Ray explains the charges, the district attorney's offer and the client's chances. One day, at two jail runs before two judges, Ray got 10 cases. Newton is in jail for violating the terms of his probation on a spousal abuse conviction. After a brief visit, Ray returns to the courtroom and prosecutor Jason Moon. Their conversation is sometimes coarse.
Moon looks at the file and notices that Newton has two previous convictions on the same charge.
We'll do a year. Ray winces and says his guy won't take it. Prosecutor and defense attorney haggle, and finally Ray talks Moon into letting Newton serve a year in a state lockup. But Ray's not ready to deal many other cases. One client, Ronnie Todd Bonner, is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, pulling a gun on his mother.