Several people in the comments are focusing too much on the 10 years and on if that’s an acceptable trade-off.

It’s worth pointing out no one knew it would be 10 years, not even the judge. The sentence wasn’t “10 years”, it was “indefinitely until we get an answer”. It just so happens that 10 years is when this judge decided “alright, we’re not going to get an answer, no point in the jail time”.

Younger. The opportunity cost of time scales non-linearly with age. If you're old enough, 10 years can be a life sentence.

If you ask people that would still have 25+ years of life after they're freed, I bet a lot of them would willingly take that trade.

It depends on what life you've lived so far.