From James Lakely on the Washington Times blog:

Mr. Roberts was involved in devising a strategy to blow off inappropriate inquiries from a persistent Charlton Heston.
Mr. Heston wrote to Mr. Smith on Aug. 9, 1982, to bring to his attention a “miscarriage of justice” inflicted on the son of a long-time friend and high-ranking official in the Indian government. Adil Shahryar, who was in his 20s, was convicted of attempting to set fire to a Sheraton Hotel in the South Beach section of Miami and attempting to place a box with two bombs inside on a cargo ship. In what Mr. Roberts described as a complicated but “airtight” case, Shahryar was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison.
The star of “Planet of the Apes” and “The Ten Commandments” told Mr. Smith that “Adil himself has been a guest in our home, and we always thought of him as a fine boy.” Though Mr. Heston noted that he could not make any judgment on Shahryar’s guilt or innocence, he argued that the punishment seemed “remarkably harsh.” And while he regretted putting his friend, Attorney General Smith, in an awkward situation, Mr. Heston played the Reagan assassination card:
“Lydia and I happened to be in Delhi on the day Hinckley was declared innocent,” Mr. Heston wrote. “An Indian official remarked to us that we Americans had a strange country, where a man could shoot the president and get off scot-free, while another could launch a failed fraud and get thirty-five years. I had no answer for him.”
Well, Mr. Roberts suggested an answer for his boss: stay out of it. Mr. Roberts penned a reply for Mr. Smith’s signature dated Aug. 27, 1982, telling Mr. Heston that “we must rely on the American criminal justice system” and that as attorney general, Mr. Smith believes “it is the best system I know of for vindicating the innocent.”