The defendant should never get on Judge Judy's bad side. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the litigants who tested Judge Judy’s patience with their weak and sometimes offensively bad excuses.
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00:00You told two distinct stories, but neither one of them
00:04suggests that this child did anything wrong.
00:07Welcome to Miss Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks
00:10for the litigants who tested Judge Judy's patience
00:13with their weak and sometimes offensively bad excuses.
00:16Okay, all I'd like to see is photographs of your car.
00:19Alright, you'll see scrape marks on it.
00:21Just show me the pictures.
00:25Number 10, I don't remember.
00:27Do you remember that?
00:28No.
00:29You don't remember going upstairs to get him
00:31and saying, I've locked the kids in the car?
00:33No.
00:34Ivory Clark is not the first litigant to suffer
00:36sudden and convenient memory problems
00:38in Judge Judy's courtroom.
00:40However, it seems particularly egregious here.
00:43The plaintiff, her mother's boyfriend,
00:45had to smash his own car window
00:47to get Clark's infant out of the hot vehicle,
00:49avoiding what could have been a tragic accident.
00:52He sues her for the cost of replacing the window
00:54and for the removal of trash she left
00:56when she moved out of his house.
00:58Well, you told him you would pay for the window.
01:00I probably did, but I don't remember.
01:02Okay, now let's get to the dumpster.
01:04Clark blames her mother for the whole event.
01:06She says that she can't remember promising
01:08to pay the plaintiff back,
01:09nor does she remember the day she moved out of his house.
01:11Given the circumstances,
01:13repayment is the very least she could do.
01:15So, as Ivory came up to tell me
01:17that the child was locked in the car,
01:19first response out of my mouth was,
01:21you need to call a locksmith.
01:23Number nine, freedom of speech.
01:25And I quote, you want me to pick this up?
01:27You blankety-blank-blank-blank, unquote.
01:30Things went quickly south after that.
01:33A dispute about tree trimmings
01:35on the wrong side of the property boundary
01:37turned into a feud of epic proportions.
01:39Plaintiff Stephen Hesley was irritated
01:41that his next-door neighbor, Sheila Blavosky,
01:44left trimmings in his yard.
01:46Things escalated enough that police reports were filed.
01:48The judge isn't impressed with either litigant.
01:51However, Blavosky admits that she turned up the heat
01:53by protesting in front of his house,
01:55shouting expletives into a bullhorn
01:58and disturbing the peace of the neighborhood.
02:00Blavosky insists she's just exercising
02:02her First Amendment rights.
02:04Brushes off the trim off of my side of the fence.
02:08In doing that, his side of the fence fell.
02:11Judge Scheindlin disagrees.
02:13She calls it disorderly conduct.
02:15The result was his side fell off
02:18because I cut off my side.
02:20Oh, I see. Now I see.
02:21You're not talking about the fence.
02:23You're talking about the trimmings.
02:24Yes.
02:25Ah.
02:26Number 8. I thought she had full coverage.
02:28Your sister says she really had your permission
02:30because she used to borrow the car all the time.
02:32You left the back door open. She grabbed the keys.
02:35The Dettenheim sisters are in court
02:37over a matter of car damage.
02:38Carol Dettenheim insists that she could
02:40borrow her sister Eve's car without asking
02:43because she had borrowed it in the past without issue.
02:46But then she hit a deer.
02:47Eve Dettenheim didn't appreciate Carol's offer of deer stew.
02:51She just wants her to pay.
02:53The judge is surprisingly patient with the defendant
02:55even though many of her answers
02:57demonstrate complete obliviousness.
02:59Damage the car and her defense is
03:01you should have had better insurance.
03:02Is that your defense?
03:04I thought she had full coverage.
03:06She thought Eve had full coverage car insurance.
03:09It doesn't occur to her to pay for the damage, though.
03:12The judge suggests she get a job
03:14and pay her sister what she's owed.
03:16Uh, no, I put pine straw over it and took the antler
03:21and went and got it later.
03:23Number seven, I don't keep secrets from my children.
03:26And you did that because I don't believe
03:28in keeping secrets from my kids.
03:30Yes.
03:31You're a moron.
03:32Judge Scheindlin's years in the family court system
03:34came back with a vengeance in this case.
03:36She is not impressed with litigant Kathleen Kreftmeyer's parenting.
03:40She admits to telling her six-year-old daughter
03:42that the plaintiff might not be her father.
03:44There was no decent or appropriate reason to tell her this.
03:47But Kreftmeyer explains that she doesn't
03:49keep secrets from her kids.
03:51This fills the judge with rage.
03:54You say that five years ago,
03:56when your daughter was six years old,
03:59you had a talk with her,
04:00and you told her that there was a chance
04:02that he wasn't her father.
04:04She can't believe a mother would tell a child that young
04:06that her father might not be their biological father,
04:09especially since she has no conclusive proof.
04:12It's a gigantic lapse in judgment.
04:15All I know is, madam,
04:16you are one of the most marginal people
04:18that I've come across in a long time,
04:20and you haven't even said two words.
04:21Number six, the landlord didn't want the rent.
04:24When she found out about the housing...
04:25You are confused about not paying rent.
04:27She did it out of retaliation, though,
04:28because we called the housing services on her.
04:30Who cares?
04:31When the landlord gave them the legal 30-day notice
04:33to vacate her apartment,
04:35defendants Patrick Valdivia-Menzel
04:37and Rachel Bochakis heard something very different.
04:40They tell Judge Judy, with a straight face,
04:43that they took this as her not wanting rent money anymore,
04:46but they would absolutely be happy to stay in the place rent-free.
04:49For months, that's exactly what they did.
04:52She told us that she didn't want any more money, though.
04:54She said that she didn't want to go through an eviction.
