| 00:00:00 | Is the plaintiff.
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| 00:00:01 | She says she bought a car from
the lying defendant who told
her the car was from new
hampshire and had no title.
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| 00:00:09 | Of course, that isn't true.
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| 00:00:11 | The guy turned the odometer
back by 100,000 miles, was
arrested and now she can't get
her hard earned money back.
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| 00:00:19 | Bottom line, she has no car and
no money and that's a no-no so
she's suing for the amount
she's owed.
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| 00:00:33 | This is the defendant.
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| 00:00:37 | He says the plaintiff stalked
him because she wanted to buy
the car so badly.
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| 00:00:40 | Then after she had it for a
month, she called and told him
she changed her mind and wanted
her money back.
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| 00:00:45 | Huh?
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| 00:00:46 | He has no idea what she did to
the thing in the month she had
it.
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| 00:00:50 | The sale was as-is and that is
that.
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| 00:00:53 | He's accused of not being an
honest businessman.
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| 00:00:59 | >> All parties please raise
your right hands.
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| 00:01:02 | >> What you are about to
witness is real.
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| 00:01:06 | The participants are not actors.
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| 00:01:08 | They are actual litigants with
a case pending in civil court.
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| 00:01:12 | Both parties have a -- agreed
to drop their claims and have
their cases settled here before
judge milian in our forum, the
people's court.
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| 00:01:25 | >> Litigants have been sworn,
your honor.
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| 00:01:29 | >> Okay.
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| 00:01:30 | Judith, you are suing john for
$4,523 that you say he owes you
for breaching a contract on the
sale of a car.
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| 00:01:38 | All right.
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| 00:01:39 | What's going on?
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| 00:01:41 | >> Hi.
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| 00:01:42 | I bought the car, I found it on
craigslist.
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| 00:01:44 | >> What kind of car was it?
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| 00:01:46 | >> 1993 Jeep cherokee.
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| 00:01:50 | >> Okay.
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| 00:01:50 | >> I took the car for a test
drive.
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| 00:01:53 | Seemed okay.
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| 00:01:54 | Looked at it the best I could
and paid him cash for the car.
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| 00:01:58 | At that time, he -- I asked him
for the title.
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| 00:02:02 | And he gave me this piece of
paper from new hampshire and
said they don't title cars 1993
or older, that old of a model
in new hampshire.
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| 00:02:14 | You just bring this piece of
and he's done
it before.
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| 00:02:20 | He has --
>> is this before or after you
send him the $1750?
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| 00:02:24 | >> Pretty much during.
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| 00:02:25 | >> This doesn't strike you as a
potential problem?
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| 00:02:29 | >> Yeah.
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| 00:02:29 | My senses went up a little bit.
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| 00:02:31 | But he told me that it was his
wife's car, she drove it in new
hampshire, not a problem, not a
problem.
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| 00:02:36 | That was a saturday.
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| 00:02:38 | First thing monday, took off
for work, went right to d.m.v.
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| 00:02:42 | They told me at I needed a
title.
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| 00:02:43 | I said no.
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| 00:02:44 | No.
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| 00:02:45 | No.
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| 00:02:45 | This is -- you know, and now
every time --
>> my good friend john who I've
known forever tells me I don't
need a title.
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| 00:02:53 | >> Right.
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| 00:02:55 | So no go with that.
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| 00:02:56 | , call
him right away.
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| 00:03:00 | He tells me they don't know
what they're talking about.
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| 00:03:03 | Go to another d.m.v.
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| 00:03:04 | >> Does he tell you to go to
the d.m.v. in his neighborhood?
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| 00:03:08 | >> He did.
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| 00:03:08 | He told me first to go to
another one.
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| 00:03:11 | A different one.
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| 00:03:12 | I did.
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| 00:03:12 | As things are going on --
>> how many did you go to and
get the answer no from?
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| 00:03:20 | >> Four.
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| 00:03:20 | The third one that I went to, i
spoke to supervisors who took
my information and told me that
they were going to have the
police or whatever
contact me, auto crime because
they told me now on the third
time that I was there, he just
bought the car or whoever the
person I bought it from, bought
it from someone not even a
month before I bought it from
him.
