Latest / Reality with The King / Not Guilty, "Okurrr!": Cardi B’s Case Breakdown with Eboni K Williams
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Reality with the King is hosted by me, Carlos King.
- 0:07Speaker 1: I'm an executive producer who have produced some of your
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- 0:27Speaker 1: addition to celebrity guests, whether in the unscripted space or
- 0:31Speaker 1: scripted as well. Hey, rain drops on today's episode Reality
- 0:39Speaker 1: with the King, I am back with Ebie k Williams,
- 0:42Speaker 1: the legal ego, easy Expert, all the things.
- 0:47Speaker 2: She has been such a source of information for us.
- 0:51Speaker 2: And listen, this trial we are going to talk about,
- 0:55Speaker 2: in addition to the verdict that was reached is a
- 0:58Speaker 2: pop culture sensation because because it involved a hip hop
- 1:02Speaker 2: sensation and a pop star and all the things by
- 1:05Speaker 2: the name of Carti B and Ebony is gonna break
- 1:09Speaker 2: down the case with us because this has been like
- 1:12Speaker 2: eight years in the making or seven years maybe.
- 1:16Speaker 3: Yeah it was this so happened in two thy twenty
- 1:20Speaker 3: I think or twenty nineteen and then yeah, fou and
- 1:25Speaker 3: now we finally five six years later, we finally have
- 1:27Speaker 3: a judgment.
- 1:28Speaker 4: Which is insane.
- 1:30Speaker 2: So I did not know Carti even had to go
- 1:34Speaker 2: to trial for something like this. So Ebany, can you
- 1:37Speaker 2: explain to us exactly what happened, because one thing I
- 1:42Speaker 2: would like to say is this Carti b was on
- 1:46Speaker 2: trial for an incident that occurred in twenty eighteen. She
- 1:54Speaker 2: was accused of assaulting a security guard. And this case,
- 2:00Speaker 2: like we said, finally happened seven years later.
- 2:05Speaker 4: Abony, what are the details, honey?
- 2:07Speaker 5: So so much to go into.
- 2:08Speaker 3: So I want to start with the framing of what
- 2:11Speaker 3: this trial was and what it wasn't. Carlos, So let's
- 2:14Speaker 3: be clear, right drops, this was not a criminal trial.
- 2:17Speaker 3: There was nothing criminal at stake, Okay. So this was
- 2:21Speaker 3: the police officers weren't involved, none of that. This is
- 2:24Speaker 3: what we call a civil matter, okay. So this goes
- 2:28Speaker 3: back to all my legal legals law students, pera legals
- 2:31Speaker 3: legal assistant. This is a torts claim, okay, which is
- 2:35Speaker 3: a class we take. Don't you just love going to
- 2:37Speaker 3: law school with abide k Williams.
- 2:39Speaker 4: You don't obsessed with you?
- 2:42Speaker 5: This is just a time for back to school, Carlos.
- 2:46Speaker 4: Look about outfit.
- 2:48Speaker 3: I let's say you got your little back to school
- 2:49Speaker 3: polo on. Yeah, we're not gonna do the same. So yes,
- 2:54Speaker 3: So this is a tort, which we learned about our
- 2:57Speaker 3: very first year of law school. Torts can also be crimes,
- 3:02Speaker 3: So this.
- 3:02Speaker 5: Is where it could be confusing.
- 3:03Speaker 3: Right, So when you normally hear assault and battery, we
- 3:06Speaker 3: normally think of the criminal justice system, right, we think
- 3:08Speaker 3: about somebody getting arrested and potentially going to jail or
- 3:12Speaker 3: probation for committing an assault or battery, a harmful touching
- 3:16Speaker 3: of another. Right, But then there's a torte version of
- 3:19Speaker 3: all of those same things, Carlos. So we know in
- 3:22Speaker 3: this case, Cartie was on trial for allegations that she
- 3:26Speaker 3: committed tortes, which are civil wrongs. That's what a tort is,
- 3:30Speaker 3: a civil wrong. They can include and did in this
- 3:32Speaker 3: case include assault, battery, emotional infliction of emotional intentional infliction
- 3:39Speaker 3: rather of emotional distress, also negligence and all kinds of things.
- 3:47Speaker 4: And so the judge or.
- 3:50Speaker 3: Jury in this matter, in this case it was a
- 3:52Speaker 3: jury gets to decide there's not a guilt or innocence.
- 3:55Speaker 5: That's something else I want to clear up.
- 3:56Speaker 3: So she was never going to be found guilty, and
- 3:59Speaker 3: she was never going to be found not guilty because
- 4:01Speaker 3: that doesn't apply to civil cases.
- 4:04Speaker 5: You're either found liable or not liable.
- 4:08Speaker 3: This is important difference, Carlos, because it's a different burden
- 4:11Speaker 3: of proof when we're talking about criminal matters where somebody
- 4:14Speaker 3: must be found guilty.
- 4:16Speaker 5: I know you know this. The standard of proof is
- 4:17Speaker 5: what beyond a reasonable doubt.
- 4:20Speaker 3: So that means it needs to be proven at a
- 4:22Speaker 3: very high likelihood, more reasonable than not that you absolutely,
- 4:27Speaker 3: in fact not more reasonable than that. Excuse me, I
- 4:29Speaker 3: mispoke ray drops beyond a reasonable doubt. So you have
- 4:33Speaker 3: to be so thought to be guilty by the evidence,
- 4:36Speaker 3: by the testimony by the forensics, that no reasonable doubt
- 4:40Speaker 3: can exist to your guilt.
- 4:42Speaker 5: Period.
- 4:42Speaker 3: That's the bar, and it's that high, Carlos, because people's
- 4:45Speaker 3: lives are on the line, jail execution in some states.
- 4:51Speaker 3: That's a high bar. Totally different standard of proof in
- 4:54Speaker 3: a civil matter. You only have to be believed to
- 4:57Speaker 3: be responsible for the things you're accused of. We call
- 5:00Speaker 3: it fifty one percent more reasonable than not, more probable
- 5:05Speaker 3: than not that you did it. So that's why a
- 5:07Speaker 3: lot of times rain drops you'll see people bring a
- 5:09Speaker 3: civil case instead of a criminal case, right because they
- 5:13Speaker 3: could be argued, madam security guard, if you were so
- 5:17Speaker 3: injured and so distressed and so traumatized by this so
- 5:21Speaker 3: called scar and finger nail cut or what have you,
- 5:25Speaker 3: why not call the cops, Why not have Cardio arrested?
