Warwick, R.I. ? Enraged that no one will see more than four years in prison for the 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people, victims’ relatives vented their fury Friday at a judge as he accepted plea deals from the club’s owners in the name of avoiding a graphic, heart-wrenching trial.

Michael Derderian received four years behind bars and his brother, Jeffrey, received no prison time at all after they pleaded no contest to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter. The fire, sparked by a rock group’s pyrotechnics, quickly engulfed The Station nightclub because the Derderians had installed highly flammable foam on the walls to ease neighbors’ noise concerns.

Judge Francis Darigan admonished the victims’ relatives not to try to talk him out of the plea deals. But many of them bitterly ignored the warning in a sentencing so turbulent that the judge abruptly recessed the proceedings at one point to defuse the tension in the room.

“Lady Justice in Rhode Island is blind, but she’s also deaf,” Jay McLaughlin, a relative of two of the victims, told the judge. Other family members applauded as he returned to his seat.

Jessica Garvey, left, and Kristen Garvey, right, silence their mother, Patricia Belanger, center, after she completed her victim impact statement during court proceeding for Michael and Jeffrey Derderian in Kent County Superior Court in Warwick, R.I. Family members were instructed by the judge to limit their statements to the fire's effect on their lives and not the plea or legal issues. Belanger lost her daughter Dina DeMaio in The Station nightclub fire.

“Before I read my statement, I’d like to just say I will address you, but I will not say ‘Your Honor.’ I don’t think you’re an honorable man. I don’t respect you,” said Annmarie Swidwa, the mother of 25-year-old Bridget Sanetti.

Victims’ families were angry about the sentences and because they believed a trial would have told them more about how and why their loved ones died.

The judge, though, refused to reconsider the plea deals, saying they would spare the victims and all of Rhode Island from having to “relive the moments of this tragedy.”

Prosecutors said they objected to the sentences and urged prison time for both men.

Shortly before the judge imposed the sentence, Jeffrey Derderian tearfully apologized for the heartache he had caused and recounted the chaotic scene.

“The fire moved so fast. I was scared. I wish I did a better job,” he said. “There are many days that I wish I didn’t make it out of that building, because if I didn’t maybe some of these families would feel better.”