The Region - News from May 1, 1986

An Orange County Superior Court judge has agreed to reduce the jail term of a Los Alamitos man convicted of selling cocaine on the condition the man spend two years at an Israeli kibbutz. Judge Luis A. Cardenas said that William A. Stillman, 28, first proposed that he be allowed to go to the kibbutz, a collective settlement, instead of going to jail. Cardenas refused, but said that, instead of imposing the 90-day term he had planned, he would sentence Stillman to 45 days in jail if Stillman went to the kibbutz for two years as a condition of probation. Stillman will go back to jail if he leaves the kibbutz early or does not go at all, the judge said. Cardenas said he was influenced by arguments from the man’s family that the kibbutz would keep Stillman away from the drug culture. “I was impressed with the sincerity of the family and their faith in him,” the judge said.