Court OKs sentence for FBI slayer’s husband


November 22, 2011 at 8:42a.m.

Court OKs sentence for FBI slayer’s husband

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a 25-year drug trafficking sentence for the husband of a Pittsburgh-area woman who received just 15 years, 10 months in prison for killing an FBI agent who led the raid to arrest her spouse.

The appeals court says in a ruling Monday that 42-year-old Robert Korbe’s sentence was warranted because he has “shown no remorse and refused to abandon his criminal lifestyle” despite numerous arrests before the November 2008 raid at his Indiana Township home. That’s when Special Agent Samuel Hicks was shot by Christina Korbe, who pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and a weapons charge in January.

The appeals court noted that Hicks was shot, in part, because Robert Korbe ran away to hide his drugs rather than surrender, while his wife shot Hicks.