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Disorderly conduct is a nasty charge to defend. I feel sorry for this attorney for dealing with this client. He’s gonna earn his money here. I doubt he’s fighting this to the end unless she’s insisting on it.

If not, I’d get a new attorney. Samantha’s goal is to get this off her record - or it should be. Period. She f’ed up (95%). I think the bus driver did as well (5%) on taking the phone out of her hand, but not NEARLY as much as she did. I also can not blame the girl for defending mom either. As far as not letting the student off the bus, that’s school policy. I can not blame driver for that.

I really hope that attorney takes Greta’s advice and tells Samantha here the rules of the game. The prosecutor wants to wrist slap her and send a message (This is Disorderly conduct, not A&B). If I’m wrong on this and the attorney wins on self-defense or something similar, I want his office number if I’m ever the defendant in court.

I'm going to watch the video again, but on my initial viewing I did not see the bus driver pull the nitwit girl's hair or hit the girl, or anything other than to restrain her. She did take the girl's cell phone. What I did see was a hysterically out of control immature adolescent acting for all the world like one of the girls in the Salem witchcraft trials, pointing at thin air and shrieking that she was being pinched and slapped. The girl fabricated almost the entire scenario. Maybe she didn't know she was on video.