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Originally Posted by SleazyDream
15. How did you convince a judge to not send you to jail? Disucss in detail how this happened.
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Around the time I turned 17 all hell broke loose, and I got convicted on multiple felony counts for a lot of stuff that caught up with me from my past. I was stupid and did alot of stuff in those days, Things got real serious when was facing multiple year sentences in the California Youth Authority system, most people know CYA as being "Gladiator School" its a place where killers are trained and the weak get taken advantage of if they cannot survive.
I knew that I was heading in the wrong direction at this point, I did not want to goto big boy jail because ultimately I knew I would have to do things to people that would end up keeping me in jail longer.
So I used my brain and wrote the judge a letter stating all of the things I would do in order to stay out of CYA, She agreed to let me take a crack at working things out. I started working things out and doing what I had to do, I turned 18, and this was around the time that I met my wife Leslie, She was instantly a good reason to do right. She completed me in a way no other girl was able to do.
My final court date came and I had to present evidence that I had fulfilled my agreement with the court, I brought a binder with me that stated I had completed everything I was supposed to, which ranged from 75+ hours of community service, paying full restitution for my crimes, maintaining a full time job, doing weekly drug testing, getting my General Education Diploma, All the while staying out of trouble. I did everything, The judge was awestruck because she did not think that I would do it because of the way I was heading before.