“How a Mother’s Testimony Affected Her Teen’s Court Appearance”

The morning air in the small Midwestern town carried a quiet tension that seemed to linger like fog over the streets leading to the courthouse. The Woodbridge County Courthouse, a modest brick building that had seen decades of trials, was unusually crowded that day. Word had spread quickly about Ryan Cooper, a seventeen-year-old facing sentencing after a series of serious infractions that…
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