Good afternoon.

I'm retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD, and this is police off the cuff.

You know, in the days that followed Brian Koberger taking this plea, you see the thumbnail on the screen.

A murderer takes a plea, life without parole.

Some of us are baffled by it, and some real smart people are baffled by it as to why

did he take this plea?

Why didn't the defense think they had a good enough case to perhaps create doubt with the jury

and either beat this case or have the death penalty taken off the table if there was in fact a

conviction.

Attorney, famous defense attorney Mark Garigos, felt, and he was a little bit annoyed

when he appeared in a podcast, he said that he felt that this was a circumstantial

case, and this is exactly the kind of case that a defense attorney would take to trial

and possibly could beat this case. And that's from Mark Garigos.

However, when you understand the criminal justice system and the thought process of the prosecutor, Bill Thompson, you know that he wanted to get a guilty plea in there.

Have the defendant plead guilty.

And then all the risks of the state losing this case in a trial would be taken off the table.

And if he could, in the plea deal, get Brian Kohlberger's defense team

to accept three consecutive, excuse me, four consecutive life without parole sentences. And in that

including a 10-year sentence for the burglary, which would also run consecutive, then Brian Kohlberger

would basically have no chance of ever getting paroled. You know, we realize, especially in New York,

when you hear life without parole and then you see the governor commuting sentences of cop killers.

In New York, we don't accept that life without parole is really that sentence.

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