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It's December 28, 2004 in Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania.

In the Luzern County Courthouse,

defense attorney Steven Urbansky is sitting inside courtroom number four,

getting ready to present his case to the judge.

Urbansky finishes scribbling a note on a yellow legal pad,

then turns and gives his client a reassuring smile, trying to convey the message that he

has nothing to worry about. But the small gesture isn't having much of an effect on his client.

Urbansky is representing a scrawny boy named Matthew, who's only in the seventh grade.

He looks pale and terrified to be sitting in court.

And while Urbansky wishes he could offer some concrete promises and set Matthew's mind at ease,

he knows this case could take some unexpected turns.

Matthew was recently charged with assaulting an adult.

It all started when he got into an altercation with his mother's boyfriend.

The boy's mother didn't actually see the incident, but her boyfriend claimed that Matthew

shoved him and later threw a stake at him. When Urbansky was brought onto the case,

he assumed that that was just another garden variety dispute between a teenager and his family.

But unfortunately, the boy's mother decided to escalate the conflict.

She ended up calling the police, filing charges against her own son.

Urbansky feels a lot of sympathy for this young boy. His parents went through a messy divorce,

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