FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (CNN) -- Attorneys for 14-year-old Lionel Tate filed an appeal ... the 1999 beating death of 6-year-old Tiffany Eunick, when Tate was 12. Tate is represented by a new ...

The attorney for Lionel Tate is arguing for a lighter sentence for his client, who was convicted as an adult of first-degree murder for killing 6-year-old Tiffany Eunick in 1999, when Lionel was 12.