if he s dirty, he s going to stay here. what s it going to be? hopefully i ll go home. hopefully go home. did you smoke marijuana of the last 30 days or not. not that i know of. not that you know of? sounds like you re going to get comfortable here. it s either yes or no. not that you know of. did you smoke marijuana in your sleep? huh un. i m not worried about it. completely. i m going home. it has been 21 days since judge bonaventura decided to keep morris detained at lake county juvenile while the probation department and courts determined what is best for him. today he goes back before the judge to learn his fate. put your hands behind your back. judge might tend me to placement. or she ll probably make me if i could talk to the judge right now, i d tell her i m trying to do better.
court and talk to the judge and let her know how you ve been doing but she s going to make that final decision. all we can tell her since you ve come home up till now how you ve been doing. that s a good report. that s not a bad report. we ll see what she has to say and we ll go from there. okay? thank you, sarah. all right. at today s hearing rodrick and morris will learn if they get to go home with their parents or if they must remain detained in lake county juvenile while they await their next court hearing. judge mary beth bonaventura will make the decision. there s two reasons why you order a child detained whether he s a danger to himself or others or there s an unlikelihood that he ll come back to court for the second hearing. so if you make the decision that they are a danger, you detain them, and if you find that they re not a danger then you release them to the parent. brown. right now, i feel like i m going to go home. like my probation officer for how good i bee
there s nothing wrong. after spending a worrisome weekend in juvenile detention, rodrick prepares for his monday morning court date by meeting with his probation officer. while his mother discusses strategy with his court-appointed therapist. he will go into court with a team on his side but his long record will also speak loudly to judge bonaventura. this today is your detention hearing. the judge that s going to hear your case is going to look at if there s probable cause to believe that you committed the acts of possession and the act of resisting. i feel like i ve been working so hard, but like, and this is the first downfall i had since i been home. i know. i don t want to mess up everything that i ve been trying to accomplish. because you know i ve been doing too good, miss sarah even from school to being outside. and you re the one that said to me, remember what you said to me. you d be on probation. it s going to help me out. that s what we did, right. but the b
i mean, we ve got a young man who is punching holes in the wall. we have a young man who is abusing drugs. and we ve got a young man who left home for four or five or six weeks to avoid his mother, because he knew there would be a conflict. and so that worries me that he s going to put himself in a situation that s going to become dangerous for him. so for all of those reasons today the court is going to order that he be placed at camp pannia academy and i ll order that his family participate in family counseling along with him, so that he can return home sooner than later. all right. this hearing s adjourned. thank you. say good-bye to your parents. bye. it s for the best. i love you, too. i ll see you. we ll see you there. okay. i think morris is a stinker. good luck. and i think that he gives his mother a run for her money. he s not to the point where he s really a danger to other people. so i don t see him as a hardened criminal at this point in his life. it s my job an
judge, i would call morris mother angel to the stand, please. if the court were to decide that morris need not be looked up any longer would you be willing to have him released to your custody? i m always willing. but i just wonder if that s what s best for him. well, do you think it s best to keep him locked up? here, no, i don t. but as far as what helps, i know that there is a problem and he does not need some help. does he recognize there s a problem? yes, he does. why do you say that. we discussed it, and he does admit that there is an anger problem. do you think it s appropriate that he go home with you? i ll try. that s what you want to do? i ll try.