re: Group of "teens" beat homeless man to death.

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Attorney Max Kramer said Aleathea Gillard, 34, is a single mother of eight kids, works as a home health aide and had never before been arrested.

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"What this defendant did was street justice," she said of Gillard.

The prosecutor said Barnes' life "is in the balance" right now, and the victim is on a ventilator. "Right now, if the plug is pulled, we would be dealing" with a murder case, she said.

Kramer told the judge that Gillard gave a statement to detectives "admitting her involvement in the attack." He said she mistakenly believed at the time of the attack that Barnes had injured her 10-year-old son. She later learned her son had lied, the lawyer said.

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