I spent all morning in court. Murder trial. Not mine. 'Same judge, same prosecutor as last week.

Another video. Another moment where I put my face in my hands, felt the goosebumps rise, and just wanted to kick the wall in frustration.

Last week's video o' fun was a small girl crying in fear while her dad got a face-full of pepper spray and assaulted cops just to prove a point.

This week's video was another kid. Well, not technically. He's 20, he's on trial for a gang-related murder, and he has two kids of his own - a four-year-old and a two-year-old.

So they played this taped statement he made, where he basically confessed he had a lot more to do with the shooting than he had been telling the cops.

Without going into things, this kid makes the worst alleged gang-banger I've ever seen. Not that gang-bangers are particularly renowned for their intelligence, but still...

(Now the kid's contesting it, since he's on trial, obviously. I dunno - I'm still trying to get all the details. I jumped into this trial on Day 2, since I was covering the stupid election, and I can't get the clerk to let me see the goddamn case file. I've tried to charm her by batting my boyish blue eyes, and then I remember after two months in Chi-town my skin's pale, my hair's thinning, and I have bags the size of luggage under my eyes. The clerk just looks back at me and quietly hates me. Oh well.)

Anyways, that's more than enough bitching for one night - but I guess my original point for this post was this: There's this precise moment in the video where the kid, who's 7 years younger than me btw, realizes he's told the cops too much. There's no going back now, and he's fucked. I mean, just fucked. You can hear the fear, pain, panic, anguish - everything in his voice. It's the sound of somebody assuming life as they know it is over... Life in prison, or, if he's done the math, he realizes he lives in a state with capital punishment. 'Talk about whoops.

So the copy I filed today was pretty craptacular. Hopefully tomorrow I can get a little further to the bottom of this one, file, jump on a plane to Houston, and do my best not to pass out.

Alright, now I'm done bitching. Houston's gonna be fun. Everyone enjoy the weekend. Seacrest, out!