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“No.”

“How much do you make?”

“$1500 a month. Half goes to child support.”

“Where do you live? At home with your mother?”

“I live with my grandmother.”

A woman in jail was charged with theft by receiving and attempted murder in the first degree.

“You had a stolen gun and attempted to kill somebody?

Where do you live?”

“West Memphis.”

“Have you been in trouble before?”

“No.”

“Do you know how serious a charge this is?”

“Yes. My dad is supposed to be there. He said my lawyer would be here too.”

“No one is jumping up and down saying they are your lawyer.”

“My dad said, ‘Baby you can be sure your lawyer will be there.’” “Attempted murder in the first degree can be up to 30 years in the pen. I’ll tell you. Baby, your lawyer ain’t here.”

The lady turned to go back to her seat, “Come back up here. A lawyer here talked to your father but thought you only had misdemeanor charges. He is going to call your father now.”

Another woman in jail was charged with unlawful discharge of a firearm and attempted murder.

“Were you with the other woman?”

“No.”

“Talk to the public defender.”

“If I give someone 30 days today they can be out by Christmas. What day is it?”

“The 26th,” said the court clerk.

“They won’t make it out it time for Christmas.”

A man in jail stole from Big Star East. “How do you plead to theft?”

“Guilty.”

“If you were hungry and stole bologna and bread I wouldn’t feel so bad but you stole a six pack of T-bone steaks. Why?”

“To tell the truth….”

“No, don’t tell me the truth, tell me a lie. Where do you live?”

“On McAuley with my sister.”

“Have you been in trouble before?”

“Yes, sir.”

“How many times have you been caught stealing?”

“I can’t count.”

“You can count to 30. 30 days in jail.”

A woman in jail waved at the judge when she got in front of the camera.

“Didn’t I just see you at Sonic? Go talk to the public defender. You have lots of charges.”

A man in jail was told, “These are some serious charges. How do you plead to domestic battery?”

“Guilty.”

“Do you work?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Is this your wife?”

“My girlfriend.”

“You two have the same last name and she’s your girlfriend? Why did you hit her in the mouth?”

“It was an accident.”

“How would you like it if I got the biggest bailiff in the jail to knock you in the mouth. No, you wouldn’t like that! Do you work?”

“Yes. At a farm. Like a dairy farm.”

“How long?”

“Four months.”

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“Have a seat. Bailiff see if you can call her to come up here.”

A young woman in the courtroom was charged with careless driving and pled guilty.

“Do you work?”

“I work at Burger King.”

Her mother was with her, “She is in high school.”

“What kind of grades do you make?”

“All A’s.”

“What do you want to do when you grow up?”

“A nurse.”

“Good. I wouldn’t want a nurse that didn’t make all given them permission yet.

I wouldn’t let them.”

Luckett said he wanted to make sure a mobile home would be compatible with the rest of the neighborhood before issuing them a permit. The mobile home is in new condition.

“I will find out some more information before I give him a permit,” Luckett said. “It is a new trailer.”

Mayor Sherman Smith said he favors allowing it as long as they get a permit.

“If it’s going to bring people to Earle, we need all the folks we can get,” Smith said. “The trailer is new and a double-wide, so I don’t see it bringing the property values down.”

The city doesn’t have an ordinance banning all mobile homes. In the past, the A’s. Did you have insurance?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Momma this is your choice. She can pay $75 court costs and go to driver’s school to keep it off her record or she can do four hours community service and go to driver’s school.”

“We’ll pay the $75. No, wait, she can do the community

service,” said her

mother.

“Good choice! She needs to pay for what she did.”