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.

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