A Bush man who harbored Samantha Jaume’s murderer, giving the bloody triggerman a clean T-shirt and jeans, food and a place to sleep, was sentenced to 40 years in jail Tuesday.

In the rarest of sentences, 22nd Judicial District Court Judge Raymond Childress gave Zlatico “Zack” Brujic, 33, the harshest punishment allowed by law for his November conviction of obstruction of justice.

The charge under Louisiana law carries a maximum of 40 years and a $100,000 fine. “The judge made it very clear in this case,” District Attorney Walter Reed spokesman Rick Wood said. “The defendant harbored this man, and he will be punished” to the full extent of the law.

Brujic, also convicted in that November trial for accessory after the fact, did not receive a sentence for that charge. Prosecutors may save that conviction in order to bill Brujic as a quadruple offender during a Feb. 5 hearing, which could increase his sentence to life in prison, Wood said.

Under Louisiana law, those convicted of more than one felony can be billed a multiple offender and sentenced to highly increased penalties.

Brujic already carries convictions in Jefferson Parish for simple robbery, illegal possession of stolen things and drug possession, Wood said.

Brujic, an acquaintance of convicted triggerman Dominic Robinson, was found guilty of helping Robinson clean up and escape town after the 2001 murder of Jaume.

The mother of four was carrying groceries into her Mandeville area home from her 2001 Ford Expedition when Robinson, of Waggaman, entered her home and demanded the car keys.

Moments later, with her four young children scrambling to safety, Jaume was shot.

Her groceries lay scattered on the counter in her Woodridge subdivision home in Mandeville.

Robinson, currently serving a life sentence for an unrelated kidnapping and carjacking in Houma, was convicted of first-degree murder in August. A judge postponed his sentencing phase — which could result in death — because Hurricane Gustav was approaching. To date, it hasn’t been rescheduled.

Brujic did not testify for or against Robinson, but in his own trial he implicated himself on tape statements to investigators.