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| 00:03:45 | >> Okay.
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| 00:03:46 | Wait.
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| 00:03:46 | How do the police get involved?
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| 00:03:48 | D.m.v. called them?
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| 00:03:50 | >> D.m.v. looked it up.
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| 00:03:53 | >> Now the police are involved
but what happens?
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| 00:03:56 | You meet him at one of the
d.m.v.'s.
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| 00:04:00 | >> Yeah.
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| 00:04:01 | >> Like the police were already
in on it at that point?
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| 00:04:03 | >> They were.
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| 00:04:05 | >> Okay.
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| 00:04:06 | So they are waiting for him to
show up.
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| 00:04:10 | >> Both of us.
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| 00:04:11 | >> But he doesn't know the
police are going to be there
waiting for him.
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| 00:04:15 | >> They told me not to tell him.
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| 00:04:17 | >> Of course.
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| 00:04:18 | He goes to meet you there and
the police are there.
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| 00:04:21 | Do you go approach him or do
they approach him?
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| 00:04:23 | How does this work out?
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| 00:04:25 | >> I meet him.
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| 00:04:27 | He's all sketchy and stuff.
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| 00:04:29 | Acting like himself.
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| 00:04:29 | >> I don't know what that means.
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| 00:04:31 | >> Sweaty and like walking
around and like checking his
phone and not staying in one
place and he keeps telling me,
we have to go to the lady at
window three.
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| 00:04:40 | They called us at window two
and he said no.
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| 00:04:42 | We have to go to three.
|
| 00:04:44 | I said you can't pick the
window that you go to.
|
| 00:04:46 | What does it matter?
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| 00:04:48 | We go to window two and he's
like trying to get the woman, i
guess, that he knew, is friends
with at that window and that's
when the police came from
behind and they said -- you
know, they asked who we were
and they asked will you step
behind here and go in the room
with us.
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| 00:05:05 | We went in there.
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| 00:05:07 | >> He ended up getting arrested.
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| 00:05:09 | >> He did.
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| 00:05:09 | December 14.
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| 00:05:10 | >> For car theft -- or for
theft.
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| 00:05:15 | The theft being the money that
he took from you.
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| 00:05:17 | But what ends up happening to
that case?
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| 00:05:20 | >> I tried to follow up on it
and he calls me and tells me
that it went from they had all
of the stuff --
>> who is he?
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| 00:05:30 | >> The prosecutor.
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| 00:05:31 | It went from the mileage thing
and all of these other things.
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| 00:05:35 | >> Wheat the mileage thing?
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| 00:05:37 | >> When the police came to
impound the car, they said do
you know that the inspection
mileage is actually less than
the bill of sale mileage?
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| 00:05:46 | >> Less or more?
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| 00:05:49 | >> The inspection milage was
more.
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| 00:05:50 | >> You expected it to be less.
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| 00:05:52 | >> Yes.
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| 00:05:53 | Thank you.
|
| 00:05:53 | It was actually more.
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| 00:05:54 | They said that didn't add up.
|
| 00:05:55 | >> Which means that somebody is
tampering with the mileage.
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| 00:05:59 | >> Right.
|
| 00:06:00 | When they came to look at the
car, the mileage was like 200
and something.
|
| 00:06:07 | >> What's the prosecutor going
to do with the case?
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| 00:06:10 | Just answer.
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| 00:06:10 | What happened to the case?
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| 00:06:11 | Did they drop it?
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| 00:06:14 | >> He got arrested and he --
>> just give me the answer.
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| 00:06:16 | >> I don't know how to say it.
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| 00:06:19 | He rolled over or rated on
other people.
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| 00:06:23 | >> That's why you're avoiding
it.
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| 00:06:24 | >> I don't want to say that.
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| 00:06:27 | >> All righty.
|
| 00:06:28 | What is going on?
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| 00:06:30 | >> Your honor, I had a jeep to
sell so I advertised it.
