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Lionel Tate is back in court tomorrow morning. I think his corner is very dark and he might be sent to prison for life for real this time. There are some people down here who want to see him in jail verrrry badly and he is not helping the case either.
PROBATION-VIOLATION HEARING
Judge rejects Tate request for gag order on reporters
By EVAN S. BENN
ebenn@herald.com
Convicted killer Lionel Tate's probation-violation hearing will go on as scheduled Monday, even though the 18-year-old wrote the judge a letter asking for a venue change and a gag order on reporters.
In a brief hearing Thursday, Broward Circuit Judge Joel T. Lazarus said he received a handwritten letter Wednesday that Tate wrote from jail.
The judge said it was not appropriate to change venues for a probation hearing, and no judge can prevent reporters from covering a story, as Tate had requested.
Lazarus will preside over Tate's hearing Monday on a charge that the teen violated his probation in May by robbing a pizza deliveryman at gunpoint.
Tate's defense attorney, H. Dohn Williams, said his client is ``tired of all the publicity.''
Williams said he had not read Tate's letter before the judge gave him a copy on Thursday, but he acknowledged that restricting press coverage is not a plausible option.
''It would be one thing to ask for myself and Mr. [prosecutor Chuck] Morton not to comment to the media, but you can't issue a gag order to the press,'' Williams said.
Tate was 12 when he fatally beat his 6-year-old playmate, Tiffany Eunick, in his Pembroke Park home in 1999. At the time, he was the youngest American sentenced to life in prison, but his first-degree murder conviction and sentence were overturned on appeal.
He has been in trouble with the law several times since he was released on probation in January 2004.
Less than a year after his release, Tate was caught breaking his curfew while carrying a knife in a park. Lazarus increased Tate's probation to 15 years for the incident.
Tate was arrested again in May on charges that he robbed a Domino's Pizza deliveryman at gunpoint.
Tate pleaded not guilty to the robbery charges, but he faces a potential life sentence if Lazarus finds that he violated his probation.
In August, jail deputies said Tate threw a hard plastic box at a cell door, shattering glass on the door and causing $500 worth of damage. Tate pleaded not guilty in October to a misdemeanor mischief charge in that incident.
Tate's violation-of-probation hearing in the armed-robbery case is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Monday in the Broward County Courthouse, 201 SE Sixth St., in Fort Lauderdale.
2005 Herald.com and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved.
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