Hey guys and welcome to today's video. Today we have a couple of idiots in court that let their intrusive thoughts win and earn themselves some additional time in jail. We're going to start in Florida.
So, let's begin. Your honor, this is Mr Sledge in 24 CF2745. I met with Mr Sledge yesterday.
You still want to [clears throat] Your honor, I met with Mr Sledge yesterday. Yesterday, I was informed that he was going to fire me. So, I was just inquiring if he wanted to proceed with a Nelson hearing.
The situation with Mr Sledge is on October 17th, the alleged victim in this case, gave a written statement saying she wants to drop the charges. As I explained to Mr pledge. The state's already aware that she wants to drop the charges and they're not going to just because she's provided a written statement.
So, you went to the state attorney's office build out a drop charge for him, didn't Yes, she did. So, Mr Sledge, just so you understand that the state can go forward with charges even if the alleged victim doesn't want to. All right.
So, that's what Mr Client is explaining to. I'm not stutting him. What y'all talking about?
Say again. What are y'all talking about? We need to get this show on the road then.
Right. So, do you have any issues with Mr Klein? He's fired.
This man tried to sexually assault me yesterday. This man tried to This man be tripping. He came to the jail talking about he could help me if I pulled out my pants.
I told him, "Man, you tripping. " All right. I don't know, man.
Have we done a competency evaluation yet on Mr Sledge? Last week, your honor, Mr or I'm sorry, Dr McDonald went to the jail to meet with Mr Sledge. He refused to meet with her.
Okay. Let me explain something to you. And I explained it to you last time.
Mr No, Mr Sledge. Mr Sledge, I don't have to do nothing. You can't tell me nothing.
The lady said, "I don't have to if I don't want to. " And I told her, "No. " Period.
That's it. Now, let's move forward. I ain't talking about nothing.
No, you need to speak. You need to speak with the doctor when she come. Speaking with nobody.
I'm prosay. I want to move forward for go. I haven't We haven't had We haven't had a Ferretta hearing yet, Mr I want to go proay.
It's my right. Okay. Let me explain something to you.
It's your right, but I still have to determine through Mr Sledge. Here's the problem, Mr Sledge. Every time I try to explain something to you, you start talking.
Man, you stupid. You tripping. All right.
You ain't did nothing. You need to get Tell me why I shouldn't find you in contempt. Hey, man.
Whatever you want to do, man. I'm ready to go to trial. Okay.
Well, I'm I'm finding you in direct criminal contempt for what you just said, specifically calling me stupid. Okay. Anything you want to introduce as far as mitigation before I announce your sentence?
Uh, whatever. All right. 6 months county jail consecutive to anything he has in this case.
Can I You want to meet with the doctor now? Can I can fill out an appeal? You could certainly do that if you'd like.
Are you going to meet with the doctor? No. I'm prosay.
I don't got to meet with I haven't allowed you to do that yet, sir. We have to go through what's called a Ferretta hearing before we can do that. Let's do what we want to do then.
All right. Set them for a Ferretta hearing when y'all want to do that. Whenever the court is available, I'm fine.
I defer to the court. My lawyer direct. Well, you just told me you wanted to fire your lawyer, so I'm not sure who you're referring to.
All right. 12:23. I'll wait for him to file his written Freda or Nelson request and then I'll set it for a hearing.
All right. So, that's the end of the first hearing. I do want to point out a misconception that a lot of people have, especially when it comes to domestic abusers.
Just because you convince your partner not to show up in court in hopes of getting the charges dropped doesn't always mean that the charges are going to get dropped. As the judge said, the alleged victim gave a statement to the police and the state can and him will pick up the charges in many cases, even if the witness is being uncooperative. In other words, it's best to just walk away instead of putting your hands on the people you love.
Now we head to our next bozo who ended up getting remanded at his last court date for not following the orders of the court and also for arriving late to his hearing. Now this hearing could have gone his way and he could have been granted a bond and release. But he decided it was in his best interest to open his mouth and remove all possibilities of freedom.
One problem. Mr Evans, did you have any questions for the court at this time? No.
I would like to know if I can get my bond reinstated. You want to know if he's have what? He wants to discuss bond.
Judge, I think he does have bond. Judge, I this was a weird weird one when and I can I can tell the court a little bit about this. Um, Mr Evans and I, he was originally scheduled for a forensic review.
