Lionel Tate, the youngest person in modern U.S. history to be sentenced to life in prison, has asked to withdraw part of a plea deal he entered earlier this month on unrelated charges, his lawyer told CNN on Tuesday.
Lionel Tate, whose first-degree murder conviction in 2001 made him the youngest person sentenced to life without parole in the United States, was arrested Monday night after a pizza deliveryman said the 18-year-old robbed him at gunpoint in Pembroke Park, Florida.
Convicted child murderer Lionel Tate, 17, who got a second chance at life as a free man in January, has been arrested on a probation violation that could put him back in prison.
Lionel Tate, the teenager who in 1999 killed a girl half his age and a less than a third his weight, pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder in her death.
Lionel Tate, the teenager sentenced to life for killing a 6-year-old playmate, was granted bond and released after three years in prison.
An attorney for the Florida teenager serving a life sentence for the 1999 death of a 6-year-old girl said his client will appear in a Fort Lauderdale court January 26 for a bond hearing after signing a plea deal Sunday.
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