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What she calls a mother’s instinct may land her in jail, reports CBS News correspondent Adriana Diaz.

“I broke the law, but I did it to save my son,” Angela Brown said.

For years, the Minnesota mom searched for a way to end her son’s chronic pain.

Trey appeared healthy, but a baseball accident in 2011 led to a build-up of pressure inside his head.

A line drive to Trey’s head caused bleeding in an area of his brain the size of a golf ball. Doctors feared he wouldn’t survive.

But when he finally woke from a medically induced coma, his mother said the old Trey was gone.

“He’s the shell of himself,” Angela said. “He’s in so much pain, and that causes depression.”

With depression came daily migraines, muscle spasms and uncontrollable outbursts.

“I cry like every day before I go to bed,” Trey said.

And the pain is intense.

“Like my brain is about to blow up, cause there is so much pressure,” he said.

To try to ease his pain, Trey’s parents tried 18 different medications, but little helped. Angela believes some of the drugs’ side effects even made her son suicidal.

“He told me, ‘mom, I don’t want to live, I can’t do this anymore,'” Angela said. “It’s not fair, it’s not fair. I have been so angry.”

But through out it all, she’s tried to be as positive as possible.

“People keep saying, ‘Oh you’re so strong,'” she said. “No I’m not! I begged him and I said, ‘We will find an answer.'”

Desperate, she began researching the benefits of medical marijuana. The family drove to Colorado and obtained a bottle of cannabis oil. It’s legal there, but not in Minnesota.

Angela said after a few drops, Trey’s pain melted away.

“It was a miracle in a bottle,” she said.

But the miracle didn’t last.

“It stopped the pain and stopped the muscle spasms,” Trey said. “It was helping me go to school until it then got taken away and then school was really hard again.”

It was taken away when his teachers asked why he was doing better in school.

“I said ‘Well, I gave him an oil that we’d gotten from Colorado,'” Angela recalled. “‘It’s derived from a marijuana plant.’ And then you could feel the tension in the room.”

A week later, the sheriff’s department confiscated the oil and county prosecutors charged Angela with child endangerment and requiring child protection. If convicted, she could face up two years in prison and $6,000 in fines.

“It’s asinine,” Angela said. “I didn’t hurt my son; I was trying to prevent him from being hurt.”

While she recognizes the substance is illegal in Minnesota, she defended herself saying it’s “not illegal in other states.”

CBS News reached out to the county prosecutor, law enforcement and Trey’s school district.

A Silicon Valley company that digitizes images said Thursday that an “administrative error” led to it paying eight workers flown in from Bangalore, India just $1.21 an hour to work 120-hour weeks installing computers in the company’s headquarters.

Electronics For Imaging paid the workers $40,000 in back wages and overtime and a $3,500 fine after the U.S. Department of Labor investigated the payroll violation based on an anonymous tip, a department official told The Huffington Post.

“These folks were not only not getting time-and-a-half when working extremely long hours, they weren’t making the basic minimum wage,” Michael Eastwood, assistant district director for the Labor Department’s San Francisco division said.

In a statement, the company said it didn’t realize it was illegal to pay workers temporarily in the United States the same wages they earn in their home countries. The $1.21 was equivalent to what the employees made in Indian rupees.

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“I think it’s more than likely that he’s giving this a serious thought in moving forward,” his eldest son, George P. Bush, told ABC on Sunday.

“If you had asked me a few years back, I would’ve said it was less likely,” said Bush, who himself is running for political office for the first time as Texas land commissioner.

“The family will be behind him 100% if he decides to do it.”

The Internal Revenue Service agents did not accuse Ms. Hinders of money laundering or cheating on her taxes — in fact, she has not been charged with any crime. Instead, the money was seized solely because she had deposited less than $10,000 at a time, which they viewed as an attempt to avoid triggering a required government report.

“How can this happen?” Ms. Hinders said in a recent interview. “Who takes your money before they prove that you’ve done anything wrong with it?”

The federal government does.

Calogero Gambino, 41, was found on the morning of Oct. 20 at his home in the New York borough of Brooklyn and pronounced dead on the scene, according to New York City police.

Gambino was an associate general counsel and a managing director who worked for the German bank for 11 years, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported his death.

He had been closely involved in negotiating legal issues for Deutsche Bank such as a probe by regulators of banks over allegations they manipulated the Libor benchmark interest rate as well as currency markets.

Gambino was also an associate at a private law firm and a regulatory enforcement lawyer between 1997 and 1999, the Journal said, citing Gambino’s LinkedIn profile and conference biographies.

He died by hanging, said Julie Bolcer, spokeswoman for the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner. The manner of death was suicide.

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