A Tacoma man was sentenced Friday to nearly 61 years in prison after he was convicted last month of directing two teenage boys to murder 16-year-old Larry “Trae” Marshall III as revenge for being robbed by the victim’s friends.
Before Pierce County Superior Court Judge Philip Sorensen handed down that punishment, Isiah Davon Martin, 31, told Marshall’s family — who sat in the courtroom gallery — that he wanted to express his deepest condolences to them, but that what happened was from a “split decision” made by two young people, and he had no control over the devastating moments that followed.
Sorensen did not take Martin’s words well. He said the jury had concluded, and the evidence to him was clear, that Martin was the director of the conspiracy to kill Marshall…