- 5:29Speaker 3: Why not, you know, pursue it in a criminal court?
- 5:32Speaker 3: That's what oftentimes people say.
- 5:33Speaker 5: Right.
- 5:34Speaker 3: Oftentimes, Carlos is not pursued criminally because there's not enough evidence.
- 5:38Speaker 3: There's not enough to reach that high burden of proof
- 5:41Speaker 3: of beyond a reasonable doubt. So you bring that burden
- 5:44Speaker 3: of proof down to more probable than not, and we
- 5:48Speaker 3: find ourselves in civil court.
- 5:49Speaker 5: Does that make sense?
- 5:51Speaker 4: No, it makes a lot of sense.
- 5:52Speaker 2: Wow, Because the thing that was so confusing to me,
- 5:55Speaker 2: which is why I'm glad you cleared it up, is
- 5:58Speaker 2: although the former security guard alleged that Cardi b spat
- 6:04Speaker 2: on her, scratched her nose with a fingernail doing a
- 6:09Speaker 2: verbal altercation, this wasn't a criminal.
- 6:14Speaker 4: Trial.
- 6:14Speaker 2: So your breakdown is great because we're now able to
- 6:19Speaker 2: really understand exactly why this case was even happening. So
- 6:25Speaker 2: the woman, the former security guard, she decided like you said,
- 6:29Speaker 2: to sue Cardi b for this alleged altercation not criminal
- 6:37Speaker 2: but civil.
- 6:39Speaker 4: She sued her for twenty four.
- 6:42Speaker 2: Million, Okay, she sued her for twenty four million dollars
- 6:51Speaker 2: for again rain drops, for allegedly saying for Carti allegedly
- 6:58Speaker 2: spitting on her her nose with a fingernail.
- 7:02Speaker 4: Talk to us about this, and why would any lawyer.
- 7:10Speaker 2: Agree to take on the case a of this magnitude
- 7:15Speaker 2: or lack thereof magnitude.
- 7:17Speaker 4: But also to say, twenty four million dollars seems like
- 7:20Speaker 4: the right number for this.
- 7:22Speaker 3: It's laughable, right, So I have to say for me,
- 7:25Speaker 3: and this is my actual legal opinion here, Carlos, not
- 7:27Speaker 3: my personal opinion. I think this case was over before
- 7:31Speaker 3: it started because of that number. Knowing no other facts, right,
- 7:35Speaker 3: knowing no other facts, whether there's going to be somebody
- 7:38Speaker 3: to testify to them seeing Cardi do this or not
- 7:41Speaker 3: do this, knowing no other facts, the minute you have
- 7:44Speaker 3: the audacity and really the willful kind of bad intention
- 7:51Speaker 3: as an attorney to bow this on behalf of your
- 7:54Speaker 3: client in civil court. And the most egregious harm you
- 7:59Speaker 3: can sign eight is the being spit upon and a
- 8:03Speaker 3: three inch fingernail laceration. And you talking about twenty four million.
- 8:11Speaker 3: You've undermined your own credibility just in the filing of
- 8:14Speaker 3: the complaint.
- 8:15Speaker 5: See what I'm saying.
- 8:15Speaker 3: Now, let me tell you how it could have gone different.
- 8:17Speaker 3: I'm not saying Cardi would have been found liable or
- 8:20Speaker 3: that she should have been I'm just saying how it
- 8:22Speaker 3: could have played out with more of an opportunity for
- 8:26Speaker 3: the plaintiff here, the security guard, to have a better
- 8:29Speaker 3: outcome that she was seeking. You, and I believe this
- 8:33Speaker 3: is true in the state of Georgia. In most states,
- 8:34Speaker 3: when you follow a lawsuit like this, Carlos, you do
- 8:37Speaker 3: need to put some number on the table. They normally
- 8:39Speaker 3: require you to put some number. You can't just say
- 8:42Speaker 3: whatever the jury thinks, but you can do it in
- 8:46Speaker 3: a less much less aggressive way. You can say, and
- 8:50Speaker 3: the plaintiff seeks in excess of ten thousand dollars of damages,
- 8:54Speaker 3: and that can be up to millions, but we're putting
- 8:57Speaker 3: in a minimum threshold of ten thousand dollars, a minimum
- 9:00Speaker 3: threshold of one thousand dollars.
- 9:02Speaker 5: You see what I'm saying.
- 9:03Speaker 3: And because that threshold, DIC takes what type of court
- 9:05Speaker 3: you might be in So I think had this case
- 9:08Speaker 3: been filed, this lawsuit been filed at the onset, Carlos saying,
- 9:14Speaker 3: same complaint, same facts, same allegations, and the relief we
- 9:18Speaker 3: seek your honor is in excess of ten thousand dollars.
- 9:24Speaker 3: Let us have our day in court now. I'm willing
- 9:27Speaker 3: to hear you out, and I'm willing to believe that
- 9:30Speaker 3: there could be some truthfulness to what you're going to
- 9:32Speaker 3: put before this court. But when you come in this
- 9:34Speaker 3: court talking about a spat upon in a three inch
- 9:37Speaker 3: nail laceration each of about twenty four million dollars, it
- 9:40Speaker 3: reads like you're operating in bad faith from day one.
- 9:44Speaker 3: Reads it's giving scam, it's giving extortion, it's giving payday,
- 9:53Speaker 3: and it's giving bad faith again and that's a legal term.
- 9:57Speaker 3: It's giving that you, the client, you and your client
- 10:00Speaker 3: it are operating in bad faith. And I'm already looking
- 10:03Speaker 3: at all the facts and evidence that you're putting before
- 10:06Speaker 3: me from that lens, that that landing.
- 10:08Speaker 2: Yeah, oh baby, it's a jet blue holiday.
- 10:16Speaker 4: Right right right? What if the kids saying Jetsu holiday.
- 10:22Speaker 2: This is reality with the king, and I'm Carlos King
- 10:25Speaker 2: let's get back into the show. It makes so much sense.
