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    Lemon Lane Sentenced to LWOP in 2009 FL Slaying of Anthony Nathan

    The trial against Lemon Lane, the man charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Anthony Nathan, will begin with jury selection today.

    According to a motion filed by the Public Defenders Office, the state will seek the death penalty.

    Lane was arrested Aug. 20, 2009, by the Leon County Sheriff's office.

    LCSO found Nathan with a shotgun wound outside his house on Cathedral Drive. He was taken to Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, where he later died of his injuries.

    Lane was arrested after he ran a red light and admitted to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Officer Chris Jones that he'd just shot a man.

    According to the LCSO probable cause affidavit, Lane and Nathan were involved in a physical fight earlier in the day and Nathan's wife, Carla Nathan, said she witnessed her husband and Lane fight twice. During the second fight, Nathan and Lane threatened each other with tire irons, she said.

    The affidavit said Lane reportedly went home, picked up a shotgun and followed Nathan and his wife back to their house. Lane found Nathan working on his car, fired once and pursued Nathan when he tried to escape.

    Prosecutor Jack Campbell and public defender Steven Been have been assigned to the case.

    http://www.tallahassee.com/article/2...lty-Lane-trial

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    Lemon Lane Removed from Court on Stretcher

    Lemon Lane, who had to be removed from court on a stretcher, has been released from local hospital and will be back in court today.

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    Update: Lemon Lane sentenced to life without parole

    4:44 p.m. update

    Lemon Lane was sentenced this afternoon to life imprisonment without parole.

    Prosecutors have decided not to seek the death penalty and accept the life sentence. Lane also waived his right to appeal.

    Judge James Hankinson asked Lane if was fully aware of his options and knew he was waiving appeals. Lane mumbled "yes sir" to each question.

    Anthony Nathan's parents, Danny Nathan and Mary Louise Everett, testified that they forgave Lane for their son's murder.
    3:33 p.m. update

    Lemon Lane was found guilty of first-degree murder this afternoon, the State Attorney's Office said.

    Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty, and it will be decided next week whether Lane will be sentenced to life imprisonment or death.
    2 p.m.

    The murder trial of a man charged in the shotgun slaying of a boyhood friend whom he pursued from Thomasville, Ga., to Tallahassee in a fit of rage went to the jury this afternoon in Leon County Circuit Court.

    Assistant State Attorney Jack Campbell said Lemon Norris Lane’s guilt was proved by the testimony and physical evidence arrayed against him by witnesses and sheriff’s investigators. Campbell said Lane and Anthony Nathan had a fight in Georgia and that Nathan got in his truck to return to Tallahassee, when Lane forced Nathan’s vehicle off a dirt road and a second fight occurred – this time with tire irons.

    Both times, family members broke up the fights but Campbell said Lane followed the Nathans to their mobile home park southwest of Tallahassee, and jumped out of his truck with a shotgun. He said Nathan lost a finger and had severe damage to one arm by a birdshot blast, and that Lane then reloaded with buckshot and chased Nathan behind his trailer home, shooting him in the back.

    Assistant Public Defender Steve Been conceded that Lane showed bad judgment by driving about 50 miles from rural Georgia in pursuit of Nathan. But he said the first shot could have been an accident, as the men struggled over the shotgun, and that the second might have been fired in self-defense, as Lane believed that Nathan – a boyhood friend known as “Tater” -- could have retrieved a pistol from his own truck before fleeing behind his mobile home.

    “He went there to talk to him,” said Been. “He didn’t pick up that gun until Tater charged him.”

    Campbell told jurors, “Don’t lose the forest for the trees. Base your verdict on the evidence and the law.”

    The prosecutor said pre-meditation was established by the fact that Lane drove from the Thomasville area after the initial fight with Nathan, brought a single-shot weapon that had to be reloaded after the first shot, and pursued Nathan behind the mobile home – hitting him in the rear part of his right underarm, indicating the victim was facing away from him.
    11:50 a.m.

    The jury has retired following closing arguments in the first-degree murder trial of Lemon Lane.

    Lane is charged with the 2009 shooting of Anthony.

    Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
    9:30 a.m.

    Closing arguments are happening this morning in the first-degree murder trial of Lemon Lane, charged in the 2009 shooting death of Anthony Nathan.

    Lane was arrested in 2009 after running a red light and telling law enforcement he’d just shot a man. Deputies found Nathan with a shotgun wound outside his house on Cathedral Drive.

    Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

    http://www.tallahassee.com/article/2...text|FRONTPAGE

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