Their entrance into the courtroom looks like an idea from the marketing crew at Abercrombie and Fitch gone completely off the rails.

Rumpled preppy when they left their houses yesterday, tonight they are decidedly more.

The teenage trio forms a rainbow coalition. One black, one Latino and one Asian. Two males and one female. Each one more attractive than the next and each looking lost and suburban in the apex of this urban underbelly.

They represent the elite, and apparently they adjusted their aims accordingly. Doodling in marble notebooks did not derive the proper gratification, so they expressed their "art" on canvases doubling as tunnel walls and the sides of buildings.

The three late-teens now stand up in front of the judge as a single unit. They tagged together, and they represent and are represented together.

Their defense, like their crime, comes from a can: Good kids, bad decisions.

The judge grants each an Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal, but for good measure adds two days community service.

The representing parent of the trio studies the terms of the ACD and service commitment like it is an application to Stuyvesant High School.