A woman described by prosecutors as "supreme queen" of a Glen Burnie gang that called itself the Crips was sentenced yesterday to 25 years in prison for her role in a deadly leadership struggle that led to the bru tal slaying of a Glen Burnie man.

Tracy C. Devilbiss, 29, sobbed as Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Robert H. Heller told her that he wasn't sure if she was crying because she was remorseful about helping to kill Mark A. Miller or if she was just upset about the long prison term.

She is the first of four adults to be sentenced in the murder. Prosecutors are seeking life without parole for two other gang members convicted in the slaying. They are also seeking for 30 years for Devilbiss' boyfriend, one of the gang's leaders.

Heller described the Aug. 7 killing last year as "not only bizarre, not only senseless, but not even human." - there is nothing even human about what happened here that evening."

A few weeks before his death Miller, 21, presented himself to the local Crips - no known relation to the violent Los Angeles gang - as a high-ranking Crips out-of-towner. His moves to exert some control in the Glen Burnie group irritated the group's leaders so much that they plotted to kill him, police and prosecutors said.

Miller's throat was slit, and he was stabbed. Bleeding, Miller was dragged from a Glen Burnie apartment to a nearby baseball field, where his head was bashed in and the claw of a hammer was dug into the base of his skull. The assailants left his body in a dugout.

Assistant State's Attorney M. Virginia Miles said that Devilbiss helped carry out the plot by making sure there was no trail of blood to the ball field, acting as a lookout and ensuring the apartment was cleaned.

At yesterday's sentencing, Devilbiss wept as she said she felt remorse for the killing."