Byline: TIM O'BRIEN Staff writer
Over the past 15 years, Honor Court has enabled judges to sentence 5,000 defendants to sobriety.
They are people accused of crimes who received conditional discharges in return for a commitment to get treatment for alcohol or drug abuse. The sentence in these cases is straightforward: Stay out of trouble, and stay out of jail.
Honor Court, which is marking its 15th anniversary this month, began when Thomas Keegan was a City Court judge.
``I could just see the lives of people being ruined, seeing the same people again and again and again,'' recalled Keegan, now a state Supreme Court justice. ``Ten or 20 …
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