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.
burglary. serious charge particularly given that you ve got a prior charge for burglary that you re on probation for. the purpose of this is whether you stay here or whether you re released to your mother s custody. the thing that the court looks at in making its decision are going to be 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 that you re a threat or you re not going to return, you should stay locked up. what do you think should happen? i should be released. i have a job. many times the kids say, here s what i want. as a lawyer you try to get that result but you know that at the end of the day that that s not the right outkcome because ultimately if you return a child, place a child back into the environment that led the child into the system to begin with, you re fostering the problem. michael s past history and his refusal to answer police
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
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