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The case of Lionel Tate On July 28, 1999 Tiffany Eunick’s mother left her to be baby sat by a 12 year old Lionel while the mother went upstairs to visit with Lionels mother. The next 2 hours was between Lionel and tiffany. At 10:40 Lionel went upstairs and told his mother that tiffany was not breathing.

Lionel Tate claimed that they had been watching wrestling and Tiffany had asked him to show her a wrestling move. Witch he performed on her which lead to her death at 10:40pm. At first glance Lionel Tate was just a normal kid with an average IQ. But as prosecutors looked into his background they found that he had a history of violent and malicious behavior. When the autopsy was performed on Tiffany it was found that the cause of her death was not a swift one. It turned out that her cause of death was from a fatal beating that she had suffered for approximately 5 minutes. Other facts that undermined Lionel’s claim came to light with the autopsy, like the fact that she had died at 10:00 instead of 10:40.

Lionel was found guilty and requested a physiological evaluation. The physiologist did not find any characteristics of violent mental problem, instead he felt that he exhibited behaviors of someone who was a fraud. By the time he was sentenced he was 14. He was sentenced to life in prison at age 14 making him the youngest person ever. Tate was released when he was 17 on a ten year probation, which he violated by holding a pizza delivery man at gunpoint. He is currently waiting his second Philological evaluation