A Contra Costa County juvenile judge has ordered transgender teenager Jewlyes Gutierrez to enter a conflict resolution program known as restorative justice to deal with a battery charge stemming from a schoolyard fight last year. The judge’s decision was met with relief from Gutierrez, 16, and her public defender, Kaylie Simon. The district attorney’s office had charged Gutierrez with battery after the incident, but last Thursday, February 6, Juvenile Judge Thomas M. Maddock granted Simon’s request for the restorative justice […]
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