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Time for a True Crime update. Lionel Tate, who committed his first murder at age 11 or thereabouts, finally locked up where he belongs. History and pics of this bad news from birth. And we've a couple of fine fellows today. One stabbed a woman and raped her while she lay dying. The other forced his daughter to help him get rid of her mother's headless body. And let's talk about that tragedy in Maryland, where the folks drag race on public roads and now eight people are dead.

MIAMI -- Lionel Tate's lawyer said Monday that his client will not follow his legal advice and he has filed a motion to withdraw as the teen's attorney stating irreconcilable differences between them. Ellis Rubin, Tate's attorney, would not give specific reasons for his decision. ``He will not follow my legal advice,'' Rubin said. ``I tried to reconcile our differences this morning and he refused.'' Rubin said he filed the motion Friday in Broward County Circuit Court.

Lionel Tate FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Dec. 19 - A youth convicted in 2001 of stomping a 6-year-old playmate to death was ruled mentally competent on Monday for a hearing to determine whether he is returned to prison, perhaps for life. The ruling followed his lawyers' acknowledgment that he had faked being suicidal. ...The 18-year-old defendant, Lionel Tate, arrested on robbery charges in May while on probation in the murder case, sent a judge a letter from jail earlier this month saying he was hearing voices and wanted to kill himself. ... Mr. Tate's lawyers said at that hearing on Monday...

MIAMI (AP) -- An attorney who has made his career defending controversial and notorious clients has taken over the defense of convicted child killer Lionel Tate. Ellis Rubin said Tate's aunt and mother contacted him Tuesday and asked him to assume the 18-year-old's defense from a public defender with whom Tate had been clashing. Tate once was the youngest person in modern U-S history sentenced to life in prison. He's on probation for the 1999 killing of 6-year-old Tiffany Eunick, which happened when Tate was 12. Defense attorneys initially claimed he accidentally killed the girl while imitating professional wrestling moves...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A hearing that could mean a return to prison for convicted killer Lionel Tate, once the youngest person in modern U.S. history sentenced to life behind bars, was postponed Monday after he sent the judge a letter threatening suicide. Tate, convicted at age 13 of beating and stomping to death a 6-year-old girl, was set to appear before Circuit Judge Joel T. Lazarus, who could send him back to prison for as much as life if he finds Tate violated his probation. Tate is accused of robbing a pizza delivery man at gunpoint. However, the judge...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Key dates in the criminal history of Lionel Tate, convicted of killing a 6-year-old girl when he was 12. He now faces a return to prison for the alleged armed robbery of a pizza delivery man and other probation violations. - July 1999: Tiffany Eunick, 6, died from blunt trauma injuries suffered after she was left with Tate's mother, who was baby-sitting her. Tate was 12 at the time. - August 1999: Tate is charged with first-degree murder after confessing he gave the girl a bear hug, dropped her on the floor and hit her...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A teenager who once killed a 6-year-old playmate has been charged with criminal mischief after a sheriff's deputy said he broke the glass in his cell door. Lionel Tate, 18, has been held without bail since May. He was charged with robbing a pizza delivery man at gunpoint and probation violation. Prosecutors filed new charges on Friday. According to court records, Tate was shouting at deputies on Aug. 25 while "banging on the cell door glass window ... for approximately 30 to 45 seconds." Tate faces a potential life sentence on the robbery charge because he...

Lionel Tate became the youngest person sentenced to life in prison in modern U.S. history when he was convicted at the age of 13 of murdering (6-year-old Tiffany Eunick), but he got out on probation after his first conviction was thrown out. Now, despite that fresh start, he could be going back behind bars for....robbing a delivery man at gunpoint of four pizzas worth $33.60. His mother, Florida Highway Patrol trooper Kathleen Grossett-Tate, insisted that he stay with her. He was arrested in September 2004 when police found him outside at 2 a.m. carrying a knife with a 4-inch blade....

Attorney: Boy Recants Statement That Lionel Tate Robbed Pizza Delivery Man The Associated Press Published: Jun 22, 2005 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A 13-year-old boy has recanted his statement that Lionel Tate - once the youngest American sentenced to life in prison - robbed a pizza delivery man at gunpoint, Tate's lawyer said Wednesday. Attorney James Lewis said the boy, Taquincy Tomkins, has now told private investigators that a 16-year-old Tomkins knows only as "Willie" actually committed the May 23 robbery. Tomkins said he blamed Tate under pressure from Broward County sheriff's investigators and because "Willie" threatened to kill...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A judge Thursday set a hearing for next month on whether to revoke probation for a teen given a second chance after beating and stomping a little girl to death - and now charged with robbing a pizza delivery man. The judge ordered that Lionel Tate continue to be held without bond pending the Aug. 8 hearing. Revocation of probation could mean a life sentence for the 18-year-old, who was freed following a plea agreement in the 1999 killing of Tiffany Eunick, 6. Tate touched off a debate over Florida's practice of prosecuting juveniles as adults...

Lionel Tate (search), the youngest person in modern U.S. history to be sentenced to life in prison (search), has been arrested after a pizza delivery man said the teenager pointed a gun at him. Tate, now 18, was being held early Tuesday at the Broward County Jail (search) on charges of armed robbery and armed burglary with battery. He was serving probation following his release on a guilty plea to second-degree murder in the beating death of a 6-year-old family friend when he was 12.

Lionel Tate talks with his mother Kathleen Grossett-Tate at a bond hearing in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Jan. 26. Tate, the teen who killed a 6-year-old playmate and became the youngest defendant in the nation to be locked away for life, was ordered released that day after three years behind bars. Circuit Judge Joel Lazarus ordered Tate freed without bail, a month after an appeals court threw out the boy's conviction because his mental competency was not evaluated before trial................... The story of Lionel Tate is so much more than the media headlines of his release from prison and his...

<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Lionel Tate, the teen who killed a 6-year-old girl and became the youngest defendant in the nation to be locked away for life, was released yesterday after three years behind bars.</p> <p>Circuit Judge Joel Lazarus ordered Lionel to be freed without bail, a month after an appeals court threw out the boy's conviction because his mental competency was not evaluated before trial. Lionel has since struck a plea bargain that will mean no further jail time.</p>

Just heard on FoxNews - Lionel Tate accepted 2nd Degree Murder plea - will serve 10 years on probation. He's out...