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34 分钟A young lawyer named Wes Clark can’t get the Rutherford County juvenile court to let his clients out of detention — even when the law says they shouldn’t have been held in the first place. He’s frustrated and demoralized, until he makes a friend. From Serial Productions and The New York Times in partnership with ProPublica and Nashville Public Radio, “The Kids of Rutherford County” is reported and hosted by Meribah Knight, a Peabody-award winning reporter based in the South.
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In 2013, three years before the arrests at Hobgood elementary, when a bunch of kids were arrested and brought to juvenile detention for not stopping a fight, a guy named Wes Clark had just graduated law school.
Wes was 25 years old, smart, ambitious, but he was also just coming out of a pretty wild past.
On and off.
Since he was a teenager, he'd been addicted to OxyContin, a hopeless love of this shit is how he puts it.
With that came Wes rap sheet, a dui, some drug charges.
So considering this, he knew the chances of getting a job at a Tony White Shee law firm were pretty close to zero.
But he needed a job.
That's when some lawyers he met in recovery circles gave him a tip.
There's always work in juvenile court.
They were like, hey, this is a place you can go and at least start out and learn the ropes.