Wow, these "Judge Judy" cases escalated quickly, Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the “Judge Judy” cases that got out of hand in record time.
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00:00 If you don't want to discuss this case, then we can just dismiss it.
00:03 Great.
00:03 Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the Judge Judy cases that got out of hand in record time.
00:11 Look in that cupboard there! Look in that one!
00:13 Plaintiff Joshua Pritchard's foolish and vindictive protective order against his fiancé's brother-in-law is full of twists and turns.
00:23 Molly Nolan was weeping before they barely even got started.
00:27 What's your first name?
00:29 Molly.
00:30 Take a breath.
00:32 Don't talk to her.
00:40 Usually, it takes a few minutes of grilling for someone in Judge Judy's courtroom to give in to the pressure.
00:45 But since this case involved her fiancé suing her relatives, we can't say we blame her.
00:50 Was it Mr. Abrahamson's practice to go to the casino before you got the job there?
00:57 Just think before you answer the question, otherwise I bring Molly up, and Molly's not going to be happy if I bring her up.
01:03 Still, the judge expected calm and had Nolan collect herself long enough to give a statement.
01:09 This set the stage for what was a very personal, dramatic, and ultimately ridiculous case.
01:14 After the working over he got from the judge, it's unbelievable that Pritchard didn't start crying too.
01:20 If you were scared to go out of the house,
01:23 what did you take a job for at a casino where you knew the defendant frequented?
01:29 Plaintiff Chris Pasquarella prepared an elaborate little story about how defendant Daniel Martinez,
01:39 his soon-to-be brother-in-law, stole his rental car, which led to the car being impounded.
01:44 That's a really hard story to make up, what he just made up.
01:48 Do you understand?
01:48 It's a very hard story.
01:50 It's much easier to say he stole the keys to my car, and the next thing I knew it was impounded.
01:54 Judge Judy had trouble believing his story from the beginning.
01:57 While he tried feebly to plug up any holes she was poking in his story,
02:02 the moment she called his partner to take the stand and witnessed her lie,
02:06 he folded like a cheap accordion.
02:08 What is your father going to tell me?
02:10 Yes.
02:10 That he did?
02:12 Yes.
02:12 Fine, let's get his phone number.
02:15 That's not necessarily true, okay?
02:17 It's not necessarily true.
02:19 I had to...
02:20 Sit down.
02:21 See how easy it is?
02:23 The truth was, he asked the defendant to drive the rental car,
02:27 despite him not having a valid driver's license.
02:30 Judge Judy treated this case like a game of chicken, practically daring Pasquarella to lie to her.
02:35 He fell right into her trap, and she ate him for lunch.
02:39 Because the car was tooken, because the car was taken...
02:43 There's no such word.
02:44 Listen to me.
02:45 There's no such word as "tooken."
02:47 All right.
02:48 So let's start over.
02:49 Number eight.
02:50 My God, she's got a knife!
02:52 Neighbors Zsa Zsa Azikiwe and Lydia Wilson got into a dispute over loud music that quickly turned physical.
02:59 I looked out the door, and I said, "Oh my God, she's got a knife."
03:02 Did you come back with a knife?
03:04 That's a yes or a no.
03:07 Yes, I did.
03:08 We're barely a minute in when Wilson admits that the plaintiff's story about her having
03:12 pulled a knife on him is true.
03:14 She would go on to explain that she did this because she was scared of him.
03:17 If you were afraid of him, I don't understand.
03:20 Why didn't you just go into your apartment, close your door, and call the police, call
03:26 the management?
03:27 Immediately, Judge Judy asks why, if she was scared of him, she went out to confront him
03:32 at all.
03:32 This would become a recurring question throughout the case, which, let us tell you, got off
03:37 to a rollicking start and never let up.
03:40 You had a temper attack, madam.
03:42 I didn't have a temper attack.
03:43 You didn't.
03:44 I mean, I was upset.
03:45 I mean, he did everything he did.
03:46 Well, that's temper.
03:47 Number 7.
03:48 A Crazy Request
03:49 Judge Judy immediately sussed out the lie that this defendant was telling.