- 10:30Speaker 2: So what Ebany is saying is or her legal opinion.
- 10:34Speaker 2: The fact that due to an alleged three inch laceration
- 10:39Speaker 2: from Carti's nails, that allegedly happened, and to say that
- 10:43Speaker 2: it was worked twenty four million is interesting too, because
- 10:47Speaker 2: what the security guard said under oath is that this
- 10:53Speaker 2: incident traumatized her and that it required a cosmetic procedure
- 11:00Speaker 2: because of the scarring from the alleged assault. She also
- 11:05Speaker 2: said that she lost her job over the incident as well.
- 11:13Speaker 2: What's so fascinating about that is, let's just say, for
- 11:18Speaker 2: the sake of an argument, right, let's say this did happen.
- 11:23Speaker 2: Let's say that someone of Carniv's stature, who is worth
- 11:27Speaker 2: millions and millions and millions of dollars, did actually make
- 11:31Speaker 2: contact with anybody, did actually spit on somebody, did actually you.
- 11:37Speaker 4: Know, scratch her scratch her face with the nail. Based
- 11:43Speaker 4: on your.
- 11:43Speaker 2: Legal expertise, if this really did happen, it's twenty four
- 11:50Speaker 2: million dollars still an amount that should be awarded to
- 11:54Speaker 2: somebody dealing with that.
- 11:56Speaker 4: Plus a cosmetic procedure. So here's the.
- 11:59Speaker 3: Good news, Carlo. We don't even have to speculate about it.
- 12:02Speaker 3: The answer is, of course, that's totally irrational, and we
- 12:06Speaker 3: have a mechanism in the law that allows for us
- 12:09Speaker 3: to determine what is rational. I love this, I love
- 12:13Speaker 3: doing this with you. It is just so nostalgic for
- 12:16Speaker 3: me to go back into my early tutelage as a
- 12:20Speaker 3: young legal scholar and realize when I learned these things
- 12:24Speaker 3: for the first time. Seriously so again. First year in
- 12:27Speaker 3: law school we get told about the concept of a
- 12:30Speaker 3: quantum assessment of damages. Okay, there's all yes, there are books.
- 12:35Speaker 3: There are now I'm talking about That's how dated myself
- 12:37Speaker 3: talking about books electronic documented oh child, But yes, now
- 12:51Speaker 3: there are electronic documents and access points and all kinds
- 12:54Speaker 3: of things where you can look this up and say hey.
- 12:58Speaker 3: And there are all kinds of things that we take
- 13:00Speaker 3: into consideration, Carlos King. We put on the table and
- 13:02Speaker 3: we come up with a reasonable figure. They include the
- 13:05Speaker 3: following the actual medical bills. So like you say, let's
- 13:09Speaker 3: say this actually happened. Let's say you're which means you're
- 13:12Speaker 3: gonna have a literal receipt, ma'am of what the cosmetic surgeon,
- 13:16Speaker 3: cost of what your primary care visits, cost of what
- 13:20Speaker 3: your medications cost.
- 13:22Speaker 5: You see, I'm saying all of that.
- 13:23Speaker 3: We're gonna add all your bandages and dressings, your nearest
- 13:26Speaker 3: foreign ship.
- 13:27Speaker 5: I don't add it all up. Put it all on.
- 13:30Speaker 3: The table, Carlos. Now this is the nickel and dime
- 13:34Speaker 3: lawyer in me, coming out girl play. You've got a
- 13:36Speaker 3: band a bitch, Put it on the table. Skin flash
- 13:40Speaker 3: color that's more expensive.
- 13:42Speaker 5: Put it on the town. Okay, So that's after.
- 13:50Speaker 2: So were not half a bad day a beauty uh coloration,
- 13:55Speaker 2: makeup child?
- 13:56Speaker 4: Go ahead, boom.
- 13:57Speaker 3: So that's one column of expense, right, actual medical expenses. Now,
- 14:02Speaker 3: let's say you did lose your job behind this, Okay, ma'am, respectfully,
- 14:06Speaker 3: let's go on the high end. You're doing private security
- 14:09Speaker 3: for an upscale building of this magnitude. Let's just say
- 14:13Speaker 3: she made two to twenty five a year. Let's just
- 14:15Speaker 3: say that. Okay, so we're gonna put that on the tail.
- 14:19Speaker 3: Then let's say you're traumatized. Let's say you gotta see
- 14:22Speaker 3: your therapist for more frequent basis. We're gonna run that
- 14:26Speaker 3: up at best at best at best, at best three
- 14:32Speaker 3: hundred and fifty thousand dollars four hundred thousand dollars at best.
- 14:37Speaker 3: So now that you're talking about anything over a half
- 14:42Speaker 3: a million. And that's, by the way, just so you know,
- 14:44Speaker 3: when we come up with these numbers, Carlos, we add
- 14:47Speaker 3: everything we can conceive of you. That's why I'm being funny,
- 14:50Speaker 3: but I'm being kind of This is really how it goes.
- 14:52Speaker 3: You stretch the limits of possibility to bring all future
- 14:56Speaker 3: medical Let's say the scar gets infected and you got
- 14:58Speaker 3: to cut the thing back.
- 15:00Speaker 5: So you put all that.
- 15:01Speaker 3: Yeah, this is how we do. This is what we
- 15:03Speaker 3: do in the war room, Carlos. Those of us lawyers
- 15:07Speaker 3: go back to Scandal. You know how they had the
- 15:09Speaker 3: war room with the gladiators. Same thing, every case, every
- 15:14Speaker 3: case we handled this way. A good lawyer, you conceive
- 15:17Speaker 3: of the biggest number you could conceive of, and then
- 15:20Speaker 3: you multiply it by three. Why three for the damages themselves,
- 15:25Speaker 3: the attorney, the third I'm gonna take as the lawyer,
- 15:29Speaker 3: and then the third for the taxes. Because you're still
- 15:31Speaker 3: gonna get taxed on any settlement that you get or
- 15:35Speaker 3: any damages that you received, you get your taxes taxable
- 15:39Speaker 3: income not not out of ten times. Oh yes, yeah,
- 15:43Speaker 3: great jumps learning today, baby, okay.
