Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 2001 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

FRIDAY, MARCH 16,2001

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Andrea Moorehead, an anchor at WTHR-TV13, helped students tally their points during the Children’s Bureau game show. Participants from IPS School 69 included (left to right) Keiosha Trice, Gariana

Richardson, Darius Winfrey, and Tyshonn Bronson.

Students showcase game skills

Students from Joyce Kilmer Academy at IPS School 69 recently participated in the Children’s Bureau of Indianapolis Inc. Founder" s Day Program. The event was held at the Artsgarden. located

at Circle Centre. In celebration of the bureau’s 150years of service, a game show offered students an opportunity to test their history, music and Children's Bureau of Indianapolis skills. The participants

from Marier Cox’s fourth grade class competed against students from IPS School 60. School 69 won the contest and took home a $300 cash prize.

Black youth seeks governor’s support in life-sentence over girl’s killing

WASHINGTON (NNPA) — Lawyers for a 14-year-old Florida boy sentenced to life without parole for killing a 6-year-old girl while imitating pro wrestlers are turning their focus to a judge who could throw out the conviction. They are also hoping that Rorida Gov. Jeb Bush will step in on the matter. Defense attorney Jim Lewis said the defense team intends to appeal the decision and to seek a clemency ruling from Gov. Bush. "I will not say anything on the matter until the request reaches my desk," Bush said last week. The governor seemed sympathetic as both families in the case denounced violence on the part of children in schools and neighbor,hoods, but expressed concern. Bush, speaking at an unrelated news conference in Tallahassee

said that he would consider commutation of the sentence. For now, the governor has requested that the youth remain in a detention center as opposed to being sent loan adult penal facility. Lionel Tate, who was 12 when he beat 6-year-old Tiffany Eunick to death on July 28. 1999, was sentenced without the possibility of parole, the only sentencing option open to the judge under state law once the boy was convicted as an adult on a first-degree murder charge. “The adult criminal justice system is not a flexible one.” Carolyn Salisbury, a law instructor at the University of Miami's Children and Youth Law Clinic said. “The goal of bur juvenile justice system, when it comes to children, is usually tp, save a child who has committed such a crime ... This child is in

desperate need of treatment and he will never get the treatment he needs if he is locked up for the rest of his life in an adult jail.” Judge Joel Lazarus rejected pleas for a new trial or reduced sentence, citing testimony about the severity of the beating inflicted on Tiffany. Lazarus also rejected defense arguments that the sentence was cruel and unusual punishment, that neither Lionel nor his mother understood what was before them when they rejected a plea bargain and that a psychiatrist’s remarks may have prejudiced the case against him. The appeals process could take up to 10 months, Rosenbaum said, but all of the attorneys said they would move quickly to request ^ction from the governor’s office.

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The campaign, “Gun and Crime — Seven Years Hard Time,” uses public service announcements on radio and television to deter crime. The , idea is to allow people to make decisions to follow the law and avoid prison. “We don’t want to snare people in a law they don’t know about,” Newman said. Since the law was passed, 204 people were charged with possession of a firearm by a serious felon and 60 were convicted. The law applies to those who were convicted of 26 violent crimes including murder, manslaughter, felony battery, aggravated battery, kidnapping, confinement, rape, child molestation, arson, burglary of a residence or while armed and felony stalking and class A or B drug

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