I watched with fascination all the cases that came before my case. Everyone (in the court) was so NICE! And caring, and interested and genuinely seeking to help kids-I don’t know why this should be a revolutionary, shocking circumstance to be witnessing, but it was truly something I have never seen in 33 years as an attorney who has frequented juvenile court. . .Not only did the judge smile and make a connection with the kid, the PROSECUTOR made a connection with all of them (the kid and his family). Prosecutors usually treat defendants with haughtiness. . .Instead in Prescott, here was this wonderful human being genuinely caring for these children, one right after another. . . Obviously, I had fallen down a rabbit hole and suffered a concussion, because that courtroom was like no courtroom I had ever been in and had never seen in any movie or read about in any book.
Ruth Truman