judge michael meets with his court-appointed attorney, don ruck. how are you? have a seat. you re being charged with burglary. serious charge particularly given you have a prior charge for burglary that you re on probation for. the purpose of today s court hearing is whether you stay here while these charges against you pend or whether you re released to your mother s custody. the thing the court looks at in making its decision is whether you re a threat to yourself or the public and whether or not you re likely to return to all future court hearings. if the court finds you re a threat or you re not going to return, you re going to stay locked up. what do you think should happen? i think i should be released on house arrest. because i have a job. i m working. many times the kids say here s what i want. as a lawyer,s you try and get that result, but you know at the end of the day that that s not the right outcome. because ultimately if you return a child or place a child back into
like it used to. 17-year-old michael is back in detention for the third time. before appearing in front of the judge michael meets with his court-appointed attorney, don ruck. how are you? have a seat. you re being charged with burglary. serious charge particularly given you have a prior charge for burglary that you re on probation for. the purpose of today s court hearing is whether you stay here while these charges against you pend or whether you re released to your mother s custody. the things the court looks at is whether you re a threat to yourself or to the public and whether or not you re likely to return to all future court hearings. if the court finds you re a threat or you re not going to return, you re going to stay locked up. what do you think should happen? i think i should be released on house arrest.
judge michael meets with his court-appointed attorney, don ruck. how are you? have a seat. you re being charged with burglary. serious charge particularly given you have a prior charge for burglary that you re on probation for. the purpose of today s court hearing is whether you stay here while these charges against you pend or whether you re released to your mother s custody. the things the court looks at is whether you re a threat to yourself or to the public and whether or not you re likely to return to all future court hearings. if the court finds you re a threat or you re not going to return, you re going to stay locked up. what do you think should happen? i think i should be released on house arrest. because i have a job. i m working. many times the kids say here s what i want. as the lawyer, you try to get that result, but you know at the end of the day that that s not the right outcome. because ultimately if you return a child or place a child back into the environment th
ever did. i don t know why, but it s been driving me nuts. i don t know. i m sure the court wants to lend and help him. the ultimate goal is to make him productive in society, but i just don t know given, you know, his age and all the opportunities that have been given to him, i really don t the judge is really faced with a tough decision. i don t envy her. i feel like i m being strangled. it s just i don t i don t know. i don t know. i dmoent what it is, it s like time ain t going by like it used to. 17-year-old michael is back in detention for the third time. before appearing in front of the judge, michael meets with his court-appointed attorney, don ruck. hey, how are you? have a seat. you re being charged with
court-appointed attorney, don ruck. how are you? have a seat. you re being charged with burglary. serious charge particularly given you have a prior charge for burglary that you re on probation for. the purpose of today s court hearing is whether you stay here while these charges against you pend or whether you re released to your mother s custody. the things the court looks at is whether you re a threat to yourself or to the public and whether or not you re likely to return to all future court hearings. if the court finds you re a threat or you re not going to return, you re going to stay locked up. what do you think should happen? i think i should be released on house arrest. because i have a job. i m working. many times the kids say here s what i want. as the lawyer, you try to get