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Points for sentencing purposes, but the sentence was agreed upon, and mr. castro waives his appellate rights to challenge any of the facts in the sentencing of this case. this is a highly unusual case. he has agreed to life without parole and will suffer as a result of the plea. and the thousand years, minimum of a thousand years is also seems to be superfluous to life without parole, but we understand the reason why the prosecutors concluded that -- [inaudible] thank you. >> in terms of law, the court has a lot of discretion under the sentencing statutes in terms of timing, but i don't think ...

Facts of this case, the extent of the crimes are unprecedented in this county. and -- [inaudible] in our court of appeals -- [inaudible] 14c4, and i have to make specific findings of those factors. and since there was -- [inaudible] all the facts and could have applied them -- [inaudible] [audio difficulty] jenna: we've had a couple of those interruptions, a little hiccup there, and we'll continue to try to go back to the judge,

>> you were going to cover some of the sentencing criteria. >> yes, your honor. pursuant to criminal rule -- [inaudible] 29.11 -- [inaudible] and 2929.12 -- [inaudible] judge, as you well know, the principles are to punish the offender and to protect -- [inaudible] this case speaks volumes with regard to the defendant's action. p if we look at the harm that has been caused to to the victim, the only to thing i need to tell you is 13,226 days of captivity. his actions of luring these victims, vulnerable victims, a victim that wanted to see her son, luring that woman for

Um, there were certain things that stood out throughout the interviews both days, may 7th and may 8th, that ariel castro had talked about. the way the interview was formatted was i thought that we should start with michele knight. she was the first person that was abducted in this case. we then went to amanda berry, and then we went to gina dejesus. as it was formatted, we felt that it would be a lot easier to control the interview and gain the fact if we specifically talked about the incidents surrounding michelle, amanda and gina separately. ultimately, we did that. mr. castro admitted throu...

Will now. so he accepted the deal because he was afraid, the opposite side of a plea deal, if you don't take it, death penalty, by, you know, awful means in ohio. so he said, i will take the plea deal. the prosecution now is sure that they have insured the victim's justice. they got justice in this case. what they're doing now today is showing that. jon: we might, might, hear from one of those victims later. the defense is actually going to be calling some witnesses after they finish their recess. we'll be back with more coverage in just a moment.