10 years is most assuredly not long enough to protect the community from this deranged creature ... but ... five years, my god

have to wonder how many low level drug offenders this same prosecutor insisted get decades in prison.

Meanwhile I have a good friend who is 20 years into a 30 year sentence in federal prison for a low-level drug crime. Didn't kill anyone, didn't harm anyone, just sold some drugs. How is this justice?

There is hope for my friend, though, he may benefit from Obama's Clemency Project or the two-level reduction in drug offenses recently passed and made retroactive by the US Sentencing Commission.

and a chronic alcoholic. And there were no injuries. And he did apologize.

How this would have played out if, instead, he had fire bombed a midnight Christmas service.

doubtful he will actually be paroled, but still, how did he not get life without the possibility of parole? The American justice system is one huge clusterfuck.

"Life without parole" was instituted in New York in 1995, whereas the Happy Land Fire occurred in 1990.

so 10 years is a little more than a slap on the wrist.

instead of just arson. The guy is clearly a sociopath, but we'll never know since his mental evaluation was sealed.

At least Martinez did double the recommended sentence (even with the prosecutor claiming he was afraid to open the case up to appeals, if sentencing included hate crimes).

Lighting up the exit to a building during a New Year's Eve party, a crowded party full of people who the guy thinks should be exterminated, is nothing but a hate crime.