Calling the punishment disproportionately severe and saying the case should be appealed to the Supreme Court, a federal judge sentenced rogue Baltimore police detective William King on Friday to more than 315 years in prison.

King said before his sentence that he was being hung out to dry by a police department that once celebrated his work. He said he was driven by ongoing pressure filtering down from the mayor, to the commissioner and through the department to build bigger investigations and arrest as many people as possible.