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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Watch them try to blame the gun again.
Truth in sentencing is long over due. Life w/out parole should mean just that.
yep! Do you remember how the Left declared that "the Bush brothers" where using poor little Lionel to "send a message" to the Black community?
IIRC He was killed in the shootout only in the sense that when they had him surrounded he killed himself.
Same end result, no great loss.
Anti-life, anti-freedom Tate and his enablers are perfect examples.
Well, at least that story had a happy ending!
Too bad pizza delivery guys are prohibited from packing heat. :)
And undoubtedly an honor student. Aren't they all once they get in trouble?
Why hasn't the MSM published the 8th grade grad picture (with requisite mortarboard )of this poor misguided youth?
That seems to be the standard, first, psy-ops move to humanize these sociopaths.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
This is what you get with 40 years of liberalism..
The more I see stories like this, the more I am convinced that the goal of the Left is to take America down as Al Qaeda wants to do.
Do I really need a sarcasm tag?
since the b!tch that bore him is a LEO... i wonder if he used momma gun???
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..
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I don't know that story, but I sorta remember one about a guy who wrote a best seller while in prison. Think the name was something like In the Belly of the Beast. All these celebs made a lot of noise to get him let out of jail. I don't think he was on the street 24 hours before I killed someone.
Wish I could remember the guy's name. It was years ago.
Morons. I'd like to see a list of the "grassroots community groups"... (ACLU chapter XXI, no doubt)
bump for later
Depends.
I had to follow an AP story to FoxNews, but it said "no gun was recovered." So the situation for Lionel is, if he gets out
on bail, he goes to the twelve year old and points to the newspaper clipping of him killing the six year old....and there is no one to corroborate the
deliveryman.
It pains me, but that's the way the liberal idiots want it.
I don't know how I feel about really young persons being sent to prison for life, but at the very least he should have been in youth custody til 21 or so.....
I wonder what excuses the liberal establishment will use now....
oh, I know......." you have to feel sorry for him beause afterall ,killing that little girl was so TRAUMATIC to him..."
is this "protect your son at all cost" attitude only in the black community, or is it in all of society...
personally, if my son did something terrible, and I knew about it, I would turn him instantly.....
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