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September 29, 2006

Station Fire: 'Where's our plea bargain?'

Diane Mattera talked so long about her daughter, Tammy Mattera-Housa, during the sentencing of Great White manager Daniel Biechele that, she said, Judge Darigan had to cut her off.

This time, she needed to talk about justice.

"I don't need to tell you how distraught and disgusted I was when I learned you decided the man who literally lit the fuse that night would serve no more than four years in the ACI. I was inconsolable," Mattera said.

"The only thought that kept me going was the promise that when September came, things would be different. When September came, there would be a trial, and there would be no way the brothers would get away with their crimes."

She said their proposed sentences are merely "slaps on their wrists." That Jeffrey Derderian's sentence of 500 hours of community services is "actually insulting."

"What about the sentence on all of us? Where's our deal? Where's our plea bargain?

Posted by Mike McDermott  at 12:25 PM | Permalink

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