The public defender was on her game. She immediately asked for an adjournment, hoping the judge wouldn’t catch on.
The judge definitely caught on.
…hello?
Still, give that woman a raise. Except for one tiny slip, she pokerfaced perfectly.
Compare that to the DA’s bench, where the one in the middle had to fight the urge to laugh at the absurdity for a fair bit.
The way she says “That is correct your honor” the second time while trying not to laugh is like the perfect encapsulation of what being public defender is like. Most people would not believe the sheer amount of stupidity witnessed by PDs, and sometimes you just gotta laugh. Still, they show up and go to bat for you, even if you’re doing the thing they’re defending you against at the time.
Lol, I just mentioned this in another thread.
Like, I know missing court is bad, and he was probably on his way there when he gave up to call in…
But man, you’re trying to get out of jail for driving without a license. Driving to court is bad enough, don’t facetime the judge while driving.
He says in the video he was just parking at the doctor’s office. 🤣
I like to think he tried to come up for a reason for missing court, and went with “doctor” instinctively, forgetting he was on a video call and not sick, and likely wouldn’t have scheduled a doctors appointment for the exact same time he had court to try and postpone jail by a month.
But I dunno
This dude might have double booked.
Part of me wants to give the driver the benefit of the doubt… he looked more stunned than the judge. Idk how the process normally works - never had my license suspended - but I’m wondering if the cop that pulled him over initially told him to Zoom for his “traffic citation” or something and the dude legit had no idea his license was suspended?
I mean, he could just be stupid, but either way it doesn’t actually look like he meant to break the rules during that call.
Court over Zoom ❌
Zoom over to court ✅
You don’t have to be sick to need a doctor. He might been getting an ass cancer screening
I had never been in court, but would assume that when you are called to appear into court, you are not given zoom link just in case. Right?
Everything has changed since the pandemic. Some courts still allow remote appearances from my understanding
Yes, but this is agreed in advance, not “I am late, let me call”
Minor offenses can be quicker doing it this way. I wonder if it has an affect on the case result though?
The look on his face was just golden. You can tell the exact moment he realized what he had just done.
I feel like this isn’t the “oh shit im an idiot” face so much as the face of a person finding out they’re not as entitled as they think they are.
People who think they’re entitled are super annoying to deal with. I feel bad for pda. (And would absolutely love to listen to that phone call)
Edit: I looked it up. It was probably a misdemeanor the first time. (93 days in jail and/or $500 fine,)
So it was entirely possible that the dude could have gotten off with a fine or maybe probation. But nope. He stacked another and is going to jail.
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Well I might be stupid, but at least I’m not this stupid.
Are we talking the judge here? Thinking a suspended license is going to stop them?
Being in jail will definitely stop them
Where does the judge say that? He orders him to report to jail, though, which might.
