i just want to like go home and take care of my responsibilities. rodrick, do you rememberer judge bonaventura asking you about taking a drug test? yes, ma am. do you say you probably should be clean, something like that. i probably should. so you were trying to put one over on the judge, right? no. i thought i was going to be clean. so that s why i didn t say yes, and that s why i didn t say no. so you were hoping you were going to get by with it. not necessarily. well, you knew you were lying to the judge. judge, hold on. i m going to object to that. he answered the question. the question the court asked, would he pass a drug test. not did he use marijuana. i m going to sustain the objection. no further questions, judge. i have a couple questions for rod. you had tattoos rehe moved, didn t you? yeah. what kind of tattoos were they? i had gang tattoos off a scripture on my arm.
maybe if we hold his hand and help him turn that corner he ll be able to do that. today, i m going to make him a ward of a court in order that he placed appropriately. i will set his matter for review in three months in any event. as it results to kentrell, i think this is a young man that probably the juvenile court system was designed for in some respects. i couldn t let him walk away from us without trying to get him to a point where he s at least literate and can function in some type of a job. today the court is going to make him a ward of the court in order that he be placed at idtc, the indiana developmental training center in indianapolis. all right, then this hearing is adjourned. thank you. man, they don t care about us, man.
i don t want to be here. i just spent a year of my life incarcerated. okay, well calm down first of all. listen to what i m telling you. here s what she s agreed to do. i think this is what we should do. you re charged with two things, possession of marijuana and resisting arrest. you admit the allegations of one, they ll dismiss the other and then we can go in there and we can argue to the court whether you should be released for time served. they all want me to admit to something i didn t even do. just listen to what i m saying. i m trying to get an agreement for you that gets you out of here. you admit to one or the other. you don t want to the admit to marijuana, deny that, they ll dismiss it, you admit to resisting arrest. rodrick and his mother and attorney head off to court. you never know till somebody walks into court and you know and faces the judge how they re going to react or what they re going to say. okay. whatever decision rodrick makes in the next fiv
probation? yes, ma am. i have no further questions, judge. as related to kentrell, this is his fourth criminal delinquency. presently he has an attempted robbery. that would be a b felony if he were an adult. criminal recklessness, that would be a d felon. attempted robbery in it was b felony tells me either a weapon was used or a victim was seriously injured. this is kenneth s sixth delinquency referral. i ask they both remain detained as serious danger to this community. judge, the preference in any case like this when children are being detained that rather than stay locked up that go home. i would suggest that the court to release them home. it may not be the home that we all think is the best environment, but it s their home.
not themselves. they re both staying. detained. i m going to bonaventura? will you state your name, please? devon starkey. how old are you, devon? i m 18. we re here because devon was arrested on a bench warrant issued by the court. it says here your whereabouts were unknown by the juvenile lake county probation department. further he has failed to attend his court-ordered counseling and lastly, he has failed to attend an educational program on a regular basis. go on and have a seat up here, please. you were ordered by the court to attend counseling, is that correct? yes, ma am. did you attend counseling? i had left the home and was trying to live on my own. so i didn t attend from april to june. let s talk about why you left the home. why did you leave your mother s home? the reason i left is we started getting into arguments. i was getting into a little bit