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Though Noriega lawyer Steve Kollin confirmed that his client has had many messages faxed to Panama, he denied that any of them were even vaguely threatening and dismissed the allegations as "the figment of someone's imagination." Meanwhile, Carlos Lehder Rivas, the once powerful Colombian drug lord who is now in a U.S. federal prison in Marion, Ill., awaiting appeal on his life sentence for drug charges, has written to Noriega. He advised his fellow prisoner to confess all and save himself the trouble and expense of a trial. That's advice Noriega is likely to ignore as long...
...lawyers asked to be excused from representing him against drug-trafficking charges in Miami. Reason: uncertain fees. Because of a sweeping U.S. Government freeze on the general's assets, estimated at $20 million to $60 million, his lawyers maintained they could not be paid. Said defense attorney Steven Kollin: "I've been able to do very little because I need to travel and obtain a full-time staff of investigators. We've got warehouses of documents in Panama, but no one has been able to go down there and look at them." The prosecution promptly labeled the pleas of poverty...
Prosecutors maintain that public defenders are available to replace private attorneys who dump clients with allegedly tainted funds. But critics note that public defenders, paid by taxpayers, are already swamped by the cases of the indigent. Moreover, says Noriega lawyer Kollin: "The Government picks the top of their crop to prosecute a defendant like Noriega. He deserves the same in his defense attorneys...
...dismiss many of the charges against them by insisting that reams of classified information were necessary for their cases. Noriega's lawyers are almost certain to make the same argument. "The only way to get to the truth is to get those documents," said Noriega defense attorney Steven Kollin last week. Even if that tactic fails, a question that has haunted more than one previous President -- what did he know and when did he know it? -- may yet rise up to bedevil this...
CHAPLAIN GILBERT KOLLIN National Jewish Welfare Board Ankara...