Previously on cereal.

In your experience as a police officer, can you smell raw marijuana in a bag inside someone's pocket?

Yes.

I probably put more people on probation than any other judge in this courthouse.

Yeah, because I can always put him in prison later, right?

I don't think he had anything to do with an officer.

He doesn't want to be a rat. He doesn't want a rat on your guy. I think currently he has.

How can you help us do that?

What's the solution? How can I help you all do it. From this American life in W.E.Z. Chicago, it's serial.

One courthouse told week by week.

I'm Sarah Kating. I was talking to this guy Kevin 40 years old. He'd been busted for giving someone

at his college a marijuana cookie. He'd offered it as a nice gesture, really just, hey, have one. He thought the guy

understood what it was, wink, wink, but he didn't, and all went wrong. Kevin ended up with a felony

conviction. Well, another felony conviction.

The case sounded absurd. There'd been a trial over this cookie. That's funny, right?

I went to talk to Kevin, the Cookie Baker, in the hallway outside the courtroom in the Justice

Center right after the verdict. Not funny. He was in what my mother would call a swivet,

cracking angry jokes but also desperately upset, half crying.

Kevin said he'd been a drug dealer when he was young, but he changed.

He was in school, volunteering in his community, trying to start his own business,

doing well. And now this, what Kevin called

Falonia's childish stupidness. It got him kicked out of his college and it also

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