He was convicted on the fourth count of deliberation, which is a long time, and I sat in that room for all of it with Evelyn Sinclair on one side of me and Sergeant Reyes on the other.

Part Thirteen: The Sentence, and the Other Sentence

He got eleven years.

I want to write it plainly like that because when I say it out loud people are usually disappointed, and I understand why, and I have had four years to think about it.

The charges were first-degree assault of a minor, child endangerment, and two counts related to the earlier occasions.

There was a lot of argument at sentencing about whether the state could prove he intended the outcome he got or merely the outcome he needed, which is a distinction that matters enormously in law and not at all to anybody who was in that lobby.