The Associated Press
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A southern Illinois defense attorney who once served as a judge has been ordered to spend a year and four months in federal prison after he admitted in court that he tried to sneak heroin to a former client serving a life sentence in a federal lockup in Indiana.
Robert Drew, 69, told a judge he was “sincerely remorseful” before being sentenced Monday in Terre Haute, Ind., where he pleaded guilty to attempting to provide a prohibited object to an inmate at the federal prison in that city.
Prosecutors say he tried to smuggle a drug-filled condom a year ago to inmate Benjamin Kramer, who Drew had represented in a drug-conspiracy case that resulted in Kramer getting a life sentence.
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