He was out of custody at the time. He's originally scheduled for a forensic review and somehow, and I don't, to be clear, I don't think this was Mr Evans's fault. Somehow I got a phone call from the forensic center saying that he missed it, even though my office never received notice from the forensic center that he had an appointment.
And then the court had some concerns about Mr Evans, you know, potentially showing up late or not potentially, but showing up late for court. I think it's at that time the court if unless my notes are incorrect here the court remanded him um pending that evaluation he does in full disclosure also have a bond violation pending which I think is part of the issue he had a drive-thru uh of the GPS tether exclusion zone was the allegation in in the pending bond matter I will say for what it's worth when he was out of custody he was always showing up to court sometimes late because he's not got hides easily, but he did always show up. He even showed up uh late on the date he got remanded, but he showed up.
I'm not sure how your office didn't get notice of the evaluation date because our office got notice in September. He was scheduled for December 11th. Can I speak?
Because I heard it was December 1st. They told me it was December 1st. Now, how can it be two or three different days?
You know, it's in your best interest to let your lawyer do all the talking because there's no argument that you can make to ensure your freedom that your lawyer can't make better than you can. Nevertheless, this is when he makes the personal decision to argue with the judge and it all begins to unravel for him. First, it was it was the person I don't know what you're talking about, sir.
I know that we received notice. I know that we receive I know I know that I know that we received notice um in on no on September 11 that you were going to have a uh I didn't receive any notice. Wh Why are you talking when I'm talking?
I'm just telling you I didn't receive Why are you talking when I'm talking? Why are you talking when I'm talking? Because I had it right.
Well, well, be quiet while I talk and don't cut me off anymore. So, we received notice back in September that you were scheduled for a competency evaluation in December. Whether it was the 1st or the 11th really is not germaine to the issue uh that you failed to appear and we had notice.
So, I don't understand how we had notice but you didn't have it. It was the lawyer's fault. It was it was not my fault.
If I didn't get noticed, how could I be there? That's my concern. How did the court get noticed and you didn't get noticed?
And I wasn't even talking to you. I was talking to your attorney. So, why don't you be quiet so the attorney and I can work that out?
I'm getting Excuse me. Excuse I'm going to ask you to be quiet one more time. I'm going to ask you to be quiet one more time before I find you in contempt.
You can do wherever you want. I'm letting you in contempt. 93 days Ingram County Jail.
I'm not going to go back and forth in the court trying to figure out why you didn't get noticed. I'm trying to have a conversation with an attorney on the record. I don't have time for this.
So, you you're remanded. We'll see you next week. Okay.
Or at your next court date. Bye. Judge Simmons is someone I like to cover.
She's a nononsense judge who has no problem putting window lickers in jail for acting like in court. So, next we head to his following appearance where he could have said sorry for his actions and asked for a reduction in his contempt sentence. Instead, he chose to blame his disruptive behavior on being groggy and then makes things so much worse for himself.
The audio isn't the greatest, but I've done my best to fix the volume so that you can follow along. Okay. On the record in the matter of the state of Michigan versus the police Evans 25-02611 hearings, please.
Good morning, your honor. AP Bert Bucks on behalf of people state of Michigan and good morning your honor. Robert Palmer of the public defenders office on behalf of Laprice Evans who's seated to my right.
That's something that could be flushed out further if this matter goes to trial. Think this there is sufficient probable cause though based on the testimony to bind over count one and count two will accompany uh count one to the circuit court. Bind over date being February uh 25th will be the date the circuit court receives the file from the district court.
Not a court date for you. Okay, Mr Evans. Your next court date will be a pre-trial.
Your attorney will be made aware of that date. Do you have any questions today? M.
Palmer had explained to me. Well, first of all, I would like to get in before. Secondly, Mr Palmer advised that he was not going to be representing my case any longer that council be appointed.
I don't know anything about you getting a new attorney or a new appointment. I the public defenders office appointed Mr Palmer and if they decide they're going to remove Mr Palmer and put someone else, that's their business. The court doesn't have any involvement in that.
He's the one who's been assigned to handle your case. Now, if you're requesting for new attorney um and you want to hire your own attorney, then you need to get your money together and or find you another attorney. But you don't get to decide which public defender represents you.
Do you understand that? Yeah, of course I would understand what Okay. I'm not sure if that's the case.
Again, the court would have no knowledge and or input on which public defender gets assigned to your case. So, at this time, Mr Palmer is the one who's been assigned. If they're going to switch that, that's up to the public defender's office.
