NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - You could say General Sessions Court Judge Jim Todd and Jelly Roll go way back.

“I prosecuted you in ’90, do you remember the year?” Todd asked Jelly Roll in a recent interview.

“It was ’99 or 2000,” Jelly Roll replied. “It saved my life.”

The country music superstar was a troubled kid going through the Davidson County Court system at the time. Todd was a special prosecutor for violent and gang-related juvenile offenders, where he repeatedly saw young people in need of serious help.

“That hit me square in the eye,” said Todd. “The only people they look to in these areas of town are the drug dealers, ‘cause they have the money and they have the materials. So that’s what they start doing. It’s a vicious circle I’ve seen all my life as a prosecutor, then a defens

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