
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, March 29, 1991                   TAG: 9103290558
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: MARION                                LENGTH: Short

JUDGE UPHOLDS LIFE IN PRISON FOR REEVES

A circuit judge has upheld jury recommendations of two life sentences plus 100 years in prison for Michael McGay Reeves for the kidnapping, robbery, sodomy and attempted murder of a U.S. Forest Service employee.

Reeves' trial was held in October. He since has been convicted in Grayson County on a charge of forcible sodomy and sentenced to 10 years. He still faces a capital murder charge in North Carolina and two rape charges in Tennessee.

Circuit Judge Charles H. Smith Jr. overruled defense motions this week that the verdicts be set aside because of insufficient evidence.

He sentenced Reeves to life imprisonment on both the attempted capital murder and abduction convictions, 40 years on each of two convictions of forcible sodomy and 10 years on each of two robbery convictions.

- Southwest bureau

by CNB