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COCAINE SMUGGLER SENTENCED TO LIFE
1988
Overview
''I have been Mr. [Robert Merkle]'s hostage,'' said [Carlos Lehder Rivas]. ''I'm a political prisoner. My arrest is illegal.'' But Judge [Howell W. Melton] said politics was not at the root of the case. Earlier Wednesday, he sentenced Lehder's co-defendant Jack Carlton Reed, 58 years old, to 15 years in prison on a single court of conspiracy. ''You were not convicted because of your political beliefs, because you are a Colombian,'' the judge said to Mr. Lehder. He said the the smuggling was done for ''money'' and ''greed.'' Mr. Merkle's replacement, United States Attorney Joe Magri, who attended the sentencing as a spectator, called Lehder ''a cocaine narco-terrorist'' and applauded the sentence. ''The judge fairly, justly and appropriately socked it to a hoodlum,'' said Magri.
Publisher
New York Times Company
