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February 10 Court Hearings: Judge Boyd, Simpson, Middleton + More | TCF Podcast #228 · The Courtroom Files

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  Good morning, everybody. Happy Tuesday.
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  Welcome to TCF Live. Nice to have you all here a few
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  minutes early today. Let's get started with Judge
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  Middleton. All right.
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  Elizabeth Conway. Yes.
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  Good morning, Miss Conway. Good morning.
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  Are you Elizabeth May Conway? And we've met.
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  I'm judging Bolton. You're here.
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  You. I kind of lost track of you.
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  You got evicted from your house and I didn't know where you
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  were, but you got a ticket for being a disorderly person in
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  Three Rivers on January the 9th. Let's take a look at that
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  ticket. This has trash guys on it.
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  Let's see what it shows here. I
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  think this was at the hospital. Yeah.
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  All right, the ticket says trespass.
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  That's correct. And it's a form of disorder.
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  But it was 2:00 in the afternoon at Three Rivers Hospital.
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  Conway was previously served trespass.
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  Notice to location issued citation for trespass.
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  How do you plead to that charge? Oh.
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  I'm not going. To see, 'cause I still see you
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  as a mother, you can still go CC as a.
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  OK. Miss Conway, where are you
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  staying? All.
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  Right, so you're. At your house.
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  Yeah, hotels. And hotels, yeah.
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  Do you have any income? Yeah, I get.
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  Disability and I have other incomes in that I.
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  Didn't realize you were getting SSI because you've got a number
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  of unpaid fines from other stuff.
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  You've got $945 worth of unpaid fines.
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  You were on a payment plan, and I think you might have made a
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  payment in January. Anyway, have a seat for a
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  minute. Mr. George.
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  The city attorney stepped out. We'll see what his thought is on
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  this case. I didn't realize you got SSI.
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  I'm glad you at least have some income, but it's awfully
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  expensive to spend it on hotels. Right.
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  All right, you sit down for a minute and we'll wait for Mr.
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  George to come back. Sarah Patterson.
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  Good morning. Are you Sarah Joe Patterson?
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  You got charged with no insurance?
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  We get lots of those. File 26124.
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  No insurance is a misdemeanor, it's punishable by up to a year
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  in jail, a fine of up to $500, not less than $200 plus cost
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  which would be a minimum fine of $325.00.
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  Do you have insurance now? I do.
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  Do you have it with you? It's on my.
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  Phone. All right, Who's your carrier?
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  Progressive. Very good.
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  Did you still live on Erie St. You got $403 worth of unpaid
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  tickets. You got a real old seat belt
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  ticket from 2007 which is $78. Surprise your license isn't
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  suspended. Then you got allowing another to
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  violate the motor vehicle. Code.
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  That you haven't paid from 2024. You owe $325.
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  We can wipe that out with a jail sentence, but I'm assuming you'd
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  rather pay the fine. Yes.
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  All right. You haven't paid anything on it.
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  Did you forget about it? No, I had, I had.
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  I did pay on it. Let's take a look.
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  I was making payments and then. Lost the job and.
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  Didn't get back into paying the payments OK but.
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  I made seven payments. All right, well, let's get back
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  into payments. Yeah, you made a payment.
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  Yeah, that real unpaid ticket. What's this at a domestic
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  violence case? I.
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  Gave you a court date of 217. We should Laura.
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  We got a open arraignment for Sarah Jo Patterson 26194.
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  She has a court date of 217. We'll save her a trip and take
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  care of that today. So I'd like that.
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  I fell through the cracks. Sarah Patterson 26194 Also,
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  we'll have somebody talk to you about your insurance.
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  So have a seat for a minute and we'll come back to your case.
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  I didn't do a very good job of checking these files.
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  All right. David Banks.
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  Good morning, Sir. Sure he was, Mr. George.
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  This is another ordinance case. Good morning, Sir.
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  Are you David Banks? Yes.
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  Sir, we've met but I need to identify you for the record.
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  You got charged with retail fraud third degree.
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  It's alleged that in November 11th of 24 and February 1st that
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  you did a retail fraud at Dollar General.
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  I'll read it the way it's written.
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  That sounds like a under scan, although while the store is open
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  to the public, transfer, remove, replaces, conceals, or otherwise
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  misrepresents price at which property is for sale did alter
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  the price of merchandise which was offered for sale for less
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  than $200. This was authorized by Mr.
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  George IS. It just one counter on it.
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  Well, I'm trying to figure it out.
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  Was reported at Dollar General tore off a label from a Mike and
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  Ike package which is some cheap candy. 10 separate package of
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  Mike and Ike being scanned in place of other merchandise
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  between 1:11 and 21124. Tell our general employees
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  documented the island stolen by reviewing video surveillance
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  totally. The amount of merchandise stolen
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  was $555. Video surveillance shows banks
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  holding a barcode in one hand at the self checkout, scanning it
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  in place of other items. Two incidents, one on February
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  11th and 1:00 on January 11th. So the issue this warrant and
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  then you don't get served on the warrant for a year.
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  They entered the warrant in July of 2024 and they didn't serve it
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  on you till January of 26 the whole time.
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  Did you live on 5th St. Yes, Sir.
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  No, I got a warrant then they never bought it to do anything
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  with it. This is a little complicated.
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  It involves video evidence identifying you, multiple
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  incidents, criminal history of previous RNC charges.
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  This is the kind of thing you could probably benefit from
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  having an attorney appointed to represent you.
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  It sounds like they're not going to reduce this to a civil
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  infraction. Sounds like it's a planned
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  scheme is what the allegation is.
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  So would it be your choice to plead not guilty and have me
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  appoint? A lawyer for you?
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  Yes. All right.
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  They're not guilty. I don't know why it took them a
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  year and a half to serve this warrant.
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  They go to all the effort to get it.
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  You're living at the same owls. They never bothered to serve a
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  warrant. How'd you get arrested when you
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  got arrested in January? Well my my car was sitting on
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  the street and police just ran the plate.
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  This is the car is in my name. The warrant popped up.
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  I think you've been in here between then and now.
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  You've been in here with some other people, bringing them to
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  court or moral support. You've been in here.
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  Wow. There was open warrant and
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  nobody even knew about it. I would have arranged you on it
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  if I'd known about it. But yeah, you've been in here
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  between. Anyway, Mr. George, this is
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  David Banks. It doesn't look like the type of
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  case you would reduce to a civil infraction.
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  It's not just because. Of the it's complicated.
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  So I got an attorney form and set an attorney pretrial.
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  One troubling thing is they got the warrant in July of 2024.
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  He lived at the same house the whole time and they didn't serve
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  the warrant till accidentally it got served in January of 26.
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  That was always a three over thing.
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  It's been better since. The new chief is there.
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  All right, plead not guilty, appoint an attorney, set
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  attorney pretrial for March 6th. Another going to be a busy day.
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  I just better assume on the 1st Friday of each month I'm not
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  going to get any lunch. All right, Mr. Banks, we'll get
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  an attorney to help you with. The good news is there isn't a
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  warrant out hanging over your head.
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  The bad news is there's there's an allegation of a calculated
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  school steel. So maybe if you hadn't used Mike
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  and Ike's every time, I don't know anybody even ate those
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  anymore. All right, you go with a court
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  officer, we'll get a lawyer and I will see you on March 6th.
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  It's your obligation to call a lawyer, make an appointment to
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  discuss it with him prior to that date, or you go with the.
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  Officer. Mr. George Elizabeth Conway is
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  here. She pled not guilty to that
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  trespass charge at the hospital. I didn't know much.
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  If you had any idea on what to do with it, you'd be willing to
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  do a similar. All right.
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  All right, Miss Conway, what you're charged with, it's a
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  misdemeanor. It's punishable by up to 90 days
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  in jail and a fine of up to $500.
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  Mr. George, the city attorney would dismiss that charge if you
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  pled to the Three Rivers Ordinance serving the peace as a
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  civil infraction. It's like a speeding ticket.
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  It wouldn't be a crime. That would be a civil
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  infraction. And I would give you a fine of
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  $100 and put it on a payment plan with the other stuff that
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  you're currently not paying on. So they would dismiss the
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  misdemeanor if you pled to the disturbing the peace as a civil
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  infraction. The allegation is that you've
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  been barred from the hospital, which is a rough gig, and you
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  went back there that day at 2:00.
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  So they dismissed the misdemeanor if you plead to the
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  civil infraction. Are you willing to accept that
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  plea? No.
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  No. No, I still go there.
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  I still go there to see at the hospital there.
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  You see me there. And the last time I went there
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  and they were seeing a different tune and they felt actually like
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  they did something wrong. All right, Mr. George, you have
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  any more insight on it? This was from January 9th of
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  this year. At the.
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  Hospital she previously served the trespass news by September
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  and you're saying you still go to the hospital since this.
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  Yeah, they see me there one of the Sarah you guys actually in
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  January when the day I was like about time before I trying to
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  beat the hot I mean too. I thought it was very and copper
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  the way they treated me. All right.
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  Well. Why are you going to the
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  hospital now? Because I had physical assaults.
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  So you're going there for for medical treatment?
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  Medical for a seizure lesson and like or have a seizure or I was
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  physically assaulted like I was in a neck race and then stuff
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  like that. So have you been there since
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  January 9th? Yeah.
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  When was the last time she was there?
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  All week ago. Got to the.
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  End. We took you.
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  Officer Britton, I think. All right, well, I'm just going
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  to set this for a bench trial one hour.
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  I want you to go out to the counter.
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  I want you to talk about your unpaid fines.
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  I'm not going to appoint a lawyer for it because I'm not
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  likely to put you in jail for this.
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  I don't need to set a pre trial for it because it's not going to
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  change anything. They've offered a civil
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  infraction which is low as they can go and you're not willing to
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  accept that. And the irony of it is you've
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  been to the hospital since this taken there by a police officer,
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  if your story is true. Plan and current contact
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  information. All right, you are.
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  You do have some income and you can make some sort of monthly
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  payment on all these previous things.
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  I could wipe them out with a jail sentence.
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  We got to open in tax where you have $325 way back from 2022.
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  You have a domestic violence. It looks like you may have been
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  paying on that one. You have a retail fraud.
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  Retail Roger. Is this Ferrari?
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  I don't know this says it's owes $170 and you have a no insurance
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  trying to payment plan. You just missed all my retails
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  like last May. All right, well, the court
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  office will take you out to the counter and we'll address those
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  matters. Aubrey McCall.
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  Good morning once again, everybody.
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  It is Tuesday. You have arrived at TCF Live and
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  it's great to have you here. We're going to ride with Judge
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  Milton for just a little while longer as other courts are just
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  starting their day programming. Note, we are not doing the 4th
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  hour today, just three. Beth and I have a call that we
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  have to take today that I need to make time for.
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  So 3 hours today. They allege that you were going
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  40 and a 25. Yes, that's what you said.
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  On Broadway, that's easy to do down your dad's place and that
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  you don't have a driver's license.
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  I do my license, I was about 18. It was suspended for unpaid
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  tickets. I just really had my license.
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  I didn't know much about that. I paid the fines to get
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  reinstated. There was a hiccup with the
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  Indiana BMV. I've since then taken the steps
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  to get that taken care. Of so you have a valid Indiana
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  license. Yes.
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  But you live in Michigan. Yes.
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  I just. Moved to Michigan.
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  Not that long ago. All right.
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  Do you have proof of your Indiana license with?
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  I don't at this time. No, I can bring it.
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  It's the next court. Date if that's possible.
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  Well, we can do a next court date.
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  OK, try to take. However, whenever I can get it
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  to you guys, I can do that. All right.
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  How do you know you have a valid Indiana license?
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  Oh, I've called and I went to the DMV.
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  Or did they give you something? They gave me a paper.
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  But I don't have it right now. Well, that's not very good.
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  You live right here in Centerville.
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  I know I walked. Today.
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  OK, what does the paper say? It's just a paper stating that.
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  I had to go. Do a knowledge test again after
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  I paid. I paid the reinstatement fees in
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  April of 25. I didn't know.
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  I had to do a knowledge test, which I went and did, and it was
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  the paper stating that I passed that and that I do have a
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  driver's license again. Well, there's a problem.
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  They don't live in Indiana, but if you have a valid Indiana
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  license, it's valid in Michigan. I guess it's not terribly
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  inconvenient. Walk back over here, let's set
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  this out a bit and you'll bring in proof of license.
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  That acceptable, Mr. George? It's not hard to speed right
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  there at Broadway. So 25 I think they write.
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  Lots of tickets right there. There was it was snowing out and
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  there was a bike. With he didn't have any.
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  Lights on, it was dark out and he was going around me so I kind
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  of had to swerve around him. And I got really.
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  Scared I'm. Glad you didn't hit him.
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  No, me too. All right, today is February the
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  10th. Let's continue this February
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  24th. And I can.
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  Bring the proof in then. Yes, OK 30 defendant will bring
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  proof of insurance Michigan used to suspend your license for not
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  paying tickets. Frankly, I owe an agreement with
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  it. They had two kind.
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  FCJ means fair to comply with judgment and if you got a ticket
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  and were convicted and didn't pay it, they would suspend your
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  license. There was another one called FAC
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  which is fair to answer citation.
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  If you got a ticket and never showed up, they would suspend
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  your license. Don't do that anymore.
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  So there's not a lot of incentive for people to pay
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  their tickets. But Indiana will still suspend
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  you for not paying a ticket. And like I said, I was. 18, I
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  just got my license. I didn't know much about tickets
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  of that sort, it was my first one.
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  Well, there's a charge if you get this, it could suspend your
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  Internet license and jam you up for Michigan.
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  So Mr. George is going to consider reducing these charges
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  if you bring in proof of insurance or proof of a license.
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  Tuesday, February 24th, 2026 at 8:30 Pretrial conference proof
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  of license. What do you do, Miss McCall?
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  Right now I just clean like family, friends, houses as a
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  cash paying job. I have two children so no
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  transportation at this time either.
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  So I'm just trying to kind of get things in order.
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  To do you. Live down here at the
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  apartments. Yes, and I'm, I'm applying to
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  the nursing home right here in Fairview and hoping to get in
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  there. I'm ACNA as well.
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  All right, well, good for you that I wouldn't be a bit
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  surprised if you got a job there and that would be have handy.
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  Not a lot of places to work in Centerville.
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  Right. All right, here's your notice.
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  Put that on your refrigerator. I'll see you in two weeks.
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  Mr. George will be here and you bring proof of you and to have a
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  license. OK.
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  See you then. Thank you.
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  You're good to go. Thank you.
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  Thank you once again everybody. Good morning, welcome to TCF
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  live. Happy Tuesday to you.
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  Just an FYI for those of you out there who are regulars in the
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  community. I mentioned this in the pre show
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  but not all of you were there. Wahoo reached out to me
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  yesterday and wanted me to let you guys know that he will not
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  be here this week and probably much of next week.
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  His sister passed away yesterday and he wanted me to let you guys
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  know that. So you weren't worried about him
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  and wondering where he was. But if you're a person of
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  prayer, please, please hold up him and his family in your
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  prayers. Let's change things up.
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  Let's go to, we'll stay in Michigan, but let's go to Judge
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  Mom say good morning to her in the area of Eureka when the
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  officers observed a red 2005 Buick.
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  Bring a Michigan. License Plate Padword Robert
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  Robert 1214 They conducted a Law Enforcement Information Network
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  search on the vehicle's license plate and learned that the
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  vehicle did not have insurance. They activated their emergency
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  equipment to effectuate a traffic stop and then approach
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  to make contact with Mr. White. They explained the violation
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  reason for the stop. Mr. White did in fact produce
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  his driver's license and expired proof of insurance from back
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  last month. In January, the officers went
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  back to the patrol car to issue a violation.
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  Prior to that violation being issued, Officer Brad Smith,
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  who's AK nine officer, showed up on their traffic stop and at a
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  assistive backup capacity and used his partner to do an open
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  air search where he indicated on the presence of narcotics.
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  Officer Smith notified both Officers Sloan and Stathicus of
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  he and his partner's findings. They reapproached and made
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  contact with Mr. White and asked.
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  Him, if there's any. Contraband, He said no.
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  They asked for consent. He declined to.
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  Consent. Based on the.
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  Open air Smith, they had him exit the vehicle.
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  He had no narcotics on his person but Officer Sloan
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  searched the vehicle and located a cellophane clear bag with
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  white pottery substance in the door pocket which a searching
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  Narc cocaine ID swipe kit revealed that it tested and
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  reacted positively to the illicit drug cocaine to the tune
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  of 4.49 grams with packaging in addition to a pair of brass
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  knuckles in the door pocket of the automobile as well.
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  There was also located some psilocybin mushrooms that also
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  were tested with a narcotic kit preliminary and also tested
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  positive for psilocybin. The vehicle.
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  Mr. White was arrested, his vehicle was impounded, he had
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  money on him that the officers completed forfeiture on and he
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  was booked and lodged and in addition to the said charges is
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  a Hab 4th. Thank you, Judge.
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  Thank you. Upon examination complaining
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  witness, I find the offense of charge were committed and
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  there's probable cause of lead defendant committed those
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  offenses. Council, your appearance,
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  please. Good morning, Your Honor,
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  Attorney Corey Westmoreland appearing on behalf of Mr.
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  White. Thank you, Mr. White, your name
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  for the record, please. Shane White.
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  All right. And Council as to the
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  arraignment. Yes, Your Honor, at this time we
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  are prepared to waive a formal reading.
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  My client stands mute. Sir, the court will waive the
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  formal reading. You do have the right to have an
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  attorney representing you. If you are unable to afford an
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  attorney, you may have one appointed to represent you.
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  And you in fact had an opportunity to speak to an
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  attorney today. Correct, Sir.
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  Yes. The court has also signed the
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  petition order for appointing the attorney in felony matters.
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  You have the right to be presumed innocent until proven
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  guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
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  You have the right to have a trial by a judge or by a jury.
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  And you also have the right to remain silent.
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  Anything you say orally or in writing, abuse against you in
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  court. Do you understand those rights,
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  Sir? I understand.
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  The court's going to enter a plea of not guilty on your
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  behalf. Schedule this matter for
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  probable cause conference on February 19th, 940 five 9:45 AM.
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  And Council as to bond. Yes, Your Honor, I would like to
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  know that Mister White currently is residing in Lincoln Park.
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  He is gainfully employed full time working at Key
• 31:07
  Construction. He's not currently on probation
• 31:10
  or parole, has no other pending matters that we're aware of.
• 31:13
  And after speaking with Mr. White at length this morning, he
• 31:15
  did assure me he would be appearing at all future court
• 31:17
  dates, has no history of absconding and understands the
• 31:20
  importance of showing up. I would just ask that all that
• 31:24
  be taken into account when assessing a bond.
• 31:28
  All right, Sir. And you're not out on bond in
• 31:31
  any other jurisdiction, Sir. I am not.
• 31:40
  Are you on probation or parole anywhere?
• 31:42
  I am not no. If you were to test right now,
• 31:49
  Sir, what's in your system? Cocaine.
• 31:54
  All right and you have you're being charged with habitual 4th
• 31:58
  offender in this matter. You also in addition to your
• 32:01
  felony matters have another misdemeanor possession charge in
• 32:07
  2007, another Oh, you have assault dangerous weapon.
• 32:18
  Those were both dismissed. Who do you reside with Sir?
• 32:22
  At the property? That is my mother's home at the
• 32:26
  moment. So how many moments have you
• 32:30
  been at your mother's home? Just had a recent breakup so
• 32:36
  I've been back there probably within the last month.
• 32:39
  OK. And so that's the home on
• 32:42
  Detroit St. Yes, it is.
• 32:45
  And where did you reside prior to that, Sir?
• 32:48
  In Taylor. As you pay your rent.
• 32:58
  Yeah, I, I do help for all. So I, I recently signed a lease
• 33:03
  for an apartment in River Rouge, but I haven't moved anything in
• 33:06
  there and I've only paid the first month, but I hadn't moved
• 33:09
  anything in there. So I, I just, I didn't think
• 33:14
  that was important because I'm not staying there and after this
• 33:18
  I probably won't be staying there.
• 33:25
  All right. And Detective, would you like to
• 33:27
  respond? Just based on the severity of
• 33:30
  the charges, one alone is at $25,000 as far as maximum.
