His client, Juan Aguilar, would soon be sentenced for the gang murder of Roberto Torres in 1997. Torres' parents were waiting too, quietly. So were Aguilar's mother and sister. Aguilar was only 15 at the time of the murder. He has spent the last three years in juvenile hall.
Juvenile rehabilitation works.
But I had only one qualm. Aguilar was still facing trial and not allowed to answer such a question. Roberto Torres wasn't a member of any gang, much less a participant in a civil war. He was merely walking with a friend at the wrong time and place. One of the gang shot Torres dead.