Article: LOWERY GETS 6 YEARS IN MARIJUANA CASE.(FRONT)

Byline: ED TRELEVEN etreleven@madison.com 608-252-6134

A six-year federal prison sentence could keep Robert Lowery, who has cancer, in prison for the remainder of his days, Lowery's lawyer said Friday.

U.S. District Judge John Shabaz, citing Lowery's criminal past, sentenced him Friday to the upper half of the range that Lowery faced under advisory federal sentencing guidelines.

"His criminal career must end," Shabaz said of Lowery, who was not in the courtroom Friday. Instead, Lowery was listening in by telephone from a federal prison hospital in Butner, N.C., where he is being treated for cancer.

The sentence, however, could mean that Lowery will die in ...

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