No new sentence: Judge rules Nicholas Lindsey to get life in prison for shooting Officer David Crawford
A teenager convicted of killing a St. Petersburg police officer will not receive a new sentence.
Judge Thane Covert ruled Friday morning that 18-year-old Nicholas Lindsey will serve life in prison without the possibility of parole for the shooting death of Officer David Crawford, despite being only 16 years old at the time of the February 2011 shooting.
Lindsey was tried and convicted and, because minors can't receive the death penalty in the United States, was sentenced to life in prison.
But Lindsey wanted a reduced sentence after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people under the age of 18 can't be handed automatic life sentences, and that some consideration of alternatives must be made.
Judge Covert gave consideration, and in a lengthy statement issued from the bench on Friday, determined Lindsey's behavior on the night of February 21, 2011.
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