25 years to life is the usual sentence for someone that murders for the first time.

According to the judge, there is ten years more added to his sentence due to the "character" of the death. The death was particularly heinous and committed by someone in the profession of law enforcement.

Some day in this country we will RETURN to the place where police officers will be able to safely patrol with a six bullet revolver or no gun at all. But, in order to achieve that goal, we all have to work at ridding the USA of the gun lobby and a gun industry that doesn't know it's a place in any society, including the USA.