{"id":606720,"date":"2009-11-26T22:28:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T03:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"2076"},"modified":"2009-11-26T22:28:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T03:28:26","slug":"students-explore-careers-in-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/606720","title":{"rendered":"Students explore careers in justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><SPAN class=heading3>Aired Nov. 6, 2009 10:51 AM<BR><\/SPAN>KNDU TV<BR><A href=\"http:\/\/www.kndu.com\/global\/video\/flash\/popupplayer.asp?clipId1=4279781&amp;flvUri=&amp;thirdpartymrssurl=&amp;at1=News&amp;vt1=v&amp;h1=Students%20Explore%20Careers%20in%20Justice&amp;d1=45834&amp;redirUrl=&amp;activePane=info&amp;LaunchPageAdTag=homepage&amp;clipFormat=flv&amp;rnd=92170352\" ><IMG data-recalc-dims=\"1\" style=\"MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 0px\" height=\"28\" alt=\"Play Video\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.columbiabasin.edu\/images\/1532462192007image_video.jpg?resize=95%2C28\" width=\"95\" border=0><\/A><\/P><P>Pasco, WA- More than 200 teenagers in the Tri-Cities today went before the judge&#8211;and other professionals in the legal system.<\/P><P>The seventh annual Youth and Justice Forum at Columbia Basin College gives middle and high school students a chance to learn about potential careers in the legal system.<\/P><P>Among the games, mock trials and skits, the professionals&#8217; message is to stay in school, and keep out of trouble.<\/P><P>Retired Superior Court Judge Dennis Yule says he hopes students will leave this forum having made contact with someone in the justice system. &#8220;We have found that that kind of relationship that develops between a kid and a police officer or attorney or judge can really be a life changing experience for them.&#8221;<\/P><P>Along with Yule and other judges, about 70 professionals volunteered for the forum, including attorneys, law enforcement officers, and court interpreters.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aired Nov. 6, 2009 10:51 AMKNDU TVPasco, WA- More than 200 teenagers in the Tri-Cities today went before the judge&#8211;and other professionals in the legal system.The seventh annual Youth and Justice Forum at Columbia Basin College gives middle and high school students a chance to learn about potential careers in the legal system.Among the games, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xPO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}