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This is where the system is broke, If thugs can think they can get out early or they can appeal and reduce their sentence they will continue to commit crime..

I understand he was a teenager but he committed a grown up crime..

What do you think? 

Maybe if the scenario was different but this guy killed a police officer while committing a crime..

 

 

The Pinellas County teen sentenced to life in prison, without the possibility of parole, for the shooting death of a Saint Petersburg Police Officer is expected back in a Pinellas County Courtroom Wednesday. 

Lindsey's attorney's have filed a motion to "correct sentencing errors."  The hearing scheduled for Wednesday morning at 10:00 is to open the discussion into possibly reducing Lindsey's life sentence.  The conversation was spurred after a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that found life sentences for juveniles as unconstitutional. 

Nicholas Lindsey, now 18, was tried as an adult and sentenced when he was just 17-years-old last March.  It would be 13 months after the shooting that Lindsey would be found guilty of shooting and killing St. Pete Police Officer David Crawford the night of February 21, 2011. 

Court evidence showed Officer Crawford approached Lindsey after the armed teen had broken into a car in downtown St. Pete.  It was at that time prosecutors said Lindsey shot Crawford.  Witnesses told investigators they saw Lindsey running from the scene that night.  There was also a video confession released of Lindsey breaking down and giving details about the fatal shooting. 

Lindsey is expected to be in the court hearing.

Look for more on this story on ABC Action News at noon.

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If this kid gets anything less than life with no parole then the system really has failed. Not just because it was a cop but the blatant disregard for life itself at a young age. There is no rehab for that.

The system has been broke for years! This kid should have been juiced! or fried, Whatever NJ does not and will never use!

If this kid gets anything less than life with no parole then the system really has failed. Not just because it was a cop but the blatant disregard for life itself at a young age. There is no rehab for that.

+1.

Unbelievable.

 

 

Who is John Galt?

I am so excited I figured out how to change my signature.

If this kid gets anything less than life with no parole then the system really has failed. Not just because it was a cop but the blatant disregard for life itself at a young age. There is no rehab for that.

 

Yes, except that the system doesn't work like that. From the sounds of it, if it weren't a cop, it'd have been 2nd degree murder (i.e. whatever the charge is there for non premeditated murder). Most places that isn't mandatory life. Mandatory life is a tacked on penalty for killing a cop, without that, he wouldn't have that sentence. If you really didn't care about that bit, you should have no problem with him being re-sentenced to something other than mandatory life. 

 

I've read of juvenile killings where it's clearly the end point of a series of escalating bad judgments. I've also read of ones where it appears to be remorseless evil for lack of a better description. In the former I will argue that there is the possibility, however remote, of the person learning to exercise better judgment. In many cases just making past early 20s and the end of the hormonally fueled growth period of adolescence will cut back on some of the risk taking and impulse control (some). In general I see mandatory minimums as a bad thing, just like zero tolerance at schools. We already spent the money to have folks in a room to exercise some judgment, if something has a penalty range of 25-life, I don't see the problem with letting the court decide where in that range it falls. I also don't see the problem with when you have a truly evil juvenile whose obviously way past the line, that they might be deserving of the life time end of that spectrum.