phew...I'm glad THAT'S over

Bryn had his court date today. Our paperwork said 9am, but when we got to the courthouse (at 8:30) the docket had him down for 10:30; I guess if Bryn had given the arresting officer the correct address, we would have gotten the change! Anyway, we are finally called at 10:25, along with about 15 other delinquents (and Bryn's partner in crime was also there!) only to be told by the bailiff that no cases are going to be heard/tried today. This is an arraignment only and we are stating whether or not we want a court appointed attorney, provide our own or waive one. We talked to the bailiff, told him we were waiving the right to have an attorney. Kenny (Bryn's cohort)'s mother had the chance to speak with the prosecutor, who told her that if he was pleading guilty, they would hear his case today; we told the bailiff we were there for the same charges & had a guilty plea as well and would take whatever punishment Kenny was getting. So we got to see the judge, who only charged them for public drunkeness and somehow dropped the charge of possession of alcohol (although I'm not sure why because he stated that they were being charged with that but the only paperwork they gave us was drunk in public). They each have 20 hours of community service (Bryn's will be with Habitat for Humanity, which he was excited about....not sure if that's good or not!), one year probation, 8 months suspended license (and since neither one has a permit much less a license, then 8 months until they are eligible for one), a substance abuse assessement (SASSI, I think) by a drug & alcohol counselor & at least one random drug test.

I was really hoping that the judge or the arresting officer or the prosecutor, or SOMEONE would have yelled at them, made them squirm or whatever, but none of that happened. He has another court date July 13, 2009, for possible dismissal of charges as long as he does not get into any POLICE related trouble between now and then. OY