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

DATE: THURSDAY, April 1, 1993                   TAG: 9304010095
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: TRENTON, N.J.                                LENGTH: Short

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N.Y. JUDGE PLEADS GUILTY TO THREATS

The former chief judge of New York state pleaded guilty Wednesday to threatening to kidnap his ex-lover's teen-age daughter, and admitted harassing them for more than a year.

Sol Wachtler, 62, entered his plea in U.S. District Court, two months before his scheduled trial.

In exchange for his plea to a charge of mail harassment, prosecutors dropped a five-count indictment. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Wachtler, a 1952 graduate of Washington and Lee University, visited the Lexington, Va., school through the years. In 1987 he delivered the W&L Law School's commencement address.

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