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| 00:06:34 | >> Was that your wife's that
she drove in new hampshire?
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| 00:06:37 | >> She drove it a bit and so
did i.
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| 00:06:40 | >> A bit as in what?
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| 00:06:41 | Did you tell her it was my car,
our car, my wife's car in new
hampshire but it was a car that
you had bought and never
registered in your name?
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| 00:06:52 | >> No.
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| 00:06:53 | It was registered to me.
|
| 00:06:53 | >> Can I see the registration
in your name?
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| 00:06:56 | >> I gave it to her z.
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| 00:07:01 | >> Did he give you a
registration?
|
| 00:07:05 | >> No.
|
| 00:07:06 | >> The testimony continues.
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| 00:07:08 | >> I don't know that they were
police.
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| 00:07:11 | They worked at d.m.v.
|
| 00:07:12 | They were very aggressive and
accusing me of things and i
felt like I was involved in her
problems.
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| 00:07:17 | >> She's just trying to get you
to register a car and get her
money back.
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| 00:07:21 | She's going to be screaming i
want my money back.
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| 00:07:24 | I can't register the car.
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>> plaintiff bought a car from
the defendant that was so
shady, the defendant got
arrested.
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| 00:09:35 | The defendant says he gave her
his registration.
|
| 00:09:38 | Let's listen.
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| 00:09:39 | >> You would have paperwork if
it was registered in your name.
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| 00:09:42 | You would have other things
that would show it was
registered in your name.
|
| 00:09:45 | >> It was registered at the
time I sold it.
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| 00:09:49 | >> I heard your flapping gums.
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| 00:09:50 | Now I'm asking for proof.
|
| 00:09:51 | >> I don't have a copy of the
registration but it's
attainable.
|
| 00:09:55 | >> You had the car for how long
before you put it up for sale?
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| 00:09:58 | >> About a year.
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| 00:09:59 | >> It was registered in your
name.
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| 00:10:00 | >> It was.
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| 00:10:02 | >> In what state?
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| 00:10:03 | >> New hampshire.
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| 00:10:03 | >> You do not have the title
because --
>> a car that old in new
hampshire is sold with a bill
of sale that I did provide her.
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| 00:10:10 | >> Does not need to be titled.
|
| 00:10:12 | >> No.
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| 00:10:12 | In fact, they do not title cars
that old.
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| 00:10:20 | >> You sold it for $1750.
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| 00:10:25 | >> I believe it was $1600, your
honor.
|
| 00:10:27 | >> Do you have the bill of sale?
|
| 00:10:29 | >> I do.
|
| 00:10:29 | >> What are you heming and
hauing?
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| 00:10:31 | >> When I asked for the bill of
sale, he said it was going to
leave it blank so when I went
to get insurance, I could put
whatever I want in there and i
wouldn't have to pay the extra
money on it.
|
| 00:10:42 | >> It has to do with defrauding
the tax man.
|
| 00:10:46 | The person that pays sales tax
is you so the person that
benefits from the fraud is you.
|
| 00:10:51 | You're going to show me a bill
of sale for the car for peanuts?
|
| 00:10:57 | >> It doesn't have an amount on
it.
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| 00:11:00 | He left it and said fill in the
blanks.
|
| 00:11:03 | >> Does anyone have any proof
of how much was paid for the
car?
|
| 00:11:08 | >> No.
|
| 00:11:09 | >> And you?
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| 00:11:10 | No?
|
| 00:11:12 | >> I don't.
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| 00:11:13 | >> All right.
|
| 00:11:14 | So now you -- she can't
register the car.
|
| 00:11:19 | You meet her in huntington and
I assume it's a surprise to you
police --
there's actually a d.m.v.
