Attorney Tries to Get DUI Defendant Released… Judge Refuses!

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:06]Welcome to Officers and Legal Encounters. All right, today we're going to be in Judge Webster's court where we have a defendant who did a whole lot of things in her past. Now, she has an attorney, but sometimes when you have an attorney, but your past is not that good, you may have a lot of difficulty in your hearing. And here's an example of it. Let's go. We are on the record in GW 2024 TR235, State of Kansas versus Heather Dawn Hunt. This matter comes on for a motion hearing filed as a result of motion to modify sentence andor in the alternative parole filed by defendant. State appears by county attorney Jill Gillette.

[00:00:49]Defendant appears in person and in custody from the Greenwood County Jail.

[00:00:55]She also appears by attorney Blake Cooper. All present via Zoom from separate locations.

[00:01:01]Mr. Cooper, as this is your client's motion, would you like to proceed?

[00:01:08]I might just review that. Uh she was uh she was sentenced on September 22nd, 25 for DUI and endangering a child with the state dismissing remaining counts in that case and an entire other case of 25 CR79 which I believe involved violations of protection orders. But within three months of her September 22nd, 2025 sentencing, there was a motion to repro probation, she was found to be in violation for not completing orders for immediate counseling and treatment for the alcohol and drug evaluation. She was found in violation for not attending a DUI victim impact program. She was found in violation for testing positive for THC and a UA. and she was found in violation for not making payments on the money ordered. So the warrant show cause in uh was heard this year January 30th to 26. She was found in violation and revoked to serve the balance of her sentence credit for any additional time served.

[00:02:24]So Mr. uh Cooper at this time I'll turn it over to you.

[00:02:30]>> Thank you judge. Um, in some ways my motion is a little self-explanatory. Um, I in see in in talking to Miss Hunt this morning, she tells me that as of today, she has done 183 days of that uh total uh 12 month sentence. So, she's done over half of the sentence at this point in time. Your honor, um I don't think we'll find anything that says she's been anything other than a model inmate.

[00:02:56]>> I didn't know they held beauty pageantss in jail. She's been in consistently since the end of January. She did have a little bit of time under her belt before that. We understand that probation didn't go as well as we'd like. There were some issues. She did uh just as a reminder, judge, she had done, and I have the certificate, she had done the victim panel prior to her, uh probation violation hearing, and I think that was presented at the time, but I wanted that to at least remind your honor that that is done was completed. Uh, your honor, the the aside from the idea of having another six months to sit in the Greenwood County Jail, I think Miss Hunt has had time to, uh, I think this has been more than an eye openener uh, for her in terms of the the obligation she has to this court and the things she needs to do uh, forth with. If the court were to uh, grant this motion, uh, I think you'd find her to be uh, more than cooperative. But judge, we do have this uh outstanding sync hearing with her daughter. Um I think I think it's May 29th that the next hearing is scheduled.

[00:04:00]I think Mr. Paw continues to be her attorney in that particular case. I' I've had talks with Mr. Paw about this uh about this case as well. Um your honor, I think you'll find Ms. Hunt to be a uh amanable to probation at this point. I think the the the message has been sent. Your honor, we'll have at about 6 months uh just a little under a few days under six months uh if the court would would uh be so inclined to parole her back onto probation.

[00:04:33]um so that she could finish those things up. She could pay all the costs and fees, she could be employed and and and and really it's makes it very impossible frankly to work a sink case as your honor knows being incarcerated. I don't think Miss Hunt has a extensive criminal history. I think she's just found herself in the last year or so in a in a tough spot uh especially with the substance abuse issue and and I think you will find that she's now had some time under her belt. She's clean and sober. She's clearheaded judge and and we're asking the court to give her an opportunity to show that she can uh successfully complete a probation if the court is not inclined to simply terminate the case. But we're asking that that the that the motion be mod uh that the sentence be modified for all the reasons we've stated. If your honor has any questions for Miss Hunt or myself, we'll be happy to try to answer those. Thank you.

