00:00Y'all didn't just walk in and take it.
00:01You got to grab her.
00:02You got to pull her around.
00:04You got to show that you're a man.
00:05When this young defendant asked for probation after two armed robberies in a single month,
00:09the judge refused to let his age soften what he had done
00:12and made it clear that terrorizing store clerks at gunpoint demanded serious consequences.
00:16Mr. Watts is here in cost number 25 DCCR 1918 and 26 DCCR 0946.
00:23Each of those cases previously poured interplice of guilty
00:27and each of them to the first degree felony offenses of aggravated robbery.
00:31Both of these cases involve two guys that go into a store,
00:35one during daylight hours, another one during nighttime hours,
00:38both victimizing a clerk that's there just trying to do her job.
00:41There's no glass barrier.
00:43Either of these stores, these two guys walk in there, hold the clerk up in each of these instances
00:49and proceed to rob the clerk for, at least in mind, money and some cigarettes.
00:54For this to happen in daylight hours or nighttime hours to somebody that's just trying to go to work isn't
01:00right.
01:00I mean, you don't go to work expecting to get robbed when you potentially have a family at home.
01:05And during either of these robberies, something tragic could happen.
01:08He has no juvenile record that I'm aware of.
01:11He has no adult history that I'm aware of.
01:13These are the only two cases that he's ever had any issues with.
01:16I agree they're serious offenses.
01:18He understands that.
01:19He's told me today that if I could apologize to these people, I would.
01:22He was encouraged by somebody older than him.
01:24I believe it was probably his father.
01:26So it was.
01:27He's asking the court to give him probation.
01:29He would like to address the court judge.
01:31Go ahead.
01:31I do apologize to that woman and for everything that I've done, man.
01:36I regret it very much.
01:38I appreciate you saying that.
01:39I hope that you're sincere.
01:40No matter what happens today, you have an ability at your age to change your life and do better things.
01:46Unfortunately, I tend to believe that sometimes people are sorry because they got fought, not because really of what they
01:53did.
01:54I don't disagree with Mr. Parker.
01:56That looks like your dad's the one that's encouraging you to go out and do this crap.
02:00All that being said, two times within a month.
02:02Like hoodies, masks, gloves, a pistol.
02:06I didn't know nothing about, like, I mean, like you said, I'm being honest with you now.
02:10It was my father's life.
02:11But I did not have no intentions on doing that kind of what my father showed up.
02:16I didn't know nothing about how to rob a store or do them at the wood store.
02:19I didn't see them.
02:20Well, you went all in, didn't you?
02:22I did.
02:23And Tara, I mean, y'all didn't just walk in and take it.
02:26You got to grab her.
02:26You got to pull her around.
02:28You got to show that you're a man.
02:30And cause number 25, DCCR 1918, find sufficient evidence to find you guilty and at this time find you guilty
02:36of aggravated robbery.
02:37Sentence you to a term of 17 years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Corrections.
02:42These cases will run concurrently, which means together at the same time.
02:46Again, you're young.
02:47You're going to go to prison, obviously, for some amount of time.
02:49It's going to be up to you to do something different or not when you get out.
02:52All right.
02:53You can go back with the baby.
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