MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida prosecutors on Friday offered a plea deal of three years' detention to Lionel Tate, the teenager whose life sentence for the beating death of a younger playmate sparked a national debate on the prosecution of children.
The offer came just over two weeks after a Florida appeals court ordered a new trial for Tate who was convicted in 2001 of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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