In a courtroom on the 11th floor of the Miami-Dade Children’s Courthouse, Judge Orlando Prescott lectures a 17-year-old boy about the importance of associating with trustworthy people — and being trustworthy himself.
“You’ll never get in trouble for the truth; you’ll get in trouble for a lie,” the gray-goateed Prescott admonished the teen, who was accused of running away from home and not attending school but insisted it was not so.
The youth did some on-the-spot soul searching, changed his story, and admitted he’d been staying elsewhere, as the judge suspected.