• 33:35
  So I think it's more prudent for 25,010%.
• 33:41
  But thank you, Judge. OK, the court will take into
• 33:45
  account that Mister White is charged as a habitual 4th
• 33:51
  offence in this matter and as such is looking at at least for
• 33:58
  one of the counts up to life in prison.
• 34:01
  The Court will also note that Mister White has prior weapons
• 34:07
  charges as well as possession charges.
• 34:10
  And the Court does find based upon all that that the Court
• 34:14
  wants to ensure that Mister White is going to return to
• 34:17
  court as well as the to ensure the safety of the public and to
• 34:21
  ensure that Mister White is following the conditions of this
• 34:25
  court. The Court's going to order a
• 34:27
  25,000 dollar 10% bond. You are not possessed to consume
• 34:31
  any alcohol or drugs unless prescribed.
• 34:33
  You'll be subjected to random testing Sir.
• 34:36
  So upon your posting of ban, you are to contact into probation to
• 34:43
  set up your random testing Sir. I understand.
• 35:03
  All right, we'll see you back in February 19th.
• 35:06
  Thank you. Have a.
• 35:07
  Barbara, thank you for the $5 super chat and for the five
• 35:11
  gifted memberships. Great way to start the day and I
• 35:13
  appreciate that and I agree with your sentiment and your words in
• 35:17
  the Super chat. You just spoke to the one
• 35:19
  individual, correct? That's correct.
• 35:21
  I just received the other the other information on Mr. Harvey
• 35:29
  and Coleman. OK.
• 35:31
  All right. So I'm not sure if we're doing
• 35:33
  those right now or not. I don't know what they're, what
• 35:35
  the court officers are doing. But Detective, if you want to
• 35:37
  come back in here and do your sign on before, you have to get
• 35:40
  to your next spot. Thank you, Judge.
• 35:44
  Did you have all those files here?
• 35:46
  Thank you. All right.
• 35:51
  Thank you. OK.
• 35:53
  That is a little heavy. OK, All right, Mr. Berry, I'm
• 35:57
  not ignoring you. I'm just going to I have to
• 36:01
  check in a few more people here. Bobby, are you grabbing another
• 36:05
  individual out from in the back? OK, thank you.
• 36:17
  The iPhone that just joined. Please turn on your camera and
• 36:21
  tell me your name. Rhonda, La Claire.
• 36:26
  OK, turn on your camera please. It's an old iPhone.
• 36:32
  OK, Thank you. And Mr. Katz, I'm sorry, Mr.
• 36:37
  Borkin, this is one of your matters, so I'm going to rename
• 36:43
  her. Should we head back to Breakout
• 36:54
  room 3? All right, Well, they get things
• 36:58
  sorted out. We'll probably come back to her
• 37:00
  later, but let's go to Florida. Say good morning to Wade Mercer.
• 37:06
  You're welcome. Mr. Kirkland.
• 37:08
  I'm seeking at the same time, because your cases are identical
• 37:10
  for first appearance purposes, each of you are accused of
• 37:13
  violent in terms of your state probation.
• 37:15
  Mr. Locke, you have a no bond warrant signed by the Circuit
• 37:18
  Judge. Mr. Kirkland, you have a no bond
• 37:21
  warrant signed by the Circuit Judge.
• 37:22
  I don't know that your warrant has been served, Mr. Kirkland,
• 37:26
  because the warrant was just signed yesterday afternoon.
• 37:30
  But I'm going to go ahead and arraign you on it because I want
• 37:33
  to go ahead and get you a lawyer appointed, if you're asking for
• 37:35
  one, and then they'll get it served to you, hopefully today.
• 37:38
  Mr. Lott, would you like to have an attorney appointed to
• 37:40
  represent you? Yes, Sir.
• 37:42
  Mr. Kirkland, same question, yes.
• 37:44
  Sir. I'm going to appoint the Public
• 37:46
  Center's office to represent both of you.
• 37:48
  I need you to listen to Mr. McDaniel in just a second.
• 37:49
  We'll see if you have any questions.
• 37:51
  Mr. McDaniel, you know we're going to plead not guilty.
• 37:53
  I said this in the March 5th court docket and advise them,
• 37:56
  attorney from the book Defenders office to come by and visit the
• 37:58
  department. I hear you, Thank you, Mr.
• 38:00
  Mitchell. Anything just that Mister
• 38:03
  Kirkland's court date will be the third since the new law
• 38:06
  violation is a new law felony violation and it's already been
• 38:09
  filed. He's already on the docket
• 38:10
  already. Yeah, so.
• 38:11
  OK. So, Mr. Locke, do you have any
• 38:13
  questions, Sir? No, Sir.
• 38:15
  All right. Wish you the best.
• 38:16
  Mr. Kirkland. Do you have any questions?
• 38:18
  No, Sir. Wish you the best, Sir.
• 38:22
  The next case is Christopher Miranda.
• 38:29
  So. Sergeant, in Mr. Miranda's case,
• 38:35
  there was an outstanding warrant, but the Sheriff's
• 38:39
  Department system had some issues yesterday.
• 38:41
  I'm not sure what happened, but Mr. Miranda has a violation of
• 38:44
  state probation, no bond warrant in case 24 O 92.
• 38:51
  So, so we need to get that served on hand.
• 38:56
  So Mr. Miranda, you've got a charge of violation of state
• 38:58
  probation. We're going to come back to in
• 39:00
  just a second before we get to that, you have a new charge of
• 39:03
  retail theft. I've read the complaint on the
• 39:05
  new case. There is probable cause for the
• 39:08
  new charge. I'm going to point the public
• 39:09
  defenders office represent you in that case.
• 39:11
  Please listen, Mr. McDaniel, you haven't taken a plea at all.
• 39:15
  That's what we're here for, to try to resolve it.
• 39:17
  So listen to Mr. McDaniel and we'll see if you have any
• 39:19
  questions in just a moment. Mr. McDaniel, Connor.
• 39:24
  I've talked to Mr. Miranda. We're going to please no contest
• 39:26
  the charges listed, You understand it.
• 39:27
  He'll be sent to six months in the county jail.
• 39:29
  We have one day jail credit, $370 fine, reserve on any
• 39:32
  restitution. He has signs through.
• 39:35
  Every form with his right to. Free trial and call witnesses.
• 39:37
  Thank you, Mr. Mitchell. Is that agreeable with the
• 39:39
  state? It is Your Honor, and I didn't
• 39:41
  want to bring to the court's attention.
• 39:43
  I looked again. There's one review case out
• 39:45
  there for Walmart in addition to this one.
• 39:50
  The extra restitution in that review case is $83 and. 52.
• 39:54
  Cents, we can add that to this plea and I will decline to file
• 39:59
  on the review case. So if there's a, if he agreed to
• 40:02
  a civil judgment for an additional $83.62, you will not
• 40:05
  be filing, you'll be dismissing the other week out there from
• 40:08
  Walmart. Mr. Miranda, did you hear all
• 40:11
  that? Yes.
• 40:13
  Sir. And any questions about any of
• 40:14
  that? Miss Miranda, 80. 3. 52 And is
• 40:17
  that the plea you would like to enter, Sir?
• 40:19
  Yes, Sir. Miss Miranda, we'll accept your
• 40:21
  plea of no contest to 1. Count of retail theft, Sir, to
• 40:24
  indicate you guilty 10. Issue to six months in jail.
• 40:27
  Court costs and fines of $400.00.
• 40:29
  Total restitution of how much 370.
• 40:32
  Fines. Three, I'm sorry, 370 court
• 40:34
  costs and fines. 83 is not total restitution though, is it?
• 40:38
  There's restitution in this case too.
• 40:39
  It was, it was non resellable product.
• 40:41
  Here. I'll I'll add it up real quick.
• 40:43
  That wasn't mentioned. Yeah.
• 40:45
  Mr. McDaniel, did you get restitution in this case?
• 40:48
  I didn't get it. I I mean, I was it's in the
• 40:50
  complaint. It's 14557 in this case.
• 40:54
  I've got a total amount between this and the review case of
• 40:57
  2/29/09. Civil judgment for 2/29/09.
• 41:01
  Mr. Miranda, if that's still what you want to do, is it?
• 41:03
  Yes. So, OK, so now let's deal with
• 41:05
  the violation of probation. Mr. Miranda, I have no idea what
• 41:08
  will happen to violation of probation, but if you do get
• 41:11
  sent to the Department of Corrections, then this is not
• 41:13
  going to keep you here. You'll go ahead and go and and
• 41:15
  serve this while you're in DOCI. Don't know that's going to
• 41:17
  happen. It may, you know the may, you
• 41:19
  may dismiss it for all I know, but you are accused of violating
• 41:22
  in terms of your probation. You should be sure without
• 41:24
  warrant today and I want to get you a lawyer appointed in that
• 41:27
  case if you want one. Do you want an attorney
• 41:29
  appointed to represent you in the VOP?
• 41:31
  Yes, Sir. I'm going to appoint the public
• 41:33
  defender's office to represent you in that case.
• 41:35
  Listen to Mr. McDaniel and we're going to see if you have any
• 41:37
  questions when he gets through. Yeah, I'm going to plead not.
• 41:40
  Guilty. He has to sit this in the March
• 41:41
  5th port docket and they'll be attorney to come by and visit
• 41:44
  him from public defender's office probably that day.
• 41:47
  Thank you. Mr. Mitchell.
• 41:48
  Anything in Mr. Miranda's VOP case?
• 41:50
  No, your Honor. OK, Mr. Miranda, the attorney
• 41:52
  will see you before your court date now.
• 41:53
  Do you have any questions? All.
• 41:56
  Right, Sir, I wish you the best. What's the restitution?
• 42:09
  22648 MRV. What's the total restitution
• 42:15
  there's? Miranda's case is 229 O 9.
• 42:18
  That's both. That's both, yes. 229 O 9
• 42:21
  Restitution, civil judgment and then no bond.
• 42:30
  Arraign GOSP. OK.
• 42:34
  Next case is Travis Smith. Mr. Smith, good morning.
• 42:37
  You're here for a whole out of Calhoun County.
• 42:40
  I took a look at the file this morning to see what it was
• 42:42
  about. It's a 2020 child support
• 42:45
  matter. It appears to have a purge on it
• 42:47
  of $2000. Mr. Miranda.
• 42:49
  Excuse me. I'm sorry.
• 42:50
  Mr. Smith, if you make that purge, you're going to be
• 42:52
  released. If you're not able to make it,
• 42:54
  you'll go to Calhoun County. When you get there, you'll go to
• 42:56
  a 48 hour hearing. It's called a 48 hour hearing.
• 42:59
  It happens within two business days of you getting there and
• 43:02
  you will when you get there. Mr. Smith, the judge is going to
• 43:05
  ask if you could come up with a lower purge amount.
• 43:07
  So you can expect that question. You'll get used the phone today
• 43:10
  to contact friends or family about that purge amount to be
• 43:13
  aware that question is probably coming because the hearing
• 43:16
  officer may or may not lower it depending upon what you what
• 43:19
  you've got. Mr. McDaniel, Judge, have no
• 43:21
  objection from this court. I've already sent over an order
• 43:23
  and I've spoken to the hearing officer and stuff releasing him.
• 43:27
  If the court. Has no objection to that.
• 43:29
  I'm just would ask the jail to maybe go and release him.
• 43:31
  I got the order, sitting there waiting for the judge to sign it
• 43:33
  now to release him. There's an audio in place.
• 43:36
  It's been in place for several years now.
• 43:38
  He's working and so I just want to put that on the record.
• 43:42
  If not, I can wait for the order.
• 43:43
  To be signed. But if the court has no
• 43:44
  objection, yeah, then those are always tricky because your dual
• 43:49
  role as child support, as attorney for the agency.
• 43:55
  So as attorney for the agency, I know that you're always, it's an
• 43:59
  awkward position for you, but in this case, you're actually both
• 44:02
  attorney for the agency and his attorney.
• 44:04
  But the agent, he's been making child support payments
• 44:06
  regularly. Is that right?
• 44:08
  Correct, correct. So I'm in the best interest.
• 44:10
  I don't, I don't want to act like I'm not his attorney at
• 44:13
  all. I'm department, I'm I'm an
• 44:14
  agency attorney. I'm you know, so he doesn't have
• 44:16
  local charges. He doesn't have local charges.
• 44:18
  So you're right, you're not his attorney at all.
• 44:20
  I'm not attorney at all. Tell me who have you sent the
• 44:22
  order to? I don't I don't know whose whose
• 44:23
  case it is. It's a Calhoun County case.
• 44:26
  I've sent it and I've talked to the hearing officer, Donald Fro
• 44:30
  OK, So Mr. Smith, I'm not getting involved in it.
• 44:33
  It's not my case and I'm not, I'm not, I'm not the judge in
• 44:36
  the case. And you won't even be coming to
• 44:38
  1st appearance if it was a Jackson County case.
• 44:40
  So whatever that judge decides to do, if he wants you held or
• 44:43
  not, that's that's up to them. But apparently Mr. Mcdaniel's
• 44:46
  trying to get you out because they would rather you be working
• 44:49
  and paying child support, which it appears you're doing, than
• 44:52
  being in jail and, and interrupting that that child
• 44:54
  support that you've been paying. So, Mr. McDaniel, I don't really
• 44:57
  have any authority or desire to involve myself in the Calhoun
• 44:59
  County case. What you work out with them is
• 45:01
  is fine with me. All right.
• 45:04
  So, Mr. Smith, hopefully you'll get out of jail this morning.
• 45:07
  I wish you the best. Any questions?
• 45:09
  No, Sir. Have a good day, Sir.
• 45:13
  After Mr. Smith, we have Angela Myers.
• 45:24
  Miss Myers. Good morning.
• 45:25
  Miss Myers, you're here for one charge of aggravated child abuse
• 45:28
  and one charge of retail. Excuse me, Grand Theft.
• 45:30
  Miss Myers, I've read the complaint.
• 45:32
  I think I'm the judge to sign the warrant, ma'am.
• 45:35
  The aggravated child abuse, it's a very serious charge, but it's
• 45:39
  not what it sounds like. It's not as bad as what you
• 45:44
  think of aggravated child. I think it meets the minimum
• 45:46
  requirements. There's probable cause for the
• 45:48
  charge. That's why I signed the warrant.
• 45:50
  But I am aware that there are no serious injuries alleged.
• 45:55
  There's a, there's this allegations of a deadly weapon
• 45:59
  or a weapon that could cause death or serious bodily injury.
• 46:02
  That being a belt or some type of excessive punishment is what
• 46:05
  you're accused of. So, Miss Myers, let me ask you a
• 46:09
  few questions before I can make a bond or release decision.
• 46:12
  Obviously I need to hear from the attorneys, the jail, the
• 46:15
  pretrial release sheet from the jail says you work at Washington
• 46:17
  Rehabilitation. Is that right?
• 46:19
  Yes, Sir. How long have you had that job
• 46:22
  since? November 18th. 2018 Wait, did
• 46:27
  you say November of 18th or November 18th of 25?
• 46:31
  25 November 18th, 25. What did you do before that?
• 46:36
  I was working at Econo housekeeping.
• 46:40
  OK. And how long did you have that
• 46:42
  job? For like 4 months, four or five
• 46:46
  months. You live in Marianna.
• 46:49
  Yes, Sir. And this child that's, that's
• 46:52
  supposedly the the alleged victim of the of the excessive
• 46:55
  discipline, how old is that child?
• 46:58
  15. Does she live full time with
• 47:00
  you? Yes Sir, but she goes with her
• 47:04
  dad on holidays. All holidays and everything.
• 47:07
  Everything basically. Do you know where she's living
• 47:11
  now? She's staying with her father
• 47:13
  right now. OK, as of when?
• 47:16
  When did When did that start? He took on last month on the
• 47:22
  29th. OK.
• 47:27
  So the last question I have is I want to make sure that the
• 47:30
  criminal history I've got is accurate.
• 47:32
  The criminal history I've been provided shows no prior history.
• 47:34
  Is that accurate, ma'am? Yes, Sir.
• 47:37
  All right, so let's see what the attorneys have and they may have
• 47:39
  some more information for me. Mr. McDaniel, Anything else?
• 47:42
  Mr. Myers case, just ask the court.
• 47:44
  Is there a conditional release, Mr. Mitchell?
• 47:52
  I know. It's.
• 47:53
  The minimum threshold for aggravated child abuse like you
• 47:56
  stated, we would probably be opposed to a conditional
• 48:00
  release, but not opposed to a lower bond, like maybe treated
• 48:03
  as a third degree felony or something like that.
• 48:06
  But nonetheless, whatever the court decides, we request no
• 48:09
  contact with the child involved. So Miss Myers, let me go back
• 48:13
  and take a look at the complaint.
• 48:16
  Seems to me the allegations are disciplining with a belt but not
• 48:22
  in her below the waist. The allegations are she was
• 48:26
  struck repeatedly in the head or neck area I believe and that was
• 48:34
  the basis for the charge from law enforcement.
• 48:37
  So give me this I'm not want don't comment on this.
• 48:39
  I'm just wanting to refresh my memory her back and right ear.
• 48:57
  Judge, I will bring it to your attention also that DCF and the
• 49:01
  CPT interview was conducted stating that during those
• 49:06
  interviews, the victim said that Myers threatened to stab her and
• 49:10
  threatened her multiple times. The sprayer Wooden Mace.
• 49:16
  I do that. To my kid.
• 49:19
  All the time. So, John.
• 49:23
  That's a joke. That's a joke, that.
• 49:24
  Judge, I mean I. She's a local, she lives here.
• 49:27
  She's going to show up for every hearings.
• 49:28
  The purpose of it is not the you know, the bond is not it's just
• 49:31
  to ensure that they are they come back to court now they have
• 49:33
  a conditional release here would would survive to make sure she
• 49:36
  comes back to court and answers these charges.
• 49:38
  She's clearly got some defenses of this, you know, and with no
• 49:41
  criminal history we'd ask for. Consider that conditional
• 49:43
  release I. Took.
• 49:45
  The phone back to her, that's. All right.
• 49:51
  This dealer yesterday. Yeah, I think with no criminal
• 49:58
  history, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go on the side of
• 50:00
  the conditional release with no history with this kind of
• 50:02
  allegations. So what I'm going to do, I don't
• 50:04
  want you. I don't want to set your bond
• 50:05
  and you not be able to post it and be sitting there for weeks
• 50:07
  and weeks lose your job, which is certainly possible.
• 50:10
  So I am going to put a condition no contact and I'll clarify that
• 50:13
  more in just a minute. So I'm going to let you pick.
• 50:15
  But anytime Ioffer a condition release, I give the person a
• 50:17
  choice because some people prefer a bond.
• 50:19
  If you want to post a bond, your bond be $2500 on each account
• 50:22
  for a total of $5000. I am going to offer you a
• 50:25
  conditional release. You have the standard conditions
• 50:26
  of all conditional releases plus you would have a condition no
• 50:30
  contact with your daughter for the time being.
• 50:32
  Now let me clarify that if department children families is
• 50:36
  involved and they have some type of safety plan in place, then
• 50:40
  either myself or Judge Garcia very well may modify that and
• 50:43
  allow some some contact either supervised or limited or
• 50:47
  whatever. But right now, for the time
• 50:50
  being, no contact at all. That means no electronic
• 50:53
  contact, no telephone contact, no contact at all.
• 50:56
  But you can pick between the bond and the conditional
• 50:58
  release, Miss Myers, primarily because of your lack of criminal
• 51:01
  history. Miss Myers.
• 51:03
  Do you have any questions about that choice, ma'am?
• 51:05
  No, Sir. And which one do you choose?
• 51:08
  Conditional release I'm. Going to grant you the
• 51:11
  conditional release. I'm going to ask the jail to
• 51:12
  give you a notice for your court date, which should be March the
• 51:15
  3rd at 8:30. They're going to, they're going
• 51:20
  to let you, I'll give you that notice.
• 51:21
  They're going to let you get dressed in your regular clothes.
• 51:23
  They're going to bring you to the courthouse because that's
• 51:25
  where the conditional release office is at.
• 51:27
  When you get here, you'll meet with Mr. Goodson or Mr. Ham, one
• 51:29
  of our conditional release officers, Miss Myers.
