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Teen Sentenced to 12 Years for Shooting Cop
6/15/01 NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A 16-year-old boy who pleaded guilty to shooting a police officer in the face last April was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Thursday.
Metro Youth Services Officer Joe Cooper had stopped Marquice Lindsley, who was 15 at the time, to ask why he was not in school.
Cooper said later that Lindsley told the officer his name, birth date and school without hesitation, but he pulled a gun when the officer said, “I am going to pat you down.”
According to Assistant District Attorney Jim Todd, prosecutors agreed Thursday to let Lindsley plead guilty to a reduced charge of attempted second-degree murder because of “difficulties that arose during the investigation of this incident.”
Cooper had picked a different youth out of a lineup two weeks after he was shot, and the only known witness could not identify the young man.
Officers entered Lindsley’s home on Wilborn Street without first getting a search warrant and Lindsley’s lawyers attempted to suppress the statement that he gave to Metro police after going to the Juvenile Justice Center with his mother the night of the shooting.
Defense attorneys said Metro detectives failed to explain Lindsley’s rights before questioning him.
Cooper returned to light duty in July. As a result of the shooting, he lost two teeth and some feeling in his lower jaw, but medical authorities said if the bullet had been one inch higher or lower, it would have been fatal.
6/15/01 NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A 16-year-old boy who pleaded guilty to shooting a police officer in the face last April was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Thursday.
Metro Youth Services Officer Joe Cooper had stopped Marquice Lindsley, who was 15 at the time, to ask why he was not in school.
Cooper said later that Lindsley told the officer his name, birth date and school without hesitation, but he pulled a gun when the officer said, “I am going to pat you down.”
According to Assistant District Attorney Jim Todd, prosecutors agreed Thursday to let Lindsley plead guilty to a reduced charge of attempted second-degree murder because of “difficulties that arose during the investigation of this incident.”
Cooper had picked a different youth out of a lineup two weeks after he was shot, and the only known witness could not identify the young man.
Officers entered Lindsley’s home on Wilborn Street without first getting a search warrant and Lindsley’s lawyers attempted to suppress the statement that he gave to Metro police after going to the Juvenile Justice Center with his mother the night of the shooting.
Defense attorneys said Metro detectives failed to explain Lindsley’s rights before questioning him.
Cooper returned to light duty in July. As a result of the shooting, he lost two teeth and some feeling in his lower jaw, but medical authorities said if the bullet had been one inch higher or lower, it would have been fatal.