Sentencing reasons for multiple guilty pleas involving arson, firearms trafficking, robbery and assault. The court imposed a 16-year global sentence, less 40 months credit.
The court stayed overlapping arson convictions under Kienapple, declined to declare Kenneth Grabowski a dangerous offender, and instead imposed a long-term offender sentence.
On the evidence, including the expert's finding of two independent incendiary fires and the testimony that the plaintiff's vehicle was observed near the scene shortly after the alarm with no explanation, the defendant met the required civil standard of clear and cogent evidence on a balance of probabilities that the plaintiff caused the fire; therefore the insurer's denial of coverage is upheld and the plaintiff is not entitled to policy proceeds.