Timothy Kane Case Summary

In the case of 14 year old Timothy Kane a Florida teenager, reveals how youths can be hauled away for life, when the evidence shows he was just a tagging along with a group of friends
On the night of January 26, 1992 while watching a Super Bowl game and playing video games with some older juveniles, Timothy Kane decided to tag along with the group who planned to burglarize a neighbor’s house.
On the way over to burglarize the home, the group of 5 juveniles rode their bikes and stop on the way to feed some ducks, then dumped their bikes in some bushes. At the last minute, two of the five juveniles took off. Leaving behind Kane, who didn’t want to be labeled a scaredy-cat, and 19 year old Alvin Morton and 17 year old Bobby Garner. The group of juveniles expected the house to be empty, but found 75 year old Madeline Weisser, and her son 55 John Bowers were in fact at home.

Timothy hid behind the dining table while the other two males went crazy.

While Mr. Bowers was pleading for his life, Mr. Morton who was described in court as a sociopath, shot Bowers in the back of the neck, killing him. While trying to shoot Ms. Weisser, Mr. Morton’s gun jammed, so he stabbed her in the neck using a blunt knife. His accomplice Mr. Garner commenced to step on the knife almost decapitating Ms. Weisser.
According to the prosecutor Robert W. Attridge, "I firmly believe what they were trying to do was take the head as a kind of souvenir," (2005, October 3). Jailed for Life After Crimes as Teenagers. The New York

Times.
In fact, the juveniles succeeding with cutting off Mr. Bower’s pinkie finger and showed it off to their friends.
Alvin Morton was convicted and sentenced to death. While Bobby Garner, a juvenile delinquent and was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for 50 years. Timothy Kane was also convicted and sentenced to life, but he will be eligible for parole after serving 25 years. Kane is not too optimistic that he will ever be paroled because of the changes in the Florida law. In 1995 Florida law eliminated the possibility of parole for people convicted and sentenced to life.
Florida is now one of the states with the majority juveniles serving life sentencing. The state has 600 juvenile offenders serving life sentences. 270 of the juveniles, including Ms. Falcon, who committed their crime(s) in 1997, are serving life without parole sentences.