What does the author tell the court at the end of the diary entry

in diary 33 from the Freedom Writers Diary

The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them is a non-fiction 1999 book written by TheFreedom Writers, a group of students from Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, and their teacher Erin Gruwell.

In the fall of 1995, Gruwell gave each of her students a bag full of new books and had them make a toast for change. After that, she saw a turnaround in them. The students went on to surprise everyone. All 150 Freedom Writers graduated from high school and many went on to attend college.

The author tells the truth. She goes into the courtroom believing that she will lie to protect her own, but after seeing a mother on the defendant's side cry and hug her child, she tells the truth. The mother reminds her of her own mother, and the author, when she was younger and her dad was also wrongly put in jail.

Answer: She tells the truth in the end, feeling sympathy for the innocent side.