• 51:31
  They'll explain the conditional release to you.
• 51:33
  They'll give you all the rules in writing.
• 51:35
  They'll give you a chance to ask questions, ma'am, and then
• 51:37
  you'll be free to leave. Miss Myers.
• 51:40
  If you contact friends or family, you can tell them you
• 51:42
  can be picked up at the courthouse in 30 to 45 minutes
• 51:45
  from now. Do you have any questions,
• 51:47
  ma'am? Hello.
• 51:49
  Sir, Hi ma'am. Wish you the best.
• 51:52
  So I'm not justifying this in any way, shape or form, but I'm
• 51:55
  telling you there's more going on here there.
• 51:58
  I would like good money on an out of control teenager and a
• 52:01
  mother who just reached her wit's end and broke.
• 52:06
  And I base that on the fact that she has no criminal history
• 52:09
  whatsoever prior to this. There's more going on to this.
• 52:13
  I'll be curious if we see her back, maybe in Judge Garcia's
• 52:15
  court and see first appearance accusing one kind of aggravated
• 52:20
  battery. Miss McMahon, there is probable
• 52:22
  cause in the complaint. And I've looked at your your
• 52:27
  history, ma'am. I think it's from the state of
• 52:29
  Alabama. You have a lengthy criminal
• 52:31
  history. So you're I think you're
• 52:33
  entitled to a bond as far as I can tell.
• 52:35
  Let me see if the attorneys have any additional information
• 52:37
  before I address that bond. Mr. McDaniel, anything on behalf
• 52:40
  of Miss McMahon? No, Your Honor.
• 52:42
  Mr. Mitchell? No, Your Honor.
• 52:43
  Mr. McMahon, I'm going to set your bond at $15,000.
• 52:46
  Cashier surety ma'am, based largely upon your criminal
• 52:49
  history, you've got a condition no contact with alleged victim.
• 52:52
  So Miss McMahon, if you post the bond, you can have no way if you
• 52:55
  don't post the bond, obviously if you have any questions in
• 52:57
  just a second. But whether you post the bond or
• 52:59
  not, you have no have no contact with alleged victim at all.
• 53:02
  Now, do you have any questions, Miss McMahon?
• 53:05
  Yes. Can you get him off of my
• 53:07
  property? If he's on your property.
• 53:10
  Man. If he's on your property, you
• 53:13
  have to go through the lawful. Yeah, that's probably wise, Mr.
• 53:18
  McDaniel. These reflexes are getting
• 53:28
  better with the mute button. Charles Coleman March 3rd.
• 53:36
  Please give her notice from March 3rd.
• 53:38
  Thank you. Is there well, Mr. Coleman?
• 53:41
  Mr. Coleman, good morning. You're here because you've been
• 53:42
  accused of 1 count of fleeing and attempting to elude law
• 53:45
  enforcement and one count of driving an unregistered motor
• 53:48
  vehicle. Mr. Coleman, there is probable
• 53:51
  cause for the charges. And Mr. Coleman, I looked at
• 53:56
  your criminal history, which I want to make sure that's
• 53:58
  accurate. I've got a date of birth of 86
• 54:05
  Mr. Coleman. It's very rare to see a 40 year
• 54:08
  old with no prior history charged with fling and eluding
• 54:11
  and there be evidence to support it.
• 54:13
  So my question is, is this criminal history I've got
• 54:15
  accurate? Have you really never been
• 54:17
  charged with a crime anywhere? No, Sir, And.
• 54:20
  If the brakes. Went out on the car as it was.
• 54:22
  I still got. Don't don't talk about what
• 54:24
  you've been accused of. I just want to know if your
• 54:26
  criminal history is accurate. Yes, Sir.
• 54:29
  OK. The brakes going out doesn't
• 54:31
  help you with the speed. It doesn't make the car increase
• 54:33
  in speed so that that's the problem you've got.
• 54:37
  So I'm not going to give you a conditional release.
• 54:39
  You're accused of of fleeing, you know, at a pretty excessive
• 54:42
  speed from law enforcement for quite a distance before you
• 54:44
  stop. And I think you hit hit a tree
• 54:46
  is what the complaint is says in.
• 54:47
  My guard. Let me let me read this given
• 54:49
  the given the reference about the brakes, let me read.
• 54:53
  Yeah. Vehicle made a left turn on the
• 54:54
  Florida St. and again accelerated rapidly reaching
• 54:57
  speeds of 60 mph in 35 zone. Yeah.
• 55:04
  OK, So I think you're entitled to a bond.
• 55:07
  I'm not going to give you a conditional release for running
• 55:09
  from law enforcement when there's this evidence against
• 55:11
  you, but I think you're entitled to a bond.
• 55:12
  Let me see if the attorneys have an additional information and
• 55:15
  then I'll set that bond. Mr. McDaniel, Anything.
• 55:22
  Yeah, I just said. You know he.
• 55:24
  I think he's. Employed in the pole boring
• 55:25
  business and we just ask for some kind of reasonable bond.
• 55:28
  Thank you, Mr. Mitchell. No, nothing for the state, Your
• 55:32
  honor. Mr. Coleman, I'm going to set
• 55:33
  your bond at given your lack of history, your bond's going to be
• 55:36
  $2500 cash or surety. You had the right to all the two
• 55:42
  counts. No, one of them is not going to
• 55:44
  be that. So it's going to be $2500 on the
• 55:46
  fling and a looting, and then on the operating unregistered motor
• 55:49
  vehicle. I'm going to give him the ROR.
• 55:51
  So it's a total bond of $2500, cash or surety.
• 55:54
  You have a standard conditions of every bond, which are don't
• 55:57
  miss any court dates, don't be charged with any new crimes.
• 56:01
  Mr. Coleman, the jail's going to give you a notice for your
• 56:04
  felony arraignment date, which will be March the 3rd at 8:30.
• 56:09
  They'll give you that notice before you leave the jail and
• 56:11
  you will get to use the phone in a few minutes.
• 56:13
  Do you have any questions, Sir? Yes, Sir.
• 56:16
  Have a good day Sir. That one from yesterday is Kaden
• 56:21
  Rebels. Thank you.
• 56:25
  Mr. Rebels. Good morning, Miss Rebels.
• 56:30
  I saw you yesterday. I sent you a bond at first
• 56:32
  appearance. I believe your father was here.
• 56:34
  After court, Mr. Mitchell made me, reminded me, made me aware
• 56:37
  that apparently I didn't own the record.
• 56:39
  Put a condition, no contact with alleged victim.
• 56:42
  That's an administrative order that's entered in our circuit.
• 56:44
  I have to do that. There's actually a statute that
• 56:46
  addresses that. So I told the jail or asked jail
• 56:49
  if you were, if you didn't post bond to bring you back up the
• 56:53
  day. Just so I can make sure you
• 56:54
  understand that you can have no contact with alleged victim.
• 56:57
  Any questions about that, Sir? No, Sir.
• 57:00
  Have a good day. You too.
• 57:08
  Hopefully that's everything I had on my list.
• 57:10
  Anything else from the jail this morning?
• 57:12
  No, Sir. Mr. That brings an end to our
• 57:15
  day with Judge Wade Mercer. Let's let's stay in the South,
• 57:21
  but let's check in on the parole board appearances.
• 57:24
  Good. Morning.
• 57:31
  The Louisiana Committee on Parole is in panelled at
• 57:34
  headquarters in Baton Rouge. Today's date is February 10th,
• 57:38
  2020. Sixth, the time is now 847.
• 57:42
  We're at the Repeats Detention Center for the purpose of a
• 57:45
  revocation hearing. And Sir, would you introduce
• 57:50
  yourself and tell me your DSC number?
• 57:53
  OK, my name is Damon Gostin. My DLC number is 74 O 905.
• 58:02
  Just one moment, Mr. Boston ladies, is is there anybody in
• 58:11
  the room? We were expecting to see Mr.
• 58:13
  Crawford first. No, I'm by myself.
• 58:17
  OK, well, just just hang tight. Yes.
• 58:20
  Ma'am, pause. All right, well, they figure out
• 58:31
  who they have in front of them. A reminder tonight, sidebar,
• 58:35
  8:00 PM Eastern, 5:00 PM Pacific, right here on this
• 58:37
  channel. I believe tonight's topic is
• 58:40
  inspired by the person who showed up drunk in front of
• 58:43
  Judge McNally the other day. So we're going to talk about
• 58:47
  people showing up for court intoxicated because that was not
• 58:50
  the first time that we've seen that and it certainly will not
• 58:53
  be the last. So please join us again. 8:00 PM
• 58:56
  Eastern, 5 Pacific right here on TCF.
• 58:59
  We are a couple of minutes in the Wayback Machine.
• 59:03
  So let me knock this forward a little bit and see if we can get
• 59:07
  past whatever this delay is. That's a big delay.
• 59:17
  There we go. I think we're running now.
• 59:34
  Questions and ask you to enter a plea and we also do have your
• 59:39
  agent Brandon Roy who will also provide testimony.
• 59:42
  So, Mr. Bara. It's alleged that you have
• 59:47
  violated condition number. 4. Sorry, go ahead.
• 59:53
  By being engaged in criminal activity and are associating
• 59:57
  with persons known to be engaged in criminal activities.
• 1:00:00
  That the parolee was engaged in criminal activity which was
• 1:00:02
  evidenced by his arrest on 11525 by Jefferson Davis Parish
• 1:00:07
  Sheriff's Office and the parolee being charged with unlawful use
• 1:00:10
  of social media, 2 counts and unlawful presence of a sex
• 1:00:14
  offender and or child predator. At the preliminary hearing you
• 1:00:20
  admitted and pled guilty to that violation.
• 1:00:22
  Do you still? Feel the same today.
• 1:00:25
  The violation of doctor Which one?
• 1:00:28
  An unlawful presence. The number 4 Unlawful use of
• 1:00:32
  social media. Well, yes, yeah.
• 1:00:35
  I was on social media, but at the time, honestly, I really
• 1:00:39
  thought it was just Facebook or Instagram.
• 1:00:43
  You know, I thought it was that was only two and on on my
• 1:00:49
  behalf. Some of those friends I talked
• 1:00:52
  to on that website knew of my sexual, you know, my sex
• 1:00:56
  offender status and you know, no, yes.
• 1:01:03
  So you, you actually, you admit that you did it, that you on it,
• 1:01:07
  but you didn't think it was wrong.
• 1:01:08
  That's your statement. Yes, Sir.
• 1:01:10
  Yes, Sir. OK.
• 1:01:15
  All right. Officer.
• 1:01:16
  Roy, can you tell us anything about that violation?
• 1:01:20
  Yes, so I had ended up getting contacted by an officer or for
• 1:01:27
  by a friend of mine who works for another agency and he
• 1:01:31
  advised that he had been contacted by Mr. Glaston on a
• 1:01:39
  grinder which is a dating app for for male people male
• 1:01:46
  subjects. So I ended up doing some
• 1:01:50
  research and ended up getting a search warrant for his grinder
• 1:01:53
  account and the results showed that he had two different
• 1:01:57
  grinder accounts, which that's what he was actually charged
• 1:02:02
  with was the unlawful use of social media 2 accounts 2 counts
• 1:02:08
  because he had two different social media accounts on
• 1:02:11
  Grinder. Other than these, how's he how
• 1:02:18
  has he been on supervision? Is he easy to supervise?
• 1:02:21
  He, he had a job the whole time that he was out, he was paying
• 1:02:27
  his fees and whatnot. Other than that, I had no other
• 1:02:31
  issues with him. He had the previous time I had
• 1:02:34
  supervised him, he was arrested for the same thing with social
• 1:02:38
  media. So he's been arrested before for
• 1:02:41
  social media? Yes, Sir, Yes, Sir, all.
• 1:02:44
  Right. I don't have any more.
• 1:02:47
  Questions. Do you have any questions, Mr.
• 1:02:57
  Boston? Would you like to make a
• 1:02:59
  statement before the panel would be prepared to vote?
• 1:03:03
  Yeah, I'm just. Just wanted to say, you know,
• 1:03:04
  yeah, I know I was on there and just wanted to, you know, state
• 1:03:09
  that, you know, I really would like to keep my residence.
• 1:03:12
  At my home. And my, well, my job's probably
• 1:03:15
  still there. And, you know, if there's any
• 1:03:19
  way that you know that I'll find it, you know, to where I could
• 1:03:21
  just, you know, get out and go straight back to work and keep
• 1:03:25
  my residence. And you know.
• 1:03:28
  Find you know. Basically keep this keep it from
• 1:03:35
  getting out of to where I. Have the.
• 1:03:37
  Lose my house and. Go re register.
• 1:03:40
  And all that again, you know, you know, really good, you know,
• 1:03:44
  really good person, you know, just made a bad mistake, made a
• 1:03:48
  bad mistake getting on there. But last, I really didn't think
• 1:03:51
  it was that serious at the time. Now.
• 1:03:55
  Already been charged with it previously.
• 1:03:57
  How did you think it's not serious?
• 1:04:00
  Yeah, but this time, no. I told some of the people that I
• 1:04:02
  talked to that my sex, you know, me being a sex offender and
• 1:04:07
  stuff, you know, and I'm but you.
• 1:04:12
  Didn't have a job. What's the issue with keeping
• 1:04:14
  your monitor charged? Oh, with that, oh see, when I
• 1:04:19
  had my charger at work, I worked at the metal plate in Runno and
• 1:04:24
  I didn't know it wasn't supposed to get wet, so sometimes it
• 1:04:28
  would when I get off in the morning.
• 1:04:30
  I work 12 hours when I got off, when I got off in the morning
• 1:04:33
  I'll take a shower and I'll go to sleep and sometimes it would
• 1:04:36
  instantly just die and I'll wake up and after her would recharge
• 1:04:39
  and then sometimes it'll get to 13% not knowing that it will
• 1:04:44
  tell me I have to charge my phone for me, charge my you're.
• 1:04:49
  Not being charged with that, I'm just asking.
• 1:04:51
  Yeah, yeah, I understand. I understand.
• 1:04:53
  Yes, ma'am. I have no other questions.
• 1:04:57
  I'm ready. We're prepared to vote.
• 1:04:59
  Thank you. Yes, ma'am.
• 1:05:01
  I've been assigned. Your case, and I'll vote first,
• 1:05:03
  Mr. Mr. Glaston, but obviously you just didn't follow the rules
• 1:05:07
  that you knew were a violation and just come in here and admit
• 1:05:10
  them. We appreciate that, however.
• 1:05:12
  You violated the. Conditions of your parole, so I
• 1:05:14
  have no choice but to revoke. Miss Stapleton.
• 1:05:20
  I concur, Mr. Barab. Mr. Glaston, if you were not a
• 1:05:24
  fourth felony offender in this head wasn't a problem, I would
• 1:05:27
  probably look differently, but you knew the rules.
• 1:05:29
  So my vote is also to revoke. You need to follow the
• 1:05:32
  conditions of parole. This case has been concluded and
• 1:05:36
  and that's the only business we have at that facility.
• 1:05:40
  Thank you. Thank you.
• 1:05:45
  Denied to the shock of absolutely nobody.
• 1:05:52
  Okie, Dokie. Let's head.
• 1:05:54
  Let's head back up to Judge Middleton.
• 1:05:59
  Let me ask you the $100 question.
• 1:06:02
  Do you have insurance now? Yes.
• 1:06:04
  Who's your carrier? Yeah, I count.
• 1:06:08
  And is your plate squared away? For the most part, it's in the
• 1:06:13
  back window. What's that?
• 1:06:14
  Can't get the other one off, so it's sitting in the back window.
• 1:06:16
  All right, so you have a valid plate and insurance?
• 1:06:19
  Yes. All right, we get lots of these.
• 1:06:31
  Last Thursday, we had nine no insurance cases.
• 1:06:34
  They can now run your license plate and tell whether you have
• 1:06:37
  insurance or not. So they run the plate.
• 1:06:40
  This car is not insured. They'll pull it over.
• 1:06:43
  We get tons of these. No insurance.
• 1:06:46
  Has you heard me tell Miss Patterson, is a misdemeanor?
• 1:06:49
  It's punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine of not less
• 1:06:54
  than $200 and not more than $500.00 with state cost and this
• 1:07:00
  crime victim rights fee and makes them a minimum fine of
• 1:07:03
  $325. There is a lesser charge known
• 1:07:07
  as no proof of insurance which means you didn't have the slip
• 1:07:12
  in the car. That's not even a crime, that's
• 1:07:15
  a civil infraction. Civil infraction is punishable
• 1:07:19
  by a fine only, and the fine for no proof of insurance is
• 1:07:23
  $150.00. We've probably all done that if
• 1:07:26
  we forgot to put the slip in there.
• 1:07:29
  So what we do is when people like you are here and you have
• 1:07:32
  proof of insurance, we see if we can get the prosecutor to talk
• 1:07:36
  with them, have you show your proof of insurance, see if
• 1:07:40
  they'll reduce the charge. So you got insurance and plates
• 1:07:45
  and you still live Hampton Rd. Yes.
• 1:07:53
  I don't think we met before. I don't remember our meeting,
• 1:07:57
  but let's see if we can get a prosecutor to take a look at
• 1:07:59
  this. Laura, would you call down to
• 1:08:03
  the prosecutor's office and let Abigail know we got two no
• 1:08:07
  insurance cases where the people have insurance, So I have a
• 1:08:11
  seat. Mr. We'll see if we can take
• 1:08:15
  care of this with one visit. We like to at least I like to
• 1:08:28
  try to do these pretrials what we call instantly, rather than
• 1:08:32
  having you take a day off work and come here again.
• 1:08:35
  We try to get the prosecutor to come and.
• 1:08:48
  Review this picture so I don't have the discretion to change
• 1:08:53
  it. Only the prosecutor does.
• 1:08:56
  So we'll need their help. All right, we'll also have
• 1:09:00
  Anthony Voronsovich charged with no insurance.
• 1:09:06
  Let's see what his deal is. It's a ticket.
• 1:09:10
  He called on the 6th and confirmed the date and then he
• 1:09:15
  didn't show up. File number is 26123 SM.
• 1:09:29
  The other thing about the no insurance cases, they all have
• 1:09:32
  to be written under state statute because they're
• 1:09:35
  punishable by up to a year in jail.
• 1:09:37
  You can't charge an ordinance case for anything more than 93
• 1:09:42
  days in jail. So these are Allstate tickets.
• 1:09:51
  So the Ranzovich has failed to appear.
• 1:09:56
  Do an order to show cost first. I don't have a phone number.
• 1:10:10
  That he's off for the next month.
• 1:10:13
  He's studying for the bar again. He's doing the the pretrial.
• 1:10:19
  All right, all right. Would can we let Angelique know
• 1:10:21
  we've got two no insurance cases?
• 1:10:25
  All right, Yeah. The bar exam is, I think it's
• 1:10:30
  the 25th and 26th of February. They have two local people
• 1:10:35
  taking it and we wish them the best.
• 1:10:42
  For those of us that did take it, nobody wants to do that
• 1:10:45
  again. Judge McManus had, he said when
• 1:10:50
  he retired, that was young, he was younger, that he would like
• 1:10:56
  to take all 50 bar exams about who would do that, But that was
• 1:11:02
  a Judge McManus would like to go around, take 50 bar exams.
• 1:11:07
  Even the states where they've only got like 3 or 4 essays,
• 1:11:10
  they expect like 6 pages. An essay I.
• 1:11:12
  Don't know that was a long that was 40 years ago or more, but.
• 1:11:19
  You got reciprocity I. Guess I guess.
• 1:11:22
  All right, well, let's talk about who isn't here.
• 1:11:24
  We've got some more no shows. No, I didn't, but thank you.
• 1:11:36
  Oh, Mr. Oliver just came in, or this just came?
• 1:11:41
  All right. Justin Horrell.
• 1:11:44
  File number is 26161 SD. All right.
• 1:11:50
  Very good. Thank you.
• 1:11:53
  We get good service here. The assistant prosecutor who's
• 1:12:00
  got the knowledge and ability is aware that you're here.
• 1:12:04
  She'll be here shortly to talk with you.
