A capital murder suspect was looking to make a deal today. 20-year-old Harold
Wallace, Jr. accused of shooting and killing innocent bystander Tamara White
was in court requesting "youthful offender" status, a scenario where Wallace
could have escaped a possible death penalty.
Cuffed and shackled -- 20-year-old Harold Wallace, Jr. made his way into court
Thursday afternoon. He's charged with capital murder in the death of
22-year-old Tamara White in March of 2017.
By all accounts, the single mother was in the wrong place at the wrong time
when she was hit by a bullet while waiting in the parking lot of the Springhill
McDonald's. Judge John Lockett heard the case and denied Wallace's request for
"youthful offender" status.
"We are all as Tamara's family pleased with Judge Lockett not to award youthful
offender status," said Tammy White, Tamara's mother.
After the request was denied, Wallace pleaded not guilty to capital murder.
While Tamara's family is relieved her suspected killer won't get the easy way
out, they're still mourning her loss as they navigate their way through the
legal system.
"Tamara is truly missed. She was a great mom, great sister, daughter.
Everything. So she's missed," said White.
The Mobile County District Attorney's Office is ready to prosecute and is also
pleased the request was denied.
"It was certainly emotional for them and it's always emotional to be in that
same courtroom and in the same room with the defendant and person who took
their loved one's life. So it was an emotional day for them, but they are
pleased with youthful offender status being denied," said Jennifer Wright,
Mobile County Assistant District Attorney.
All parties are set to meet on July 25th and decide on how to move closer to a
trial date.
Man's death penalty trial set for 2019 in Huntsville strangling deaths of wife,
young son
A death penalty trial is scheduled early next year for a south Huntsville man
pursuing an insanity defense in the strangling deaths of his wife and
7-year-old son.
Stephen Marc Stone is charged with capital murder in the February 2013
killings. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty if he's convicted.
Stone, 38, was 1 of 5 capital murder suspects who had hearings in Madison
County Circuit Judge Donna Pate's courtroom this afternoon. Pate scheduled the
trial for Jan. 28.
Stone was just recently released from treatment at the Alabama Department of
Mental Health. Pate in May 2017 ruled Stone was incompetent to stand trial. She
ordered he be treated to regain competency. The judge hasn't held a rehearing
on his competency since he was released from treatment.
The bodies of 7-year-old Zachary Stone and 32-year-old Krista Stone were found
at the family's Chicamauga Trail home in south Huntsville on Feb. 24, 2013.
Stephen Stone has been in custody without bail since that day.
Stone is represented by appointed attorneys Brian Clark and Larry Marsili.
Madison County District Attorney Rob Broussard and Chief Trial Attorney Tim
Gann are prosecuting.
3 other capital murder suspects received trial dates in unrelated cases during
this afternoon's hearings in Judge Pate's courtroom:
Jason Loveday is tentatively scheduled for trial Oct. 29, 2018. Prosecutors
haven't yet said whether they'll seek the death penalty. Loveday is accused of
decapitating his aunt and fatally beating her boyfriend.
Keon Jackson is tentatively set for trial Oct. 29. Prosecutors aren't planning
to seek the death penalty. Jackson is charged in the fatal shooting of his
brother-in-law, whose body was found in a burning house.
Jebree King's trial is set for Nov. 26. He's charged in the 2014 shooting death
of Lawrence Alan Williams Jr.
Source: WALA news, al.com, June 15, 2018
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