I think this is a fair compromise between what the prosecutors wanted and what the defense wanted; I don’t have an opinion on what’s the “correct” level of punishment for this type of crime. My guess is that if I did a first-principles analysis his crime is either the type of thing that gets ~5 years or something that gets life imprisonment without parole, but I’m not confident and also I don’t see much value in forming my own independent impression on optimal deterrence theory, given that it’s not decision-relevant to me at all.
I think this is a fair compromise between what the prosecutors wanted and what the defense wanted; I don’t have an opinion on what’s the “correct” level of punishment for this type of crime. My guess is that if I did a first-principles analysis his crime is either the type of thing that gets ~5 years or something that gets life imprisonment without parole, but I’m not confident and also I don’t see much value in forming my own independent impression on optimal deterrence theory, given that it’s not decision-relevant to me at all.