03:54 If you tell the truth, you don't have to have a long memory.
03:57 If you're going to make up stories, you're going to look very foolish and it's going
04:00 to be very unpleasant.
04:01 Do you understand?
04:03 Yes, your honor.
04:03 She told the judge under oath that she only asked her mother and stepfather to watch a
04:08 friend's baby for a few hours.
04:10 But this was a lie, because what she actually asked was insane and she knew it.
04:16 The judge got her to admit she was asking them to step in and raise her friend's baby
04:20 completely.
04:21 When you asked your mother if she would take this baby for an extended period of time,
04:26 what did your mother say to you?
04:27 My mother said she will take the baby with proper documentation.
04:31 So she wanted to go through court.
04:33 Exactly.
04:34 Lies didn't stop there, but the judge's patience sure did.
04:37 Being denied her ludicrous request led defendant Valencia Carroll to break their television
04:42 and vandalize her stepfather's car.
04:45 What are you trying to do?
04:46 You want us to take this baby so that you and your friends could go out partying and
04:53 having a good time?
04:54 Number six, your fault.
04:56 This case was won and lost in under a minute.
05:00 The rest was really just a back and forth for our entertainment.
05:04 Rest of the damage was caused by you when you grabbed for the bottle of bleach and it
05:08 fell over the rest of the clothes that she had piled up in the middle of the floor.
05:12 That's your fault.
05:14 No, it's not my fault.
05:16 Defendant Monika Lahai was accused of pouring bleach on her ex-boyfriend's clothes.
05:20 Her story was that she only intentionally ruined one pair of pants, but that due to
05:25 him trying to grab the bottle, she accidentally spilled it all over the rest.
05:29 He over there acting all just like he ain't want to say nothing now.
05:32 You know, that's exactly what happened to dinner.
05:34 My pile.
05:34 You listen to me.
05:36 Where do you think you are?
05:39 You think you're on Springer?
05:41 You're not.
05:42 The judge contended that either way, it was her fault.
05:45 Lahai immediately launched back.
05:47 But as we know, arguing with Shailen never goes well.
05:51 The plaintiff didn't even have to say much.
05:53 This defendant lost the case all by herself.
05:56 There's judgment for the plaintiff in the amount of $5,000.
05:59 What about my computer?
06:00 But what about my computer?
06:01 That's all.
06:02 What about my computer?
06:03 But she goes in here and let me go walk away like that.
06:05 That don't even make no sense.
06:07 Number five, you're a fibber.
06:09 It's a simple question.
06:11 Where was defendant Ida Nunez living in May?
06:14 I was in Seattle, Washington.
06:15 With whom?
06:16 Samantha Merritt and my two children.
06:19 Where were you living in Seattle, Washington in May?
06:22 I was living in downtown Seattle.
06:24 Nunez had a few different answers.
06:26 She lived with her friend.
06:27 Actually, wait, she lived with her mother.
06:30 Actually, wait, your honor.
06:31 Whatever's best for her case is where she lived in May.
06:34 I'm May.
06:35 When I did leave Washington State, I moved in with my mother.
06:38 You're a fibber.
06:39 I'm a what?
06:41 Fibber.
06:41 Liar.
06:42 Slippery as she is, the judge had Nunez pegged as a liar from the get-go,
06:47 and she didn't even need all the plaintiff's interjections telling her as much.
06:51 It was obvious that the rest of the case was just going to be the judge burying her in her own lies.
06:57 I was going to call you.
06:57 Prior to living with him?
06:58 I wasn't really living there.
06:59 I was living with my mother.
07:01 Only for a month.
07:01 What month?
07:03 June.
07:04 Clearly, she's a liar, your honor.
07:07 I know.
07:07 Number four, learn how to behave yourselves.
07:11 A case from early in the series' run finds the plaintiff's witness sparring with the defendant
07:16 over some unseemly allegations.
07:18 Incident that happened at her house the night before.
07:20 What kind of an incident?
07:21 Okay, she locked me in her house because she didn't want me to be with her brother.
07:27 Oh, that's getting too complicated for me.