• 1:12:13
  Mr. Harrell is from Bronson. He's charged with operating
• 1:12:16
  while intoxicated. He got arrested on February 2nd
• 1:12:23
  and posted bond. These numbers never work.
• 1:13:09
  None. All right.
• 1:13:27
  He didn't show up and didn't answer his phone try in order to
• 1:13:32
  show cost first. His parents named him just in
• 1:13:37
  time. TYME for a middle name.
• 1:13:45
  He's got some other baggage here.
• 1:13:48
  He should be here. Yeah.
• 1:14:00
  Nobody ever picks up their phone anymore.
• 1:14:02
  I know I don't unless I absolutely know the number and I
• 1:14:05
  want to deal with it. Well, he finds a contestant that
• 1:14:08
  actually wants to show up. Let's go to Texas.
• 1:14:10
  Judge Stevens. No, he's a no.
• 1:14:13
  He's got a no. Are you Matthew Brown?
• 1:14:17
  You're charged with a third degree felony of stalking in 24
• 1:14:21
  CR 2425, which carries with it up to 10 years in prison.
• 1:14:26
  It's serious. You probably know that, and Mr.
• 1:14:31
  W is going to help guide you through this mess.
• 1:14:34
  Have you ever been in trouble before?
• 1:14:37
  You're looking down, which is always a tail sign.
• 1:14:40
  I have a court that is deferred and.
• 1:14:42
  The court ruling to be deferred. Is it, do you still have that?
• 1:14:46
  Are you still on that probation? OK.
• 1:14:49
  I was never on I think. Community started this tonight.
• 1:14:53
  Well, at least you said deferred.
• 1:14:55
  That's deferred if he's on deferred probation.
• 1:14:58
  Earlier it. Was also 12 years ago as well.
• 1:15:03
  What's in the past is never in the past.
• 1:15:05
  That was a famous quote. I agree with that.
• 1:15:08
  That's why we've learned and fix this about 3-4 weeks, whatever
• 1:15:16
  is on the. Work schedule.
• 1:15:18
  And like. I said I had some.
• 1:15:19
  Information from them yesterday. I need to go through trauma
• 1:15:22
  right now so anything for stay elements.
• 1:15:25
  No, you're. Right.
• 1:15:25
  OK, 4. Young before.
• 1:15:26
  Yeah. You're right, Jason.
• 1:15:34
  Robin. No, I haven't any contact with
• 1:15:36
  them in cases 45 CR 1845. And. 25 Co 1846 assault by peace
• 1:15:46
  officer and harassment about the peace officer.
• 1:15:52
  And let's see, November 9th. November 9th must have been out
• 1:15:56
  of the same incident. Second or third degree felonies.
• 1:16:02
  Robert B Chaison No answer. I asked the bailiff to call into
• 1:16:06
  the hall for Robert Chaison, please.
• 1:16:14
  Maybe that's what it was. Maybe it was always.
• 1:16:15
  Happening before I knew what it was.
• 1:16:18
  In May I didn't know what it was.
• 1:16:19
  Wow. And in this one.
• 1:16:22
  I. Don't think he's here.
• 1:16:24
  Well, I think he missed last time.
• 1:16:25
  Your Honor, there's a note that he.
• 1:16:27
  What did we do? You used your love up here.
• 1:16:30
  And no response to the name called in the courtroom.
• 1:16:32
  No response to that name called into the hall.
• 1:16:34
  Did we revoke his mind last time?
• 1:16:36
  What does the note say? What is his?
• 1:16:40
  What are his? Bonds should be 40,000 each.
• 1:16:43
  I think he revoked it and. Moved it from.
• 1:16:45
  I think you ordered GPS devices, but I don't think he's been in
• 1:16:48
  custody since then. So that's the problem you.
• 1:17:09
  Recall that and I don't. I'm looking to see if I have any
• 1:17:12
  notes since the while. All right, So what are?
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  Lien his bonds are 22,000 on the 1845 it's.
• 1:17:34
  Going to be same on the other one, huh?
• 1:17:39
  Yes. Fine.
• 1:17:42
  And I can go back and look at my emails to see why we're.
• 1:17:45
  Then it has failed to appear. His bonds are revoked.
• 1:17:50
  They are now doubled from 20 to $40,000 in each case.
• 1:17:54
  Plus he must have AGPS device so we know where he is when he's
• 1:17:57
  not here, when he's supposed to be.
• 1:18:00
  That's Robert Chill side. So where are you headed now?
• 1:18:04
  I'm having ever. Which?
• 1:18:07
  Case is that. That's Donald Kelly, the fighter
• 1:18:09
  registered sex offender. Oh, OK, that's in 10th of.
• 1:18:12
  The. Jury, Yeah.
• 1:18:14
  I'll be done. Yeah, we're starting.
• 1:18:17
  So nice of the judge to help out like that.
• 1:18:20
  He's a very good man. All right, how about we're going
• 1:18:27
  to put Brent last till we're going to put him in December.
• 1:18:32
  The December doctor. I'm good with that because
• 1:18:34
  Christmas, he likes Christmas you like?
• 1:18:36
  That's good because it keeps me out of the stores and spend
• 1:18:38
  money and in the winter flavor I remember.
• 1:18:42
  Now. I'm calling your client Michael
• 1:18:45
  Public Sauce. Yes, he's here.
• 1:18:46
  Sauce famous name is it past that the cross with the?
• 1:18:56
  Path not taken right? Is that Robert Frost?
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  Snowy. Some.
• 1:19:01
  Probably. Yeah.
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  Snowy. Yeah.
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  It's not in here or whatever. There's no doubt.
• 1:19:04
  No, it's still snowy. Snowy.
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  Evening. What is that?
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  What is that? I agree.
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  Robert Frost. Good.
• 1:19:14
  What? You great farm.
• 1:19:15
  But snowy? Snowy.
• 1:19:17
  Yeah. But I'm Prosti was a poet.
• 1:19:20
  I know, but what was the great what?
• 1:19:21
  What was his most famous poem? The path?
• 1:19:25
  The path of. West taken.
• 1:19:27
  Not taken. I'm a path I think.
• 1:19:30
  It's one I start with two. I was not an English treasure.
• 1:19:34
  I got as quickly as a you didn't.
• 1:19:36
  Yeah, there we are, exhausted my poetry knowledge.
• 1:19:40
  There we are showing what we know even.
• 1:19:46
  Yeah, it's it wasn't snowy, snowy.
• 1:19:48
  And then it wasn't starry, starry night.
• 1:19:51
  That's that was another one. And I.
• 1:19:54
  Can actually know the beginning. Starry night.
• 1:19:56
  Out of the I. Thought that was a painting.
• 1:20:02
  Always take the room. It really is Van Gogh.
• 1:20:07
  It's actually. Really, really pretty.
• 1:20:09
  Yeah, it's it's awesome. I never.
• 1:20:11
  Understood the motor reason. One of the biggest
• 1:20:15
  disappointments. It's like this big, it's the
• 1:20:17
  weirdest thing, and it's surrounded by all of this and
• 1:20:20
  thousands of people. It's a no.
• 1:20:23
  Mr. Frost is here charged in 25 CR 1006 with the third degree
• 1:20:29
  family of evading arrest or detention.
• 1:20:33
  The motor vehicle problem is we've got a prior a felony.
• 1:20:39
  A controlled substance. So this third degree felony can
• 1:20:43
  be enhanced one level to a second degree felony.
• 1:20:50
  So you're looking at up to 20 years in prisons and it's it's
• 1:20:55
  most serious and with a prior conviction, you're ineligible
• 1:20:59
  for probation. And a lot of the circumstances
• 1:21:04
  here couldn't get probation in trial.
• 1:21:07
  If you went to trial would just be all or nothing as it was.
• 1:21:12
  All right, it's August, August 13th, indicted and 1 resetting,
• 1:21:23
  2 resettings, 3 resettings, 4/4 resettings.
• 1:21:28
  It's about it's about fine. What are we doing today?
• 1:21:32
  Ironically. Enough I was going to get one
• 1:21:34
  more resetting so we can look at the discovery.
• 1:21:36
  We just got the offer this morning.
• 1:21:38
  It's a it's a probation offer. Definitely all reset judge
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  should be two weeks is fine is somehow for him to I think he
• 1:21:46
  has chemotherapy. Tomorrow with the.
• 1:21:48
  Doctor's visit two weeks. That's fine.
• 1:21:53
  Thank you. To clear things up for the
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  court, the road not taken by Robert Frost, 2 roads diverged
• 1:22:03
  in the yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both and be 1
• 1:22:07
  traveller long. I stood and looked down one as
• 1:22:10
  far as I could to where it bent into the undergrowth, then took
• 1:22:17
  the other as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim
• 1:22:23
  because it was grassy and wanted wear.
• 1:22:25
  Though As for that, the passing there had worn them really about
• 1:22:29
  the same, and both that morning equally lay and leaves.
• 1:22:32
  No step head trodden black. Oh, I kept the first one for
• 1:22:36
  another day, yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I
• 1:22:41
  should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a
• 1:22:45
  sigh. Where?
• 1:22:46
  Or rather somewhere ages and ages hence, 2 roads diverged in
• 1:22:50
  the wood and I I took the one less traveled by and that has
• 1:22:54
  made all the difference. This has been poetry time with
• 1:22:58
  Dan at TCF. We now call 25 CR 1098 the state
• 1:23:13
  of Texas versus Elijah Watson. Is that you?
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  Yes, Sir. President, with Mr. Duzma, your
• 1:23:19
  attorney and the State's attorney, does the definite
• 1:23:21
  leave a formal win of the indictment in the arraignment?
• 1:23:24
  That's right. Can we proceed in a summary
• 1:23:26
  fashion? In summary, so this indictment
• 1:23:29
  alleges that on or about May 16th, last year, 2025, in
• 1:23:35
  Jefferson County, Texas, it is alleged you committed a third
• 1:23:38
  degree felony of evading arrests or detention with a motor
• 1:23:45
  vehicle. Do you understand what you were
• 1:23:47
  charged with here? Yes, Sir.
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  This is a third degree felony, which means if convicted, you
• 1:23:54
  face a term of not more than 10 years or less than a few years
• 1:23:58
  in prison. In addition, a fine may be
• 1:24:00
  assessed not to exceed $10,000. Do you understand?
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  Yes. Sir, agreement has been reached
• 1:24:18
  where you would be pleading guilty, placed on deferred or
• 1:24:22
  unadjudicated probation, which can be up to 10 years in length.
• 1:24:25
  It's the court's decision. How much time?
• 1:24:29
  But at the end of the day, it really isn't all that important.
• 1:24:33
  It's how you do on probation. If you do well on the third
• 1:24:36
  probation with me, I cut it short to 1/3 of whatever it is
• 1:24:40
  1/3. There is no fine.
• 1:24:44
  Are there any other special terms and conditions of
• 1:24:46
  probation other than the normal conditions for that type of
• 1:24:49
  office? No.
• 1:24:51
  Is that your understanding of the plan here?
• 1:24:54
  If I follow this agreement, you have no right of appeal.
• 1:24:57
  You understand? How do you plead to this, Sir?
• 1:25:00
  Guilty of not guilty. Are you pleading guilty
• 1:25:04
  voluntarily? That is on your own free will.
• 1:25:08
  And because you are guilty, I was almost hesitating.
• 1:25:16
  Is that? Are you in on that?
• 1:25:18
  Is all that true? OK, now be assertive here.
• 1:25:23
  I'm going to show you what's marked as State's Exhibit one.
• 1:25:25
  Did you sign that document? Did you understand it, discuss
• 1:25:29
  it with your attorney or the contents?
• 1:25:31
  All true and correct. State's Exhibit 1 is tendered
• 1:25:34
  into evidence and without objection, it's submitted.
• 1:25:39
  Among other things, this states you are mentally competent to
• 1:25:42
  enter your guilty plea. It is freely involuntarily made.
• 1:25:46
  You know what you've been charged with the indictments
• 1:25:48
  been read to you and you've read it.
• 1:25:49
  You are guilty of the crime charged than any lesser
• 1:25:51
  included. Often you were giving up your
• 1:25:54
  rights to a jury trials and the rights to the appearance
• 1:25:57
  confrontation, last examination of witnesses.
• 1:25:59
  You were totally satisfied with the representation provided by
• 1:26:02
  your lawyer. All of this is true.
• 1:26:04
  It stays so help you God stays. Exhibit one part of the record
• 1:26:08
  for all purposes is a pre sentence report raised.
• 1:26:11
  I'm going to follow this agreement.
• 1:26:14
  I'm going to find you are mentally competent to enter this
• 1:26:17
  agreement. It is freely and voluntarily
• 1:26:19
  made. You know and appreciate the
• 1:26:21
  consequences of pleading guilty. There is sufficient evidence
• 1:26:24
  supporting your guilty plea from State's Exhibit 1 here to find
• 1:26:28
  you guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
• 1:26:30
  But I'm not going to do that right now.
• 1:26:33
  I'm going to defer any binding of gift place you on deferred or
• 1:26:37
  unadjudicated probation so long as you follow terms and
• 1:26:40
  conditions of probation probation officer will go with
• 1:26:44
  over them with you. But don't repeat this mistake.
• 1:26:50
  It has consequences and these are serious.
• 1:26:54
  You're looking it up to 10 years in prison.
• 1:26:57
  If you fail on probation and your probation as we vote, then
• 1:27:02
  you'd be found guilty of a felony.
• 1:27:04
  Ever been convicted of a felony before?
• 1:27:06
  You don't want it. You know how long it follows you
• 1:27:08
  around the rest of your life now?
• 1:27:16
  Length of time on probation. You got recommended 7.
• 1:27:22
  What's that says there? There's a good reason.
• 1:27:23
  It must be some reason. Your Honor, I'm.
• 1:27:25
  Fine with whatever, evading going through it, whatever the
• 1:27:29
  for. Thanks sis.
• 1:27:30
  It'll be for seven. So a third of seven is doing a
• 1:27:34
  third good. Yep, seeing a third years and
• 1:27:40
  then you can move on with your life and get past all of this.
• 1:27:50
  What? What?
• 1:27:52
  Program. Do we make them attend?
• 1:27:58
  If you want us to, you can put him in the Moral Recognition
• 1:28:00
  therapy program thinking. Let me ask you, you have a
• 1:28:07
  driver's license. Why not?
• 1:28:14
  I just got my ID already. This time.
• 1:28:16
  Are you going to get a driver's line?
• 1:28:19
  Yes. When you say Oh yes, but I mean,
• 1:28:21
  everybody's gone. Or you shouldn't, but you
• 1:28:23
  shouldn't be operating a 4000 LB missile without it.
• 1:28:30
  Are you working somewhere? Have I have.
• 1:28:33
  An orientation? This one or this 2?
• 1:28:39
  I'm talking about some kind of a driving class.
• 1:28:42
  Yeah, I can do defensive driving.
• 1:28:43
  Yes, yeah, that is this is going to be a gift for you because
• 1:28:49
  you're going to be ordered to take defensive driving.
• 1:28:54
  It will reduce your insurance that you have to have to operate
• 1:29:01
  a motor vehicle along with your driver's license.
• 1:29:03
  You have to have those two things as you're in trouble and
• 1:29:07
  insurance costs that will reduce it significantly by taking that
• 1:29:12
  class. And it would also remind you
• 1:29:15
  that a 4000 LB missile needs to be operated responsible.
• 1:29:19
  Your life and other lives are at stake.
• 1:29:22
  OK. Yes, Sir.
• 1:29:23
  All right. Please see the probation
• 1:29:24
  minister. Thank you.
• 1:29:43
  All right, let's head back up to Michigan and Judge Middleton.
• 1:29:45
  He's got a new contestant. That's Mr. Good morning, Sir.
• 1:29:52
  Are you Carol Haney Kelly? Yes, yes, Sir.
• 1:29:57
  I'm George Middleton. You're from Hilbert, Michigan.
• 1:30:01
  Hulbert. HULBERT.
• 1:30:06
  Do you have family down here? No, I had been down here about
• 1:30:11
  15, I'd say about. I was down here in 2018.
• 1:30:16
  I had gotten in charge and went down here and then I just had.
• 1:30:20
  Some friends down here, Carol. Is a Kelly family name?
• 1:30:22
  Are you related to Jimmy Carroll Kelly?
• 1:30:26
  No, Sir, my father, my biological family of Kelly's are
• 1:30:29
  in South Carolina. All right, well, let's take a
• 1:30:33
  look at your deal. Yes, Sir.
• 1:30:41
  My stepdad lives in the Hulbert, has been there 25 years.
• 1:30:57
  All right. You also have a parole violation
• 1:31:00
  and a methamphetamine charge and this is a driving suspended and
• 1:31:11
  a no proof of insurance. Mr. Tim George of the River City
• 1:31:15
  attorney is here. Mr. George, you have any input
• 1:31:18
  on this? This looks to be A tag along to
• 1:31:21
  the. Felony.
• 1:31:24
  Obviously the felonies, the most significant portion of this.
• 1:31:29
  I believe he's up for PCC today with his eyes.
• 1:31:31
  I can speak with her to make sure it's the.
• 1:31:33
  Same incident. If it is, we would likely just.
• 1:31:35
  Package this with whatever the resolution is, all right?
• 1:31:39
  It occurred allegedly 129 of 26. He's been in custody for 12
• 1:31:44
  days. Yeah.
• 1:31:52
  Let me look at judge the calendar here.
• 1:32:00
  Your Honor, may I speak real fast?
• 1:32:02
  Yes. I, I've been up there in
• 1:32:07
  Hallberg, crawled out of Sioux Saint Marie with Mike Morris.
• 1:32:11
  I've been doing, I've been doing really, really well.
• 1:32:14
  I mean, if he was to call and talk to him, he would tell you
• 1:32:17
  I've had, I had a slip up. And that's I mean.
• 1:32:21
  Well, don't, don't say anything about me.
• 1:32:22
  I don't want to do anything that.
• 1:32:23
  Might. Implicate yourself.
• 1:32:26
  Sure. Yeah, this was the date of the
• 1:32:28
  driving was 129. The date of the meth charge is
• 1:32:35
  128. So I think it's part of the same
• 1:32:37
  incident. Yeah, it's the same, same
• 1:32:40
  situation. All right.
• 1:32:42
  Is Miss Ives here? She's doing the BCCS.
• 1:32:45
  Next. Week.
• 1:32:46
  All right, Mr. Kelly, I'm going to put you in the waiting room.
• 1:32:49
  I didn't realize this was connected to something else.
• 1:32:52
  See if we got an idea. Let me get that file number
• 1:33:43
  again 26145 FY. We'll set him aside.
• 1:33:56
  Jordan, we're on the home stretch here.
• 1:34:09
  All right, David Banks. All right, we return to the
• 1:34:24
  matter of people versus David Banks.
• 1:34:27
  File number is 24127. 3. 26 Mr. Banks was going to get a court
• 1:34:34
  appointed attorney but changed his mind and had an instant
• 1:34:37
  pretrial with Mr. George. It says here you're going to
• 1:34:51
  plead the one count of retail fraud third degree and they're
• 1:34:55
  going to recommend finding costs with restitution.
• 1:34:59
  Is that your understanding? Yes, going to resolve.
• 1:35:03
  Over to someone. Faction, just let me take it
• 1:35:05
  down. To them, yeah, that'd be fine.
• 1:35:06
  Thank you. Thank you.
• 1:35:11
  All right, you heard me go through the advice of rights.
• 1:35:13
  I understand you're giving those rights up by entering this plea.
• 1:35:16
  Yes. So did you go into the Dollar
• 1:35:21
  General store on these occasions and put some candy stickers or
• 1:35:27
  use a candy sticker to scan to buy some more expensive
• 1:35:30
  merchandise? Yes.
• 1:35:33
  All right. And here they've got restitution
• 1:35:42
  of 161 to Dollar General, not the 5:30 that's in the thing.
• 1:35:58
  You posted $100 a bond. How long were you in jail before
• 1:36:01
  you bond at all? A bond.
• 1:36:03
  A bond radar. This isn't your style.
• 1:36:10
  It's like you ought to be over this sort of thing, but you are
• 1:36:16
  accepting responsibility. What are you doing now?
• 1:36:20
  I work. What's that?
• 1:36:22
  I said I work. Where do you work?
