Chapter 22 - Sentencing
The court considered:
Planning.
Financial motive.
Two real property crimes.
Risk to occupants even though targets were chosen as empty.
Assault of an eight-year-old.
Attempt to destroy evidence.
No prior felony conviction.
Cooperation after plea.
Partial restitution.
Sentence:
Eleven years.
Three suspended under the applicable structure.
Eight years to serve before supervised-release consequences, subject to ordinary credits and law.
Restitution.
Financial penalties.
No security-industry work during supervised release.
Was eight years enough?
Some people asked me.
I stopped answering questions like that.
Sentencing is not emotional arithmetic.
Lily was alive.
Her injuries healed.
The system had facts.
May you like
The judge imposed consequences.
My rage did not need to become another court.
