Arsonist Requests Reduced Sentence

EAST TEXAS — There’s a call to re-sentence an admitted East Texas arsonist who is serving life plus 20 years. Jason Bourque set a string of church fires in early 2010. His attorney Mike Snipes says Bourque is very sorry and says the sentence is way too long. He says some from the clergy have expressed forgiveness. Snipes, who presided as judge over the Kaufman County district attorney murder cases notes, “The getaway driver/accomplice and planner, that being the wife of Eric Williams, who slaughtered two district attorneys and then planned to kill others, got 40 years.” He asks how this case is more egregious than that case? Snipes said prescription drugs Bourque took led him to set the fires and says he is in no way a future danger.