[00:05:29]>> Now, he's definitely doing his job by keeping everything positive, but let's see what the judge says when she starts reading the record.

[00:05:36]>> Thank you, Miss Gillette. The state's response to this motion.

[00:05:41]>> Your honor, Miss Suns had a had a continuous history with the court for the last several years. She's had continuous alcohol consumption use.

[00:05:50]She's had continuous denial of her use, not taking responsibility for her actions, trying to put things off on the probation officers. Um, she's had consistent alcohol and drug use. She wasn't just positive for alcohol, she was also positive for uh THC. Uh, this case began with a DUI. As the court recited the history, I'm very familiar with the history of this case. Miss Hunt um was driving drunk with her children in the car um not once but twice, once before this. Um, and her daughter had to drive home and she had her minor child who did not have a license drive her and the other children home.

[00:06:42]Um, and uh, that's technically allowing an unauthorized driver to drive. Uh, she has an extensive history with the courts um, going back to um, 2011.

[00:07:01]Um, and so it is in my opinion that she needs to serve her time. She was unsuccessful on probation within three months. She was very disrespectful and argumentative with her probation officer. Continued to test positive for different substances, refused to do her treatments, refused to comply. She didn't do hardly any of that stuff until the motion to revoke probation was pending. And then it wasn't until she had been in custody um for a while cuz she even took the initiative to go get the DUI victim impact panel. Um she just frequent frankly she was fra uh fl flag flagrant with the orders of the court. Um and uh I don't recommend rewarding bad behavior. As you know, I often recommend um people go to treatment. Those that help themselves, I recommend them better sentences. But those that don't help themselves and continue to do these things and don't go to treatment and refuse to do their stuff until um they've been in jail and we've had to make them do it. Um I can't save them from themselves.

[00:08:24]>> And it seems like her attorney is going to be in the same situation. Well, uh, Mr. Cooper, I don't believe was involved in the child and needed care cases prior to this, but Miss Gillette, you were. If my memory serves me correctly, this case that we're here on, the driving drunk with the children in the car, did did that not occur while the children had been returned to her once in the child needed care? They were in >> they were in the process of reintegration and she had had them for a short time when this DUI happened. The case was still open and she drove drunk with her children in the car during the child and needed care reintegration process not twice.

[00:09:10]>> Well, the children were in the states custody but we were trying reintegration with back home with the mother. So they were physically in her custody but legally in states as you said not once but twice.

[00:09:22]>> Uh so the fact that one of her children has a third child in needed care case I am not impressed by her argument that she needs to be back home with what that child who has been one of the subjects of of all of this history.

[00:09:39]Um, I'm not sure if she were out of custody that she'd be of any help to the child and might even endanger the child based on the history that we've seen leading up to this.

[00:09:51]>> And that child was the victim in the um >> violation of a no contact order that was worked out as part of this agreement.

[00:10:02]Judge, the only thing I would point out and again as you have you pointed out, I I've only recently become involved is what I can say oftentimes and and this has been at least my discussions with Miss Hunt and and um and her friend uh Ms. Eckles who has has been a help to her is that this time uh spent has been um sort of transformative to some degree. I'm not sure how much time I don't know how much time Miss Hunt has spent in the past in jail, but this is certainly a significant am uh stretch of time and um I I the best I can tell you is from Miss Hunt's perspective is your honor, she's been humbled by this and and the court has her attention.

[00:10:46]>> Well, that's normally what happens when someone's incarcerated for a while.

[00:10:50]>> Okay. Well, thank you, counselor. The court finds that the defendant frequently challenged the court's bond conditions prior to conviction to the point that it somewhere in the proceedings, the bondsman surrendered the defendant to rece to seek release from her bond.

