However, it appears that she has done her best in giving her son the shortest prison sentence.
I wouldn't call 25 years the shortest sentence possible as I read that his lawyers asked for like 6-7 years. Its definitely not enough considering what he has done, but 25 years is no joke either.
They need to create a show that the American justice system works.
Well, it probably works better than in vast majority of other countries. If that happened in Croatia (and in many other countries), trial would drag on for many years and in the end he woiuld get few years in the lowest possible security prison where he would go out every weekend.
He prob could have gotten a deal for 15 years when he was still in the Bahamas.