“I’m still standing, and my life hasn’t changed,” Ronald Dean Yandell said before he and co-defendant William Sylvester were formally sentenced to multiple life terms Wednesday morning.

Ronald Dean Yandell argued he was a victim of political retaliation before he was formally sentenced for murder and drug smuggling plots hatched from his California prison cell.

That’s something more. Perhaps that was his destiny all along. “All those people have moved on in some form and fashion, but I’m still here standing,” Sakiewicz said. “Funny how life is.” ...