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A judge in Carrollton reports he is incorporating a column that ran in the Dallas Morning News Family section in July as part of his message to juveniles who appear in his court.
"I know when I am pontificating from the bench that mostly it is the parents who are listening," the judge wrote to us. "Just the same, I keep trying to reach the kids ... Hopefully, your words will speak to some young person who is assigned to read them as forcefully as they did to me."
Have we piqued your interest? Here's the column, by staff writer Michael Precker (right).