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A conviction at trial is never assured. And you have to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that slim DNA evidence in a knife sheath found near the murder site connects the defendant. Also, appeals take years. Mostly, they fail. Meanwhile, families have to live with pushing a rope up a hill with their noses for years and years.

This way, the defendant gets to die in prison while serving four consecutive life sentences with him signing away his right to appeal.

The prosecution puts this case away. Justice, that which is available, never seems enough. But this will do.

The big flaw here is that prosecutors did not get complete buy-in from the families of the dead before reaching this deal. The state should have involved them from the beginning of this plea deal.

But the confessed murderer goes away for good.

Enjoy prison, shithead. Don't be surprised if you don't survive very long.

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