The court doesn't have any involvement in that. Just just to be clear, judge, I did advise him that it is not anything that has to do with Mr Evans. it is the fact that I have accepted a new position outside of the public defenders office.
Uh and so I'm leaving. Um and um there was at one time a discussion that Mr Evans may be assigned new counsel prior to today's date so that that individual could be present to conduct the preliminary examination. For reasons I don't understand that didn't happen.
Um but I did advise Mr Evans that I will not be his counsel after today. Got it. So you're leaving the public defender's office.
Gotcha. Okay. Well, congratulations to you.
And so, for those reasons, obviously, you would have to get a new attorney because he won't be there to represent you. Again, the court has no input of who that attorney is going to be. It'll be someone assigned at by the chief public defender.
Okay. Yeah. Can I address the court?
You probably shouldn't be addressing the courtroom, but when have you known me to get in the way of someone running face first into a legal brick wall? You can. Okay.
I would like to first of all I would like a copy of the forensics report that I had. Did you get a did your attorney your attorney I can give it got a copy of that forensic report and can get you a copy. Okay.
I've got a note about also like state that on the date of 10th of December Mr called me called me at approximately 3:30 on that day and explained to me that I would be detained because I missed I missed the forensics examination which I had no knowledge that he gave me no information of that date I was in constant company with pre-trial and was on tether so you know there was no uh you know recognized that they've been recognized you know, for for instance. So, for that being said, you know, ma'am, um the other day went to court on was that the 30th or something? I just woke up had no pre knowledge of that.
I was even going to court, you know, like 10 minutes there like having to go to court. I'm like, I had no knowledge of it was a court date. So, you know, with that, ma'am, you know, I was a little braggy, uncomprehensive, as you might say, you know, and you know, this is how we end up getting 90 days.
With that being said, man, I would like to know if you would um try to at least give me some credit for that day that I've already served on that content charge. You got you got contempt because of your disruptive behavior, not because you were groggy. Understandable, man.
But I'm just letting you know that my process of right there has to be a certain amount of time to be acknowledged that you go to court. I have no knowledge. Not for direct contempt.
You were disrespectful and caused a complete disruption to me in court. There was no derogatory. Oh, so now you get to determine contempt in my court.
No ma'am. Uh the contempt the contempt will stand 93 days in county jail. Arguing with the judge about not arguing with the judge is like arguing that you did need all the crayons while having a rainbow sparkle across your lips.
What about the what he has done like as far as like me not having understanding? Well, who has done what he has did as far as your attorney? Mr Pal, Mr Palmer.
I stated that on on the 10th that he called me and said that I I missed a court date on on the first Mr He didn't do anything. So you trying to blame it on him that missed the I didn't have a knowledge of my my comments to him. Okay.
So there was there was more than two things going on here. There was there was also a court date scheduled here for December 11th that you didn't appear. No, I did.
I was here. Yeah. When I got here, you weren't here.
Mr was that just to be clear here. This guy was here and there was a black lady over there that was there. Judge, just to be clear on that date, he did appear eventually.
Uh by my notes, he appeared a couple of hours afterwards. I think he had transportation issues. Yeah, he got he was remanded for failure to appear to stuck in the snow.
But what I'm saying is I'm asking you that what what is the deal with him not giving me I don't even have the knowledge that I had a a hearing date and I was remanded on the next day that I went to court. You see what I'm saying? So like I shouldn't even been in jail.
I should just mean just now we going to jail. Uh you know but like there's like 60 or 70 days of my life that you know we're unaccounted for and he's responsible for he's responsible for 60 days of your life. Give me he didn't ma'am.
Sir sir is this is how this is how you got here in the first place. This is how we got here in the first place. Did you give me an opportunity to to finish my sentence before you cut me off to yell over me?
Well, that's what I No, I'm asking you a question. What was my question I was about to ask you? You didn't finish it.
Why? Because you cut me off. Well, you cut me off, too.
No, I didn't. You I and and I and if I did, I get to cut you off at a portion that I need clarity for. I am the one running the court, not you.
Understand? So when I cut you off, when I cut you off, it's because at this very point, I need some clarification. So you have to stop to allow me to get clarification right there.
Do you understand that? So you're saying that you did not know know that you were supposed to have a a psych a competency competency evaluation and that Mr Palmer was responsible for letting you know that? Yes, he was.