04:56She didn't want to go through an eviction.
04:58The audacity of that defense is unbelievable.
05:01It makes their argument about harassment
05:03and filing an order of protection against the landlord
05:06all the more ridiculous.
05:08Apparently, being asked for rent is harassment.
05:11If that's true, we all have a case.
05:13What you do is you don't call housing and say,
05:15I want to know what my rights are,
05:17and you're not talking over me,
05:20and then stop paying rent.
05:22That's what you don't do unless you're a squatter.
05:25Number five, two entirely different stories.
05:28She had the leash on her hand while she was holding onto it.
05:31I'm sorry, Your Honor, that is false.
05:33As dog owners in these cases usually do,
05:36the defendants here argue their dog is docile.
05:39The bites the plaintiff's son stained indicate otherwise.
05:42Lord Rodriguez calls the child a liar for the first few minutes.
05:46She tells the judge that the plaintiff and his son
05:48are making up an elaborate story
05:50because the boy actually purposefully scared her dog,
05:53so the bite was warranted.
05:55And we kept walking,
05:57and then my dog started barking as we had already walked off.
06:01Her version of events don't square with her answer to the lawsuit.
06:05The judge is angry because not only can Rodriguez
06:07not keep her facts straight,
06:09but neither one absolves her of guilt in the dog's actions.
06:12She's given two different stories, but not one reason.
06:16It's the same story, just one story's more elaborate than the other.
06:19Number four, I don't care what you believe.
06:22And you abused the system, and you abused him.
06:25Now, if you felt threatened, which I think you did not...
06:29Two co-workers arguing over a woman end up in a legal case
06:33when defendant Joshua Sumrow had a feeling
06:36the plaintiff was going to harass him at their shared workplace.
06:39She susses out very quickly that Sumrow was unfairly using
06:42an emergency protective order to try to get his co-worker fired.
06:46He insists he believed the plaintiff might do something.
06:49That Mr. Sylvester said or did to you
06:52that inspired you to file for a protective order against him,
06:57excluding him from your workplace.
07:01As angry as she gets, it's rare to hear her curse in the courtroom.
07:04But if there's one thing she hates more than people who don't respect her court,
07:07it's people who abuse the legal system.
07:10Maybe your sister cares how you feel, feel.
07:13The law doesn't give a rat's ass how you feel.
07:16Number three, take care of this baby.
07:18So I have proper documentation.
07:20Your stepfather, according to you, came in and said,
07:23what are you trying to do?
07:25Valencia Carroll arrived at her mother and stepfather's home with a strange request.
07:29She wanted to leave her friend's young child with them to take care of indefinitely.
07:33The judge already smells a rat.
07:35This all seems a little unsavory.
07:37Allegedly, Carroll went on a tirade that ended with a broken TV
07:41and her stepfather's car being vandalized.
07:44Carroll's excuse is that it wasn't her fault.
07:46She says her stepfather pushed her into the TV and his own car.
07:50Well, Larry pushes me into the TV. My elbow then hits the TV.
07:53What?
07:54My mom grabs him.
07:55Okay, now let's stop right there.
07:57Nothing she says makes any sense.
08:00She wants us to believe that none of this damage was a result of her rage,
08:03but her decisions up to this point don't give Scheindlin much faith in her judgment.
08:07Yes, after she broke the TV.
08:09Yeah, when I come downstairs, she already has the windshield wiper
08:12and she's banging out all over my car.
08:14She's running around in circles, hitting different parts of my car.
08:18Number two, maybe the baby was having a bad day.
08:21Within 24 hours, the baby was in surgery for a broken leg.
08:26You think that that's coincidental?
08:28Running a daycare out of your home is already risky,
08:30as defendant Heather Shearer found out.
08:33When the plaintiffs arrived to pick up their children, their infant was injured.
08:36Shearer blames their nine-year-old for rough housing with his younger brother.
08:40Unfortunately, that defense makes things even worse for her.
08:43The brother was also under her care at the time.
08:45Shearer still won't accept responsibility.
08:48The baby, she says, might have just been having a bad day.
08:51So I assume from this answer that, according to you, it's the nine-year-old's fault.
08:57I don't know that it happened in my care.
08:59The judge had some stern words for her and her home state's licensing practices.
09:04If you're in this lackadaisical, it's probably best to leave childcare to the professionals.
09:09How could any state allow you to take care of children?
09:13You see a nine-year-old playing roughly with a four-month-old infant,
09:17who you have already told to take out of a swing because the baby was crying.
09:21That's your job. You leave the sink or you leave the television.
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09:40Number 1. No earpiece, ma'am.
09:42My wallet.
09:43What was in your wallet?
09:44It was 50 bucks.
09:45Okay.
09:46I had to replace all my IDs. I had gift cards in there.
09:49Some legends are born and some are made through sheer force of stupidity.
09:54Accused of stealing plaintiff Ginny Paradeza's book bag and all its contents,
09:58Stephen and Samuel McKay deny this.
10:01They were just there when someone else stole it.
10:03It doesn't make them look good.
10:05Once Paradeza starts listing out what was in the bag, one of them slips up
10:09and denies that one of the items was in the bag that they just said they didn't take,
10:13whether or not they were the thieves or just the lookouts.
10:16Their explanations don't wash with the judge.
10:18She takes pleasure in ruling against them and a viral clip was born.
10:22It was not the earpiece in the mail.
10:24I love it. I love it.
10:26I love it.
10:32Judging for the plaintiff for the amount of $500, that's what I think it's worth, madam.
10:36Which of these defendants had you yelling at the screen?
10:39Tell us in the comments.
10:41What did you need 20 bucks for?
10:43For my personal need?
10:44No, tell me what you needed 20 bucks for.
10:46To buy some snacks or anything like that.
10:49You needed snacks?
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