The State should follow through with a multitude of charges, since the little prick and his dead brother had the whole State on alert, a city shut down, State residents dead and injured, etc. I’ve never understood not charging these bastards with every little infraction to ensure their going to prison for a long time. Call me old-fashioned, but I believe in throwing the book at them. When I worked for NY State’s Dept. of Corrections, if a convict broke the rules and regulations, I’d make sure he was charged with every rule violation that applied to the incident, and I justified them all in the body of the report. That way, when the dickhead got in front of the Lieutenant at the disciplinary hearing, even if he threw out one or two of the charges, enough charges remained so the convict was sure to receive a tough sentence. There’s too many bleeding heart Judges, and dumbass jurors out there to only charge him with these two Federal charges.
Because all of that costs money. It cost in the time of all the lawyers, judges, baliiffs and courthouse workers. It will cost in jail costs for the prisoners waiting to get into a courtroom that’s being taken up with hearing the endless motionss that this one would involve, And governments are supposed to save money where they can, I thought. Besides, they’ve got years before the statute of limitations runs out on most of the charges, and it never runs out on murder. LIke I said, this guy isn’t going anyplace.