Alabaman is appealing 55-year sentence for participating in a burglary ending in teen friend's death by police - Juvenile Justice Information ExchangeJuvenile Justice Information Exchange
During the three years that Brontina Smith’s son spent in Alabama’s Elmore County Jail awaiting trial, he packed about 50 pounds onto what had been a 135-pound frame. “So, now, it’s not letting the jury see that they’re dealing with a child,” said the mother of LaKeith Smith, who was 15 in February 2015 when he and a group of boys were caught burglarizing a home just outside of Montgomery. After a watchful neighbor called 9-1-1, Millbrook Police Department officers arrived. There w...
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