Detroit: Nathaniel Abraham back to prison...again.

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PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) -- A man who spent his adolescent years in state custody for a rifle-slaying he committed at age 11 received a four-to-20-year prison sentence Monday on a drug conviction.

Nearly two years to the day that he walked out of juvenile detention as a free man, Nathaniel Abraham was ordered back behind bars for trying to sell Ecstasy out of the trunk of his car.

The 22-year-old from Pontiac was charged last year with dealing drugs after undercover officers in his hometown said they caught him selling at a gas station.

"I'm not saying I'll never make a mistake again," Abraham told Oakland County Circuit Judge Daniel O'Brien during Monday morning's sentencing hearing. "Given the opportunity, I know I can be a success to the community."

"A mistake is not noticing this step and tripping," O'Brien replied. "That's a mistake."

"You have the ability to say `I'm never going to commit a crime again,' because crimes require an intent," O'Brien said.

Abraham lawyer Byron Pitts said his client is sorry for what he's done.

"He's going to have a long time to think about it," Pitts said.

Abraham, who pleaded guilty in November to possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, made national headlines when he fatally shot Ronnie Greene, 18, of Pontiac on Oct. 29, 1997. The then-11-year-old was arrested two days later and convicted in November 1999 of second-degree murder.

Abraham was sentenced to juvenile detention until his 21st birthday and was released in January 2007.

At that court hearing, Abraham caused a stir by donning a flamboyant suit that some viewed as inappropriate.

"Show us all that you have become a caring, productive member of society," Oakland County Probate Judge Eugene Moore, who has been stern yet supportive of Abraham over the years, said at the time of his release.

"I know you can do it. Do it."

Sixteen months later, Abraham again was in police custody, arrested at the Pontiac gas station with 254 Ecstasy pills in a bag in his trunk.

After the arrest, Moore said in a statement that he was "very disappointed and particularly sad for the hundreds of people who worked hard to rehabilitate him for the nine years he was in the state training school and the wonderful mentors and volunteers and churches that stood by him."

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  • Human scum.

  • Judge Daniel O'Brien is a "ECIT" Egotistic-Corrupt-Incompetent-­Thug. The record will support my claim. Vincent George

  • I read a lot of different people's comments, and I solely agree with some of the sentencings that the judges prescribe for certain individuals. But in all fairness I think that we should refrain from the N word in all comments. This only insights more violence between races. Of course everyone has their own opinion, but as a white man myself I don't think it's proper.

  • "i whut da du wight bu mu fumly"

    well shit man its too late for an ABORTION!

  • Endless crimes commited by niggers. Goddamn lynch them all.

  • If it wasn't for the SOB Fieger getting his stinking two jewish cents into this asshole's

    defense's team first time around, there'd be no need for yet another trial as he would still be in the penitentiary where his arse belongs.

    I fucking hate kikes and criminals.

  • @apapke1 whites are the ones supplying all the drugs to the blacks. whites are the ones shipping the heroin back to the us that is supplying the street gangs. gangs need a way to sell their product so they have to have there own spot or else theres going to be constant fighting over who gets what sales so they bang it out over drug territories to be able to sell the white mans drugs. im white, but even i see the bullshit going on. now the heroin is starting to pour into the suburbs so its a prob

  • @badguy3101 TALK BIG ON THIS COMPUTER BITCH CRIME IN AMERICA WILL NEVER DROP BECAUSE WHITES ARE REALLY COWARDS THAT LIKE TO CALL NAMES LIKE SOME THREE YEAR OLD IN A FUCKING PARK BWAHAHAHAHAH

  • @DetroitIsCrust It ISSS

  • @apapke1 Of fucking course whites commit crimes, BUT NOT AT SAME SAME RATE AS NIGGERS in proportion to their population you idiot!!

    Black Hoods lay in ruins because of the Niggers that live there NOT because of ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE!!!

    Niggers waste Niggers ALL THE TIME!! As a matter of fact the biggest threat to a smelly Niggers worthless life is another smelly worthless govenment cheese eating NIGGER!!

    Or is that George Bush's fault too!!

    Niggers=ANIMALS!!!!

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