A federal judge today sentenced Buster and Duddy Jefferson to life in prison without parole for their roles in one of the city's most horrific crimes in Saint Paul history---the firebombing of an East Saint Paul home that killed five young children in 1994. A jury convicted gang leader Buster Jefferson of ordering fellow gang members including his half brother Duddy to firebomb the home of a man believed to be a police informant--Andrew Coppage. Coppage escaped the fire but his five brothers and sisters perished. Minnesota Public Radio's Elizabeth Stawicki reports: Judge Michael Davis spoke slowly and softly as he told reputed gang leader Buster Jefferson that the 23 year old will spend the rest of his life in a federal prison with no chance for parole. Davis said Jefferson headed one of the most violent gangs the state has ever seen...a group which Davis