[00:11:11]and uh knowing she was going to be in jail for a while longer resulted in the defendant asking for an expedited plea hearing and she pled no contest didn't take admission or responsibility she pled no contest to DUI and endangering the child in one of the three or four cases pending in that case at the time the state dismissed the remaining counts for plea agreement the state also dismissed the entire case of 25 CR79 9, which was the violations of the protective orders that were mentioned here in uh within 3 months of her September 22nd, 2025 sentence, she was before the court on a motion to revoke the probation she'd been granted for not completing the orders that the court gave her for immediate counseling uh alcohol and drug treatment. This is a defendant who while she was driving with those children in the car blew well beyond the 0.08 limit that creates presumption of of driving under the influence uh taking judicial notice and reviewing my files before I came in today. I see she blew 234 is what her her >> test was while she was driving with these children in the car.

[00:12:32]not just the legal limit of 0.08 8 but 234 and uh as I said then uh because of those high readings I ordered her and because of the results of the alcohol and drug evaluation I ordered immediate counseling and treatment and to attend the DUI victim impact program. And then three months later, she's before me on a show cause because she's tested positive not only for alcohol as Miss Gillette said, but also for THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.

[00:13:07]And that she still hadn't done her counseling, her treatment, or her uh DUI victim panel. Now, maybe we got her attention when she knew she had a sentence hanging over her head and she did have that certificate that you presented, counselor, uh, before the revocation hearing, but when the motion was filed, she hadn't even done it.

[00:13:29]So, what she has demonstrated to me prior to this hearing is that she doesn't do what she's ordered to do when she's on her own. She doesn't pay attention to the court orders. Now, I didn't hear evidence. I heard a a profer, and I I'm confident that profer would be valid, that you could have put someone from the jail in here, and they'd say she's been a model probation.

[00:13:55]She's not or a model inmate, that she hasn't given any trouble since she's been in jail. But what that shows me is that if she's in custody with structure and law enforcement standing over her, she can follow the rule. Now, I have to say she's making a valid point, >> but her history tells me that both with her bond and and her probation that if she's left on her own, she's going to keep abusing substances. She's going to keep violating the law. She's potentially going to endanger her own children as well as others in the community. So, she has served a significant portion of her sentence, but I think she needs to serve the rest of it so that she can put this case behind her, maybe get some more treatment while she's in custody and uh start new on this. But at this time, I do not find that the grounds exist to grant the motion either for reduction in sentence or for parole. So, I'm denying both requests with the evidence convincing this court that if I turned her loose, she'd just be right back into trouble uh sooner rather than later. So, the court finds she's where she needs to be. And again, orders denied. Uh Mr. Cooper, if you would journalize today's hearing results as you are the movement in this matter.

[00:15:27]>> I I can do that, Judge. Thank you.

[00:15:29]>> You're welcome. Thank you, sir. We'll be adjourned at this time.

[00:15:34]>> Well, I'm sure she's sorry about whatever she did in the past, and you can tell the expression on her face that she was hoping that she would be able to get out, but she has so much stacked against her. The attorney had no room to help her with her case. So, next we're going to go into another hearing where we have a prosay defendant who seems to not really know what's going on with her case, but doesn't seem to care about what's going on in her case. Let's go.

[00:15:57]We're on the record in BU 20225 TR2812 state of Kansas versus Priscilla Laura Jared Rear for the state. Miss Laura appearing in person and per se. You are Priscilla Laura.

[00:16:13]>> Miss Laura, you were here March 18th.

[00:16:16]You waved your right to attorney.

[00:16:19]Uh you were going to apply for diversion. Are you still representing yourself today?

[00:16:24]>> Yes.

[00:16:26]You still want to proceed without an attorney?

[00:16:29]>> Correct. Yes.

[00:16:30]>> All right. I'll have the record reflect that. And did you apply for diversion?

[00:16:38]>> Um I believe I submitted the application, but I'm not sure if it submits without a payment >> because I didn't pay.