- 15:45Speaker 2: So yeah so so. But but but to stop you there,
- 15:48Speaker 2: because I'm just so fascinated by this. The lawyer, whatever
- 15:53Speaker 2: the judgment is, for the amount at the end of
- 15:55Speaker 2: the day, just so we you know, for future references,
- 15:58Speaker 2: the attorney, okay, does the law firm get a third
- 16:03Speaker 2: or the attorney him or herself get the third of
- 16:06Speaker 2: the thorough.
- 16:07Speaker 3: Which could just be if I'm so over, if it's
- 16:09Speaker 3: the law offices of ebid K Williams, ebidy K Williams
- 16:12Speaker 3: gets that third. If it's Carlos King and Associates and
- 16:16Speaker 3: you've got associates, the firm gets the third and then
- 16:19Speaker 3: you pay, because that's how the legal partnership works. But
- 16:21Speaker 3: the point is, one third of whatever the plane of
- 16:25Speaker 3: gets goes to legal fees, period, because that's and that's
- 16:29Speaker 3: the nature of a standard contingency agreement. One third goes
- 16:33Speaker 3: to lawyers, one third goes to Uncle Sam, and the
- 16:36Speaker 3: client gets what's left. And you want to make sure
- 16:38Speaker 3: that number is high enough, Carlos to where there can
- 16:41Speaker 3: be some real compensation. That's that's how we're thinking of
- 16:44Speaker 3: this so again, I just put everything from the nearest
- 16:47Speaker 3: foreign to the surgery, to the lost wages, to the
- 16:50Speaker 3: therapy bills. I put it all on the table, and
- 16:53Speaker 3: I couldn't get to more than three four hundred thousand.
- 16:57Speaker 4: Yeah, and then it's times the three.
- 17:01Speaker 3: And again, at best, you're you're asking four million bucks,
- 17:05Speaker 3: maybe maybe a million point two five at best. So
- 17:08Speaker 3: when you start talking about twenty four million dollars for
- 17:11Speaker 3: even the most astronomical expansion of damages, you're operating in
- 17:16Speaker 3: bad faith from a from a legal.
- 17:18Speaker 2: Perspective, one of the things that I do want to
- 17:20Speaker 2: talk to you about was the swort of behavior from
- 17:24Speaker 2: the prosecution. The lawyer who cross examined Cardi B on
- 17:32Speaker 2: the stand. A lot of people felt that his behavior
- 17:35Speaker 2: as a lawyer was very negative. Some was the unprofessional allegedly,
- 17:41Speaker 2: some people have said it was inappropriate. He asked her
- 17:45Speaker 2: a series of questions about, you know, whether or not
- 17:49Speaker 2: the woman in question who allegedly got assaulted, about her
- 17:54Speaker 2: how big she was. He asked Party B about her raise.
- 17:58Speaker 2: He asked Cardi B. What and now she's wearing a
- 18:01Speaker 2: wig today? Her hair was sure yesterday. It seemed like
- 18:06Speaker 2: this was a Saturday Night Live parody on Scandal, right,
- 18:13Speaker 2: it didn't seem believable. And Cardi b who's a personality,
- 18:17Speaker 2: gave the audience and the lawyer what he wanted, which
- 18:20Speaker 2: was memes, reactions and everything else. What is your take
- 18:25Speaker 2: on the behavior of this lawyer did Is this somebody
- 18:29Speaker 2: that you think knew that.
- 18:33Speaker 4: He had a tough case to present?
- 18:36Speaker 5: So a few things.
- 18:37Speaker 3: Number One, Carti is a pro and I'm talking to
- 18:40Speaker 3: the king of reality TV. At least any of us
- 18:43Speaker 3: forget before she was a Grammy Award winning artist. She
- 18:47Speaker 3: was a reality TV star, which means she was a
- 18:50Speaker 3: brilliant one at that, which means she is a what
- 18:53Speaker 3: expert storyteller?
- 18:55Speaker 4: Right?
- 18:57Speaker 5: And so much of what we do in the courtroom, Carlos.
- 19:01Speaker 3: So much of who wins and loses in the court
- 19:03Speaker 3: of law, it's about who tells a better story. I'm
- 19:07Speaker 3: not saying it should be that way. I'm saying that
- 19:10Speaker 3: is what it is. And so I think that this
- 19:13Speaker 3: was an attorney who failed to do his due diligence,
- 19:16Speaker 3: and I mean that both in the legal and cultural sense,
- 19:20Speaker 3: didn't know who he was dealing with. From a Carti
- 19:25Speaker 3: is as media trained as media savvy, and all of
- 19:30Speaker 3: this is this.
- 19:30Speaker 5: Is just what the court of law is.
- 19:33Speaker 3: In many ways, Carlos King is just an amplification or
- 19:37Speaker 3: even a condensation rather of public opinion of the court
- 19:41Speaker 3: of public opinion. So you just scale that down on
- 19:44Speaker 3: an intimate level and you've got an actual court of law.
- 19:47Speaker 3: Carti is not going to be any less effective on
- 19:50Speaker 3: that stage. Pun intended that she's going to be as
- 19:54Speaker 3: effective when the cameras are up for love and hip
- 19:56Speaker 3: hop than when the cameras are off for the grand
- 19:59Speaker 3: same thing, same skill set. This case, this trial called
- 20:03Speaker 3: on the same skill set that Cardi B has been
- 20:06Speaker 3: perfecting from her YouTube days.
- 20:09Speaker 5: So we're talking about twenty years, see what I'm saying.
- 20:12Speaker 4: So that's what I do.
- 20:13Speaker 5: I think this.
- 20:14Speaker 3: Attorney was entirely out of his league, failed to properly
- 20:18Speaker 3: educate himself on the savvy and the skill set and
- 20:22Speaker 3: the brilliance of what this witness, this defense witness, was
- 20:27Speaker 3: going to bring to this cross and ended up doing
- 20:31Speaker 3: themselves tremendous disfavor. Like you said, only made themselves as
- 20:36Speaker 3: the attorney look unprepared, inadequate, caught off guard, and kind
- 20:42Speaker 3: of having to stand in your own shit. You made
- 20:45Speaker 3: a shit sound week that you intended to deliver to
- 20:48Speaker 3: the defendant, Cardi B and your ass had to eat it.
