Perhaps Nicole Brodeur can cover this issue
Perhaps someone could do an article on why Robert Langendoerfer’s sentence, for what sounds like the brutal murder of Britney Galindez, is only 13 years [“Man, 22, gets 13 years in slaying,” NWSaturday, Around the Northwest, Dec. 19].
I do not know any of these people, or anyone who does know them, but I cannot help but wonder at our system that gives someone with a lengthy criminal history with convictions for assault such a short sentence when he is only 22 years old.
He will be out when he is only 35 years old.
Certainly the taking of Galindez’s life deserves more punishment than that?
Nicole Brodeur’s columns are excellent, and have a way of asking the right questions. Perhaps she could answer why this murderer only gets 13 years.
— June Stacey-Clemons, Seattle
Doomed to repeat ourselves
Did we not learn anything from the Lakewood tragedy?
I was sickened to read that Robert Langendoerfer, who, at 22, already has a lengthy criminal history, was sentenced to only 13 years in prison for the brutal murder of Britney Galindez.
Albert Einstein said that stupidity is doing the same thing over again and expecting different results.
Thirteen years from now Langendoerfer could be showing up at a coffee shop, and everyone in the justice system will be shaking their heads and wondering how something like this could happen, again.
— Julie Hagen, Maple Valley