Teen Hearing Rescheduled

By Debbie Williams Reporter

It will be another week before we know if a Pensacola teenager will go back to jail or stay home. Teen Hearing Rescheduled

Published: Thu, February 28, 2008 - 7:45 pm

Debbie Williams

It will be another week before we know if a Pensacola teenager will go back to jail or stay home. Jamal Lee is charged in a weekend murder that has affected two school campuses and kept prosecutors busy trying to get him back in jail.
Jamal Lee is the teenager accused of a murder that started a panic at two hgih schools and kept half the student body home earlier this week.
"It's a murder case, it's sad as it is with everything that's going on around the nation the school shootings colleges so we just don't know," says Tameka Stallworth a family friend.
The teenager was back in an Escambia County courtroom to find out if he would be able to remain free or have to wait for his trial in a jail cell. Lee is charged with the weekend murder of one teenager and wounding another. He was released on bond Monday night and since then authorities have been trying to get him back behind bars.
A pretrial detention hearing was delayed when Lee's attorney asked for more time to prepare her case. Judge Lynn Nobles granted her request.
"Naturally I was hoping he'd be detained," says Assistant States Attorney David Rimmer, "that's ultimately what they state wants in this case I think he's dangerous."
Rimmer says the gun used in the murder has never been found. Lee also has a juvenile record and last October was involved in a drive-by shooting according
to Rimmer. That is something that concerns school officials still dealing with the after effects of the weekend crime.
"We would all be more at ease if the young man was detained for his safety as well as that of others," says school spokesman Ronnie Arnold.
Lee nor any of his family member would talk about the case but friends say he deserves a chance. "Gods grace and mercy should be fore everybody he's somebody childs now granted we don't know if he's guilty or not so why hold him on just cause we have to lock everybody up," says Stallworth.
The detention hearing is scheduled for next Friday. In the meantime, Lee has a G-P-S monitor, he can not go within a thousand feet of the victim's families, any of the eyewitnesses or any school campus.

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asda Says:

Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:40 am

Try him as an adult and seek the death penality and see if he is still smiling and laughing then! I think if you are accused of murder then you should be kept in jail with no possiblity of bail until a grand jury hearing has taken place. This would go to help the community feel safer and would keep the accused safe as well from people trying to get back at him for the crime he is accused of committing

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hopeful Says:

Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:10 am

its as if there is no honor (REALLY)among todays youth.there is just too much glorification with guns and trying to be the toughest.whatever happens from hereon,will not change the fact that one youth is dead,murdered by his fellow peer,and for WHAT?

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Nanathatloves Says:

Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 7:56 pm

I just watched the tape of the Lee character, and if you watch it when he gets on the elevator he begins to scratch his head he is giving the finger to the camera at first then he changes the finger to his index finger. I think you are a sick person to do what you did and on the camera you laugh and smile like you think that murder is so funny. Better not laugh you could be the next victim yourself! You are someone’s child, and how would your mother feel if she was in these victims parents shoes! This just makes me sick!

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