it is conducted through a video link to the courthouse where matthew glidden's mother, sharon glidden in attendance. >> all rise. >> you may please be seated. i am ready for michael bixby. >> sharon does not believe her son wanted to die. >> you know, if he had really, really planned there, we thought he would have tried to say good-bye a better way. >> do you have a copy of the form for the public defender's office? >> i do. >> mr. bixby, you have a right to a jury trial. >> sharon glidden says on the night of her son's death, he called his brother with a request. >> his brother said, "mom, matt wants me to call classification in the morning and name two people as his enemies so he, get out of there. one of them i do not know. but the other one was bixby. >> i'm going to set bond at $150,000. thank you, sir. good luck to you. >> he is dead. i know that. and there's nothing i can do to bring him back. i miss him. i miss him dearly. i'm seeking help for, you know, to help me through this. i don't know where i'm going to go from here. >> while matthew glidden's family waits for answers

glidden fired a single shot. while robert lay dead on the ground, his mother who worked two jobs including second shift as a nurse at a nearby hospital was asleep when police knocked at her door. >> so he you know proceeded to say we believe that he was in a prior crime that led up to the shooting and killing of his death. i'm like crime? death? and so at this moment i'm shocked. >> you watched the news and you heard the reports that your son was part of a robbery, was trying to hurt a police officer, was this your son? >> no. robert wouldn't even fight his baby sister back. he was never a fighter. robert was probably 135 to 140 pounds soaking wet. he didn't have fight in him. you know what i'm saying? he was the walk-away type of person. >> on the day of the shooting, robert, who was working on his ged, was walking home from a local car dealership where he sometimes worked detailing cars. >> they just bring chills because this is where my son last moments of his life was. >> it didn't make sense for him to burgl

>> the attorney for deputy glid glidden and the housto n city, would not speak with al jazeera america,. >> what if you don't win this time around? >> well, you know what, if we don't win this time around, at least we have the information that we were looking for from the beginning. all this evidence, and all the things that we were asking for, this stuff has told the story for us. >> robert's mother says her fight for justice gives purpose to the pain. >> i hope you take away a clear vision of robert, and i hope you take away that we know that death was wrong. we want more answers and justification behind this. >> sarah hoye, al jazeera, warner robbins, georgia. >> that's "america tonight." please tell us what you think at aljazeera.com/americatonight. you can talk to us on twitter or facebook and come back. we'll have more of "america tonight," tomorrow. >> new moms forced to choose. >> the united states does lag behind other countries on this. >> now a revolution in workers' rights... >> my story is so many peoples' story. >> that could decide the election. >> it can be different. >

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