- 20:51Speaker 3: That's what happened in this trial, from my opinion, and
- 20:55Speaker 3: one of the first things we learned in law school
- 20:56Speaker 3: calls king when your whether you're on direct exam you're
- 21:00Speaker 3: asking the questions first, or you're on cross exam, as
- 21:04Speaker 3: we saw with Kurty and this lawyer, never ever, never, ever, ever,
- 21:08Speaker 3: ever ever in your life ask a question you don't
- 21:13Speaker 3: already know the answer to.
- 21:15Speaker 4: Never. Yes, I even knew that watching Gather Law in
- 21:19Speaker 4: Order LA Law. Like, sorry, I'm screaming, but yeah, it's.
- 21:23Speaker 3: True because it's triggering what you know, what what what
- 21:27Speaker 3: is culturally ingrained in us to know about how these
- 21:31Speaker 3: trial lawyer roles go. And so you forgot the first
- 21:34Speaker 3: The first thing must be first, Carlos, and you forgot
- 21:38Speaker 3: the first thing never, and that's why you wound up
- 21:42Speaker 3: surprising yourself. So no, I think Cardi gets all the
- 21:44Speaker 3: credit here. She was absolutely brilliant on that witness fan, the.
- 21:50Speaker 5: All of it. It was all brilliant.
- 21:54Speaker 3: And I also just kind of want to say substantively,
- 21:58Speaker 3: she really came from a strong argument point Cardi. I'm
- 22:02Speaker 3: saying because I and any woman on that jury, mostly
- 22:08Speaker 3: especially any that have carried and delivered a baby know
- 22:15Speaker 3: just how vulnerable and delicate that moment is.
- 22:20Speaker 5: Less you, uh baby libity.
- 22:22Speaker 3: They know how delicate and vulnerable that moment is, Carlos,
- 22:25Speaker 3: when you are pregnant with your first child, especially your
- 22:29Speaker 3: first child, any child, but your first child, as Cardi
- 22:32Speaker 3: was in twenty eighteen, your huge celebrity, your global phenomenon.
- 22:38Speaker 3: So you do what you're supposed to do, which is
- 22:40Speaker 3: exercise all of your assets of protection and privacy. The
- 22:45Speaker 3: medical facility cooperates with you, shuts the whole place down,
- 22:49Speaker 3: so you could have that privacy and respect the tenderness
- 22:52Speaker 3: of your early trimesters of pregnancy, which we all know, Carlos,
- 22:56Speaker 3: kN and tell that baby is at least I want
- 23:01Speaker 3: to say, it's twenty seven weeks twenty maybe it's twenty
- 23:05Speaker 3: two weeks, but closer to twenty seven weeks.
- 23:07Speaker 5: What we call having viability of life outside of the uterus.
- 23:12Speaker 3: I can't explain to you how delicate that moment deals
- 23:14Speaker 3: as somebody who's carrying their child, because I remember it
- 23:18Speaker 3: like it was yesterday, and I am, as the great
- 23:23Speaker 3: nan Leak says, known, not necessarily famous, but I am known.
- 23:29Speaker 5: Thank you, Nimi. So as a.
- 23:32Speaker 4: Numb I got tip of this.
- 23:36Speaker 5: Oh my God, shout out to miss Leaks. I appreciate
- 23:41Speaker 5: being known for some people. I'm serious, child, So.
- 23:45Speaker 3: Anyway, as somebody known, Carlos, stay with me. Now what
- 23:50Speaker 3: I was in my early stages of pregnancy. I certainly
- 23:54Speaker 3: wasn't going to have the hospital or the facility shut
- 23:56Speaker 3: down for me, but I, you know, have a little
- 23:58Speaker 3: baseball cap on, trying to keep it low key because
- 24:01Speaker 3: you know, twelve thirteen weeks pregnant, keep it cute wanted.
- 24:05Speaker 3: Of course, you know, my pregnancy wasn't known until I
- 24:08Speaker 3: was about to pop, and that was by designed You
- 24:09Speaker 3: and I discussed it. You were one of the first
- 24:11Speaker 3: people to know I was with child.
- 24:15Speaker 4: Ch'a.
- 24:16Speaker 3: I took my little black ass in that in my
- 24:18Speaker 3: OB's office, trying to be incog negro.
- 24:22Speaker 5: Here comes somebody y you own the breakfast.
- 24:26Speaker 3: Club, and then they walked away and then turned around
- 24:29Speaker 3: and said congratulations.
- 24:32Speaker 5: Now it was sweet. But when I tell you, my heart.
- 24:36Speaker 4: Saint, my heart saint just now and I'm not pregnant.
- 24:39Speaker 4: Oh my god.
- 24:39Speaker 3: Yeah, because now people can know. Now the information is
- 24:45Speaker 3: not contained. Now anybody could do anything with it, and
- 24:49Speaker 3: even if nobody even means you any ill will like
- 24:52Speaker 3: the security guard said, oh I just got excited and
- 24:55Speaker 3: I did it. Ain't nobody ask you all that. What
- 24:58Speaker 3: you need to know is that it still a violation.
- 25:02Speaker 3: It's still a violation, and it's a violation such that
- 25:06Speaker 3: it becomes totally understandable and reasonable that Cardi would have
- 25:10Speaker 3: a reaction to that that would be hostile. So before
- 25:13Speaker 3: we get to the did she lay her hands on
- 25:15Speaker 3: the woman or not? Did she actually spit and make
- 25:17Speaker 3: physical contact with the women or not? The premise is
- 25:22Speaker 3: set up, Carlos, so that Carti in this circumstance is
- 25:27Speaker 3: extraordinarily sympathetic.
- 25:30Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, And listen, everything you're saying makes a
- 25:34Speaker 2: lot of sense.
- 25:35Speaker 4: It was a four day trial.
- 25:37Speaker 2: The jury deliberate, Sorry, the jury deliberated for less than
- 25:41Speaker 2: one hour.
- 25:42Speaker 5: Okay, just know exactly what type of time they were.
- 25:45Speaker 4: On that was.
- 25:46Speaker 2: That was obvious what the outcome is going to be.
