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Someone ought to do a write-up from a game-theoretic perspective. He was offered a plea at 3 years, but instead gambled on an X% chance of 0 years, and a (100-X)% chance of 25 years. Where's the rational cutoff for X?
22/25, 88%. Anymore and the expectation of the gamble would be higher than 3 years.
OK, but that's assuming the years are equally weighted. Three years is an extended "vacation", but he'd already have been out by now. 25 years, on the other hand, means not seeing the outside until his kids are married.
I find it scary that an insane murderer was offered a mere 3 years in prison.
>> Hans and Nina Reiser met in her native Russia in 1998 and married a year later.

more a naive american boy than an insane murderer.

insane for not taking the deal?
insane out of sorrows because he didn't get what he thought he would get.