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Lionel Tate charged in armed robbery of pizza delivery man
Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel ^ | May 24 2005 | Akilah Johnson

Posted on 05/24/2005 4:52:40 AM PDT by 2Am4Sure

Lionel Tate, the youngest American sentenced to life in prison before he was released last year, has been arrested again -- this time in connection with the armed robbery of a pizza delivery man.

Tate, 18, allegedly ordered four Domino's pizzas from a Pembroke Park apartment Monday, and when the delivery man arrived, Tate "greeted him with a gun," said Broward Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Elizabeth Calzadilla-Fiallo. The delivery man returned to the restaurant and called police. Officers later arrested Tate in the area, Calzadilla-Fiallo said.

It is the second time Tate has been arrested since he was released from prison early last year. Under terms of his most recent probation, he could be sent back to prison to serve a life sentence.

Tate drew national and international attention in 2001 when he became the youngest American ever sentenced to life. He was convicted of the 1999 murder of 6-year-old playmate Tiffany Eunick. Tate was 12 at the time of the girl's death, and his attorneys argued he was imitating professional wrestling moves when he accidentally killed her.

The jury, however, thought the girl's injuries were too severe to be caused by an accident, and sentenced Tate to life without the possibility of parole.

High-profile attorneys and grassroots community groups took up the boy's cause, appealing to the governor, the pope and the United Nations. Tate's conviction and sentence were overturned and he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, and in January 2004, he was released from prison.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: bang
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Once a scumbag, always a scumbag
1 posted on 05/24/2005 4:52:40 AM PDT by 2Am4Sure
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To: 2Am4Sure

The Left-Wing are holding their heads up proudly today.


2 posted on 05/24/2005 4:54:32 AM PDT by Josh in PA
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To: 2Am4Sure

"High-profile attorneys and grassroots community groups took up the boy's cause, appealing to the governor, the pope and the United Nations."

And once again they were wrong.

Throw his butt in jail for a long time, this time.


3 posted on 05/24/2005 4:54:50 AM PDT by Adder (Can we bring back stoning again? Please?)
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To: 2Am4Sure

In this case it looks like justice was served correctly the first time.


4 posted on 05/24/2005 4:55:40 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
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To: 2Am4Sure

"...sentenced to life in prison before he was released last year..."

Says it all....


5 posted on 05/24/2005 4:56:10 AM PDT by Icthus
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To: 2Am4Sure

If anyone here is from Maryland, they probably compare this case to Terrence Johnson. Young mr Johnson was caught stealing change from a laundromat in '78. He was 15. While in police custody, he was able to get an officers gun and kill two of them. Justice was swift in PG county and the young Johnson was sent to the "Cut" for 25 years. Well throughout the years, all of the abovementined petioners petioned various courts to release the remorseful Johnson, and in the early nineties, MD did just that. Not a year later, Johnson was killed in a shootout with police after robbing a bank..


6 posted on 05/24/2005 5:03:28 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Extraordinary Circumstances- proving PT Barnum was right..)
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To: 2Am4Sure

[[High-profile attorneys and grassroots community groups took up the boy's cause, appealing to the governor, the pope and the United Nations.]]

Don't worry they will still be defending this little creep. They will claim that the pizza delivery guy used a racial slur against him so he reacted the only way that he knew how (which was violence). In other words, he is still a victim.


7 posted on 05/24/2005 5:03:54 AM PDT by JarheadFromFlorida
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To: 2Am4Sure
High-profile attorneys and grassroots community groups took up the boy's cause...

First of all, he had no "cause".

Second, the named entities in that sentence were actually low-life ambulance chasers with a self-enrichment agenda, Kum-ba-ya singing hippie-wannabes, liberals with a bad-fitting pair of Birkenstocks and the warm and fuzzy bunch that would defend any cause as long as it denigrated the human race.

Not to mention the nut-jobs that enter into any slug-fest that involves what they perceive to be the down-trodden.