[00:16:46]>> Okay. Yeah, I think you have to pay.

[00:16:49]>> Okay. So then no.

[00:16:51]>> Okay. Mr. Regier, any comments about that that you can see anything about it from your file?

[00:16:57]>> Nothing which has all which has not already been stated on the record, your honor.

[00:17:01]>> All right. I also ordered you get your picture and prince and bond and I don't think you did that. Did you?

[00:17:07]>> I did. Yes, >> you did.

[00:17:11]All right. Deputy, you might want to track that one down for me, too. I don't see the bond anywhere.

[00:17:17]>> And your honor, >> Mr. The state is not aware of any um appearance bonds have been executed in this matter either notwithstanding the allegations raised by the defense on the record.

[00:17:29]>> All right, deputy. I don't know if you can check on that.

[00:17:31]>> Yeah, we'll check.

[00:17:33]>> Okay, last chance to tell me the truth.

[00:17:35]Miss Lawyer, did you do that?

[00:17:38]>> Wait, did I do what? My I did my fingerprints and my pictures.

[00:17:42]>> You did do that.

[00:17:44]>> Yes, the second.

[00:17:47]>> Yes, Jenna. I also do not have a bond even in E-Lex that I' we filed towards you. I don't have any notification or anything like that.

[00:17:55]>> Due to control.

[00:17:57]>> All right.

[00:17:59]Well, let's proceed, Miss Laura, on how you want to deal with these charges.

[00:18:04]Uh, if you're not going to go with the version, you're looking again at speeding 75 to 65, which carries a $45 fine if I'm not mistaken. You've got that one-way glass or sunscreen device excessively tinted, an unclassified misdemeanor, and no liability insurance, a B misdemeanor.

[00:18:25]>> You still want to proceed with on your own?

[00:18:28]>> Um, yes, your honor. And I actually brought in some documents today from my insurance company um stating that the day of this traffic stop, I did have insurance. I just did not have the entrance card with me, but I did have coverage.

[00:18:43]>> Well, the statute gives you, I believe it's 10 days to get that proof to the officer and it'll be dismissed. But if you bring it to court, it usually gets dismissed, but it has to have a time to verify.

[00:18:57]What about the Do you have any verification that you got rid of that dark screen on your Windows?

[00:19:02]>> I do not. I would like to pay the fee or In other words, you want to keep driving around with it on there until you keep getting stopped.

[00:19:14]>> Um, >> you know, it's illegal to drive with that on there, right?

[00:19:22]>> Right.

[00:19:24]>> I had an I I actually had someone the other day that that just quite up quite upset. I don't mind getting stopped for it and paying the fine every so often.

[00:19:33]didn't make me very uh happy, but uh sounds like that's kind of what you're wanting to do, right?

[00:19:41]>> No, your honor.

[00:19:42]>> Okay.

[00:19:43]>> I just the day of my traffic stop, it led from it started off with speeding and then he said, "Oh, we'll chip roll down your window now. Let's check your tent." And then it kind of just like added up. So, the reason for my traffic stop was not the tent. It was just my speed.

[00:19:59]>> Okay. So, and then he decided to go there from there, but that's fine.

[00:20:04]>> All right. Well, tell me how you want to plead to speeding today since you're representing yourself and you didn't want to look into diversion any further. You've already done that, right?

[00:20:16]>> Right.

[00:20:17]>> You don't want you don't want that. You're not asking more time on that.

[00:20:24]You're not asking for any more time on the on the diversion process.

[00:20:31]Um, I'm not sure.

[00:20:33]>> I'm not trying to talk you into diversion. I just want to make sure you know you have the right to it.

[00:20:40]>> Why did you not accept diversion? You didn't want to do the terms. You didn't want to pay the money. You didn't have the money.

[00:20:47]>> Um, don't know. I don't know. I'm sorry.

[00:20:53]>> You can tell she obviously doesn't care about it.

