Days after an Orleans Parish jury settled on two counts of manslaughter in the brutal deaths of a Reserve couple who were heaved off a tall bridge into the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Horatio Johnson received no breaks from the sentencing judge.
District Judge Benedict Willard sentenced Johnson, 49, to a pair of 40-year prison terms on Wednesday for his role in the killings of Kenneth and Lakeitha Joseph, a couple that was tossed off the Interstate 510 “Green Bridge” after being weighed down by 30-pound kettlebells.
Though a jury rejected murder charges, Willard went further. He ordered those maximum sentences to run end to end, and consecutive to a 40-year prison term that Johnson is currently serving on an obstruction of justice conviction related to the same double killing.
“Forty plus 40 plus 40,” said Willard, who had earlier denied Johnson’s motion for a new trial…