A teenager at the center of a civil rights controversy is back in jail after a judge sentenced him on charges that were pending before the attack that put him in the national spotlight, his attorney said Thursday.

Mychal Bell, who along with five other black teenagers had been accused of beating a white classmate, went to juvenile court Thursday expecting another routine hearing, said Carol Powell Lexing, one of Bell’s attorneys.

Instead, after a six-hour hearing, state District Judge J.P. Mauffrey Jr. sentenced him to 18 months on two counts of simple battery and two counts of criminal destruction of property, Lexing said.

You'd think the National News Media that spent weeks painting the members of the Jena "Six" as victims, who only participated in a "schoolyard fight," might think it worth mentioning that one of these poor young boys was being returned to jail.

You'd think that the same news bureaus that sent reporters to do live on-site reports of the "injustice" of the whole situation would at least dedicate a little time to letting you know that one of the Jena Six had violated the terms of his probation (which stemmed from an unrelated case, BTW)

You'd think that the anchors who breathlessly portrayed Jena as a backwater town of burning crosses and white-hooded shadows would think it important to inform us that one of these "innocent" young men already had a rap sheet and now has to pay the piper.

You'd think...