Frankie Telles, convicted earlier this year of second-degree murder in the 2004 shooting death of 14-year-old Jorge Olivas, asked state District Judge Stephen Bridgforth for leniency on Thursday, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported.

"All I ask for is this once chance to be on probation and in my son's life," said the 25-year-old Telles, who asked the judge to put him on an ankle bracelet so he could return to his son, who was born after his arrest, the Sun-News said.

But Bridgforth imposed the maximum 21 1/2-year sentence for second-degree murder and gave Telles an additional nine years for possessing a shank while awaiting trial at the Dona Ana County Detention Center, the paper reported.

Telles, who must serve about 20 years in prison before becoming eligible for parole, could also face another nine years if found guilty of a pending charge of possessing a weapon at the jail, the Sun-News said.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Amy Orlando told the judge at the sentencing hearing on Thursday that Telles' plea for leniency was part of what she called a continuous ploy by Telles, including his feigning the severity of a mental illness, the paper reported.

Telles' attorneys have said their client sufferes from paranoid schizophrenia and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, the Sun-News said.

Telles, a known gang member, was found guilty of shooting Olivas, a Sierra Middle School student, three times as the boy walked home with a friend from a city youth center, the paper reported.

Telles, Ruben De La O and a third man confronted the teen and his friend, and while the third man was never charged in connection with the shooting, De La O is serving a 10-year prison term, the Sun-News reported.

Jurors were unable to agree on a first-degree murder conviction for Telles but convicted him for second-degree murder at his trial in early May, the paper said. 

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