• 1:36:24
  All right. That's a good job.
• 1:36:39
  We don't get many cases from Dollar General.
• 1:36:42
  There are several in town. All right, I'm going to call one
• 1:37:01
  day. You got arrested and opposed to
• 1:37:03
  bond credit One day, $75 fine, $75 crime victims rights fee,
• 1:37:09
  $50 state minimum fee and $162.00 restitution to a Dollar
• 1:37:17
  General. That's $362.00 posted, $100 a
• 1:37:27
  bond. Is 262 due.
• 1:37:31
  Can you pay that in 30 days? Yes, I'll make that due by March
• 1:37:36
  13th, 26. You're barred from the Dollar
• 1:37:40
  General stores for one year. It's close to where you work,
• 1:37:51
  but you'll have to go to the Shell station I guess instead.
• 1:37:57
  What shift are you on? So you've been up all night?
• 1:38:01
  Yes. Sleep.
• 1:38:03
  This was DU MB. I don't expect you to do this
• 1:38:07
  again. It seemed like a good idea to
• 1:38:11
  like, watch the video, but you're owning it, Said he's not
• 1:38:28
  asking for any additional jail time.
• 1:38:31
  You can use that to pay the final cost, credit card, cash or
• 1:38:36
  check or money order. All right, Mr. Banks, you're
• 1:38:41
  good to go. I think also, I don't know why
• 1:38:45
  it took them a year and a half to serve that warrant.
• 1:38:49
  All right, let's kind of a weird day out in Courtlandia.
• 1:38:54
  There's a lot of civil stuff, a lot of landlord tenant, but
• 1:38:58
  there's a few good things going on.
• 1:39:00
  Let's go to Louisiana. New contestant there.
• 1:39:04
  The panel to my left, this is Carolyn Stapleton.
• 1:39:07
  To my right is Danny Barra. I'm Jerry Ledoux with the staff
• 1:39:11
  here at DOC Introduce yourself for the records, Carla Williams.
• 1:39:16
  Francis Abbott. Our remote location right now is
• 1:39:21
  the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women and with the
• 1:39:25
  offender, please state your name and your DSC number.
• 1:39:30
  Tiffany Woods 5 455-464-5546 Thank you Miss Woods.
• 1:39:41
  You have a large number of people in your support both here
• 1:39:46
  and at the facility and on Zoom. And so we have all of their
• 1:39:51
  names recorded for the record, we won't go through all of.
• 1:39:54
  Those at this. Time we are going to read some
• 1:39:58
  information into the record. And then we'll get started on
• 1:40:01
  the interview. So Miss Woods, we find that
• 1:40:04
  you're a first felony offender currently serving a 36 year
• 1:40:08
  sentence for second degree murder.
• 1:40:10
  Do you have a parole eligibility date of 9/18/2026 and adjust a
• 1:40:16
  good time date of January 29th, 2036 and a full term date of
• 1:40:20
  9172042? Does that sound correct to you?
• 1:40:25
  Yes, ma'am. OK, Warden, we appreciate you
• 1:40:30
  being here. Would you and your staff
• 1:40:33
  introduce yourself? Record.
• 1:40:35
  Yes, ma'am. Good morning, Kristen Thomas.
• 1:40:37
  Warden, Tara PARDC manager, Afton Gaddy, ARDC supervisor.
• 1:40:43
  Great. Gordon, at this time, would you
• 1:40:46
  like to make a statement about the offender before we begin the
• 1:40:50
  interview? Sure.
• 1:40:52
  Miss Woods, you know, has been here for a good bit of time.
• 1:40:57
  She is actually completed her NOBTS or seminary and
• 1:41:02
  Blackstone. So I know her and I've talked a
• 1:41:05
  little bit in the past, just I think her NOBTS graduation was
• 1:41:09
  just something that she was very proud of.
• 1:41:13
  And I think she really does a good job working in the seminary
• 1:41:17
  and counseling and mentoring other inmates in the at LCIW.
• 1:41:23
  She is not a disciplinary problem.
• 1:41:25
  We don't have any issues with Tiffany the entire time that
• 1:41:29
  I've been here with her. She is low risk and low needs.
• 1:41:34
  I think Mr. Myers is on, so I'll let him talk more.
• 1:41:37
  But if she is, she does receive a favorable decision today.
• 1:41:42
  She will release to the parole project.
• 1:41:44
  So I'm sure Mr. Myers will go into detail on what that will
• 1:41:47
  include for her discharge planning.
• 1:41:50
  Thank you so much, Warden. We do have Mr. Myers and several
• 1:41:56
  others who would like to speak on her behalf.
• 1:42:01
  How would you like to handle anybody here at all?
• 1:42:03
  Well, first of all, Tiffany, I would like to hear from you and
• 1:42:08
  find out. Can you, in your words, tell us
• 1:42:10
  why you're before this panel today and why we should consider
• 1:42:15
  an early release? Yes, ma'am.
• 1:42:20
  Well, by the time of my crime, I was just, I just had my third
• 1:42:27
  child. Then I had my fourth son, my
• 1:42:31
  fourth child, Emmanuel Anthony. Woods.
• 1:42:35
  He was born June 23rd, 2005. He was born premature and
• 1:42:47
  unresponsive. He was in the NICU for a couple
• 1:42:52
  of months and when his discharged, he was discharged in
• 1:42:59
  my to my care two weeks before Hurricane Katrina hit me and my
• 1:43:05
  family left our home August the 28th of 2005 because I wanted to
• 1:43:15
  save my family, my children. We left we didn't know where we
• 1:43:20
  was going to go, but we ended up in Shreveport, LA when we and
• 1:43:27
  when we arrived in Louisiana, Shreveport, LA, we didn't have
• 1:43:31
  anywhere to go. We was homeless.
• 1:43:33
  We we was just out there, but eventually we found shelter at
• 1:43:42
  two home gymnasiums for refugees.
• 1:43:50
  We went to one of them. We stayed.
• 1:43:53
  We had a lot of uncertainties. We was in a large gymnasium with
• 1:44:01
  number of people. I was afraid.
• 1:44:03
  I didn't know what to do, but I wanted my family to be close to
• 1:44:07
  me. At the time, my son Emmanuel, he
• 1:44:12
  was still taking his formula, but he was throwing up his
• 1:44:19
  formula in large amounts. I didn't know what to do.
• 1:44:23
  I was overwhelmed, I was scared, but I still tried to feed my
• 1:44:29
  child. I.
• 1:44:32
  I didn't know what. Else to do but just to continue
• 1:44:35
  pushing. And I asked their dad, Emanuel,
• 1:44:43
  if he can find us a safe place to live.
• 1:44:46
  It took him some time to do so, but he eventually found us a
• 1:44:50
  home. We moved into that home and
• 1:44:53
  around that time I ran out of WIC vouchers.
• 1:44:57
  For my son. Emmanuel, I didn't know what to
• 1:45:02
  do. I made the devastating decision
• 1:45:11
  chase my child's milk and he was taking his milk because I felt
• 1:45:20
  that by him taking it and not throwing up at large amounts
• 1:45:24
  like he was when he was taking his formula, I thought he was
• 1:45:28
  doing better, but he wasn't doing better.
• 1:45:30
  I'm not. I didn't know how to go about
• 1:45:35
  anything but survival mode. When I was giving him his milk,
• 1:45:41
  I thought again, I really thought he was doing better.
• 1:45:43
  I love my all my children. I love every last one of my
• 1:45:47
  children. I love my son.
• 1:45:49
  So today I love him and I know he's gone because of me.
• 1:45:53
  But I didn't mean I didn't mean to take his life.
• 1:46:12
  Once I know it's very difficult, why don't we get and we're going
• 1:46:16
  to go ahead and hear from your son then Mr. Najon Woods has
• 1:46:22
  joined us via Zoom and we'll go ahead and listen to him.
• 1:46:28
  OK. Good morning, Pearl Board of
• 1:46:32
  Louisiana. Can you hear me?
• 1:46:34
  Yes. Greetings from California and
• 1:46:37
  thank you for taking the time to hear me on this morning.
• 1:46:41
  My name is now John Justin Woods, and I'm speaking on
• 1:46:43
  behalf of myself and my three youngest siblings to express our
• 1:46:46
  full and our gravering support for our mother, Tiffany Woods.
• 1:46:50
  I want to acknowledge the seriousness of her past actions
• 1:46:53
  and impact that they had. We all lost something that day.
• 1:46:58
  My mom lost a son, my siblings and I lost a brother, my aunts
• 1:47:06
  and uncles lost a nephew, and my grandparents lost a grandchild
• 1:47:08
  all during Hurricane Katrina where we already lost everything
• 1:47:12
  else. And then we lost our mom
• 1:47:16
  physically to prison. But being in prison didn't stop
• 1:47:20
  our mom for loving us and mothering us.
• 1:47:23
  Even though she was not there physically.
• 1:47:26
  She remembered birthdays, sent gifts, wrote songs for us,
• 1:47:31
  talked to us on the phone for graduations primes, and she will
• 1:47:36
  always encourage us to help us through our hard times the best
• 1:47:39
  she can in the capacity she could.
• 1:47:43
  Members of the board, it is my belief that we all need her.
• 1:47:46
  Her children, all her children need her, and we long to build
• 1:47:51
  our relationship with our mom outside of prison.
• 1:47:54
  We all served a sentence with our mom her own way.
• 1:47:59
  She was there when most family members were not, and I believe
• 1:48:04
  she deeply cared for us. Over the years, we've witnessed
• 1:48:08
  her grow into a new woman through visits and phone
• 1:48:11
  conversations. My mom has expressed deep
• 1:48:13
  remorse for her past actions and has worked hard to address the
• 1:48:17
  underlying issues that led her to incarceration.
• 1:48:22
  It is my belief that she has shown commitment to
• 1:48:24
  rehabilitation through her programming, maturity,
• 1:48:29
  accountability and her new faith in God, which she shares with us
• 1:48:35
  regularly. Our children, our outstanding
• 1:48:39
  family and the community that we are part of are all prepared to
• 1:48:42
  support her in housing guidance and stability.
• 1:48:46
  She will not be alone in this transition and in granted
• 1:48:50
  parole. I know that she will continue
• 1:48:51
  improving herself and proving herself.
• 1:48:58
  I respectfully ask with the humility that the Board
• 1:49:02
  considers us, her children and our forgiveness and the love for
• 1:49:07
  our mother, the progress and mindset and her behavior while
• 1:49:12
  incarcerated, and our family's commitment to our success while
• 1:49:16
  making your decision. And I want to thank you for
• 1:49:19
  taking the time to allow me to speak on behalf of my siblings.
• 1:49:23
  Thank you. Thank you very much.
• 1:49:25
  Very well expected. We also have Stephanie King, who
• 1:49:32
  is here at the headquarters, who would like to speak and support.
• 1:49:38
  And ma'am, if you'll approach the podium and direct your
• 1:49:42
  comments to the panel, my name is Stephanie.
• 1:49:47
  Some of you may know me or Remember Me and some of you may
• 1:49:50
  not. I too was once at LCRW with
• 1:49:53
  Tiffany. I'll serve 20. 7 1/2 years of a
• 1:49:56
  60 year sentence before this committee saw me.
• 1:49:59
  What I hope you see in Tiffany today, Life Tiffany.
• 1:50:03
  I too came from the troubled past and used my time at LCIW to
• 1:50:06
  license people to take myself. Choose to take.
• 1:50:09
  Advantage of the. Number of educational
• 1:50:11
  opportunities and going to someone who is doing well to
• 1:50:14
  dance and law abiding tax bases. I remember when Tiffany came to
• 1:50:19
  LCIW. She was young and.
• 1:50:21
  Confused and fully agreed but I closely had family of women
• 1:50:25
  took. Her in and helped her find her.
• 1:50:26
  Way. The term she has taken has been
• 1:50:29
  dramatic and inspiring. She immediately got involved in
• 1:50:33
  things once she arrived, taking programs, joining clubs, going
• 1:50:36
  to school and spending all the time with her family doing
• 1:50:39
  business. An incarcerated person's
• 1:50:42
  schedule in prison can be very busy and to be able to work your
• 1:50:46
  full time job, mentor or help help others fulfill your
• 1:50:50
  obligations to running programs and ministries.
• 1:50:53
  As far from easy, however, Tiffany is doing it and doing it
• 1:50:57
  well. She teaches soft skill classes
• 1:51:01
  and LCRW FIRE and fully gets back to mentees and other
• 1:51:05
  incarcerated women in any way she can.
• 1:51:09
  She has grown and used the time she has been incarcerated to
• 1:51:13
  find her footing and become deeply rooted in her
• 1:51:15
  relationship with God. She graduated from the New
• 1:51:18
  Orleans Baptist Theological Seminar, the fashion degree.
• 1:51:23
  Today, she has a community she never had before she went.
• 1:51:26
  With. High knit community of women.
• 1:51:30
  The formerly incarcerated. Women who have.
• 1:51:32
  Been with Tiffany along the way, now reside in that.
• 1:51:34
  Rouge, we want you to know that we are still here to support.
• 1:51:38
  Her and we. Supported her in prison.
• 1:51:40
  She is not alone. She will be loved and she will
• 1:51:43
  be supported. Today she has the Louisiana
• 1:51:46
  Parole Project. Friends and family completely
• 1:51:49
  ready to stand by her side and help her navigate with any
• 1:51:53
  issues, situations or problems she will encounter.
• 1:51:57
  And today I pray you see how far she has grown and all the things
• 1:52:01
  she has. Done to better.
• 1:52:02
  Herself while unfortunately, I pray you see how she has truly
• 1:52:06
  transformed her life and become a whole new one.
• 1:52:09
  Thank you. We also have Kerry Myers with
• 1:52:16
  the Louisiana Pearl Project who would like to speak.
• 1:52:20
  Yes, good morning, Board. Kerry Myers with Louisiana Pearl
• 1:52:23
  Project here on behalf of Tiffany Woods.
• 1:52:27
  You've read her package. You see the Tiffany, the trauma
• 1:52:35
  and dysfunction of her childhood and early teens, the chaos
• 1:52:40
  surrounding the aftermath of Katrina, and a person who was
• 1:52:45
  lack the skills to cope with with everything she had
• 1:52:49
  experienced. But the Tiffany that's sitting
• 1:52:51
  before you now has coping skills, is educated.
• 1:52:56
  She went from not having a high school education to now being
• 1:53:00
  college degreed her. I'm not going to go through all
• 1:53:03
  her accomplishments. I'll let her attorney do that.
• 1:53:07
  But you can see they're they're extensive and extraordinary what
• 1:53:11
  she has done. We're here to support Tiffany in
• 1:53:13
  her transition. You can see also the family
• 1:53:16
  support and community support that she has.
• 1:53:19
  The Parole Project is prepared to also do what we do and help
• 1:53:24
  her through this transition. She's already been interviewed
• 1:53:27
  and assessed by our our mental health team, our employment
• 1:53:31
  team. She is absolutely prepared for
• 1:53:35
  gainful employment. We have a plan for her
• 1:53:38
  transition and support systems counseling and the other things
• 1:53:42
  that she would need. We are prepared to provide her
• 1:53:45
  with long term housing. Out of a tragedy has come
• 1:53:51
  something that I think could inspire people, and Tiffany has
• 1:53:56
  done that, and we're here to support everybody else's board
• 1:53:59
  to consider all the factors in this and grant her parole today.
• 1:54:04
  Thank you, Mr. Myers. Tiffany, I think at this point
• 1:54:14
  we have also your attorney, Miss Hutchinson and I.
• 1:54:19
  I would like for y'all to decide, Mr. Barbara is going to
• 1:54:22
  start asking questions. Miss Hutchinson, would you like
• 1:54:25
  to make a statement before or after the questions are asked?
• 1:54:30
  I'd like to go after the questions if that's.
• 1:54:32
  Allowed. Thank you certainly, Mr.
• 1:54:35
  Barbara. Well.
• 1:54:40
  My questions would be answered by your brief SO.
• 1:54:43
  I'm. Prefer to let you.
• 1:54:46
  OK. So well, thank you all again for
• 1:54:49
  considering Tiffany and her case.
• 1:54:52
  She comes before you today because of the process afforded
• 1:54:55
  to her by the Louisiana State Constitution.
• 1:54:58
  In 2023, dishonorable board recommended her sentence be
• 1:55:01
  commuted to 36 years. And as you know, that
• 1:55:05
  recommendation does not come easy.
• 1:55:08
  So today I'll spend a little time reiterating what was
• 1:55:11
  present in 2023 and what is still present today.
• 1:55:15
  And she seeks parole at 20 years and about 55% of that sentence.
• 1:55:20
  And I know y'all have the brief, but so I'll be brief about it.
• 1:55:25
  She has the paralegal certification.
• 1:55:28
  She has worked previously as inmate counsel.
• 1:55:31
  She has associates and a bachelor's degree in Christian
• 1:55:35
  ministry, and she has hours actually towards her master's
• 1:55:38
  degree. And if you see the letter of
• 1:55:42
  recommendation by Doctor Sharkey, who's the director of
• 1:55:45
  Chaplaincy for the Department of Corrections, she talks about how
• 1:55:50
  Tiffany kind of has integrated her faith and her ministry into
• 1:55:55
  being a choir director. She talks about the choirs, not
• 1:55:58
  simply about music or performance.
• 1:56:00
  Tiffany has intentionally used rehearsals as opportunities for
• 1:56:04
  spiritual formation. She regularly opens up practices
• 1:56:08
  with scripture and prayer and often holds meetings focused
• 1:56:12
  solely on studying the Word of God and building godly
• 1:56:15
  character. And it just shows you that she's
• 1:56:18
  intertwined her education and her spiritual beliefs in the
• 1:56:21
  work that she does regularly. So gainful employment through
• 1:56:26
  the Louisiana Parole Project won't be hard.
• 1:56:29
  She has crew leadership. She has pesticide.
• 1:56:32
  She's able to do pesticide both residential and commercial, as
• 1:56:37
  well as serve safe. She's been a mentor.
• 1:56:41
  She's done peer ministry, doing rounds at the Infirmary, choir
• 1:56:47
  director, and she's taught trauma healing.
• 1:56:51
  You'll see from Nijon speaking and her talk about Hannah's gift
• 1:56:56
  and learning how to add faith in her parenting from a distance,
• 1:57:01
  one of the core classes that help save her.
• 1:57:05
  She's volunteered around the prison and programming and
• 1:57:07
  speaking to people that come in. And she's a published author.
• 1:57:12
  Exhibit 11 is all her publications writing through her
• 1:57:15
  trauma and her grief. She's taking self help programs.
• 1:57:18
  And all of this was started when Tiffany got in, when she sat
• 1:57:23
  down and had to recognize the deficiencies in her life at the
• 1:57:26
  time of the crime, her education, her parenting, her
• 1:57:29
  mentorship, and the immense remorse and grief that she has
• 1:57:34
  for the loss of baby a man. You want a separation of her
• 1:57:36
  children she's connected with those who were harmed the most
• 1:57:42
  after the crime, and that's her children.
• 1:57:44
  The siblings of baby Emmanuel, the grandparents, the aunts, the
• 1:57:47
  uncles, the cousins that are all present with you and who
• 1:57:50
  support. Her.
• 1:57:54
  Because of her sentence currently, Tiffany will be
• 1:57:56
  released one day, there's no doubt.
• 1:57:59
  However, today this committee is allowed to control what that
• 1:58:02
  release looks like. Today, you can allow LPP to be a
• 1:58:07
  part of her success. That transition including
• 1:58:11
  substance abuse classes, grief and trauma management and family
• 1:58:15
  reunification, employment services, housing that provide
• 1:58:20
  for a safer introduction into community and a reentry that
• 1:58:23
  poses no threat to society. I believe that you all see that
• 1:58:30
  those most affected by the crime have forgiven her and no one is
• 1:58:33
  saying that this crime wasn't horrible or devastating, but
• 1:58:37
  they all are saying that they want her home.
• 1:58:40
  I think that she is proven by her disciplinary record and with
• 1:58:43
  the warden has said that she's put in the work and we are here
• 1:58:47
  to support her and as well as her family and her children.
• 1:58:51
  Thank you. Thank you very much.