This fine, judge. I think that's actually true. I I I I want to be I am an officer of the court and I think I absolutely have an obligation to be 100% truthful with the court.
So, I'm not going to try to hide anything here. I was not aware and I've been looking into this as to why, but I did not see the competency or the order for his appointment until after the fact. I have some suspicions on why that happened.
Um I have some suspicions about why that happened and I'm just going to say that regardless of why I think it happened, it is ultimately my responsibility. I don't want to pass the buck. I don't want to try to make court think I'm passing the buck to anyone else.
I will fall on the sword and take responsibility for that. So to understand what they're talking about, the lawyer is doing his best job to take the blame for the defendant for not fulfilling his competency requirements, which he ultimately did while he was in custody and they found him competent to stay in trial. However, the judge is not budging on the contempt sentencing.
And when you are as dumb as a bag of dicks, anything you say can and will result in even more time for an additional contempt charge. What I will say is that um and and so I think to some extent Mr Evans is correct in what he's saying and I don't want him to he was remanded but it was not his error. It was he did not have knowledge.
I think that's true judge. And and one of the things I just I just want to remind to at least to my recollection of what happened. I started to address this very issue at our last court hearing and then Mr Evans was also talking, I'll put it that way, at while I was trying to make the record and and the court found him in contempt before I could really get into that issue.
He did find him in contempt for talking for for speaking over you and interrupting the court. I No, he bered the court. Right.
I'm not trying to I'm not trying to and he thinks it's funny. I understand. Judge, he said he he concurred.
He thinks it's funny. Listen, this is fing the court. So, excuse me.
This is fraud in the court. So, for what? I don't know what you're saying.
You You don't know what it's I didn't hear what you said. I don't know what you're saying. Fraud of the court is fraud.
You I didn't know what you were saying. I wanted you to repeat it. What's fraud on the court?
Fraud the court. It's not fraud of the court. The court has no it was the responsibility of your attorney to notify you to notify you.
This what this says that you were scheduled for an appointment with forensics which the court ordered you to undergo some forensics. I don't know what the breakdown between you and your attorney was because that's nothing to do with me. That has to do with you and your attorney.
If there was a breakdown in the communication whether it was your attorney didn't get the notice or your attorney did get the notice and didn't get it to you. That's between you all. Before he could address that, which was last week or yeah, a week ago, a little bit over that before he could address that, you became disruptive and we could not carry on a hearing.
So, I had to remand you because I couldn't get you to be quiet over there. Uh, that that's not true, man. Except that is true.
And it was recorded on the court's record. Any other lies you want to tell the court? It's not This is not up for debate.
This wasn't This is recorded in open court. Yeah. It was not It's not You can feel free to foyer and or subpoena a a copy of the record if you would like to.
The court made its ruling. Then the court stands by the ruling regardless of whether or not there was an an error made by your attorney does not give you grounds to come into the courtroom and be disruptive. We violated my rights.
And then you No, I didn't violate your rights. You You came in here today and tried to say the reason why you were disruptive was because you were groggy. Now it's because your rights were violated.
Ma'am, you you misinterpreted. You can be excused. You can be excused.
I can carry on the remainder of the hearing without you. You're set for violation. Yep.
You can get another 93 days. All set. Yeah.
Whatever. Yeah. Yeah.
Another 93 days. Well, there's another 93 days. I'm sure for the next 6 months, he'll be telling everyone in jail how he showed the judge while wearing prison orange and having jailers tell him when he needs to be up, asleep, showering, and He was not found in contempt because he was talking.
It's because he's disgustingly disrespectful. Governor, I'd like to go a step further. I was there for that hearing.
Thank you. Your honor was attempting to figure things out with the forensic review process uh with Mr Palmer and you turned at one point and said, "I'm trying to figure this out for you. " Something along those lines.
And that's when you were yelled at by the defendant over Zoom. So, I'd just like to put that on the record as well that you and Mr Palmer were trying to resolve the issue when you were interrupted. No.
Well, it's consistent with the behavior that we've seen of Mr Evans throughout this this matter. Um, and so that's neither here nor there. Uh, it's unfortunate that he was not the person who was at fault, it sounds like, for missing the forensic, but that does not give him grounds to come in and disrespect this court.
And I he will not get credit because of your error for coming in here a calling me out of my name, b disrupting the process. So that's that and he's getting an additional 93 days for contempt of court today that will be served consecutive to the one he's serving now. In other words, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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