- 25:48Speaker 2: But Ebony a question for you. While the deliberation was happening,
- 25:53Speaker 2: Cardi b went outside and she was confronted by a
- 26:00Speaker 2: paparazzo who asked her, Look, you're pregnant.
- 26:04Speaker 4: Is the baby, offset is the step fan? What's going on?
- 26:07Speaker 2: Cardi B took a marker that was from somebody and
- 26:11Speaker 2: threw it at this paparazzo and said, respect women pretty much,
- 26:16Speaker 2: you know, gave him, you know, some some tongue lashing,
- 26:19Speaker 2: and went about her business. A lot of people are like,
- 26:23Speaker 2: Carti B. You are on trial ful assault, Why would
- 26:27Speaker 2: you do this? Talk to me about that? Because the
- 26:31Speaker 2: prosecutor tried to tell the judge what happened outside, and
- 26:35Speaker 2: the judge wasn't here for it.
- 26:36Speaker 4: But it did raise the question ebidy K Williams, and
- 26:39Speaker 4: I did want to.
- 26:39Speaker 2: Ask you if you were Carti's client and you saw
- 26:44Speaker 2: her do that, would that make you nervous in the moment?
- 26:48Speaker 5: So a few things.
- 26:49Speaker 3: If I were Carti's attorney, I would advise my beloved client,
- 26:54Speaker 3: miss Cardi B, to not throw things, and let's keep
- 26:57Speaker 3: our hands to ourselves, and let's not even to the
- 27:00Speaker 3: point you're alluding to. Carlos gives the impression that we
- 27:06Speaker 3: even have violent tendencies, but people are human, and Carti
- 27:13Speaker 3: gets the benefit of being so well known to where
- 27:18Speaker 3: people generally can put in context her reactiveness. So if
- 27:25Speaker 3: you or I Carlos were somewhere and we throw a
- 27:28Speaker 3: pin at somebody, I think that would raise eyebrows because
- 27:32Speaker 3: people don't know us necessarily to be hyper reactive. They
- 27:36Speaker 3: don't have a context for us in that way. So
- 27:38Speaker 3: that would be like, wow, if you were bold enough
- 27:40Speaker 3: to throw a pin into a crowd of folks with
- 27:43Speaker 3: the cameras running, what are you like behind closed doors?
- 27:47Speaker 5: Carti gets the benefit of.
- 27:48Speaker 3: Us having a pretty damn good idea as to what
- 27:51Speaker 3: she might be like in a more closed door setting.
- 27:54Speaker 3: She is impulsive, she is reactive, So do you see
- 27:57Speaker 3: I'm saying it's a nuanced point, but I think it's
- 27:59Speaker 3: an important one that she actually gets. I would be
- 28:02Speaker 3: less concerned if Carti be as my client did that,
- 28:05Speaker 3: then I would be concerned if you were I did that.
- 28:11Speaker 4: I do want to ask you this.
- 28:12Speaker 2: So Carti, the after she was found not liable for
- 28:17Speaker 2: this particular situation, she did go back outside and spoke
- 28:21Speaker 2: about what happened. One of the things she said that
- 28:23Speaker 2: I do want to talk to you about because although
- 28:26Speaker 2: you're not famous, you are known, we love you. Epany
- 28:33Speaker 2: has the best. I really listen, I'm gonna sidetrack a
- 28:36Speaker 2: little bit. I really hope that you guys have y'all
- 28:39Speaker 2: told me personally. But I love the fact that y'all
- 28:42Speaker 2: get to see my friend Ebony her glory because she has.
- 28:44Speaker 4: A sense of humor.
- 28:46Speaker 2: She I know, y'all, I know some of y'all thinks
- 28:50Speaker 2: she's so serious whatever, Epany is a foot That I
- 28:55Speaker 2: get to show my friend in this light means the
- 28:58Speaker 2: world to me because she is buddy af to be.
- 29:01Speaker 4: But okay, Carti B.
- 29:04Speaker 2: After she was filed not libel, she thanks her supporters.
- 29:08Speaker 2: She called the lawsuit frivolous, but she also said this,
- 29:12Speaker 2: and you are a public figure, and I want to
- 29:14Speaker 2: get your thoughts on this.
- 29:15Speaker 4: You are famous and you are a lawyer.
- 29:18Speaker 2: Cardi B emphasized that she would not settle with anybody
- 29:24Speaker 2: because she's a celebrity, and she warned people against filing
- 29:29Speaker 2: frivolous lawsuits against them, noting that she works hard for
- 29:33Speaker 2: her money and that she will countersuit if this happens again.
- 29:39Speaker 4: What are your thoughts on that?
- 29:41Speaker 2: Because some celebrities do feel like because I'm famous for
- 29:48Speaker 2: all of the purposes. I have some money that people
- 29:53Speaker 2: are going to file frivolous lawsuits that has no bearings,
- 29:58Speaker 2: no truth in it, just because they want a payday.
- 30:01Speaker 2: Do you think couch assuming will scare these people away? Yes?
- 30:06Speaker 5: And also, first of all, I love that Cartis said this.
- 30:09Speaker 3: I love that she said this, and I love that
- 30:10Speaker 3: she said this in this moment immediately following this verdict
- 30:14Speaker 3: that was so favorable to her. And let's be clear,
- 30:17Speaker 3: Carti's has some momentum behind fuck around and find out
- 30:22Speaker 3: with Cardi b baby when it comes to this court
- 30:23Speaker 3: thing better as Tasha Kay very seriously, and she is
- 30:28Speaker 3: doing what most celebrities in her position Carlos King will
- 30:32Speaker 3: not do, which is make the time. Carti said, period, Die,
- 30:36Speaker 3: I'm going to make the time to play exactly the
- 30:40Speaker 3: games y'all want to play, meaning I'm going to come
- 30:43Speaker 3: to court, I'm going to put on my wig, my outfit,
- 30:47Speaker 3: I'm gonna raise my hand on the Bible, I'm gonna testify.
- 30:51Speaker 3: I'm going to do the thing that y'all are counting
- 30:53Speaker 3: on me not doing, which is half legal. Follow through
- 30:58Speaker 3: same thing with Tasha Ka all this, most people would
- 31:00Speaker 3: have got that verdict, multi million dollar verdict around Tasha
- 31:04Speaker 3: k owing her and went on with their not went
- 31:06Speaker 3: on with their business. Now, Cardi Carti's where's where's the
- 31:09Speaker 3: updated hearing so we can find out her current financial status?