• 1:58:54
  We do have opposition and we will allow Miss Fitzgerald with
• 1:58:57
  the Keto DA's Victim Assistance Committee to to speak, but we'll
• 1:59:03
  go ahead and ask some questions if.
• 1:59:05
  You'd like I'll have any. Questions.
• 1:59:07
  Misses Stapleton, do you have any questions?
• 1:59:09
  I'm going to let Leon. Speak first, Fitzgerald.
• 1:59:12
  Thank you. Still muted, Leon.
• 1:59:30
  OK. OK, I'm sorry, I'm not on my
• 1:59:34
  regular computer. I'm Leon Fitzgerald.
• 1:59:38
  I'm with the Caddo Parish DA's Office, I'm director of the
• 1:59:41
  Victim Assistance Program, and I'm here to vehemently oppose on
• 1:59:48
  behalf of my office today. This is a difficult case.
• 1:59:52
  It's very emotional, it's heartbreaking.
• 1:59:55
  We've heard a lot about the situation that Miss Woods was in
• 2:00:00
  with her family having to evacuate due to Hurricane
• 2:00:04
  Katrina. And honestly, at this point, my
• 2:00:08
  office is. Getting a little tired of
• 2:00:11
  hearing about that because while we don't undermine that, I know
• 2:00:16
  it was had to be chaotic and and stressful and unprecedented, but
• 2:00:22
  it wasn't a reason for Miss Woods to not feed her baby.
• 2:00:27
  And so this baby was thriving when it, yes, he was born
• 2:00:32
  premature, but all the records indicate, all the experts have
• 2:00:36
  indicated that when he left hospital, let to blame that he
• 2:00:42
  was driving, he was taking a bottle, he had gained several
• 2:00:46
  pounds since he was born. And so we think that that is
• 2:00:50
  significant. This baby, let's see, when he
• 2:00:54
  was in the hospital in 41 days, he gained a pound and 12 ounces.
• 2:00:59
  And after he was released into his mother's care, in 2 1/2
• 2:01:04
  months, this baby gained 7 ounces.
• 2:01:10
  His weight at death was 5 lbs and 13 oz.
• 2:01:15
  And he was about 5 months old. So that's unacceptable.
• 2:01:21
  Once the family relocated to Shreveport, they were eventually
• 2:01:26
  able to get a nice brick house. If you saw the pictures from the
• 2:01:30
  scene, they had made a home. It was well furnished with nice
• 2:01:35
  furniture. It had beds.
• 2:01:39
  It also had cases of baby food in the photographs, so they were
• 2:01:44
  getting baby food in jars for their other child.
• 2:01:50
  There was, the refrigerator was well stocked with milk, beer,
• 2:01:58
  adult food, so it wasn't like they were destitute and
• 2:02:02
  everybody was starving to death. There was an empty box that
• 2:02:06
  would have contained a case of beer in the photograph of the
• 2:02:11
  scene. So we we dismissed the narrative
• 2:02:16
  that these people had no choices.
• 2:02:18
  They had a vehicle. In fact, the records indicate
• 2:02:23
  they had two vehicles. They had been to Walmart the day
• 2:02:27
  before this happened. Why not pick up some baby
• 2:02:30
  formula while you're at Walmart? Or if you have a vehicle, take
• 2:02:36
  the baby to the doctor. Go to the emergency room.
• 2:02:39
  I hope that the board was able to view the pictures that I
• 2:02:43
  emailed and see how no rational person could look at that poor
• 2:02:52
  emaciated baby and not do something.
• 2:02:59
  Take him to the emergency room, Take him to the doctor.
• 2:03:02
  Take him to a fire station and drop him off where he would have
• 2:03:06
  a chance for stranger to take care of them.
• 2:03:12
  So I think there were a lot of options that these people chose
• 2:03:18
  not to take. All the doctors that testified
• 2:03:22
  in this case said that this baby could have been saved, that that
• 2:03:26
  he didn't have to die. And so I appreciate the comments
• 2:03:31
  from this woman family. My heart goes out to them.
• 2:03:36
  They are victims. And this too, I can't imagine
• 2:03:43
  what it was like for them. I think it's a huge sign of
• 2:03:50
  their more character that they're behind.
• 2:03:53
  Her. But the role of the district
• 2:03:57
  attorney's office is to see that justice is served and.
• 2:04:02
  To. For those who can't speak for
• 2:04:08
  themselves, like baby Emmanuel, there were over 1,000,000 people
• 2:04:12
  that evacuated New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina, but how many?
• 2:04:17
  All their baby starved to death. Miss Lewis was 25 years old.
• 2:04:23
  She had three other kids. She wasn't a new teenage mom.
• 2:04:30
  She had a common law husband. He was there.
• 2:04:32
  He had a job at McDonald's and was working.
• 2:04:36
  They were getting fellow money. They were getting WIC.
• 2:04:39
  Even when the WIC ran out. There's no excuse for feeding
• 2:04:44
  your baby watered down Albert milk.
• 2:04:49
  That just doesn't make any sense for any rational person to do
• 2:04:53
  such a thing. So we also had time to beat, as
• 2:05:01
  you all know that on November 25th, this case a lot of
• 2:05:08
  investigation, obtaining records and so Miss Woods wasn't
• 2:05:13
  indicted until September 06, which gave us about 10.
• 2:05:19
  Minutes. I'm.
• 2:05:25
  Sorry, there are lots of psychiatric evaluations.
• 2:05:31
  By the way, I'm not sure if the board is aware that this was not
• 2:05:35
  the first time that one of Miss Woods's children had suffered
• 2:05:39
  from malnourishment. Prior to baby Emmanuel's death.
• 2:05:44
  They had been involved with CPS baby formula and she admitted at
• 2:05:49
  her trial that she needed that the baby needed formula and she
• 2:05:55
  had already gone through this giving a baby watered down mule
• 2:06:00
  with another one of her children.
• 2:06:03
  So it just it doesn't hold water.
• 2:06:06
  But she's not in the aftermath of Katrina.
• 2:06:13
  Ma'am, we're having a lot of computer interference, Hand,
• 2:06:22
  yes. Not now.
• 2:06:27
  I don't have good Internet. I'm sorry.
• 2:06:29
  Can you hear me? Yes.
• 2:06:44
  OK, she's calling him. I think we we.
• 2:06:53
  Got the gist of it. Mr. Fitzgerald, because of the
• 2:06:59
  the computer issue, I think we've got the gist of what you
• 2:07:01
  are communicating. OK.
• 2:07:13
  So thank you very much for your comments and and being with us.
• 2:07:22
  So now, does the panel have any questions, Mr. Balrog?
• 2:07:27
  No questions. Leon answered my questions.
• 2:07:30
  OK. So we've heard from from
• 2:07:35
  everyone. Tiffany, I'd like to give you
• 2:07:37
  one last opportunity to make a statement before the panel would
• 2:07:41
  vote. First and foremost, I will say
• 2:07:47
  thank you for this opportunity. Secondly, I understand that this
• 2:07:54
  crime. It's.
• 2:07:57
  Should have never. Happened, but it did.
• 2:08:01
  I did not intend to. Harm.
• 2:08:06
  My son, he's gone. I cannot get him back.
• 2:08:10
  I wish I could. I told my family apart because
• 2:08:15
  of the decision that I made. There's no excuse and I'm not
• 2:08:19
  sitting here making one. But I can say that I love my
• 2:08:24
  children every last. One of them.
• 2:08:27
  Always did, always will. I was a young mother, yes, but I
• 2:08:33
  at the end of the day, I was still a mother.
• 2:08:36
  I tried my best and sometimes your best is not good enough.
• 2:08:41
  But I can say that I did all that I could have done and the
• 2:08:45
  pertaining to my son's passing, I had a hand into that and I
• 2:08:51
  tore everything apart. And I'm and I, I cannot, I
• 2:08:57
  cannot say that I can't, I can't get it back.
• 2:09:03
  And I wish I could. I wish I can get him back.
• 2:09:07
  But he's. Gone.
• 2:09:10
  But my children that. Remains is still here and I
• 2:09:14
  would love to have a relationship with them outside
• 2:09:20
  of here. I can't say that just because
• 2:09:27
  Katrina happened, that's the excuse.
• 2:09:30
  It's not. But Katrina did happen and I
• 2:09:34
  left because I wanted to save myself and my children.
• 2:09:38
  For. Most I wanted to save them and
• 2:09:42
  again, I can't say nothing else, but I'm not that person that I
• 2:09:51
  was back then. Agree with my son every day.
• 2:10:01
  Thank you, appreciate it. If I may, can I just clarify
• 2:10:06
  just a couple things from my record.
• 2:10:11
  I don't think at this time it would be appropriate.
• 2:10:14
  OK. All right, I'm gonna sign the
• 2:10:20
  case, so I'll get to be the one that wrote first.
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  Before I vote, I do need to acknowledge that you're doing a
• 2:10:26
  good job where you are, that you completed a lot of good
• 2:10:30
  programs, which we didn't get into a whole lot of details
• 2:10:33
  about, but there's a lot of programs you completed that are
• 2:10:35
  very good. You have a low risk on your
• 2:10:38
  Tiger score. You got many letters of support
• 2:10:41
  from friends, family, employees. You are a true first offender.
• 2:10:53
  This is the first crime you ever committed.
• 2:10:56
  And there's no victim opposition.
• 2:11:01
  We have law enforcement opposition, but no victim
• 2:11:03
  opposition. So all of that being said, I'm
• 2:11:08
  going to vote today to grant parole to the Parole Project for
• 2:11:14
  a minimum of one year that you take mental health classes,
• 2:11:18
  substance abuse classes, parenting classes, whatever they
• 2:11:22
  have to offer at the Parole Project.
• 2:11:24
  I want you busy with classes the whole time you're there, or.
• 2:11:29
  A job. Or a job.
• 2:11:31
  And a job said or a job I said. And a job.
• 2:11:35
  So we, we, we want you to be busy.
• 2:11:39
  And that's my vote. Stapleton.
• 2:11:45
  I agree with everything that Mister Barra just said,
• 2:11:51
  everything. And then I saw the pictures of
• 2:11:55
  the baby and then, you know, we heard Leon describe situation
• 2:12:03
  based upon what I saw and what I heard from Leon as reasons why
• 2:12:08
  they indicted you. And you were found guilty of the
• 2:12:13
  crime of second degree murder. You did get life.
• 2:12:18
  And then it was reduced to 36 years, of which you've served
• 2:12:22
  half of 18 of the 36 years. And you've done remarkable,
• 2:12:29
  wonderful things. But because of the condition of
• 2:12:34
  the child and the circumstances that the DA's office described,
• 2:12:40
  I'm not going to be able to grant you parole today.
• 2:12:42
  And extreme law enforcement opposition.
• 2:12:47
  Miss Woods, my vote today is grant parole to the parole
• 2:12:50
  project. You have You pose no risk to
• 2:12:58
  public safety. You have done an excellent job
• 2:13:02
  of rehabilitation. Your conduct has been very good
• 2:13:07
  and your plans for re entering are excellent.
• 2:13:10
  But at this time you needed a unanimous vote.
• 2:13:13
  So today your parole has been denied.
• 2:13:17
  We wish you well. Thank you very much.
• 2:13:19
  And that concludes our business there at LCIW Denied.
• 2:13:32
  So before we go back to court, let me speak here a minute.
• 2:13:38
  Simply Google Tiffany Woods Louisiana and you'll find a
• 2:13:43
  multitude of articles and material on this, some for, some
• 2:13:49
  against. There's a lot going on.
• 2:13:51
  So initially she was found guilty of second degree murder,
• 2:13:56
  which she's still guilty of, but interestingly, second degree
• 2:14:03
  murder, and I'm reading right out of the Louisiana Code right
• 2:14:06
  now, whoever commits the crime of second degree murder shall be
• 2:14:09
  punished to life imprisonment at hard labor without the benefit
• 2:14:12
  of parole. Somehow, Despite that, they
• 2:14:16
  managed to convince this board in 2023 to recommend a
• 2:14:20
  commutation to 36 years, which was apparently agreed upon by
• 2:14:26
  the governor. So she already got a gift that I
• 2:14:30
  don't know how they managed to manipulate in around around the
• 2:14:36
  Louisiana code, but they did. So there you go.
• 2:14:43
  Now, again, there's a lot of material out there for and
• 2:14:45
  against this, this lady. And I'm walking away from this
• 2:14:53
  torn. I know there's a lot of a lot of
• 2:14:56
  unlike for her in the chat and I would tend to agree with that,
• 2:15:03
  but there's probably a little more to this story.
• 2:15:07
  I'm basing it off a little bit of experience.
• 2:15:09
  One of one of the children from my first marriage rejected
• 2:15:17
  almost every formula we threw at him.
• 2:15:22
  Couldn't get anything to work, couldn't get anything to work.
• 2:15:24
  Just constantly throwing stuff up.
• 2:15:26
  Wasn't interested in breast milk, just how do we feed this
• 2:15:30
  child? And it ended up being one
• 2:15:33
  specific soy formula that he could end up tolerating.
• 2:15:40
  And even then it was a lot of throwing it up but not as much.
• 2:15:44
  And it was enough to keep him nourished.
• 2:15:47
  But he was also born a very big baby, so very strong to start
• 2:15:51
  with as well, unlike the preemie here.
• 2:15:57
  So I think at a minimum, what you've got here is somebody
• 2:16:01
  completely uneducated on how to take care of their child at a
• 2:16:04
  minimum, which at that point, at some point in your brain, it has
• 2:16:08
  to kick in. OK, nothing's working.
• 2:16:10
  I need to go seek help and go seek help, which didn't happen
• 2:16:14
  either. So, you know, I think that in my
• 2:16:22
  opinion, I think the fact that she's denied parole is probably
• 2:16:26
  the right call. She didn't do enough to take
• 2:16:30
  care of her child for sure. But there is part of me that
• 2:16:34
  believes that there's more to this story.
• 2:16:36
  Not excusing it, but I think there's a possibility here that
• 2:16:41
  you had a very uneducated person as far as how you can have
• 2:16:46
  feeding difficulties with children who at at best tried to
• 2:16:53
  wing it and didn't seek the help they needed.
• 2:16:57
  Those are just my thoughts on it.
• 2:16:58
  But again, simply Google Tiffany Woods, Louisiana and you'll find
• 2:17:04
  all sorts of material out here on this case, regardless of
• 2:17:08
  regardless of how we got here, you know, 20 years ago, a baby
• 2:17:15
  died and a family's broken apart and none of it's good.
• 2:17:19
  So just my thoughts. Okie, Dokie, all that having
• 2:17:22
  been said back to Texas and Judge Stevens.
• 2:17:28
  And in fact, you plan more intellectually and he, he looks,
• 2:17:34
  it looks far better when you do it, OK.
• 2:17:36
  When? You do the impression, but do
• 2:17:39
  you know where Mr. Burbank is? Do you know where he is?
• 2:17:43
  No Sir, I seen this truck outside so.
• 2:17:46
  You did. Is he in charge?
• 2:17:48
  You seen something else? But he would have told us that
• 2:17:51
  would be the responsible thing to do.
• 2:17:58
  Oh, I see. He filed a motion to withdraw
• 2:18:07
  his counsel. Have you talked to him about
• 2:18:09
  this? I just talked with a it it's in
• 2:18:13
  here, but then it's there's a hold question mark on that and
• 2:18:20
  this is fine back in September, but he and are are you taking
• 2:18:33
  care of the generally this hasn't allowed to are you you've
• 2:18:36
  paid him right? Yeah, I still owe him a little
• 2:18:38
  bit but OK that was was that done because you hadn't paid him
• 2:18:43
  or something That was back in September.
• 2:18:45
  Yeah, but it's The thing is it's still in the file and he didn't
• 2:18:49
  withdraw it for some reason and every time my name came here,
• 2:18:54
  but he was he was here back in December.
• 2:18:57
  Yeah. I think I'd have been twice 29th
• 2:19:00
  and it said Ben, let me tell you, we've got a lot of
• 2:19:06
  resettings. About five years.
• 2:19:08
  Well, we did we it's running out of oh, it's April 21st is when
• 2:19:14
  it was indicted. This is not old, it's ancient
• 2:19:18
  compared to. OK.
• 2:19:21
  But you haven't talked to him about this today?
• 2:19:23
  No. Yesterday I told the office they
• 2:19:25
  said he would be here at this point.
• 2:19:27
  So. Only in their dreams.
• 2:19:33
  Our office doesn't care for me. Our office is not her.
• 2:19:38
  Sure. But it's all.
• 2:19:41
  Right. Well, what I want you to do is,
• 2:19:49
  is stick around for a little bit and see if he shows up.
• 2:19:53
  We're about though to go into a trial, but I can stop it
• 2:19:58
  briefly. And take care of something if we
• 2:20:02
  need, if it's just one matter. But.
• 2:20:05
  This is No it didn't. We're going on.
• 2:20:10
  Five years old and there's no excuse for that.
• 2:20:14
  That we have to fish a cut bait. That's it today.
• 2:20:20
  Well, I mean, I've always been wanted to move forward on it.
• 2:20:23
  Y'all it y'all's issue, not mine.
• 2:20:26
  Yeah. I think it's Mr. Laird.
• 2:20:27
  It looked like it was set before Your Honor, on the trial docket.
• 2:20:29
  I don't know if then Mr. Burbank got on and asked to have it
• 2:20:33
  removed to talk to Mr. Jones, but that's it was set before on
• 2:20:38
  the trial docket a couple times. Yeah.
• 2:20:40
  And then I had a lawyer and he just went missing.
• 2:20:45
  Yeah. So that's how I ended up getting
• 2:20:47
  Mr. Burbank. So, yeah, And see if I can guess
• 2:20:52
  who that might be. It was a guy from Houston.
• 2:20:55
  OK. Yeah.
• 2:20:56
  Yeah, I pulled it. And there it is.
• 2:20:57
  No show of all these I pulled. And there, there it is right
• 2:21:00
  there. He actually didn't show the
• 2:21:03
  court a few times. Well, that's no way to handle
• 2:21:09
  the responsibility of a human life that you have in your
• 2:21:12
  hands. Took my life.
• 2:21:14
  Yes, well, there are ways of dealing with that if you need
• 2:21:17
  to. Yeah, talk to Mr. Burbank.
• 2:21:18
  He'll help you. But let's wait.
• 2:21:20
  We're going to have to go into this trial.
• 2:21:22
  I hate just to hang around, but we're going to try to find him
• 2:21:26
  so that we can get something. Thank you, Regan, very much for
• 2:21:30
  standing in. But step.
• 2:21:35
  Next door. He may be next door.
• 2:21:36
  He has people on the docket, 250 seconds, so maybe he's next.
• 2:21:40
  Door. Well, why?
• 2:21:40
  That's always more important than my report.
• 2:21:43
  Some reason, especially when we've got 602 drives, I think a
• 2:21:50
  little bit you're #12 of the talk is, yeah, how come I'm not?
• 2:22:02
  Surprised. OK.
• 2:22:07
  We're in stronger sense. So sidebar crew, you know, a lot
• 2:22:16
  of a lot of stuff still going on in the chat about that Louisiana
• 2:22:20
  case. Think about it.
• 2:22:22
  Think if this should be at least the basis for our Thursday topic
• 2:22:26
  because we need 1 yet for Thursday.
• 2:22:28
  So think about that because it feels like we could definitely
• 2:22:30
  have a longer discussion on this matter.
• 2:22:34
  Just an idea. Let's go to Florida.
• 2:22:37
  Brantley Clark is doing felony hearings.
• 2:22:40
  Let's see what's going on there. Will be withheld.
• 2:22:44
  Will be on probation for 24 months.
• 2:22:46
  Stipulates to all court costs and funds restitution in the
• 2:22:50
  amount of $200 to Tavon Beaton to serve 100 hours of community
• 2:22:55
  service $20.00 a month cost of supervision.
• 2:22:58
  Will provide ADNA sample forfeit any seized items.
• 2:23:01
  We stipulate to the facts for the purposes of the plea, and
• 2:23:03
  he'll have no contact with Mr. Beaton.
• 2:23:07
  That's the agreement with the state to.
• 2:23:09
  An unlawful use of a two way. All right, so you can lower your
• 2:23:31
  hand and state your name. Jeremiah Ingram.