[00:20:55]>> All right. Well, I'm I'm going to forget about diversion because it looks like you have already moved on from it. So, okay, count one. Let's go through these charges. I'll go through them again with you. Count one, speeding 75 and a 65.

[00:21:09]$45 fine, 108 court cost. You have the right to plead not guilty and set it for trial at a later date. You can plead guilty, admitting it, and proceed with sentencing today. Or you can plead no contest. That means you don't want to admit it, but you don't want to deny it and take it to trial. You'd still be found guilty and proceed with sentencing today. Any questions about what I've said on this charge so far?

[00:21:36]>> No.

[00:21:38]>> How do you plead to count one?

[00:21:41]>> Guilty.

[00:21:42]>> By pleading guilty, are you admitting that you were speeding that is driving 75 miles per hour when the posted maximum was 65 miles hour?

[00:21:50]>> Yes.

[00:21:52]>> Okay. And was that on December 20th at 25 in Butler County?

[00:21:57]>> Correct.

[00:21:58]>> Okay. And then we have count two, uh, oneway glass or sunscreen device excessively dark and not allowing enough light transmission, an unclassified misdemeanor.

[00:22:16]Uh, a fine could be up to $195 if I'm remembering that correctly. And I am, aren't I, Mr. McGee?

[00:22:24]>> Your honor, the state's information is that pursuant to the ticket, count two is charged as a class C misdemeanor.

[00:22:31]States's understanding of the applicable statute is that a fine could could be imposed by the court up to $500 and a 30-day jail sentence pursuant to KSA 216611 and 216602, respectively.

[00:22:48]>> Oh, I'm getting that mixed up with the other one. All right, the emergency vehicle one. All right, so this one is a class C misdemeanor maximum fine could be $500 and the sentence could be 30 days in jail. Although I can't picture I anyway, I'm not going to say more on that. How do you want to plead to that charge?

[00:23:10]You can plead guilty, not guilty, or no contest. Have you plead >> no contest?

[00:23:20]By pleading no contest, you don't want to admit the charge, but you don't want to deny it and take it to trial either.

[00:23:28]>> True.

[00:23:29]>> True. And is anyone making you enter this plea today?

[00:23:35]>> No.

[00:23:36]>> All right. You understand you'll still be found guilty and we'll proceed to sentencing most likely?

[00:23:44]>> Yes.

[00:23:44]>> Even though not admitting it, you'd still be found guilty probably. All right. And then how about count count three, driving without proof of liability insurance. How do you want to plead?

[00:23:56]>> Not guilty.

[00:23:58]>> Not guilty. You want to take that one to trial?

[00:24:01]>> And your honor, rather than um bifurcate this this case, the state is prepared to proceed on all three counts if necessary.

[00:24:10]>> Sure.

[00:24:12]In other words, set them all three for count for court. If you want if you want a trial in one, they say they want a uh trial in all three. But anyway, so you said you had proof that you did have liability insurance at the time of the stop, >> correct?

[00:24:28]>> Did you get that to the county attorney or to the officer that stopped you?

[00:24:36]>> No.

[00:24:39]>> All right. Well, when I got stopped, no, because I didn't have it. Um, it was nighttime.

[00:24:48]>> Did you get it to Did you get it to the officer within 10 days of the stop?

[00:24:54]>> Um, no. Not until I received a form from the DMV that I did not know about. Um, and I took this to my insurance company and then they signed it, which hope I thought it was for you guys for but I don't know. I thought it was all connected and it wasn't. So, I brought this in today because I forgot it for my last court date. Um, yeah.

[00:25:21]>> Well, you need to take it to the county attorney and they need to have time to verify it. So, you can't just show up and say, "Here it is." and expect it to go away. So, I'm going to enter a not-uilty plea on count three. We're going to set this for bench trial. What day do you have, Jennifer? Bench trial?

[00:25:38]>> July 8th.

