michael is on the brink of his 18th birthday, and approaching adulthood is a dangerous place to be for a juvenile repeat offender. i would ask the court please allow this young man one more opportunity. he understands the next time he s in trouble he will be in the adult court. a person turns 18 there s not at least in the juvenile court system a lot of choices for us to make. because everyone s looking, oh, we have this little window of time to work with them. it s not long enough to ç effectuate a change. i just don t know at 18 if he sits here for three or four months, i don t know what that s going to do for him. rehabilitation programs can take a year or more to complete. so that option appears to be off the table for michael. when you re 17 3/4, there s not a lot of resources out there. and there s probably not a lot of people that want to take a chance on you for that short period of time.