All right, and good, good evening everybody. My name is Judge Melissa Madrigal. I'm first I want to take the opportunity to thank the League of Women Voters, the Hispanic Women's Network, and also the Leadership Corporate Christy Class 38 for the opportunity to present my, my platform. I graduated from Texas A&M in 1998 and I went to law school. I'm sorry, I graduated from law school in 1998 and I came my first job was as a third-year bar law school student with the Harris County District Attorney's Office. And that's why I started my career in the criminal justice system. I was the intern for the Family Criminal Law Division and I, what I did is I represented victims that needed protective voters in the Harris County courts. When I worked there, there was 224 DAs. Subsequently, after graduating, I moved back to Corpus Christy and my first job was actually in County Court at law number five. I was the assistant district attorney there until 2005. During that time, I handled every kind of case that ever appeared in that court. I handled murders, sexual assaults, I certified juvenile, I was to stand trials and adults for very serious offenses. I prepared cases and presented them to the grand jury. I handled over a thousand detention hearings, more than 200 adjudications and dispositions. And then I left in 2005 to become a judge for the City of Corpus Christy. As a judge for the City of Corpus Christy, ultimately went to the judge of the juvenile court for municipal court and now I'm a judge for noisys county magistrate court. I am seeking this position for County Court five, not because it's a job to me. It's because it's a responsibility that I am undertaking for this community. It's a job that I take very seriously and I prepared my entire legal career for. So I am asking for your vote for County Court five. Thank you, Mr. McCormick. There we go, how about now? Start my time over. I'd like to also thank everybody for being here, especially the league for having us. I'd like to first talk about the court that I'm running for. County Court five and I don't think anybody will argue with me is the most important court in this county. And it's that way because it deals with the lives of the children and the families here. If a child gets in trouble, whether it's from neglect, legal trouble, gets arrested, they're going to end up in County Court five. And nobody's going to make any money in Court five. There's no big time civil litigation. It's truly a public service court. And that's why I'm running for it. I'm Timothy McCoy. I grew up in this county and in Corpus Christi, I graduated King High School. I went to college at the University of Texas at Austin, graduated South Texas College of Law. And I returned to our county and began my legal career in County Court five. I've had a broad range of legal experience. I've represented your largest corporations, 10 individuals and justice of the peace court. But most importantly, my entire career has been practicing in County Court law number five. I've handled every type of case in that court from your juvenile adjudications to CPS cases, to JP appeals, guardianships, I've done them all. What it comes down to me is the County Court of Law number five is my passion. Serving the children and families of this community is my passion. That's why it's the bulk of my practice. And as an attorney with my experience and skill set, I believe I can make a difference. And that's why I like this court. I have two lovely children, a five year old and a nine year old. And I think when you deal with children on a daily basis, it's important that you know where children are coming from. I've also worked with and mentored children my entire life. Before you today, as a candidate, I believe with the broadest range of legal and life experience. And I ask for your support. Thank you. This question will be for both of you. Your court deals with the substantial volume of teenage cases. Should teens be charged more leniently? Mr. McCoy, if you want to start first. I can't, I don't think you can make a broad, it's pretty broad question. I think you have to take every case on an individual basis. You know, the goal in juvenile adjudications, it's not kind of, it's a little bit different than your adult system. And your adult system, your first goal is to punish an individual. Whereas your first goal in a juvenile adjudication is rehabilitation. And I believe that's what you have to look at that in every single case. Whether teenager or whatever the age is because that's the law. Thank you, Mr. McCoy and Ms. Madrigal. The, I think it's important to note that the charge is actually done by the district attorney's office, not the judges. And I think we have to uphold the law as it's written. If a crime, if a juvenile is committing a crime that is part of growing up, they're missing school, you know, you can, you can use the rehabilitative process. If a child is in our community and their community murders, their community rapes, their committing offenses that pose a danger to our community, then we need to seek other avenues such as certification, determinant, sentencing. And as a previous prosecutor, I, you know, I presented cases to the grand jury for determinant sentencing. I certified juvenile's. So that would not be a problem in making a decision of that magnitude. As a judge right now, I, you know, have had to send people to prison. You have to have somebody on that bench that is willing to make hard decisions. And uphold the laws of this community, keep the community safe, and as well as raise the bar of expectation for our juveniles. Thank you. This next question is for both of you. We'll start with you Ms. Madagal. How many murder cases have you represented the state or juveniles in court number five? In County court five, I represented the state in a, the first South Texas juvenile serial murder, which is Mitchell Mavaudi's that is certified to stand trials and adult. And he was later sentenced to life. And he committed three murders. There was a criminal negligent homicide. I'd say about eight cases involving murder that were directly sent and their juveniles between the ages of 10 to 17 that I'd handled as a prosecutor. As a defense attorney, it was one murder that I represented a juvenile long. That was the charges later dismissed because he was innocent. Thank you, Mr. Mulhoi. As everybody, I haven't been a prosecutor in that court, so I've never represented the state. I've defended a number of murder cases in the adult system. And I have represented one individual on a murder case in County court five. Thank you. Next question again for both of you. Should one court handle all of these sorts of cases? Mr. Mulhoi, would you like to start? I like it that way for a number of reasons. And in most counties, and I've practiced in most severe counties surrounding this area, your juvenile and CPS cases tend to be divided up among numerous district and county courts. And what that leads to is a lack of continuity in the outcome of the cases. So you may have a different judge each time you go before the court. I like the way this county does it because you have the opportunity as a judge to see a case from the beginning to the end. I think that's very important, especially when you're dealing with CPS cases where every little detail matters. You don't want to be.