[00:25:41]And your honor, is the is the court accepting the plea or proceeding to trial in all three counts per the state's preference?

[00:25:49]>> I'll go to I will go to trial on all three. I'm going to send all three of these over to July 8th at 1:30 for trial.

[00:25:58]Well, you must be back here July 8th at 1:30 for trial. Miss Laura, >> what is July 8th? Like what day of the week? I can't keep missing work and sitting here for three hours.

[00:26:08]>> That's Wednesday.

[00:26:10]Wednesday at 1:30. That work for you.

[00:26:15]>> I'll have to make it work.

[00:26:17]>> All right. Thank you, Miss Lauri. You're excused at this time. And Les, did we decide we we do have a bond on her or we don't?

[00:26:26]>> Yes, your honor. The jail, we got a hold of the jail and she did go out there and get processed and >> they're supposed to be sending us the bond.

[00:26:35]>> All right. Well, did we get somebody new that doesn't turn those into us? Maybe >> I I don't know anything about that, but >> Okay, fair enough. It just seems like we're seeing quite a few of them that don't have bonds turned in but have been taken. Uh the picture and prints have been taken. All right, you may go, ma'am.

[00:26:54]>> I I have a question before I go. I'm sorry.

[00:26:57]>> Oh, no problem. Go ahead. So, I just don't understand and I just wanted to see if I could like pay for the 10 and this meeting.

[00:27:09]Like I said, you might have mentioned that, but I don't understand. Okay.

[00:27:13]Sure. Well, the reason I didn't accept your please on those is and go to sentencing is because we set the third one over for bench trial and at the request of the county attorney. They don't want to bifrocate him. is he said he doesn't want to split the charges up and I think that I understand that so I granted that if you'd gotten that proof to him sooner he probably would have dismissed that insurance once he got it verified by the insurance company but where where I can't expect him to stop everything and call the insurance company right now and try to verify it >> right and when I was here in March I mentioned that but I didn't have these documents because I didn't know that you guys needed these I thought, like I said, when I got these, I thought it was from you guys and you know, go take it to the insurance, whatever. It's done.

[00:28:02]Not done. But, you know, it's handled.

[00:28:07]>> So, well, if you had him in March and you'd taken him down to the county attorney, he would have had plenty of time to have dismissed it by today. I don't know who you mean when you say you guys. Let me explain. The county attorney is Mr. Regear's office. They're the ones that the officers turn the tickets.

[00:28:24]Oh, that's not going right. They're the ones that bring the charges against you.

[00:28:28]I am not part of their office. I'm the one that decides whether the county attorney's right when they bring a charge or whether you're right that they shouldn't bring a charge. And then the clerk keeps the official records for us.

[00:28:41]So when you say you guys, I don't know which one of us you mean because there's three different entities here. If you have an attorney, that that person's not party to to anything but representing you.

[00:28:53]Do you and are you certain you still don't want an attorney? Because an attorney might help you clear up some of that confusion, but that's your your call.

[00:29:07]>> I'm unsure.

[00:29:07]>> With those responses, it seemed like this case is not going to end anytime soon.

[00:29:11]>> Well, if you decide you want a courtappointed attorney, always you can always come into the courthouse and get an application and submit it. But don't wait until your court date to do that.

[00:29:23]So when I come back July 8th, we're doing all the three of these again.

[00:29:28]>> Well, unless you take the insurance down to Mr. Reggar's office, maybe even today, and leave it >> and give them time to verify it >> down the hall. But you have to give him time to verify it. And you might even look into diversion on those other charges.

[00:29:44]>> Well, you said you didn't even want it.

[00:29:46]And I I had started with the diversion like I mentioned, but I didn't pay because I was like, "Okay, I have this proof. Why would I pay for something that I have proof of?" Um, but now that I know his office is right here and, you know, I will probably proceed with the diversion on the other two and then >> All right, I'll get it done by July 8th.

