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A prosecutor strongly opposed a judge's decision Thursday to give a lighter sentence to the last of those accused in the severe beating of a 54-year-old man who stopped in their neighborhood after inadvertently
hitting a child with his pickup.

Latrez Cummings, 19, misled the judge about his school enrollment status, is reported to be a foot soldier for a gang and claimed a back injury kept him out of work before he violently attacked Steven Utash, said Lisa Lindsey, assistant Wayne County prosecutor.

"There is nothing in this report (that is) favorable to this young man," Lindsey said of a report that determined sentencing guidelines, adding that nothing indicates he should get leniency.

Third Judicial Circuit Judge James Callahan sent Cummings to jail for six months as part of a three-year intensive probation sentence.