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You dont want to the admit to marijuana, deny that, theyll 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 theyre going to react or what theyre going to say. >> okay. >> whatever decision rodrick makes in the next five minutes, it will likely feat the direction of his entire future. >> oh, god. >> mr. brown, youve heard all the testimony today about what peop...

And with the therapist. they want to get off, get done and call it a day. rodrick actually came to me and looked me in my face and said, can you please stay with me on my case, let me stay on probation with you so that we can get through this? >> can you be more specific about the level of improvement that youve seen in the past year of working with him? >> he had an allegiance with a street gang. and there was a lot of respect that he got with the street gang. a lot of authority with the street...

>> can you pass a drug screen today. >> i believe i can. >> what do you mean you believe you can? >> i believe i can. i do it any other time. >> it was an unfortunate end to a day in court that had been going rodricks way. and it would only get worse for rodrick when the results came in. >> after you tested positive for marijuana, ive been working with the prosecutor to try and get some type of agreement that gets this whole thing disposed of. the prosecutor was originally recommending 120 days ...

>> its okay. ill see you at 1:30, all right? youre going to be all right. ill be here all day every day. i love you. >> i love you too. >> hang in there. >> i certainly understand why the court did what it did. theres not a solid support structure in place where this mother says im going to take care of this problem. and hes not going to be back again. while i certainly was advocating for him to go home and would have liked to have seen that, i understand the courts decision. >> with so much tes...

Extraordinary access from the indiana supreme court, weve been allowed to take our cameras inside a world where they are, by law, generally forbidden. >> ive been coming to lake county juvenile since like, three oh five. one of them years. been coming here for a long time. >> 17-year-old rodrick is back in lake county juvenile after being arrested for marijuana possession and resisting arrest. according to rodrick and those overseeing his face, he had been on a good straight and narrow path, wor...

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, maam. >> 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 thats why i didnt say yes, and thats why i didnt say no. >> so you were hoping you were going to get by with it. >> not necessarily. >> well, yo...

>> i dont want to be here. i just spent a year of my life incarcerated. >> okay, well calm down first of all. >> listen to what im telling you. heres what shes agreed to do. i think this is what we should do. youre charged with two things, possession of marijuana and resisting arrest. you admit the allegations of one, theyll 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 didnt...

>> so you ready to tell me it you ready to leave the streets alone downward? >> rodrick insists he is innocent. he says the marijuana was found in a car near where he was standing, not on him and that it is definitely not his. >> my probation officer she told me like a couple times i been like one of her best people. if i was doing so good, why would i let some marijuana mess up my life? >> a lot of the kids that come here theyre repeat offenders. core of them you lose. they end up dead, burned ...

Resisting law enforcement. are you going to cooperate with the prosecutors office in identifying the person whose marijuana that it was? >> i can do that. >> will you do that? >> i will do that because its not mine. im not going to jail for nothing thats not mine. ive been working too hard this year. too hard this year. i have improved my whole life. my mother told me a long time ago when i was at boys school if i ever in my life from now till the time im dead, did i ever got locked up she would...

>> 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 thats going to hear your case is going to look at if theres probable cause to believe that you committed the acts o...