They'll rally to his side again, since, after all, the poor soul is what he is because "we" made him that way and to hell with the victim.

Or it's Bush's fault.

8 posted on 05/24/2005 5:05:15 AM PDT by OldSmaj (Jihad this, Islam! Your religion is false and your god is non-existent! Come get me.)
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To: 2Am4Sure

But--but--he was always such a 'nice boy'. So I've heard.


9 posted on 05/24/2005 5:06:11 AM PDT by Pillows
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To: dighton; aculeus; general_re; Thinkin' Gal
Tate, 18, allegedly ordered four Domino's pizzas from a Pembroke Park apartment Monday, and when the delivery man arrived, Tate "greeted him with a gun," said Broward Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Elizabeth Calzadilla-Fiallo. The delivery man returned to the restaurant and called police.

"Stupid criminal" alert.

10 posted on 05/24/2005 5:07:49 AM PDT by hellinahandcart
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...slug-fest...

That gives slugs a bad name............

11 posted on 05/24/2005 5:09:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (I woke up this morning and discovered my Memory Foam mattress had Alzheimer's......)
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To: 2Am4Sure

Mommy was a cop..an affirmative action cop that is....


12 posted on 05/24/2005 5:09:59 AM PDT by joesnuffy (The generation that survived the depression and won WW2 proved poverty does not cause crime)
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To: 2Am4Sure

The right reverend Thomas Masters was to blame for his release from prison. Masters has been accused of having "relations" with little retarded boys. I believe he pulled a Michael Jackson and bought off his accuser.


13 posted on 05/24/2005 5:10:44 AM PDT by Ron in Acreage (It's the borders stupid!)
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To: Moonman62
It is the second time Tate has been arrested since he was released from prison early last year. Under terms of his most recent probation, he could be sent back to prison to serve a life sentence.

One can only hope........

14 posted on 05/24/2005 5:11:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (I woke up this morning and discovered my Memory Foam mattress had Alzheimer's......)
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To: Pillows

There all good boys=yeah right


15 posted on 05/24/2005 5:11:33 AM PDT by Unicorn
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To: Adder

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sfl-facethomasmasters,0,4302485.story

Here the "grassroots" leader Rev. Masters defends cop killer Nate Brazile. He shot his teacher point blank in the face. Barry Grunow. His scumbag lawyer sued the gunmaker and lost.


16 posted on 05/24/2005 5:17:18 AM PDT by Ron in Acreage (It's the borders stupid!)
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To: 2Am4Sure
Unfortunately you have to read the entire article to learn the worst part:

He showed up at a 13-year-old acquaintance's apartment in the 3800 block of Southwest 52nd Avenue just before 4 p.m. and asked to use the phone, Calzadilla-Fiallo said.

"The only reason he was at the apartment was to use the kid's phone," she said. "He placed the [pizza] order and took off."

But Tate didn't go far. He waited downstairs until he saw Walter Ernesto Gallard show up with the four pizzas. As soon as Tate saw Gallard, he ran back upstairs but the teen wouldn't let him inside, Calzadilla-Fiallo said.

Tate forced his way inside, beat up the 13-year-old and pointed a gun at Gallard when he knocked, she said.

I guess this guy is always going to be beating on kids, unless he's put away.

17 posted on 05/24/2005 5:17:39 AM PDT by hellinahandcart
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"greeted him with a gun,"

Good grief, this guy is a loser. Sounds like he plans on beating the system again.

18 posted on 05/24/2005 5:22:54 AM PDT by kassie ("It's the soldier who allows freedom of speech, not the reporter..")
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To: cardinal4

Yes, I remember that case very well. I was in HS when he killed those two cops and I am happy he got what he deserved a few years ago.


19 posted on 05/24/2005 5:27:03 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Icthus

"...sentenced to life in prison before he was released last year..."

Says it all....

Worth repeating.


20 posted on 05/24/2005 5:27:41 AM PDT by PGalt
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