
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 20, 1993                   TAG: 9310200040
SECTION: NATL/INTL                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: BOISE, IDAHO                                LENGTH: Short

WHITE SEPARATIST GETS 18 MONTHS, NOT 15 YEARS

A white separatist convicted on charges that made him a fugitive and led to a bloody siege and shootout in which a deputy U.S. marshal was killed was sentenced Monday to only 18 months in prison.

Randy Weaver, 45, had faced up to 15 years in prison and $500,000 in fines.

"You've suffered probably far beyond what the court could do," U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge told Weaver, whose wife and son were killed in the gunfight.

Weaver's failure to appear at a 1991 trial on charges of selling a sawed-off shotgun to a government informant made him a fugitive and led to the Aug. 21, 1992, shootout at his mountain compound.

- Associated Press

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