07:29 Even the background of this case was so full of drama, the judge had to stop defendant Ruby
07:34 Washington from getting in the weeds about who she was dating and how they all knew each other.
07:39 Already, it had the makings of a soap opera.
07:41 My boyfriend.
07:42 Who?
07:43 No, you had an argument with my boyfriend because he broke your window.
07:47 Because you wouldn't get out of my house.
07:48 Because you wouldn't let me out.
07:49 Hey!
07:50 Ladies!
07:51 The insults and accusations flew and only continued outside the courtroom.
07:57 To think this all erupted over airline tickets is kind of amazing,
08:01 considering they hardly got a chance to get into that part of the case at all.
08:05 Did you take $714 from him?
08:07 No, I did not.
08:08 Who paid for the airline tickets?
08:09 He did.
08:10 All right, judgment is, in this case, is for the plaintiff for the amount of $714.
08:14 You people have to learn how to behave yourselves in a court.
08:16 Number 3.
08:17 Objection Irrelevancy
08:19 The judge opened plaintiff Glenn Hazleton's case against his own mother with a series of questions.
08:25 These questions were purely for information gathering purposes.
08:29 Well, Hazleton didn't appreciate the information she was gathering.
08:33 Were they physically related?
08:35 Were they assault cases?
08:37 Some.
08:38 But what does that got to pertain to this case?
08:40 Everything pertains to this case.
08:42 He asked what his previous arrests for assault had to do with the case at hand.
08:46 But we think he knew exactly what the pertinence was.
08:49 This case resolved around him being arrested for theft and assault, after all.
08:53 Either way, it's obvious Judge Judy touched a nerve with her questions,
08:57 and he got so heated, he actually told her to dismiss the case.
09:01 I'm just talking about this case, Your Honor.
09:03 I'm talking about who the party…
09:05 I'm only talking about this case at hand.
09:08 If you don't want to discuss this case, then we can just dismiss it.
09:11 Well, ask and ye shall receive.
09:14 His case was recalled, but it only meant he had to answer the same questions he wanted to dodge before.
09:19 Asking me to reconsider the dismissal of this case, is that correct?
09:23 That is correct, Your Honor.
09:25 Okay, so then let's get back to where I was questioning you before.
09:28 Number 2.
09:29 Bougaise Officer
09:31 Usually, a police report is at the end of the story in Judge Judy's courtroom.
09:36 In this case, it's only the beginning.
09:38 That means he's fake.
09:39 That… why would she not be arrested for this, Your Honor?
09:46 The person who filled out this form is a police officer in the Hartford Police Department.
09:51 He's not a fake.
09:52 Plaintiff Kylie Jones' heartbreaking story is one of the show's most tragic.
09:56 According to Jones, her ex-roommate Octavia Camby poured boiling water on her while she slept.
10:03 For some reason, Camby wasn't arrested.
10:05 The only thing that she's consistent about in these reports, even in her altered state,
10:11 is that you poured boiling water on her.
10:15 Jones insisted it was because the police officer who responded and wrote the police report was a
10:20 fake.
10:21 Her contention is one of the most confusing things ever heard in Judge Judy's courtroom.
10:26 It soon came out that the cops didn't take her complaint seriously because
10:30 she was simply under the influence, and they considered her an unreliable witness.
10:35 "What she did was terrible. They didn't take you seriously. And that is not an excuse for them.
10:40 But part of the reason they didn't take you seriously is because you were your own worst
10:44 enemy."
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11:01 Number 1. Tupperware Lady
11:03 When the judge asks a litigant's version of events, she doesn't necessarily require the
11:09 most entertaining reenactment this side of unsolved mysteries.
11:23 After all, they don't give out Emmys to court show litigants. Someone needs to tell Karina Roy.
11:29 Forever cemented in the culture as the Tupperware Lady,
11:32 Roy's testimony is one for the ages.
11:35 From the jump, Roy was determined to terrorize the courtroom with her theater kid antics.
11:51 She wanted the judge to know every dramatic nuance of the situation.
11:55 How else could Judge Judy understand the trauma,
11:58 the stakes, and the tremendous emotional toll this Tupperware attack had on her?
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