The State - News from June 11, 1987

A federal judge in Atlanta dismissed the indictment against a California man whose testimony helped convict Edward L. Elkins on charges of illegally selling two Lockheed cargo airplanes to Libya. Carl D. Lilly, a computer company executive from Visalia, was named along with Elkins and five others last July in an indictment charging that they conspired to sell the airplanes to Libya in violation of U.S. export laws and a federal ban on selling military equipment to hostile governments. Elkins was subsequently convicted on two counts of the indictment, after a five-week trial in which Lilly testified for the government, and U.S. District Judge J. Owen Forrester signed the order dropping the charges against Lilly.