[00:30:07]Otherwise, you need to be here for court.

[00:30:10]>> Okay.

[00:30:10]>> And if I hear back from diversion, then I don't need to show up for court. No, that's not right. That's part You're getting there, but you're not there yet.

[00:30:18]Jenna, did you have something to say?

[00:30:21]>> No, your honor.

[00:30:22]>> Okay. All right, people. Applying for diversion is not enough. That's the first step.

[00:30:30]Then you watch for the acceptance or rejection. If you're accepted, you have to get a contract signed back to them.

[00:30:38]And then you have to confirm that they received it and that they filed that contract with the court.

[00:30:44]But you're headed in the right direction. Definitely, Miss Laura.

[00:30:48]That's where you start, but that's not where you finish.

[00:30:53]>> That's a good question, though. I'm glad you asked that so others will be reminded. Anything else?

[00:30:59]>> I think that's it.

[00:31:01]>> All right. Get that insurance to them, review the diversion if you want to, and go from there. All right. Anything further, Mr. Regier?

[00:31:09]>> No, your honor.

[00:31:11]>> All right. You may go at this time, Miss Lauren. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you.

[00:31:16]>> Well, it seemed like she may have tried to do a little bit on her case, but at the same time, it seemed like she was kind of nonchalant about the case as well. So, let me know what do you think about this case regarding how she acted and if she really had interest or not.

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[00:31:38]M.

[00:31:41]Oh, yeah.

[00:31:48]The attorney stood up. Says she's doing all right. Said she's keeping her head down every day and every night. Say she's following rules, trying hard to stay straight. Say she's learned from mistakes. Don't let her sit and wait.

[00:32:02]Say she's working on herself, trying to turn it around. Trying to build a new life from the ground up now. But the courtroom got quiet when the papers hit the stand. Cuz the past has a way of coming back again. Everybody loves a comeback story. Everybody wants redemption glory. But the judge kept reading line by line, looking at the facts, not the passing time. She wanted another chance, another shot, another dance. Attorney says she's changed today. But the record wouldn't go away.

[00:32:44]Another chance. That's what everybody asks. But when the file gets open wide, you can't outun what's inside.

[00:32:58]The attorney called a modeling mate trying to prove she found a better way.

[00:33:02]So she focused now. got a different plan. Trying to show the court who she really is. But the prosecutor stood and pushed right back. Started laying out the timeline fact by fact. Every promise made, every rule that broke, every warning given before the final spoke.

[00:33:12]The room got still when the history surances only work if they're worth it.

[00:33:19]>> The judge kept turning every page, looking at the pattern, not the latest day. Another chance, another shot, another dance. Attorney says she's changed today. But the record wouldn't go away.

[00:33:40]Another chance. That's what everybody asks. But when the file gets open wide, you can outun what's inside.

[00:33:54]No shouting, no drama, no courtroom fight, just consequences. Standing in the light, one side singing, "Look who she is now." The other singing, looking at how we got here somehow. No miracle waiting at the end of the road. No, no shortcut through the way she answer came steady, simple and slow.

[00:34:13]Sometimes the court just says no.

[00:34:18]Another chance.

[00:34:20]>> Everybody wants >> another chance.

[00:34:23]>> But the saw more than a moment in time.

[00:34:28]for every warning sign.

[00:34:34]>> The attorney gave it all he had.

[00:34:37]>> Put some stories in with the closed door and a chance that won't come anymore.

[00:34:46]Courtroom empty, the ruling stayed.

[00:34:50]Words were spoken, decisions made. And long after everybody's gone, the record keeps rolling on.

[00:35:01]As the gavl fell, leaving silence in its wake, hope lingered like a whisper, which fate can often break.

[00:35:11]The echoes of choices heavy as stone, a lesson in time, taught when you're alone.

[00:35:22]And as we all walk forward in our grace or in our pain, may we find peace in chances lost or gained.