• 2:23:34
  You just heard the announcement, Miss McLaren, is that correct?
• 2:23:37
  Yes, Sir. Is that your understanding of
• 2:23:39
  the agreement with the state? Yes, Sir.
• 2:23:41
  Has anybody promised you anything different?
• 2:23:43
  No, Sir. Are you under the influence of
• 2:23:44
  any drugs or alcohol this morning which would impair your
• 2:23:46
  ability to enter the agreement? I understand any of the terms
• 2:23:49
  and conditions of it. No, Sir, I've been handed.
• 2:23:51
  A plea waived consent form. There's the front page.
• 2:23:54
  From the second page, the signature of the defendant line.
• 2:23:56
  Is that yours? Yes, Sir.
• 2:23:57
  Have you had the chance to read that agreement?
• 2:23:59
  Yes, Sir. Have you had the opportunity to
• 2:24:01
  go over your case with Miss McLaren?
• 2:24:02
  Yes, Sir. Have you had?
• 2:24:03
  Sufficient time to speak with Miss McLaren about your case?
• 2:24:05
  Yes, Sir. Are you satisfied with your
• 2:24:07
  lawyer's advice and counsel? Yes, Sir.
• 2:24:09
  You understand that being in the plea.
• 2:24:10
  You're waiving your right to go to trial.
• 2:24:12
  You're waiving your right to require the state prove the
• 2:24:14
  allegations against you. Yes, Sir.
• 2:24:16
  You're waiving your right to have your attorney cross examine
• 2:24:17
  the state's witnesses and contest or evidence.
• 2:24:19
  Yes, Sir, You're waiving your right to present any defenses
• 2:24:22
  you may have to the allegations. Yes, Sir, you're waiving your
• 2:24:24
  right to subpoena your own witnesses.
• 2:24:25
  To come to court. And testify on your behalf, yes.
• 2:24:27
  Sir. You're waiving your right to
• 2:24:28
  testify or remain signed at the trial, which would be your
• 2:24:31
  decision to make. Yes, Sir, you're.
• 2:24:33
  Waiving your right to. Appeal anything but an illegal
• 2:24:34
  sentence. Yes, Sir.
• 2:24:35
  Are you doing this the own free will?
• 2:24:37
  Yes. Sir Ingram, do you feel the
• 2:24:38
  police in your best interest? Yes, Sir.
• 2:24:40
  Do you understand if you're not a citizen of the United States,
• 2:24:42
  you may be subjecting yourself to deportation proceedings by
• 2:24:44
  entering the plea. Yes, I understand.
• 2:24:46
  Is is the state of defense aware of any DNA haven't said exists
• 2:24:48
  which might tend to exonerate Mr. Ingram.
• 2:24:51
  You stipulate the promo face your case.
• 2:24:53
  Yes, Sir. Now I need a call sheet also.
• 2:24:57
  I am going to accept the stipulation fine.
• 2:25:00
  There's a problem. Face your case.
• 2:25:01
  I'm going to find out Mr. Ingham Lee was freezing and voluntarily
• 2:25:03
  made after consultation with his attorney.
• 2:25:05
  I'm going to accept it. I'm going to withhold
• 2:25:07
  adjudication or guilt us to the unlawful use of a two way
• 2:25:09
  communication device that'll be placed on a term of probation
• 2:25:12
  not to exceed 24 months in order to pay fines and costs.
• 2:25:16
  And what was that, 1253? There's restitution, the amount
• 2:25:21
  of $200 payable to Ahmad Beaton. He must do 100 hours of
• 2:25:27
  community service work at a minimum of eight hours a month
• 2:25:29
  to the Bay County work program. I'll give the Florida Department
• 2:25:31
  of Corrections that discretion to amend that.
• 2:25:33
  But the directional probation officer, his cost of supervision
• 2:25:36
  will be $20.00 a month. If he's required to give ADNA
• 2:25:38
  sample, he must submit one. He'll forfeit any seized items.
• 2:25:41
  He's to have no contact with the victim or any Co defendants.
• 2:25:45
  Mr. Ingram, you have 30 days to file your notice of appeal if
• 2:25:48
  you wish to appeal your judgment sentence.
• 2:25:49
  If you'd like to have an attorney to represent you can't
• 2:25:51
  afford 11 May be 1 to represent you at no charge.
• 2:25:54
  Good luck to you Sir. You can step over and speak to
• 2:25:56
  the probation officer. Yes, Sir.
• 2:25:58
  Thank you. Yes, Sir, we need a waiver of
• 2:26:08
  extradition. All right.
• 2:26:10
  And you go ahead and sign that. Are you?
• 2:26:56
  I can call you next case the. Next one I have is Matthew.
• 2:26:58
  The lady in case number is 253131 CFMA, Mr. Sullivan, but
• 2:27:06
  we've received discovery on his case and requested deposition
• 2:27:09
  times. All right.
• 2:27:10
  Do we have the deposition set? I don't believe so, but let me
• 2:27:13
  check they. Picked him up then.
• 2:27:19
  Do what? He was in federal hospital.
• 2:27:22
  And. Released from that as well.
• 2:27:28
  We do not have a date. Yeah, I'll follow up on that
• 2:27:30
  today. Are the are the feds you got
• 2:27:33
  federal charges? Yes, they've adopted.
• 2:27:35
  This please. What are we going to do?
• 2:27:38
  Just I thought he was in custody.
• 2:27:40
  I was going to ask for him to be taken off the docket and the
• 2:27:42
  whole place on him. But if he's released on those
• 2:27:44
  charges, then. I guess we got to just.
• 2:27:47
  Keep. Tracking the children.
• 2:27:49
  Can we follow the waiver for him once?
• 2:27:50
  He got out. All right, let's set it for.
• 2:27:54
  Maybe six months from now. Yeah, let's just set it for June
• 2:27:59
  9th at 9:00 and see where they're at next.
• 2:28:09
  One I have is Betsy Godfrey, case number is 251608.
• 2:28:13
  CFNA Mr. White Judge, we brought a restitution check to the State
• 2:28:23
  Attorney's Office in exchange for APTI.
• 2:28:25
  We haven't received the PTI yet, but as soon as we do, we'll get
• 2:28:28
  it centered. Got nothing to do with into
• 2:28:32
  that. Not one thing.
• 2:28:34
  That's not me y'all. Y'all do all that and I don't
• 2:28:37
  even want to hear about it. I'll set it for March 10th and
• 2:28:42
  I'll see what you can do. I don't know what you're doing.
• 2:28:48
  For the record, I didn't get no check.
• 2:28:54
  Judge, I'm covering. For Miss Goldtagen this morning
• 2:28:58
  she has Jesus Casanova case numbers 252584 and 25306. 8 CFMA
• 2:29:04
  All right, I. Believe she has deposition set
• 2:29:09
  for March 9th, so if we could get a date after that.
• 2:29:12
  April 14th. And I believe she's also
• 2:29:15
  handling James Fogle with Mr. Pereira, case numbers 253120 and
• 2:29:22
  253158. I don't believe there's been an
• 2:29:27
  offer made yet. I know he's had victim contact
• 2:29:30
  but. They they took over.
• 2:29:34
  I know we sent Discovery and I'm kind of waiting to see what
• 2:29:36
  we're going to do from. I think you know anything on.
• 2:29:45
  Does she got both cases? I think Mr. Seifert is the
• 2:29:48
  attorney of record on Vogel. On one of them.
• 2:29:51
  OK, you want to. You think you'll know something,
• 2:29:54
  March? Yeah, we'll see what they we'll
• 2:29:56
  see what they want to. Go March 10th at 9:00.
• 2:29:59
  Thank you, Judge. That's.
• 2:30:00
  All I have. We did.
• 2:30:02
  All right, everything's pretty procedural over there at the
• 2:30:04
  moment. Let's head to let's head to
• 2:30:08
  Texas and Judge W reject that again and then.
• 2:30:12
  Go make a trial back. OK.
• 2:30:14
  And I don't think anything's changed.
• 2:30:16
  About the offering. OK.
• 2:30:19
  Right. It's the same offer over your
• 2:30:20
  account it. Looks like previously.
• 2:30:38
  It may have been. To reduce the charge or.
• 2:30:42
  That that's what they were requesting.
• 2:30:45
  That I do have your. Account.
• 2:30:49
  Not anyway. OK, can't read.
• 2:30:53
  It my handwriting I suspect. All right, You're Ava Musgrove.
• 2:30:58
  Yeah, sure. And in clause #25 DCCR 0048,
• 2:31:03
  Miss Musgrove is charged with the first degree felony offense
• 2:31:05
  of murder, and that's from December 29th of 2024.
• 2:31:10
  And what that means, ma'am, we've gone over this before, is
• 2:31:12
  that if you go to trial and you're found guilty, the range
• 2:31:15
  of punishment would be between five years and up to 99 years or
• 2:31:19
  life in prison. Do you understand?
• 2:31:20
  Yes, right. And I have a plea bargain
• 2:31:22
  rejection that you signed here today with Mr. Gertz that shows
• 2:31:26
  that the district attorney's office has made an offer.
• 2:31:28
  If you wanted to enter a plea of guilty for a cap of 30 years in
• 2:31:31
  prison, which means you would be leaving your punishment up to
• 2:31:33
  me, I could give you 30 years. I could give you less.
• 2:31:37
  It would depend on any information that was brought to
• 2:31:39
  me at a sentencing hearing. You have every right to reject
• 2:31:42
  that and have your case set for trial.
• 2:31:44
  I just want to make sure you understand possible consequences
• 2:31:47
  if we go to trial and what your options are and do you
• 2:31:49
  understand all of that? Yeah, sure.
• 2:31:51
  And do you want to reject that offer and have your case set for
• 2:31:54
  trial? Yeah, sure.
• 2:31:55
  All right. And so based on kind of some of
• 2:31:57
  this back and forth, is there any reason to believe anything
• 2:31:59
  would change with regard to that offer?
• 2:32:00
  There we go. So I want to make everyone make
• 2:32:03
  sure everybody's clear that there will not be a plea.
• 2:32:06
  This plea agreement will not be accepted after today.
• 2:32:08
  So it's either trial or a plea to something different,
• 2:32:11
  different unless there's some new evidence that's discovered
• 2:32:15
  that you guys don't have for some reason at this point.
• 2:32:17
  Do you understand? Yeah, sure.
• 2:32:18
  Right. And as far far as you know,
• 2:32:20
  everything's, you have all the discovery and.
• 2:32:23
  As far as I know. OK, you're not waiting on
• 2:32:25
  anything I. Don't know anything.
• 2:32:27
  That's going on. We'll get it set on the next
• 2:32:29
  available trial docket. You can go back with the bailiff
• 2:32:39
  Jerrohaus, you have Marco Gomez. So, Lomez, hold on.
• 2:32:53
  It's a plea. It was going to be, but then the
• 2:32:57
  victim called last minute and he changed that, decided she didn't
• 2:32:59
  want that to say. OK, so I can delete that
• 2:33:03
  registration. I didn't get the rest of it, I
• 2:33:05
  just got the registration. Good morning.
• 2:33:19
  Are you Marco Gomez? Speak up, please.
• 2:33:24
  And this is Bugs number 2136534. And Mr. Gomez is charged with
• 2:33:30
  sexual assault, set for trial to begin with jury selection on
• 2:33:33
  Monday the 23rd. And what is the announcement?
• 2:33:35
  All right. Obviously, this is one of the
• 2:33:39
  oldest ones we've got. And so I would anticipate that
• 2:33:41
  it would be pretty high on the list, if not the top.
• 2:33:43
  Is there anything that you guys need me to know or we need to
• 2:33:47
  discuss before I number those cases today?
• 2:33:51
  No. All right.
• 2:33:52
  Any, it looks like there was a previous rejection back in
• 2:33:57
  November, no changes or to that. That was for 15 years.
• 2:34:03
  That wasn't the offer we rejected judge and we, we had
• 2:34:05
  actually signed paperwork this morning for 8.
• 2:34:07
  After we signed it, I think the claiming witness called Mr.
• 2:34:10
  Smith and and expressed that she did not want that the eight-year
• 2:34:13
  offer and so that was withdrawing so.
• 2:34:16
  OK. We're here back at the product.
• 2:34:18
  All right, So then I'll set it. There won't be any plea
• 2:34:21
  agreements after today. If Mr. Gomez, if you change your
• 2:34:25
  mind and want to enter a plea of guilty, would be open to the
• 2:34:27
  Fort or to some other number other than that 15, Is that
• 2:34:30
  where y'all are at 15? That's where we're going to.
• 2:34:32
  Change. OK, All right, then I'll set it
• 2:34:34
  and we'll probably see y'all at 1:00 on the 23rd.
• 2:34:37
  You can go back with the Bay list.
• 2:34:42
  I have. Willie Few.
• 2:34:43
  Yeah. I just need a reset on that he's
• 2:34:46
  looking to hire in his own room. Let's get Mr. Pugh, Willie.
• 2:34:49
  Pugh, Willie. Well.
• 2:35:19
  Thank you, Judge, for fitting the detective list.
• 2:35:22
  Yeah. Yeah, no promise.
• 2:35:27
  All right. Are you Willie Pugh?
• 2:35:28
  And this is 25 DCCR 1835. Mr. Pugh's charged with unlawful
• 2:35:33
  possession of a firearm by a felon.
• 2:35:35
  Mr. Pugh, Mr. Rojas has let me know that you're you or your
• 2:35:39
  family are trying to hire a lawyer.
• 2:35:40
  Is that correct? So are you asking me to reset
• 2:35:43
  your case a little bit to let y'all do that?
• 2:35:45
  So what I'm going to do is about a 30 day reset, which is a
• 2:35:48
  normal reset. If y'all get someone hired,
• 2:35:50
  they'll do the paperwork to substitute in.
• 2:35:53
  If for some reason you're unable to hire someone, Mr. Rojas is
• 2:35:56
  still your attorney will remain on your case.
• 2:35:59
  And when we come back at that 30 days, if you haven't been able
• 2:36:02
  to get one, then we'll need to move forward with Mr. Rojas.
• 2:36:04
  OK. All right.
• 2:36:05
  You can go back with the bailiff.
• 2:36:06
  Thank you, Mr. Rojas. You've got Brian Trejo.
• 2:36:10
  We've already taken care to that.
• 2:36:12
  Unless you want to reconsider. I'm good.
• 2:36:13
  Thanks. Forgot.
• 2:36:21
  Oh, this Robert. Well, we had him come back to do
• 2:36:23
  the registrations. I was wondering why that was
• 2:36:26
  Here. Let me get those out of my queue
• 2:36:28
  to. I don't think so.
• 2:36:36
  I just. We just needed them here, I
• 2:36:37
  think who said who was his attorney?
• 2:36:56
  So that's a good news. Let's see Mr. Salinas on Carlos
• 2:37:00
  Rodriguez one second. Let me ask this French.
• 2:37:05
  Sure, she she's proud. At least she was 8 minutes.
• 2:37:13
  Mr. Wilkerson, Mr. Patrick, and then.
• 2:37:18
  OK, you. Swear.
• 2:37:19
  Let's see, Mr. Gertz, you have Giovanni Coleman.
• 2:37:22
  I do. Judge.
• 2:37:24
  Giovanni Coleman. Did you hear the how relaxed it
• 2:37:32
  is in here? I'm usually thinking usually in
• 2:37:36
  Harris County is fine you show up if you want you don't.
• 2:37:39
  But it's weird besides really. Guess because I've been maybe so
• 2:37:48
  far. Anyway, good morning.
• 2:37:58
  You're Giovanni Pullman. And this is 25 BCCR 0479 Mr.
• 2:38:03
  Coleman's charged with murder. Mr. Gersh, what is the
• 2:38:06
  announcement? Judge, we're going to ask for
• 2:38:07
  one additional resetting. We've there's a number of
• 2:38:11
  reports and videos in this case that involves I would say pretty
• 2:38:16
  hyper technical cell phone and block evidence.
• 2:38:20
  So block evidence is photographic evidence.
• 2:38:23
  We'll have to talk. Thank you.
• 2:38:26
  Sorry, is this your first day? It's my first day.
• 2:38:30
  It's not my first day but I appreciate that.
• 2:38:35
  I apologize. That's.
• 2:38:35
  OK. So sorry either way that a lot
• 2:38:39
  of the mapping and location and work that was done here just
• 2:38:43
  need some additional review in my opinion.
• 2:38:45
  And so and then we we were able to find very recently a
• 2:38:49
  Ballistics report that was not labeled Ballistics report.
• 2:38:52
  It was labeled like F-25 and didn't have any content and so
• 2:38:57
  anyway. So I'll do.
• 2:38:58
  I'm gonna do one more. It looks like you have been on
• 2:39:00
  since May 2nd, so it's getting time for an announcement.
• 2:39:04
  I'll do another reset, but we need to see if we could get an
• 2:39:07
  announcement at that next four day.
• 2:39:09
  OK, good. Thank you.
• 2:39:10
  Chuck, Stay in touch with Stay in touch.
• 2:39:11
  He'll stay in touch with you. She'll tell me you've got me
• 2:39:14
  thrown off now. Ronald wait till the steps hits
• 2:39:18
  Ronald's fight. I need a couple minutes for that
• 2:39:20
  judge. I'm gonna be asking for more
• 2:39:22
  time on that, so if you want to call them out.
• 2:39:24
  I mean, I can get it done if that's what.
• 2:39:26
  I can do that, I just need to talk.
• 2:39:27
  To them too, so. Fights, we can ask them to keep
• 2:39:31
  them for a second after it's me. Good morning, Sir.
• 2:39:44
  You're Ronald Spikes. This is 25 BCCR 0920.
• 2:39:49
  Mr. Spikes is charged with manslaughter.
• 2:39:51
  And Mr. Garth, what's the announcement?
• 2:39:53
  Judge, we're asking the court for one additional resetting on
• 2:39:55
  this. I need to sit down with him and
• 2:39:57
  just haven't had a chance to talk in detail enough about the
• 2:40:00
  allegations here and the evidence that they have provided
• 2:40:03
  us, which we, I believe downloaded everything that that
• 2:40:07
  has been uploaded. OK, anything that you know of
• 2:40:10
  that you're waiting on? All right.
• 2:40:11
  So, Mr. Spice, what I'm going to do is Reese, now that Mister
• 2:40:14
  Gurds has everything, he'll be out there, I'm sure to go over
• 2:40:16
  all of the information and discovery that he's received.
• 2:40:19
  And then we'll see where we are the next court date.
• 2:40:21
  OK. Thank you.
• 2:40:25
  Miss Holmes, you've got Tristan Calhoun for sentencing.
• 2:40:36
  And thank you for taking care of Mr. Lowe.
• 2:40:38
  And it's me all set. Good
• 2:41:08
  morning, Sir. You're Tristan Calhoun and Mr.
• 2:41:11
  Calhoun was previously import. Enter pleas if guilty in clause
• 2:41:15
  numbers 25, BCCR 1216 and 1217. I've received the pre sentence
• 2:41:20
  report as well as it looks like 2 memos from probation that were
• 2:41:25
  follow follow-ups to that report.
• 2:41:27
  Have you all had an opportunity to review all of that?
• 2:41:31
  Are there any additions or corrections to that pre sentence
• 2:41:33
  report? The only correction we had was
• 2:41:37
  under the substance abuse history.
• 2:41:40
  I believe that they on their alcohol data perfusions, it
• 2:41:43
  should have been 18-19 years old, not eight or nine years
• 2:41:46
  old. Oh.
• 2:41:46
  OK. Yes, ma'am, but that was the
• 2:41:49
  only correction. OK, thank you.
• 2:41:52
  Anything Judge? Just like the record to the flag
• 2:41:55
  that my office made multiple attempts via a regular victim of
• 2:42:01
  contact letter with both of the complainants in these cases in
• 2:42:05
  order to try to obtain a restitution amount via that
• 2:42:09
  letter via a restitution request form.
• 2:42:11
  And then was able to work with Miss Roach who who did some
• 2:42:16
  investigation on it. And we have an investigator to
• 2:42:18
  find different numbers for those young ladies.
