BoldlyRide

Filling in for my colleague twice in the last couple weeks. Both city and county cases. For the 1:30 time slot, not one of the clients showed up. One, in jail elsewhere and no order to transport, the others just seemed to have better things to do. On the 2:30 time slot everyone showed except a gentleman being sentenced for DUI. I mentioned to the officer that I was looking for this gentleman and he said, yeah, we arrested him last week for selling meth. -- He's moving up (or down) the criminal food chain. When I brought up the case before the judge, he said, "yes, we have talked about this gentleman everyday this week. He is in jail" -- then the prosecutor and the judge mentioned other charges and cases that I had no information about.

The most painful case involved a kid who is ruining his life every chance he gets. On house arrest probation for a theft, he cut off the electronic monitoring bracelet and ran off for three weeks before he came back and was arrested. He also had a bunch of probation violations (not paying fines and costs and failing or not showing for drug tests) -- he really wanted the judge to give him another chance (and he just found out his girlfriend is pregnant) -- the judge is somewhat skeptical of the youth's ability to keep a promise that he has already broken. Broken family as well, no stable environment -- stays locked up for another two weeks until the new sentencing.