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| 00:11:26 | Police?
|
| 00:11:26 | >> I don't know that they were
police.
|
| 00:11:29 | They worked at d.m.v.
|
| 00:11:30 | They were very aggressive and
accusing me of things and i
felt like I was involved in her
problems.
|
| 00:11:35 | >> She's just trying to
register a car and get her
money back.
|
| 00:11:39 | She's going to be screaming, i
want my money back.
|
| 00:11:42 | I can't register the car.
|
| 00:11:43 | What do you think?
|
| 00:11:44 | She's part of a drug ring?
|
| 00:11:46 | There's no big evidence of what
you're saying she's having some
problem with the police there.
|
| 00:11:49 | You're the guy having the
problem with the police.
|
| 00:11:51 | And you're the guy who ends up
getting charged.
|
| 00:11:53 | What happened with your case?
|
| 00:11:56 | >> It was dismissed.
|
| 00:11:59 | You're talking about being
arrested?
|
| 00:12:01 | >> On account of cooperation?
|
| 00:12:02 | >> No.
|
| 00:12:03 | >> On account of what?
|
| 00:12:05 | >> They never pursued it.
|
| 00:12:06 | >> Do you have any proof of
that?
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| 00:12:07 | >> Yes.
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| 00:12:08 | >> Let me take a look.
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| 00:12:09 | >> Of course.
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| 00:12:12 | >> You submitted a title into
evidence for a car in your name.
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| 00:12:17 | What's that about?
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| 00:12:19 | >> It's the previous owner.
|
| 00:12:20 | You just file for one.
|
| 00:12:22 | It's about $10 or $15.
|
| 00:12:23 | She didn't need me.
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| 00:12:24 | >> That's not how it works, sir.
|
| 00:12:26 | When you sell car, they have
-- the person you're selling it
to -- you could sell a car
that's a lemon.
|
| 00:12:34 | You don't know you're
defrauding somebody.
|
| 00:12:36 | As long as you're not making a
lying statement to them in
order to get them to buy a car,
you can sell a used car as is
and step back.
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| 00:12:44 | However, you can't sell a car
that has a title problem.
|
| 00:12:47 | You can't sell a car where you
jump title, a car that she
can't tight.
|
| 00:12:51 | The one thing that you warrant
is that the other side is going
to be able to title the car and
saying I've done it a million
times.
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| 00:12:58 | It's another $15 or whatever.
|
| 00:13:00 | That's not an answer.
|
| 00:13:01 | If you can't provide a way for
her to be able to title this
car, then you can't provide a
way for her to title the car.
|
| 00:13:08 | What I'm curious about is why
do they have it in for you?
|
| 00:13:11 | How is it that the case ends up
being dropped when they charge
you with it?
|
| 00:13:15 | Most situations like this, the
police go like this is civil
matter.
|
| 00:13:19 | Sue them in small claims.
|
| 00:13:20 | They don't get involved in it.
|
| 00:13:22 | What was it about you that made
them get involved?
|
| 00:13:25 | Do you have a wrap sheet?
|
| 00:13:27 | >> No.
|
| 00:13:27 | They told me they weren't
pursuing it because there was
no case there.
|
| 00:13:31 | She wasn't happy that I would
be charged with the serious
charges and then they pursued
no case.
|
| 00:13:35 | But there was no case there.
|
| 00:13:37 | >> No.
|
| 00:13:38 | >> Why are you suing for $100
for the towing of the car?
|
| 00:13:42 | Explain that.
|
| 00:13:43 | >> December 3 I was driving
home and the steering snapped
and was not connected to the
tires and it veered just -- i
couldn't do anything.
|
| 00:13:56 | The tires just were going one
way, the steering wheel was
just turning.
|
| 00:14:00 | It went up on the side of the
road.
|
| 00:14:04 | I called the tow truck and
that's when I called the police.
|
| 00:14:07 | I had it towed in front of my
house because I didn't know
what else to do with it.
|
| 00:14:13 | >> Why is it so much for
insurance?
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| 00:14:16 | Didn't you cancel it when you
d
>> he should be charged at least in sleeze
tax, really.
|
| 00:14:27 | I have to cancel my insurance
because they're saying official
this -- officially this is not
my car.
