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CLEARWATER — There was a Jeykll and Hyde quality to Thursday's court proceedings, where three 15-year-old boys pleaded guilty to beating a 13-year-old student on a school bus last month. The boys appeared remorseful and respectful, their heads sometimes bowed. It was all “Yes, sir” and “No, sir,” sometimes in unison, as Circuit Judge Raymond Gross painstakingly asked them a series of questions after their attorneys announced the trio would be pleading guilty in the July 10 beating. But then Assistant State Attorney William Schopper asked that the video of the attack — the one that's gone viral and turned...