Ten years for gross (aggravated?) vehicular manslaughter seems about right to me. That's a serious sentence for a serious unintentional crime. Time off for time served awaiting trial is fair. Time off for good behavior seems to be as much about managing prisons as anything.
Gov. Gavin Newsom's press office said Wednesday that the state would "coordinate with ICE" to transfer a man facing federal immigration charges after serving time in state prison for a deadly 2021 crash on the 405 Freeway.
[U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California] [Bill] Essayli noted that pending charges — initially filed by his predecessor under the Biden administration — could land Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano in federal prison for up to 20 years if he is convicted of illegally reentering the country after being deported twice previously.
...A spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Ortega-Anguiano “received 334 days of pre-sentence credits for time served locally while awaiting sentencing and is eligible for credit-earning opportunities while incarcerated.”
...Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press office subsequently released a statement pledging to honor the detainer on Ortega-Anguiano, saying that state prison officials “will again coordinate with ICE — as they have w/ 10,000+ inmates — to transfer him before release.”
A spokesperson for ICE said a detainer was placed on June 9, 2022, while Ortega-Anguiano was housed at North Kern State Prison. According to ICE, his previous criminal convictions include burglary in 2005; vehicle theft in 2007; and battery on spouse with kidnapping in 2014.
It seems as though the questions are 1) should he be tried on the pending federal charges, 2) if convicted on those charges should he serve time in the federal penitentiary or 3) he should just be given to ICE for immediate deportation and 4) should he be rendered to the gulag? It is not that he will be freed.