JEFFREY STONE - Aged 15 years - Attalla, Alabama (USA)

Posted by Lynn Stone

22nd April 2009

Hearing, trial, and case conference dates for both nathan and smiley keep getting changed. All the evidence is still not in, e.g., nathan's computer is still being analyzed at Quantico, still some questions on identifying fingerprints, etc. We still maintain contact w/Marcus Reid, the asst DA. But, right now, there's nothing new. There is some expectation that nathan will enter a blind plea with expert witness testimoney from an 'independent psychiatrist' who may deem him 'mentally impaired' (not NGRI) so that he'd be under the purview of federal guidelines and receive a reduced sentence, e.g., 20 years. smiley's parents appealed the court's decision to maintain the $250K cash bond at indictment but that was denied. Don't know if they're going to go to supreme court with it, trying to get him out of jail until trial. But the evidence of flight risk should prevail, based on his mother's statements to others that were entered into evidence at the first hearing to protest the bond. Needless to say, a 'stay' was granted on Jeff's civil suit against nathan b/c he hasn't been adjudicated yet. In smiley's case, he never responded so a default motion was granted and the judge advised our attys that $7 million was an 'appropriate amount to seek.' big deal - smiley doesn't have anything in his name. He was living in a basement apt in his parent's house and they paid for everything he had. So it's really moot.

http://helpfindthemissing.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-3834-p-2.html

Gadsden Times

5 November 2010

Lee sentenced in teen's 2008 shooting death

Millican sentenced Lee to 30 years on the murder charge and 10 years on the abuse of a corpse charge and ordered the sentences to be served concurrently.

Millican said the plea agreement was reached among the district attorney's office, Lee and the Stone family.

“Had this case been tried to its conclusion and gone to trial, the sentence would have been severely different,” Millican said.

Reid said the agreement was reached so the family could have “finality.”

He said the maximum sentence for the murder charge would have been life in prison and Lee would have been eligible for parole in about the same number of years with that sentence as he will for the 30-year sentence.

“And the family avoids the trauma of a trial,” he said.


..... Smiley is awaiting trial.

http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/20101105/NEWS/101109869?p=2&tc=pg