The Bay Citizen, June 13, 2011 by Nicole Jones
http://www.baycitizen.org/mehserle-verdict/story/legal-story-behind-why-johannes-mehserle/
“His case exemplifies how arbitrary criminal law can be,” Simon said referring to how a small difference in the verdict can make a big difference in time served. “I am sympathetic to the feeling that many others have that Mehserle’s short sentence was incommensurate with his culpability,” Simon said. “Part of the function of the criminal law is to signal community outrage at a course of conduct, and that seems to have failed here.”