The correct answer is B) Ezra Meeker was one of the jurors, and he spoke out to defend Chief Leschi, As a result, there was a hung jury. (They could not find him INNOCENT or GUILTY).
Chief Leschi, the leader of the Nisqually Tribe, refused to sign the Medicine Creek Treaty. He was later put on trial after being accused of violent acts against white settlers. The correct answer that explains how the FIRST TRIAL ended is "Ezra Meeker was one of the jurors, and he spoke out to defend Chief Leschi, As a result, there was a hung jury. (They could not find him INNOCENT or GUILTY)."
The Nisqually Tribe led by Chief Leschi inhabited the territories of Olympia, Washington, and settle in the banks of the Nisqually River by the 1800s. In December 1854, he did not want to sign the Medicine Creek Treaty because it did not include the authorization to fish in the Nisqually River and some territory for their horses.
