article_snippet: Standing near a memorial of candles and balloons, Carter said it was simplistic to call Robinson African American, saying Carter had a mixed heritage and Carter racial ambiguity was a central issue in Carter life.
article_snippet: Court documents revealed that Tony Robinson suffered from mental health problems - such as anxiety and depression - and had a choice between a middle-class lifestyle and that of a gangster .
article_snippet: Last year, Robinson pleaded guilty to armed robbery, and was placed on probation.
article_snippet: Sentencing documents show Sentencing documents was Robinson first brush with the law, and Robinson was not the armed person in the group that committed armed robbery.
article_snippet: Robinsonis a great kid in between being a teen and a man,' she wrote. '
article_snippet: That is one of Robinson issues.
article_snippet: she said Robinson grew up poor without Robinson father but was kind-hearted and intelligent.
article_snippet: Robinson's defense attorney, Michael J. Short, wrote to the judge that Robinson had taken special-education classes and had never been in trouble with the law before.
article_snippet: Keith Wessel, a Madison family law attorney who said he was married to Robinson's grandmother for a time, wrote to Short in September and told he that he raised two of Robinson's uncles and knew Robinson from birth.
article_snippet: Wessel wrote that some branches of Robinson's family exposed Wessel to a 'chaotic environment.'
article_snippet: Wessel did not elaborate but said Robinson faced a choice between a middle-class life and the 'gangsta' path.
article_snippet: Wessel warned if Robinson went to prison on a felony charge Robinson would continue toward the gangster world.
article_snippet: Wessel said Robinson stood 6-foot-5 but was a 'teddy bear.'