<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Clearly, IF you're going to commit a serious crime, do it in Latah County, not over in Whitman County. Over there if you ATTEMPT murder, you get 75 years! Over here if you're successful and actually kill two people, <div>the most you'll get is 40 years.<div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; ">Lewis Lawrence sentenced to 75 years in prison</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><h2><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; ">April 21, 2010, 12:13 pm</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 5px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; line-height: 1.4; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><h2><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; ">A shooter found guilty of three counts of attempted murder was sentenced to 75 years in prison this morning in Whitman County.<br><br>Asotin County Superior Court Judge William Acey said he felt forced to give Lewis A. Lawrence, 21, the maximum sentence for his crime after Lawrence made threatening statements during the hearing.<br>“(You’re) still so angry,” Acey said. “You have so much vile hatred in your heart ... I have no choice but to sentence to you the maximum amount.”<br><br>Whitman County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Dan LeBeau originally asked Lawrence serve 210 months for each of the three counts of attempted murder. After Lawrence threatened one of the victims during the hearing, Acey said he “had to” increase the sentence to 240 months for each count. Lawrence’s sentence also was increased by 15 years because he used a shotgun during the crime, which adds 60 months to each count.<br><br>LeBeau said the earliest Lawrence can be released is after serving 69 years of prison time, when Lawrence will be eligible for probation.</span></h2></span></span></span></div></span></h2></span></div></div></body></html>