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and, two, what we think about here in new york state alone or new york city alone the numbers of women, primarily minority women, who are -- have their children taken away solely because they test positive for marijuana. you can go in a brooklyn family courtroom any day of the week and see this happening, they are out there fighting this battle every day. when you think about all of those injustices and you hear people saying what they say, it's reprehensible. >> so you guys are giving me a tough time between the scalping metaphors and the slavery metaphors. i think we have to be careful on the slavery metaphors so i want to just reiterate that so i make sure i've heard what you said. then i want to go to jared here. which is that there is something about asking who is bearing the greatest cost in any given circumstance and in this case the question of who's bearing that cost are those who are most vulnerable and most marginalized so that if you were a college student at an ivy league institution who does a little
juvenile. the laws back then were geared more toward rehabilitation than punishment. her lawyers argued that susan watson had been rehabilitated, that the susan watson who killed her mother no longer existed and at 41 years old, they say, she did not belong in juvenile court. >> all right. this is the case of susan marie watson. >> she had regrets. she worried. she was a little bit relieved that she had come forward and finally told what happened. but i think the remorse consumed her all through the trial. >> 1999, in her first appearance in a newark, new jersey family courtroom, susan watson's lawyers asked a judge to dismiss the case against her. >> one of the advantages we have in this hearing which we don't normally have in a juvenile proceeding is that we can look into the future. we can look beyond 1971 and see the person that susan watson is
she was just 14 years old. so she was charged as a juvenile. the laws back then were geared more toward rehabilitation than punishment. her lawyers argued that susan watson had been rehabilitated, that the susan watson who killed her mother no longer existed and at 41 years old, they say, she did not belong in juvenile court. >> all right. this is the case of susan marie watson. >> she had regrets. she worried. she was a little bit relieved that she had come forward and finally told what happened. but i think the remorse consumed her all through the trial. >> 1999, in her first appearance in a newark, new jersey, family courtroom, susan watson's lawyers asked a judge to dismiss the case against her. >> one of the advantages we have in this hearing which we don't normally have in a juvenile proceeding is that we can actually look into the future. we can look beyond 1971 and see the person that susan watson is and has become. >> the judge tried to determine
in a newark, new jersey, family courtroom susan watson's lawyers asked the judge to dismiss the case against her. >> one of the advantages that we have in this hearing which we don't normally have in juvenile proceedings is that we can actually look into the future. we can look beyond 1971 and we can see the person that susan watson is and has become. >> the judge tried to determine if susan was rehabilitated. susan did not speak on her own behalf, but those close to her did. including the man she married. >> i met susan -- >> john amos told the court he is devoted to an upstanding woman. >> i can honestly say that she has led a very sober and clean lifestyle. >> john wanted the courtroom to learn something from this terrible incident. >> what i wanted people to understand is that this was a tragedy that happened to a family that was going through a great deal of difficulty, and we