- You got kids?
- Yeah, three
- yeah?
- You have 3 kids?
- Yeah two and one on the way now.
- You're a busy man.
- Yeah.
- Charlie I'm gonna go inside
to see what's going on.
- All right sounds good.
- [Narrator] When JDP was started,
Charlie Gonzalez would
not have been eligible.
Only misdemeanor cases were allowed.
But now third and sometimes
second degree felonies
can be considered.
Charged with crimes that in
criminal court can spell prison,
today marks Charlie's halfway
point in jail diversion.
- Mr Gonzalez how are you?
- Pretty good and yourself your Honor?
- In a criminal justice system
there's really just three parties.
There is the defense attorneys,
often represented by the
public defenders office.
There's the state attorney's
office in Florida.
Outside of Florida sometimes
their known as district attorneys.
And then there's the judge.
And theoretically the system works best
when both sides fight equally hard,
and justice is supposed to
fall through the middle.
And so doing a collaboration
criminal justice system
is not a natural act,
and so it had to be created.
- A community has to agree together
that their going to solve
whatever particular problem
exists in their community.
We all come to the table and
we can put turfs to once side,
and say were gonna build
something really meaningful here.
