Ex-Salvadoran military colonel's US immigration sentencing begins with professor's testimony
Ex-Salvadoran military colonel's US immigration sentencing begins with professor's testimony
By Bridget Murphy, The Associated Press August 22, 2013
BOSTON - A federal judge weighing punishment for a former El Salvador military leader on immigration charges heard testimony Thursday about allegations the defendant committed war crimes before coming to the United States.
Inocente Orlando Montano, El Salvador's former vice minister of public security, is hoping for a probation sentence after pleading guilty to lying on U.S. immigration forms.
Federal authorities arrested the 70-year-old in 2011 after he spent about a decade living in a Boston suburb and earning $14 an hour in a candy factory. They're asking for a sentence of more than four years in prison.
During testimony, Stanford University professor Terry Lynn Karl, a government witness with expertise in Latin American politics, defended her report that said Montano was part of a conspiracy with other high-ranking military officials to plot what turned into an incident known as the Jesuit Massacre.
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