‘My sister and her babies — they’re murdered. They’re gone. And he has all these privileges’
The last time the family of Priscilla Gustafson saw the man who killed her and her two young children, he had just been sentenced to three consecutive life terms — the maximum punishment allowed but one that the judge described as too lenient.
Nearly 29 years later, Gustafson’s relatives are expected to face Daniel J. LaPlante again Wednesday in Middlesex Superior Court.
That is when a judge will consider LaPlante’s request to have his punishment reduced, a petition that arose from court cases that banned life-without-parole sentences for those convicted of murders as juveniles.
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