MIAMI - Just like when he killed a little girl eight years ago when he was 12 years old, Lionel Tate wants a trial - even though his lawyers have told him it’s a bad idea. A conviction could add significant time to the 30-year sentence he is serving for violating the probation he received for murdering 6-year-old Tiffany Eunick in 1999. Tate’s trial on charges that he robbed a pizza delivery man at gunpoint in May 2005 was scheduled to start Monday. When charged in Tiffany’s death, Tate rejected a plea deal that would have gotten him a three-year sentence and mental health treatment. He became the youngest person in modern U.S. history to receive a life sentence, until an appeals court intervened.
In the robbery case, he backed out of a plea deal that would have given him no more than 30 years total for robbery and gun possession. "There’s certainly quite a risk involved. Lionel could get life in prison or a consecutive sentence, even though I don’t think that would be fair," said his attorney, Jim Lewis. He has filed a motion to have Tate’s current sentence vacated on the grounds that one of his former attorneys was incompetent. That attorney, Ellis Rubin, was one of South Florida’s best-known lawyers before his death in December.
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