AL teen turns down 25-year plea deal, gets sentenced to 65 years instead

April 08, 2018, 07:41 AM

Bigboreshooter

AL teen turns down 25-year plea deal, gets sentenced to 65 years instead - and laughs

www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/07/...tead-and-laughs.html

An Alabama teen laughed Thursday as a judge sentenced him to 65 years in prison for murder and theft after he rejected a plea deal that would have given him 25 years behind bars.

Lakeith Smith, 18, of Montgomery, Ala., was sentenced to 65 years by Judge Sibley Reynolds for “felony murder, armed burglary, second-degree theft and third-degree theft,” FOX8 LIVE reported.

Smith smiled and laughed while being sentenced at the Elmore County courthouse. He had turned down a plea deal that would have recommended he spend 25 years in prison on the charges.

“I don’t think Mr. Smith will be smiling long when he gets to prison,” C.J. Robinson, chief assistant district attorney, said. “We are very pleased with this sentence. Because the sentences are consecutive, it will be a long time before he comes up for even the possibility for parole, at least 20 to 25 years.”

Judge Reynolds said Smith seemed to show no remorse for his crimes during the trial and did not apologize. He also overhead the teen say, “I don’t have time for this.”

“You got plenty of time for this,” Reynolds told Smith before announcing the sentence. “When I called the case earlier you said you ain’t got time for this, so I didn’t know if you had time for this now?”

Smith laughed and said he did not know Reynolds heard his comment.

“You just don’t get it, do you?” Reynolds asked. "He hasn't said I'm sorry yet. He hasn't acknowledged to this court that he shouldn't have done, shouldn't have come around, in fact, his attitude toward this court and life, in general, has been sour.”

Smith’s grandfather pleaded with the judge and the teen to give him a chance to apologize.

“He’s had every opportunity,” Reynolds said. "I’ve asked two or three times today.”

“Are you sorry?” the grandfather asked Smith. The teenager replied that he was.

Smith was charged under Alabama’s accomplice law, “which holds co-defendants can be guilty of murder if a death occurs when they are committing a crime,” the Montgomery Adviser reported.

On Feb. 23, 2015, Smith, along with four other people, broke into two homes in Millbrook. Police responded to calls of the robberies, and the suspects fired at the officer who entered the home they were raiding. The suspects fled the home but continued to fire at the officer.

One of the suspects, A’Donte Washington, 16, of Montgomery, who was armed with a revolver, allegedly pointed a gun at the officer, body cam footage showed. The officer fired at the teenager, killing him.

Smith was charged with Washington’s death despite not firing the shots due to the accomplice law. A grand jury cleared the officer who fired the shots at Washington.

The other suspects, Jhavarske Jackson, 23, Jadarien Hardy, 22 and La’Anthony Washington, 22, entered guilty pleas of “felony murder, burglary and theft” but have not been sentenced yet.

“Standing there in court, I couldn’t help but have compassion for his grandfather, for his family," Robinson said. “Because of his stupidity, they have lost him for 65 years.”

April 08, 2018, 07:52 AM

ChicagoSigMan

Lakeith, Jhavarske, Jadarien and La'Anthony????

Seriously?

April 08, 2018, 07:52 AM

Gene Hillman

With those names you just know those kids were going to be successful at life. They might end up as President of The United States.

April 08, 2018, 07:58 AM

12131

Lakeith will enjoy his vacation in Laprison.

April 08, 2018, 08:12 AM

Copefree

Lakeith!! They just threw the “La” in front of the whitest name out there.

That is lalarious!!

I’m waiting for LaJake now.

April 08, 2018, 08:15 AM

Bytes

quote:
Originally posted by Bigboreshooter:
“Standing there in court, I couldn’t help but have compassion for his grandfather, for his family," Robinson said. “Because of his stupidity, they have lost him for 65 years.”

I'm not quite sure what they have lost. Do I lose something when I clean dog do off my shoe?

April 08, 2018, 09:56 AM

mbinky

I read this article yesterday. We shouldn't waste our money. He is not sorry, and he will never be sorry. In his mind he was justified. In his mind we are the joke. No amount of time in prison will change that. He will spend the next 60 years of his life getting fed, clothed, and educated with our tax dollars. That is not a punishment.

He should be taken out back and hung by the neck until he is dead.

We need to stop wasting our time and money on these savages. Him and his ilk are of ZERO benefit to society.

April 08, 2018, 09:59 AM

trapper189

quote:
Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:
Lakeith, Jhavarske, Jadarien and La'Anthony????

Seriously?

They done Jafukkedup.

April 08, 2018, 10:02 AM

V-Tail

quote:
La'Anthony

The apostrophe is silent.

April 08, 2018, 10:09 AM

Elk Hunter

quote:
Originally posted by Gene Hillman:
With those names you just know those kids were going to be successful at life. They might end up as President of The United States.

Doubt it. We had one of those recently. Didn't turn out well for the country.

April 08, 2018, 12:34 PM

sgalczyn

quote:
Originally posted by mbinky:
I read this article yesterday. We shouldn't waste our money. He is not sorry, and he will never be sorry. In his mind he was justified. In his mind we are the joke. No amount of time in prison will change that. He will spend the next 60 years of his life getting fed, clothed, and educated with our tax dollars. That is not a punishment.

He should be taken out back and hung by the neck until he is dead.

We need to stop wasting our time and money on these savages. Him and his ilk are of ZERO benefit to society.

Be comforted knowing that since he's going in at 18.....he'll be "bitch of the block" for the 1st 10-20 years.

April 08, 2018, 12:35 PM

P-220

Those damn Irish yutes' are at it again!

April 08, 2018, 12:39 PM

Lord Vaalic

quote:
Originally posted by Elk Hunter:
quote:
Originally posted by Gene Hillman:
With those names you just know those kids were going to be successful at life. They might end up as President of The United States.

Doubt it. We had one of those recently. Didn't turn out well for the country.

You mean Barry?

April 08, 2018, 01:05 PM

18DAI

Any one of those four POSs could have been Obamas son.

Evidently none of them will ever get hunch backed from carrying brains around.

Aint got time for this? Well, do as much as you can homey. Regards 18DAI

April 08, 2018, 01:22 PM

esdunbar

quote:
Originally posted by mbinky:
I read this article yesterday. We shouldn't waste our money. He is not sorry, and he will never be sorry. In his mind he was justified. In his mind we are the joke. No amount of time in prison will change that. He will spend the next 60 years of his life getting fed, clothed, and educated with our tax dollars. That is not a punishment.

He should be taken out back and hung by the neck until he is dead.

We need to stop wasting our time and money on these savages. Him and his ilk are of ZERO benefit to society.

+100000000000000000000000000000000

Until everyone else understands this, we won’t be able to fix our society. Ban guns, ban drugs, make more laws...it’s the hearts of some men that are the problem, it’s that simple.

People like him are a small % of our society. We make excuses for them and allow them to terrorize us over and over. We need to cowboy up and get rid of these types and move forward.