- 31:12Speaker 3: And she's on it like clockwork every six months because
- 31:16Speaker 3: she actually it is to collect. Oh that's okay, Oh
- 31:22Speaker 3: hold on one, saying Carlos.
- 31:25Speaker 5: Last you get this?
- 31:27Speaker 4: Okay, No, it takes time.
- 31:28Speaker 3: Not should have broke the good dip teeth baby god damn,
- 31:36Speaker 3: like mama got that much grigy. So yes, I love
- 31:44Speaker 3: that Curti did this, Carlos, because this sends a message
- 31:47Speaker 3: that Carti is not the one to be played with.
- 31:49Speaker 5: And she said it flat out.
- 31:50Speaker 4: Uh.
- 31:50Speaker 3: We saw similar messaging from jay Z with Busby, you know,
- 31:56Speaker 3: but he said, not only am I not going to settle,
- 31:59Speaker 3: I'm actually going to come for you and your ability
- 32:02Speaker 3: to practice law in these cases. So I think whether
- 32:06Speaker 3: it's a counter suit, whether it is challenging the other
- 32:09Speaker 3: sides lawyers around their credibility to practice, I think that
- 32:13Speaker 3: type of punitive counteraction is very important because it sends
- 32:19Speaker 3: a message, Carlos that they are not sitting ducks to
- 32:24Speaker 3: just wait and be targeted for payouts, you know, and
- 32:29Speaker 3: I think it's very important and I respect it, you know,
- 32:31Speaker 3: like Carti said, And whether she works so hard for
- 32:33Speaker 3: it or not, it's her money period. It's her money period.
- 32:37Speaker 3: People are not entitled to in contrary to popular belief,
- 32:40Speaker 3: and it is long as enough celebrities Carlos are willing
- 32:44Speaker 3: to not make the time to go to court, not
- 32:48Speaker 3: make the time to file the counterclaim, not make the
- 32:51Speaker 3: time to put on their clothes and go down to
- 32:53Speaker 3: the courthouse and testify in their own defense on their
- 32:57Speaker 3: own behalf, and they feel that it is easier and
- 33:00Speaker 3: quicher to just write the check, which is their prerogative.
- 33:04Speaker 4: But you will.
- 33:05Speaker 3: Continue to see a cycle of civilians that see that
- 33:08Speaker 3: as a right opportunity for a quick payday, and some
- 33:14Speaker 3: will succeed. From what Cardi B said clearly and loudly
- 33:17Speaker 3: today is that she will not be the ATM. So
- 33:20Speaker 3: you're gonna have to get somebody else to do it,
- 33:22Speaker 3: because Cardi B is not in the business of doing quick, fast,
- 33:25Speaker 3: easy paydays.
- 33:26Speaker 5: And I respect her greatly for it.
- 33:29Speaker 2: Last question for you, Ebanie, what advice do you give
- 33:32Speaker 2: public figures, celebrities or a person who has means when
- 33:36Speaker 2: they are confronted with a situation where they feel like
- 33:40Speaker 2: they may have to defend themselves but also do not
- 33:44Speaker 2: want to be in a situation where they can get sued.
- 33:46Speaker 2: And what some people again are calling a frivolous case.
- 33:50Speaker 2: What avice do you get people? Should they ignore and
- 33:52Speaker 2: move on? Should they have bodyguards with them? What do
- 33:55Speaker 2: you think?
- 33:56Speaker 5: This is a tough call.
- 33:57Speaker 3: It's a personal call, right, you know, if you can
- 33:59Speaker 3: afford the guard situation, I think that takes care of
- 34:02Speaker 3: a lot of it. Had Cardi had her own kind
- 34:04Speaker 3: of security with her, had Cardi had her own personal
- 34:10Speaker 3: security with her that day, I'm certain that person would
- 34:13Speaker 3: have been able to fend off this security of woman
- 34:18Speaker 3: and her claims and maybe wouldn't have gotten to this.
- 34:23Speaker 3: But two things to that point, though he agrees with you, yes,
- 34:26Speaker 3: something to say, don't she goodness, She's like, maybe I
- 34:28Speaker 3: want to be a security guard.
- 34:30Speaker 5: I don't know, Chia, wait wait on it.
- 34:32Speaker 3: But but here's where I'm careful about. Here's where I'm
- 34:38Speaker 3: careful Carlos about advocating for that as the answer A
- 34:43Speaker 3: that's an extraordinarily that is an extraordinarily expensive endeavor to
- 34:50Speaker 3: constantly have security. So a that is an extraordinarily expensive
- 34:55Speaker 3: endeavor to constantly have paid security with you twenty four
- 34:59Speaker 3: to seven around the I don't care who you are.
- 35:01Speaker 3: And secondly, I think that's that's a precedent that if
- 35:05Speaker 3: you're if you're wealthy and or famous, that you somehow
- 35:09Speaker 3: must bear the constant burden of never being able to
- 35:13Speaker 3: have any type of expectation of privacy. And I simply
- 35:15Speaker 3: don't believe that. I simply don't believe that, Carlos. I
- 35:19Speaker 3: get that that people are going to be interested in
- 35:20Speaker 3: your life. That is part of the price that any
- 35:22Speaker 3: of us pay that do our lives in a public fashion.
- 35:25Speaker 3: But I don't believe that the price has to be
- 35:27Speaker 3: so exorbitantly high simply because one has a talent or
- 35:30Speaker 3: a gift or something to offer to the public that
- 35:33Speaker 3: now you must sacrifice any sense of autonomy and ability
- 35:38Speaker 3: to be an individual with privacy and protection. So and again, again,
- 35:43Speaker 3: it's personal and it's different in every case. I could
- 35:46Speaker 3: see where somebody like Beyonce it makes more sense for
- 35:49Speaker 3: her to.
- 35:49Speaker 5: Have a Julius at all times.
