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Lionel Tate Plea Deal 3/1/06 Noon Ted Scouten Lionel Tate pleaded guilty Wednesday to the armed robbery of a pizza delivery man last spring, which could net him up to 30 years in prison but spare him a possible life sentence for violating probation in the 1999 killing of a young girl. Tate, once the youngest person in modern U.S. history to receive a life prison sentence, said ''Yes, sir'' when asked if he would plead guilty to the robbery by Broward County Circuit Judge Joel T. Lazarus, who scheduled sentencing for April 3. Tate could receive between 10 and 30 years in prison, Lazarus said. Tate also admitted that he had violated probation by possessing a gun during the May 23 robbery and that he had violated the law by doing so. Lazarus said that any sentence he imposes for those violations would run concurrently with the robbery sentence. The guilty plea is the latest twist in the long-running case of Tate, who was convicted of killing 6-year-old Tiffany Eunick when he was only 12. Tate, now 19, did not have to be convicted of the crime for Lazarus to decide he must go to prison, but the guilty plea settles that matter.