The Nation - News from March 11, 1986
A tearful Elizabeth Chagra, twice convicted of plotting to kill a federal judge, was sentenced to 30 years in prison after a prosecutor in San Antonio said she had shown “absolutely no sign of remorse.” Chagra, 32, was convicted Feb. 27 of conspiring to kill U.S. District Judge John H. Wood Jr., who was gunned down shortly before he was scheduled to preside over her husband’s drug smuggling trial. Wood was shot down outside his San Antonio home May 29, 1979.
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