Posted on 05/25/2005 3:24:27 AM PDT by Caipirabob
Pembroke Park · Lionel Tate, who at 12 faced life in prison for murdering a playmate, may have squandered his freedom for four 14-inch pizzas.
The bill for the pies -- pepperoni and sausage, extra cheese, pineapple, and ham -- came to $33.60, according to a Domino's Pizza receipt.
Police say Tate placed the order from his 12-year-old friend's apartment Monday afternoon and forced his way back inside just before the pizza arrived, roughing up the boy before robbing the deliveryman with a .38-caliber revolver.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
He's "New and Improved" and he's Baaa-aaack!
Anyone surprised that someone who would brutally beat a sweet 6 year old child to death would turn out to be a thug?
I pray that the court system has the sense to remove this monster from society before he kills again.
Prayers for poor Tiffany and her family. May God give her and her family peace. It still hurts so bad to think about it.
Thanks for yesterday's article.
Oh BS. It wasn't for pizzas. It was for assault and armed robbery.
I watched this monster-in-training's trial on Court TV. He deserved much worse than he got, and I couldn't believe it when last year, Florida let him go free way ahead of schedule. This was so easy to predict....it's just very lucky he didn't kill someone again.
He should have never left jail!
Killer on Probation Held in Fla. Robbery
Quotes:
"I think they got the wrong guy," Tate's attorney, Jim Lewis, told The Miami Herald for Wednesday's editions. "Lionel told me he did not do this. ... He said he got there when it was all over."
Quote from Post article:
Tate had pizza smattered on his clothes when deputies from the Broward Sheriff's Office arrested him, said BSO spokeswoman Liz Calzadilla-Fiallo."
"If there's a 'pizza stain' you must detain" - Caipirabob
I just think the more who are aware of this the better chance he will never see daylight again.
Who didn't see this coming except the Florida justice system...
Who didn't see this coming except the Florida justice system...
Lock this monster up and throw away the key. No parole.
Note how the Sun Sentinel manages to go on for two pages about this fellow, and never bothers to tell us his age. Peculiar, don't you think, since his age was central to his previous case.
Scanning the article, we get the age of his "friend" and the pizza delivery guy, but they must have just forgotten to tell us how old Tate is.
Well, let's do the math. He was 12 in 1999 when he killed the little girl. It's 2005 now, so 2005 less 1999... carry the one ... plus 12 ... HE'S 18 YEARS OLD!!!
Big boy crime by the Big Boy means Big Boy time. 'Nuff said. Time to throw away the key on Mr. Tate.
Great now this ape's going to get a 1 year trial coverage on every station.
Great. Another Reverend who can't bring himself to blame the criminal.
And people need to understand that you get sentenced for what you do, not what you did it for.
If the anchovies stink, arrest the fink.
Yesterday on Fox they had the psychiatrist who examined this guy when he was first tried.
He said he was ignored and quoted wrong during the trial. The boy should never have been released.
He said he talked to his teachers through kindergarden, and they told him he was the most violent child they had ever dealt with. I wish I had a transcript, because the guy couldn't express any more strongly that he should NEVER have been put back on the streets.
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