- 35:51Speaker 3: But I could see, you know, I live in New
- 35:53Speaker 3: York City, you know, you've lived here, You live in Atlanta,
- 35:56Speaker 3: you live in la you live in Miami. You know
- 35:59Speaker 3: you we see all the and I'm not talking about
- 36:02Speaker 3: just known figures. I'm talking about a listers on the train,
- 36:06Speaker 3: walking down the street, walking to Whole Foods, traded, Joe's
- 36:09Speaker 3: getting a smoothie, and they get to do that. So
- 36:13Speaker 3: my advice would be, figure out how important it is
- 36:17Speaker 3: to maintain some level of autonomy and privacy and consistently
- 36:21Speaker 3: that's a key word. Consistently. Move according to that, move
- 36:25Speaker 3: according to that. When it comes to engaging directly with people,
- 36:30Speaker 3: whether it's paparazzi or just nosy people in public, I
- 36:34Speaker 3: think you got to really kind of figure out how
- 36:36Speaker 3: far you're willing to go around that. I personally don't
- 36:38Speaker 3: advise a lot of direct contact and engagement. It's one
- 36:41Speaker 3: of the things I love about New York. People tend
- 36:43Speaker 3: to mind their business, you know. But if somebody decides
- 36:47Speaker 3: they don't want to mind their business, then you know,
- 36:49Speaker 3: you kind of have to move accordingly. And I'm not
- 36:51Speaker 3: afraid of, you know, availing to law enforcement in those
- 36:54Speaker 3: kind of situations. And listen, I don't take that likely,
- 37:01Speaker 3: you know, it's black people in America.
- 37:03Speaker 5: You know, we know this. Sometimes when we invite law enforcement,
- 37:06Speaker 5: that can be its own problem.
- 37:08Speaker 3: Right, Seriously, we got to talk about this family, but
- 37:10Speaker 3: ultimately I'm going to defer that out rather than me
- 37:15Speaker 3: sitting up here trying to go toe to toe hand
- 37:17Speaker 3: to hand contact with an individual off the street.
- 37:21Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's a big choice.
- 37:23Speaker 5: And everybody gets to do that how they want to
- 37:24Speaker 5: do it.
- 37:25Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's what I got from it is what
- 37:27Speaker 2: you said. At the end of the day, do what
- 37:29Speaker 2: works for you. But everybody deserves their privacy. Yes, your
- 37:33Speaker 2: public figure, you deserve your privacy and you deserve your
- 37:37Speaker 2: personal space.
- 37:38Speaker 4: So I understand that. I get that. Ethnick Kay Williams.
- 37:41Speaker 2: I thank you so much for hopping on this again
- 37:44Speaker 2: your council baby Liberty.
- 37:46Speaker 5: Yes, this little girl is doing too much.
- 37:48Speaker 3: One more thing I did want to also say before
- 37:50Speaker 3: we wrap, Carlos that I love please. That I thought
- 37:53Speaker 3: was very much a class act and an important step
- 37:56Speaker 3: for her to take because of her responsibility as a megastar.
- 38:00Speaker 3: She also asked people to do this, lady, no harm.
- 38:03Speaker 3: She said, do this lady, Yes, I thought. You know
- 38:07Speaker 3: what's so funny I'm blake brought that up. That was
- 38:10Speaker 3: a takeaway for me too, like leave her alone, don't
- 38:15Speaker 3: do don't do her no harm.
- 38:18Speaker 2: Justice hasn't served. Let's all go out and just mind
- 38:20Speaker 2: our business.
- 38:21Speaker 4: I could not agree more. I thought that was stellar.
- 38:23Speaker 5: I that was chef's kiss.
- 38:27Speaker 3: Not that I wasn't already a Cardif fan, but I
- 38:30Speaker 3: walk away from this whole trial even more so because
- 38:34Speaker 3: of the person that she showed herself to be throughout
- 38:36Speaker 3: this entire thing. Charming, engaging, funny, but when at the
- 38:40Speaker 3: end of it all stood on business, absolutely stood on business,
- 38:45Speaker 3: but still with compassion and empathy that this is a
- 38:47Speaker 3: human being. Even if she was out here trying to
- 38:49Speaker 3: get a quick payday. She played herself, she didn't play me.
- 38:54Speaker 3: And so now we're gonna move on and we're not
- 38:55Speaker 3: gonna harass her. We're not gonna harass her family, or
- 38:58Speaker 3: her children or her parents. Were to let this lady
- 39:00Speaker 3: continue to live. Don't play with Cardi though, but let
- 39:04Speaker 3: her live, and anybody else with any bright ideas about
- 39:07Speaker 3: coming to play with me up around and find out
- 39:09Speaker 3: it was it was perfect.
- 39:10Speaker 4: Could not agree.
- 39:11Speaker 2: Mark I, that's honestly my favorite part of the speech
- 39:15Speaker 2: because it shows the level of integrity that she had
- 39:18Speaker 2: to make sure that this woman also was not going
- 39:20Speaker 2: to be you know, accosted, yes, and in salted as well,
- 39:26Speaker 2: So no kudos to that.
- 39:28Speaker 4: Kudos to you, Ebony, Kudos to you, Baby Liberty.
- 39:31Speaker 2: And the best part about is that the that the
- 39:33Speaker 2: range jobs love Ebony before I let you go. They
- 39:36Speaker 2: love when they get a chance to see you be
- 39:38Speaker 2: a working mom because it's so relatable to the world
- 39:43Speaker 2: and my audience. So we love when Baby Liberty makes her.
- 39:49Speaker 4: Yes, we love it.
- 39:50Speaker 2: We love it so know that is actually it makes
- 39:53Speaker 2: it makes the women who are the listeners, like Ebony
- 39:58Speaker 2: is one of us.
- 39:58Speaker 4: So kudos to you.
- 40:00Speaker 5: I love you, Carlos. I love the rain drops.
- 40:02Speaker 3: I love that we get these opportunities to have these
- 40:05Speaker 3: conversations rooted in law and pop culture.
- 40:08Speaker 5: And also our friendship.
- 40:09Speaker 4: So you're the best.
- 40:10Speaker 5: My love till next time.
- 40:11Speaker 2: Till next time, baby, love you, love you, Bye bye bye.
- 40:18Speaker 1: Reality with the King is executive produced by me Carlos King,
- 40:23Speaker 1: produced by Lizzie Nimitz, and a partnership.
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