Michael pleaded guilty, went to prison for almost 11 years, and spent just one year as a free man before being sent back to jail for a parole violation.
“Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.,” by Danielle Allen, is a compassionate retelling of an abjectly tragic story. And isn’t that what young teenagers do when they’re in distress? Consult their moms? He was 15 on the day of his bungled heist. Allen, having no idea which to choose, did the only thing he could think to do: He outsourced the decision to his mother.Īllen was barely 16 when he had his day in court. If a jury found Allen guilty, he’d get 25 years to life in prison. Just 18 months earlier, California had passed the infamous “three strikes” law. It was an inauspicious time for Allen to come clean about his sins. In the ambulance, Allen immediately confessed to his offense in the hospital, he waived his Miranda rights and added - out of guilt? naïveté? fear? - that he’d committed four robberies within the previous two weeks.īefore that moment, he’d had no criminal record. He kept his gun pointed toward the ground the entire time, allowing his victim the chance to wrestle it from him and shoot him through the neck. Allen didn’t have a driver’s license, and he didn’t have much of a talent for violent crime, either. 17, 1995, Michael Allen attempted to carjack the Cadillac of a 44-year-old man in a drab neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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