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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Lionel Tate, who beat and stomped a little girl to death when he was 12, wants a judge to let him withdraw his guilty plea to robbing a pizza delivery man, saying in a letter released Tuesday that he can prove he didn't pull the heist.
Lionel Tate, once the youngest person in modern U.S. history sentenced to life in prison, said in the letter to the Broward County judge that when he pleaded guilty March 1, "it was not explained to me in great detail on what I can and cannot appeal."
The guilty plea called for 10 to 30 years in prison, sparing Tate a potential return to life in prison for violating his probation stemming from the 1999 killing of 6-year-old Tiffany Eunick.
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