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| 00:14:35 | I can't do anything with it.
|
| 00:14:36 | I want to cancel.
|
| 00:14:39 | They gave me the run around
because I paid them cash also
and all this time, I'm thinking
my car insurance is canceled
and then I get a letter saying
that they canceled my
insurance, the company, because
I missed the first payment.
|
| 00:14:52 | And I'm thinking it's canceled
the whole time waiting to get
my money back so now this is
going through all year.
|
| 00:14:58 | >> What do you mean, all year?
|
| 00:15:01 | $263 Is insurance for a year?
|
| 00:15:03 | >> I'm still trying to get that
money back.
|
| 00:15:05 | >> But that's for the insurance
company that you picked and you
have to prove that you canceled.
|
| 00:15:11 | Show me what covers one month
of insurance or two months of
insurance before you solve the
problem and get with the police
and everything else happens.
|
| 00:15:19 | Where is the car physically?
|
| 00:15:20 | >> It was impounded.
|
| 00:15:21 | >> As part of the criminal case
it was impounded by the police?
|
| 00:15:24 | >> Yep.
|
| 00:15:24 | >> What happened after the
criminal case was disposed of?
|
| 00:15:27 | >> I got a letter from the
impound saying I owed them
$1,000 to go and get this
vehicle that wasn't mine.
|
| 00:15:35 | >> But $1,000 happens when you
leave it there and don't pick
it up.
|
| 00:15:39 | >> They told me to leave it
there.
|
| 00:15:42 | >> But when the case is
dropped, they say pick up the
car.
|
| 00:15:46 | And you don't feel it's your
car so you don't pick it up and
that's where the $1,000 comes
in.
|
| 00:15:52 | A small problem turned into an
enormous problem.
|
| 00:15:56 | >> It makes a good case for
walking.
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| 00:18:25 | The question, if -- even if she
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| 00:18:30 | >> Why?
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| 00:18:45 | She really has no case.
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| 00:18:47 | >> Got your point.
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| 00:18:49 | >> Can I ask you a question?
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| 00:18:51 | How is she supposed to register
the car?
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| 00:18:54 | >> According to the state of
new hampshire, she needs a bill
of sale.
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| 00:18:57 | >> How is she going to register
the car in new york which is
where you sold it?
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| 00:19:02 | >> State of new hampshire where
I'm a resident --
>> that's fabulous that you're
a resident in the state of new
hampshire and that may be only
why you deal in new hampshire
cars that are older in 1994.
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| 00:19:11 | I don't know what you're up to
but the bottom line is how is
she going to register in new
york?
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| 00:19:17 | She couldn't.
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| 00:19:18 | She tried five times.
|
| 00:19:18 | What about the fact the
inspector sticker says an
amount of mileage that's higher
than what you sell it to her as?
|
| 00:19:24 | >> I don't know anything about
that.
|
| 00:19:26 | ?R somebody was spinning the
wheels on the odometer, my
friend.
|
| 00:19:30 | Somebody was doing it and you
had it for a year so you're the
likely culprit, right?
|
| 00:19:34 | You had a t for a year.
|
| 00:19:36 | Show me the paperwork from
where you bought the car.
|
| 00:19:40 | >> I didn't buy the car.
|
| 00:19:41 | >> I thought you said you had
it for a year.
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| 00:19:46 | >> Somebody owed me money and
gave me the car.
|
| 00:19:49 | >> Who owed you money?
|
| 00:19:50 | >> A tenant in new hampshire.
|
| 00:19:52 | >> Then why is it registered
under a new york name?
|
| 00:19:55 | >> Maybe previously it was.
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| 00:19:56 | >> Two people jumped title.
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| 00:19:57 | >> I didn't say that.
