Legal Question in Criminal Law in Georgia

My 17 yr old son was on a Florida high school band field trip to Georgia. He was caught by the band director with a wax form of marijuana and was arrested in Fulton county and they charge him with disorderly conduct in violation of code section 38-54 of local ordinance, then remarks on citation "Drugs.... See incident report. (Which we do not have). We drove 8 hrs to bail him out, we were able to speak to a judge and he said if it was a joint he would just say have a good day, but this wax form that he was not familiar with was more concerning, but they just charged him with the misdemeanor and lowered the bail from $1500 to $1000. after the Judge determined we are good parents and the kids never been in trouble. The citation has an order to appear in 3 weeks and he has to submit to a urine test that tests as clean as 3 weeks allows. He is 6 weeks away from graduating High School and has to complete an intervention program along with 5 days suspension from school, as part of the schools punishment . So the question is, should we just go back up for the court date and submit to the judge what all we have done and hopefully just pay a fine, and is a public defender provided/necessary for what seems to be a simple case?

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