Item: Judge: No prison for two Tankovich brothers: John Luster sentences men to two years of supervised probation/David Cole, Coeur d'Alene Press

More Info: Two Coeur d'Alene brothers, convicted of a hate crime in which they shouted racial slurs and maliciously harassed a Hispanic man in front of his home, likely won't have to serve any time in prison for the crime. First District Court Judge John Luster on Monday sentenced William M. Tankovich Jr., 50, and Frank J. Tankovich, 47, to two years of supervised probation. Luster suspended the brothers' five-year sentence, four years of which would have been fixed.

Question: Was the final result -- two years of supervised probation -- worth all the effort that the Prosecutor's Office put into this case?