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.
Because of the sause, the case is a loss...
I think they were pointing out the stupidity of committing crime for that reward.
Let's just hope they put him away before he kills anybody else. Any unsolved murders in the Pembroke Gardens area recently?
How much you wanna bet the neighbors will be only too happy to see this guy carted away...
A bomb waiting to go off.
They'll convict him on this. He'll serve a short term. He'll get out, then he WILL kill some one.
What I can't understand is why the third arrest has to seal this piece of $hit's fate. The animal killed a little girl for fun the first time, and he's out in six years.
Martha Stewart get half that time for following her broker's advice, but I guess the Florida prosecuter didn't see a big publicity bost for himself the way that little Nazi putzhead Spitzer did.
More dull-witted parents who don't care who their childrens' "playmates" are.
Leni
Does the article mention that the 'playmate' was only 6 years old when she was murdered by this oversized 12 year old monster.
We will be reading about her too one of these days.
MSM deceit.....armed robbery/battery = alleged mistep
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Nor does it mention his troubles with the law before the murder. His POS mother, a cop, was asleep in the next room when he murdered that little girl, she was supposed to be watching her.
Its important to keep them well away from the rest us put a bullet between their eyes for our safety.
14 -- "We are still standing with him in this struggle," said Rev. Dennis Grant, part of a team of community and religious leaders who lobbied the state for Tate's early release.
Great. Another Reverend who can't bring himself to blame the criminal.
The Rev and the other "leaders" are morally responsible for this crime
But Martha didn't have that all important, protective melanin, which counts for so much in our sick, PC society.
If you're wearing the pie, you must fry.
They should have hung Tate in his cell from day one.
Young murderers like Tate need to be executed - they are broken and unfixable. They are threats for their entire lifetime! Letting them go insures that others will suffer.
The fact that he had to commit three more crimes before ending up behind bars again is a travesty. The first misstep should have had back in the slammer.
Finally the "Reverend" is a true ass - and an enabler for a bloody minded criminal. Bet he and his family don't live in close proximity to this monster.
He is just another misunderstood brotha that is a victim of a white racist system. Yeah, right!
Hopefully this will lead to incarceration for a long time. I wonder where this kid got the gun from--His Mother? Is she still a Police officer? Did he use her service weapon?Did he buy it off the street?
If this incident leads to a long jail term Florida got off cheap. A beating and a pizza is a cheap price to pay to get this born criminal off the street.
All too true, and Tate didn't have a publicity hungry prosecutor out to make a name for himself like those two Nazi putzhead a$$holes from NY, Spitzer(Martha Stewart) and Guiliani (Michael Millikan). Oh well, look on the bright side. If Tate goes away for life, Some hispanic "undocemented immigrant" will be willing to do the crimes he won't be able to commit.
Was the murder his second arrest? What was the other crime?
They had it right the first time,call up Rev. Masters ask him whaat he thinks now.
If he used a gun
He won't have fun.
Justice system? Seems more like a 'catch and release' program. I bet the LEOs down there are a frustrated bunch.
If he reeks of mozzerella, you know you got the fella...
Maybe he'll get life....again
"I pray that the court system has the sense to remove this monster from society before he kills again..........."
1 posted on 05/25/2005 3:24:28 AM PDT by Caipirabob
I would not count on it.
If anything, he may get a longer suspended sentence.
We have a judge problem, not a crime problem.
If the laws that are already on the books had been enforced the girl from Sarsota, Jessica Lunsford, and the Lundy girl would all be alive today in all probability.
It does not matter how many laws they enact, if they are not enforced, they do no good.
I posted it here at the time of the murder, yes he had an arrest record at 12, if I am not mistaken it was for assault.
Anyone surprised that someone who would brutally beat a sweet 6 year old child to death would turn out to be a thug?
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Not me. He found out early on that there are no severe consequences for his actions (the killing of the small child)...so it gave him license to do whatever he wanted and, he thought, get away with it.
Too bad they can't put this guy, "on top of old Sparky."
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