... 15 year old boy, shackled and in blue sweats (youth court's take on blue coveralls), was charged with mischief including a motor vehicle and failing to reside. The catchall mischief charge resulted from him breaking a window in his mom's car after she refused to let him in the house one night, the house where he was required to reside. He was given probation and the judge read the conditions, one, his requirement to live with his mom but as his lawyer pointed out this is his 'last chance'. The mom, near exasperation with what to do with her boy, requested the stipulation forbidding the youth to associate with five friends. Ensuring her son adheres to his curfew (4pm -7am a lawyer, sure the poor acoustics had misled him, questioned if he said 10 pm-7am but the judge repeated 4pm-7am) and abstains from alcohol is easier for the mother now ...

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