• 2:42:21
  They were able to reach out to them and have them call to the
• 2:42:24
  probation department. As of this time, unless it's
• 2:42:27
  somewhere in the paper sphere, I don't have a restitution amount
• 2:42:33
  from them. I understand their concerns that
• 2:42:35
  they voice, but I believe that the offer was appropriate based
• 2:42:39
  upon his lack of criminal history and the severity was
• 2:42:43
  which the court can punish him. On any type.
• 2:42:45
  Of replication. I don't know how, Your Honor, we
• 2:42:48
  feel about ISF. Based on his.
• 2:42:50
  Age, But I would suggest maybe at least considering the
• 2:42:56
  positive tract of ISF and your and I have spoken with Mr.
• 2:43:00
  Calhoun in regards, I told them there could be restitution in
• 2:43:03
  the future if anything is provided.
• 2:43:06
  Well, if it's not ordered today, there will not be any.
• 2:43:09
  So that's why they attempt to get all that information.
• 2:43:13
  And it sounds like the district attorney's office and the
• 2:43:15
  probation offices made a diligent attempt to try to get
• 2:43:18
  any number. And so there's no coming back
• 2:43:22
  later for restitution. So we'll just have to go forward
• 2:43:25
  without that. So, Mr. Calhoun, I'm going to
• 2:43:29
  find in each of your cases that you enter to please the guilty
• 2:43:32
  freely and voluntarily and in cause #25 DCCR 1216, find
• 2:43:38
  sufficient evidence to find you guilty.
• 2:43:40
  However, I'm going to follow the agreement that you made with the
• 2:43:42
  District Attorney's office and defer all proceedings and place
• 2:43:45
  you on probation for seven years to be ordered to pay a $500 fine
• 2:43:50
  and to follow all of the rules and conditions of probation.
• 2:43:52
  And I'll go over some of those in just a few minutes.
• 2:43:55
  And then it cause #25 DCCR 1217 also find sufficient evidence to
• 2:44:00
  find you guilty. However, I'm going to follow
• 2:44:02
  that agreement and defer all proceedings and place you on
• 2:44:04
  probation for seven years. You'll be ordered to pay a $500
• 2:44:08
  fine. In that case is filed to follow
• 2:44:10
  all of the rules and conditions of probation.
• 2:44:13
  I am going to order that you enter and successfully complete
• 2:44:18
  the JCDI program. It's an outpatient treatment
• 2:44:20
  program. That's what was recommended
• 2:44:22
  after that substance abuse assessment was done.
• 2:44:25
  I'm not going to order any further upfront or ISF.
• 2:44:29
  I think you're 28 or 2928. OK.
• 2:44:32
  You, this seems very, very out of character for you and this
• 2:44:37
  was a terrible day and what you did was terrible and effects at
• 2:44:40
  least one of these ladies had some some significant issues and
• 2:44:44
  probably will forever. But based on this, but I mean,
• 2:44:49
  you have no criminal history. And so we're going to get you
• 2:44:52
  the help you need and hopefully you can be successful on
• 2:44:54
  probation and not have any issues.
• 2:44:57
  So what that means is it you don't have felony convictions on
• 2:45:01
  your record right now. And if you successfully complete
• 2:45:04
  these probations, at the end, the case will be dismissed, both
• 2:45:07
  of them. You'll never have a felony
• 2:45:08
  conviction. So it's a great opportunity that
• 2:45:10
  you're getting today. The other side of that and part
• 2:45:13
  of what Miss Mulcino was stating is that if you violate any
• 2:45:18
  addition of your probation, you can be brought back into court.
• 2:45:21
  And then I could find you guilty of both of the offense and
• 2:45:24
  sentence you to prison for between two years and up to 20
• 2:45:26
  years and present. Do you understand?
• 2:45:28
  Yes, ma'am. So I'm handing you in each of
• 2:45:30
  your cases the trial court certifications that shows these
• 2:45:33
  were agreements that I followed. And so you have waived your
• 2:45:35
  right to appeal probation. I'll talk to you before you
• 2:45:39
  leave the courtroom today. It's very important that the
• 2:45:41
  first thing you do when you are released is there the probation
• 2:45:44
  office to make sure you get everything started and lined up
• 2:45:46
  with them. All right.
• 2:45:47
  Yes ma'am. Sorry, just if I may so the
• 2:45:50
  record reflex and in the instance that anybody is
• 2:45:53
  observing, of course, I would not hesitate at all to put those
• 2:45:59
  victims in contact with victims assistance for on victims
• 2:46:02
  compensation based on these pleas.
• 2:46:04
  I think that would be an Ave. that we can travel down in that.
• 2:46:07
  I don't want this to obstruct that, but I understand the
• 2:46:10
  restitution about I did not have some sure and there are
• 2:46:13
  definitely some avenues if they get in touch with the District
• 2:46:16
  attorney's office that might could help them with some of
• 2:46:19
  that. OK, thank you.
• 2:46:20
  Miss Malpina, you can go back with the thank you.
• 2:46:22
  Be careful. OK, let's change it up a little
• 2:46:29
  bit. Let's go back to Michigan, but
• 2:46:31
  let's see what's going on with Judge Mertz.
• 2:46:33
  All right, Mr. Ackerman, are you able to hear me?
• 2:46:37
  OK. Yes, I can.
• 2:46:40
  OK. And looks like we have everybody
• 2:46:43
  else connected, so we'll go on the record in people versus
• 2:46:47
  Travis Ackerman. This is file number 245312.
• 2:46:51
  The record should reflect that. Mister Ackerman is appearing
• 2:46:54
  today by video from Crawford County Jail.
• 2:46:57
  And we have Mr. Thompson here appearing on behalf of Mr.
• 2:47:01
  Ackerman for purposes of arraignment today by Zoom.
• 2:47:05
  We also have Mr. McFall, the present by Zoom, the probation
• 2:47:07
  agent, Mr. Ackerman, here before the court today for arraignment.
• 2:47:11
  On. Alleged two alleged probation
• 2:47:14
  violations. Do you understand why you're
• 2:47:16
  before the report today? I I believe so, yes.
• 2:47:21
  OK. I was talking, I talked to Jason
• 2:47:23
  Thompson earlier today, so. OK, good.
• 2:47:27
  All right. Mr. Thompson, did you have an
• 2:47:30
  adequate opportunity to speak to Mr. Ackerman?
• 2:47:33
  I did OK Were you able to go over Mr. Ackerman's rights with
• 2:47:40
  regard to the alleged violations and maximum penalties and so
• 2:47:43
  forth? Yes.
• 2:47:46
  I do want to make a this for the record did this when it was
• 2:47:51
  filed. It was a technical but based
• 2:47:54
  upon beyond. 60. Days and that would make this
• 2:47:56
  now and non-technical for failing to report.
• 2:48:00
  OK. All right.
• 2:48:03
  So Mr. Ackerman, what that means is that if you are found guilty
• 2:48:07
  of the alleged violation in this case, because it's a
• 2:48:10
  non-technical violation, it could subject you to the maximum
• 2:48:14
  possible penalty on your underlying charge, which is
• 2:48:16
  possession of methamphetamine. That's 10 years.
• 2:48:19
  Do you understand that? Yeah.
• 2:48:22
  OK, Mr. Thompson, were you able to discuss how Mr. Ackerman
• 2:48:27
  wanted to plead today? Yes, Your Honor, I think Mr.
• 2:48:31
  Ackerman disputes the original charge.
• 2:48:36
  However, I believe he would admit that he did not attend the
• 2:48:38
  hearing on the 10th and that he has not reported since October.
• 2:48:45
  OK, so. Do we want to enter a plea today
• 2:48:52
  as to the new allegations? Yes, I would regress.
• 2:48:58
  If he if he pled to the count 1 on the new allegation of failing
• 2:49:03
  to report on 10/1/2020 5:00 that's which is a non-technical
• 2:49:07
  violation. I would just dismiss the
• 2:49:10
  original charges in long with the.
• 2:49:14
  You know, feeling. If you if he pled to the new
• 2:49:16
  violations, I guess is what I'm saying is a non-technical.
• 2:49:19
  I would dismiss the ones from back that we originally filed.
• 2:49:24
  I did do some follow up, you know, without Siegel County and
• 2:49:28
  they still have not charged him criminally there yet.
• 2:49:31
  And I reached. Out to the trooper today and he
• 2:49:33
  was going to do some more investigating on that, but I
• 2:49:35
  would dismiss that violation, judge if he played on the new
• 2:49:38
  one. Which is all right.
• 2:49:41
  Mr. Ackerman, is that did you wish to plead guilty here today?
• 2:49:47
  I guess I'm a little bit confused.
• 2:49:48
  I, I don't I don't understand what like on my my charges.
• 2:49:52
  OK. So if, if I I really need to to
• 2:49:57
  I feel like I really would like to talk to Jason more on that
• 2:50:00
  before. I mean, if that's the case,
• 2:50:01
  because like if if the original charges are dropped, then the
• 2:50:06
  violations for not showing up the court are for those charges,
• 2:50:09
  correct? That's correct.
• 2:50:13
  So. So those are dropped Judge.
• 2:50:15
  He also didn't report. I mean, he, he, he hasn't been
• 2:50:17
  reporting. There's more to it.
• 2:50:21
  I reported. I reported up until up until I I
• 2:50:24
  I got those charges that are going to get dropped.
• 2:50:27
  Trent, she got out of jail, got out of jail on September 17th.
• 2:50:30
  I gave you a reporting day of October 1st and I have not seen
• 2:50:33
  you since. I, I was, I was reporting over
• 2:50:37
  in, in Bel Air County to, to John Morley's where I was being
• 2:50:40
  reported to which I had no problems with none of that
• 2:50:43
  stuff. And then those the the charges
• 2:50:45
  of the charges of of of non reporting, please contact which
• 2:50:50
  I did report, please contact to John Morley over in Bel Air.
• 2:50:55
  And that was what my that's what that was my violation was was
• 2:50:58
  not reporting to that and possession of of of drugs that I
• 2:51:01
  didn't have possession of on on on the date that the trooper
• 2:51:05
  that he said he talked to the trooper Cody Dole.
• 2:51:07
  Cody Dole made me call my probation officer before I was
• 2:51:10
  able to make another phone call on the side of the road with
• 2:51:14
  with Mr. Ashford. Just hold on one second.
• 2:51:16
  Mr. Thompson, are you representing Mr. Ackerman As for
• 2:51:21
  this hearing today? Yes, I'm sorry.
• 2:51:24
  Do you want him to go into this stuff, Mr. Thompson?
• 2:51:27
  No, I I think we probably need to set it at this point, Your
• 2:51:30
  Honor. All right.
• 2:51:32
  You know, I mean, I guess I would appreciate your your
• 2:51:35
  representing Mr. Ackerman as his counsel here for purposes of
• 2:51:39
  this hearing. I feel like maybe you need to
• 2:51:42
  step in and stop him from making statements like he's making on
• 2:51:46
  the record. Right.
• 2:51:52
  I apologize, Your Honor. You don't have to apologize to
• 2:51:55
  me. I mean, I'm trying.
• 2:51:56
  To look out for your rights. I don't know why Mr. Thompson
• 2:51:58
  isn't stopping me. Well, I guess is my question,
• 2:52:01
  but that's up to him, I guess. So, Mr. Ackerman, it sounds like
• 2:52:07
  you do want to contest the allegations, which is fine.
• 2:52:11
  And you have the right to have a hearing as to whether or not you
• 2:52:14
  violated your probation. And so we will set this for a
• 2:52:18
  hearing and you'll have an opportunity.
• 2:52:22
  Mr. Thompson, did Mr. Ackerman request court appointed council?
• 2:52:26
  I was appointed on the original violation, Your Honor, so that
• 2:52:30
  would continue, OK. So.
• 2:52:33
  Mr. Ackerman, you'll have a chance to go through that with
• 2:52:35
  Mr. Thompson prior to the next hearing and then and then we'll
• 2:52:41
  see where we go from there. So the court will set that for a
• 2:52:44
  hearing. I'm going to try and get this on
• 2:52:48
  for next week. I have a date there a week from
• 2:52:54
  today in Crawford County, so I'm going to try and get it set for
• 2:52:57
  that date in terms of bond pending that hearing.
• 2:53:00
  Mr. Mcdelda, do you have any recommendations?
• 2:53:04
  Judge I just, you know, we set bond at 10,000 cash surety back
• 2:53:07
  on September 15th of 2025. Posted that two days later.
• 2:53:13
  I had not seen him since. So I I guess I don't know what
• 2:53:17
  kind of bond would be said. I would speak something higher
• 2:53:19
  than than what's already been said.
• 2:53:20
  Judge All right, Thank you, Mr. Thompson.
• 2:53:25
  Your Honor, I, I understand there's some allegations of
• 2:53:29
  issues with appearance here. Mr. Ackerman has strong local
• 2:53:33
  ties and he has family in the community.
• 2:53:34
  I'd ask the court to set a reasonable bond.
• 2:53:36
  Thank you. All right, given the nature of
• 2:53:39
  the underlying charges, the fact that Mister Ackerman did not
• 2:53:44
  appear for a court hearing back in October and apparently has
• 2:53:50
  not been heard from since, the court is going to set on in the
• 2:53:54
  amount of $5000 cash or surety with all standard conditions of
• 2:53:59
  bond and all terms and conditions of probation.
• 2:54:02
  The court will again set this for a hearing next week and
• 2:54:06
  we'll go forward at that time. Mr. McFall, anything further for
• 2:54:10
  the record here today? So just let Mr. Ackerman know
• 2:54:14
  yet again, if, if you post bond, you are to report to probation,
• 2:54:18
  not just that day, but following subsequent to that, the dates
• 2:54:22
  that I give you. Absolutely and.
• 2:54:25
  I just want to make the court aware, Judge I I am leaving on
• 2:54:28
  vacation here starting the Thursday of this week.
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  I will not be here on the 17th, but I'll try to make
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  arrangements to have whatever ready to go for whatever.
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  Hearing we may or. May not have on that date.
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  OK. Thank you.
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  Mr. Thompson, anything further from your side today?
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  No. OK.
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  All right. Thank you.
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  That's all for this hearing. I'll well, that was interesting
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  just to listen to the judge get on the defense attorney for not
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  doing his job. Let's go back to Judge West.
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  You're James Gluttony? Yes, ma'am.
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  And Miss Holmes, will your client waive the formal reading
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  of the indictments? Yes, sure.
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  Mr. Glottony and clause #25 DCCR 0736, you're charged with a
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  third degree felony offense, a failure to comply with sex
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  offender registration requirements, and that's from
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  March 5th of 2025. And how do you plead to that
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  charge? I.
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  Guess guilty. Well, there's no, I guess either
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  you did it or didn't do it. So are you guilty or not guilty?
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  Are you entering your plea of guilty freely and voluntarily?
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  Answer out loud, please. Yes.
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  Did anybody force you to plead guilty today?
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  No. OK, I have here on the tablet
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  some documents that have your signature on them that the state
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  has marked as exhibit #1. Before you sign these, did you
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  go over them with Miss Holmes? Yes.
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  Do you fully understand them? Yes.
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  And do you understand if I follow the agreement that you've
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  made with the District Attorney that you'll be waiving or giving
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  up any right to appeal? Yes.
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  Do you also understand if you're not AUS citizen, that a plea of
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  guilty or no contest may result in your deportation, exclusion
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  from admission to the country, or denial of naturalization
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  under federal law? Yes.
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  State tenders #1 no objection, it's admitted.
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  Is there any evidence that Mister Gwartney is not
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  competent? No, you aren't.
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  All right, Sir, I'm going to find that you enter your plea of
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  guilty freely and voluntarily. Find that you're mentally
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  competent and you understand the nature and the consequences of
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  your plea. Find sufficient evidence to find
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  you guilty and at this time find you guilty of failure to comply
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  with sex offender registration requirements.
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  Sentence you in accordance with your agreement to a term of two
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  years in the institutional division of the Texas Department
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  of Corrections. You will receive credit on that
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  sentence for any time that you've been in custody that the
• 2:57:04
  law gives you the right to receive.
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  I've handed you the trial court certification that shows that
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  this was an agreement that I followed.
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  So you weighed your right to appeal.
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  I also handed you a written admonishment regarding your
• 2:57:17
  ineligibility to possess a firearm or ammunition.
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  Because of the judgment entered against you, you're ineligible
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  under Texas law to possess a firearm or ammunition.
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  Possession of a firearm or ammunition could lead to charges
• 2:57:30
  against you. If you have questions about the
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  laws that make you ineligible to possess a firearm or ammunition,
• 2:57:36
  or about how long that lasts, you can talk with Miss Holmes.
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  All right. Good luck to you, Sir.
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  You can go back with the bailiff.
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  Can I ask you one question? Sure.
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  Whenever I was brought back from Oklahoma, I had six months left
• 2:57:50
  on my 3 year sentence. They sentenced me to ISF until
• 2:57:56
  discharge. Why was this charge that is
• 2:58:02
  being brought up on me now not brought up on me while I was
• 2:58:07
  being incarcerated back in ISF for the last six months?
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  How would you think I would know that information?
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  I have no idea. I have no idea.
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  I I mean, I I have gone over the time frame with him.
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  From what he told me, the time frame that he was in ISF was
• 2:58:24
  after this case was filed. The case has been indicted over
• 2:58:28
  60. Yeah.
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  I don't know. I don't know why that didn't
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  happen, Sir. I'm not sure if it.
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  Was supposedly filed in June of 24 and I was arrested in 25.
• 2:58:42
  These charges are from March of 2025, Sir, and you just pled
• 2:58:47
  guilty to that and it's done. You got your two years.
• 2:58:50
  You can go back with the bailiff, OK, I don't know the
• 2:58:52
  answers to those questions. I'm.
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  Still. What's my?
• 2:59:00
  Name. It is.
• 2:59:07
  I just thought I just missed my mom.
• 2:59:19
  Mr. Lewis. OK, you've got Michael Marilla.
• 2:59:24
  Let me give give me just a second on that one.
• 2:59:26
  It's going to take a minute. Let me see if I've got something
• 2:59:29
  quick to take care of. Here, then, let's take care of.
• 2:59:36
  That and. What about Joshua Smith?
• 2:59:39
  I thought that Mr. Smith, and we're going to.
• 2:59:43
  Need or we sit on him. Jail if needed.
• 2:59:46
  They got his criminal history OK.
• 2:59:48
  We're going to reach that Joshua Smith.
• 2:59:51
  I'll give you all some time to get that checked on.
• 2:59:53
  OK, here we go with I don't know if this one
• 3:00:07
  wouldn't be this year. 123456 indictments that I've thought.
• 3:00:18
  I just think it would be easier probably if you start printing
• 3:00:20
  from the back start written from 1517 and I'll start printing
• 3:00:26
  from the top and then we'll a song just came into my mind.
• 3:00:32
  We'll meet in the middle. I'll spare everything in From
• 3:00:40
  the Ashes and I'll just sing it in my head and.
• 3:01:05
  OK friends. Well, she's kind of hit a lag in
• 3:01:07
  the action. I looked through my other court
• 3:01:09
  feeds and there's not much going on there and we're only a couple
• 3:01:12
  of minutes before I need to call it a day.
• 3:01:14
  So I think we're just going to go ahead and call it a day.
• 3:01:16
  Again, apologies for 4th hour today, but I have other fish
• 3:01:20
  that are in desperate need of frying.
• 3:01:23
  But we will be back tonight. 8:00 PM Eastern, 5:00 PM Pacific
• 3:01:26
  for Sidebar. Be sure to join us that it will
• 3:01:29
  be fun. We're going to talk about
• 3:01:30
  showing up in court drunk because we saw that the other
• 3:01:33
  day in Judge Mcnally's court, and it's not the first time that
• 3:01:36
  we've seen it and it won't be the last.
• 3:01:38
  So that will be the impetus for our discussion.
• 3:01:41
  And then at some point it will devolve into food or something
• 3:01:44
  like that, because that's what we do on sidebar.
• 3:01:46
  We talk and we have fun. And of course, I'll be back
• 3:01:50
  tomorrow for this show. 9:00 AM Eastern, 6:00 AM Pacific. 1/2 an
• 3:01:53
  hour earlier if you were a channel member.
• 3:01:56
  Do go have yourselves a good Tuesday and we'll see you soon.
• 3:01:58
  Take care, God bless.