The justice system flipped the script on a teen charged for his friend's death.
Lakeith Smith laughed after a judge handed him a 65-year-consecutive sentence for the tragic death of A'Donte Washington.
The pair were responsible for the break-ins of two Alabama homes back in 2015. When they were approached by police about the thefts, 16-year-old Washington was shot and killed by an unnamed officer for allegedly "brandishing a firearm."

The circuit court decided to hold Smith responsible under the Alabama accomplice liability law. In other words, seeing as how the encounter was due to the burglaries, it doesn't matter that Washington was murdered by the gun of an officer because he was a partner of a crime with Smith.
Though Lakeith was 15 at the time, he was tried as an adult at, now, 18-years-old. Judge Sibley Reynolds seemed to take it personally when he easily threw him 30 years for the murder, 15 years for the burglary, and 20 years for both home theft convictions with the possibility of parole too far in the future to tell.
The young man's smile may have sent some the wrong message, but his lawyer, Jennifer Holton, made her stance clear during the trial.
“The officer shot A’Donte, not Lakeith Smith. Lakeith was a 15-year-old child, scared to death. He did not participate in the act that caused the death of A’Donte. He never shot anybody.”
Source: theroot.com