Mr. Kohl, the lawyer of David Robert Jones, is stating "The best we can hope for is life" as in life imprisonment, implying that there could be worse punishments. Worse punishment would be a death sentence, a punishment that doesn't exist anymore in Germany since 1949.
In the bank vault at the beginning (time marker 3:07) you can see the blue marker tape left on the floor to indicate where one of the actors should should kneel. In the very next scene the tape is gone.