington State Historical Society 1808 births 1858 deaths Native American leaders Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Native American history of Washington (state) Executed Native American people People executed for murder Executed people from Washington (state) People executed by the United States federal government by hanging Nisqually people 19th-century executions of American people People wrongfully convicted of murder 19th-century Native Americans