DeMar asserted: "If my actions have spared only one family from the distress and trauma that this habitual criminal [Billings] has caused hundreds of others, then I have served my civic duty and taken one evil creature off of our streets, something that our impotent criminal justice system had failed to do, despite some thirty-odd arrests, plea bargains and suspended sentences.

If a judge grants prosecutors' request to have him declared a habitual criminal, Mack would face a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole.

Although understaffing made Viernstein's wildest dreams unrealizable, the Nazi Sterilization Law of July 1933 and the Law Against Dangerous Habitual Criminals of November 1933 were consistent with his and many other criminal-biologists' thinking.