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| 00:19:59 | I registered in new hampshire.
|
| 00:20:01 | I'm able to do that.
|
| 00:20:02 | >> We have a couple of problems
here.
|
| 00:20:06 | You have the misfortune of not
being able to prove to me how
much you paid for the car.
|
| 00:20:10 | He admits that at a mininim you
paid $1600.
|
| 00:20:12 | I'm going to order him to pay
back the $1600.
|
| 00:20:15 | 58
in insurance.
|
| 00:20:19 | I am going to award you the tow.
|
| 00:20:21 | I'm not going to award you four
days of missed work.
|
| 00:20:24 | The car is your car.
|
| 00:20:25 | You can figure out what the
heck you're going to do with it.
|
| 00:20:27 | You can get it out of impound.
|
| 00:20:29 | And I'm ordering the defendant
to pay the plaintiff the sum of
$1,871.58.
|
| 00:20:40 | >> Okay.
|
| 00:20:40 | All right.
|
| 00:20:41 | So let's see what the defendant
has to say no.
|
| 00:20:43 | You just got yourself a car.
|
| 00:20:45 | >> Yeah.
|
| 00:20:45 | It sounded like a case of she
wants it, she wants it, she
wants it, she gets it, she
don't want it.
|
| 00:20:51 | >> But there were so many shady
details about the title,
absence of title, the odometer,
a lot of shady stuff with this
car.
|
| 00:20:58 | >> It was all just a story,
though, and it was her story.
|
| 00:21:01 | I didn't believe any of that.
|
| 00:21:02 | >> Okay.
|
| 00:21:02 | What are you going to do with
the car now?
|
| 00:21:04 | >> Probably donate it.
|
| 00:21:06 | >> All right.
|
| 00:21:07 | Right down around the corner
there.
|
| 00:21:09 | Documents waiting for you there.
|
| 00:21:10 | All right.
|
| 00:21:11 | Come in here.
|
| 00:21:11 | The judge helps you out.
|
| 00:21:13 | You weren't too smart the way
you went through this deal,
were you?
|
| 00:21:17 | >> I guess not.
|
| 00:21:18 | Nope.
|
| 00:21:19 | >> What do you think about the
day you met him?
|
| 00:21:21 | >> I think he was a sweaty,
shady character but I needed a
car so --
>> yocan undo a deal if
there's a proof of fraud.
|
| 00:21:34 | Fraud means a material
misrepresentation of a material
fact.
|
| 00:21:36 | Not a small thing, a big thing.
|
| 00:21:38 | Even if it's as is, you can
undo it.
|
| 00:21:40 | That will do it for this case.
|
| 00:21:41 | Litigants on the way into the
courtroom right now.
|
| 00:21:46 | >> This is the plaintiff.
|
| 00:21:49 | She says the defendant, her
landlord, evicted her and then
went into the apartment and
trashed her stuff.
|
| 00:21:56 | She cut the electrical cords
and ruined her electronics.
|
| 00:21:59 | The woman has done this before.
|
| 00:22:01 | She's not letting her get away
with it and is suing for
$2,856, the amount she's owed.
|
| 00:22:12 | This is the defendant.
|
| 00:22:16 | She says she noticed the cords
to the plaintiff's electronics
were cut but doesn't know
anything about how that
happened.
|
| 00:22:22 | The woman was out of the house
for two months and left her
things unlocked and open to
anyone.
|
| 00:22:27 | She has no idea what happened
in the two months.
|
| 00:22:30 | The only thing she does know is
she had nothing to do with it.
|
| 00:22:35 | She's accused of malicious
destruction.
|
| 00:22:41 | >> All parties please raise
your right hands.
|
| 00:22:45 | >> They terminated -- they
wanted to terminate my --
d
>> yeah.
|
| 00:22:49 | I got arrested.
|
| 00:22:49 | >> What did you get charged
with?
|
| 00:22:52 | >> Resisting arrest and
harassing an officer that I'm
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
>> next case on the docket,
plaintiff says the defendant is
a landlord who kicked her out,
threw her stuff in the street
and even cut her electrical
cords.
|
| 00:25:10 | The defendant pleads ignorance.
|
| 00:25:12 | It's the case of discord.
|
| 00:25:16 | >> Matia, you're suing your
former landlord for $2,856, the
value of goods that you say
were damaged when she illegally
put your stuff out 's going on.
|
| 00:25:27 | >> Yes.
|
| 00:25:27 | I moved to the defendant's
apartment around march 1.
|
| 00:25:34 | >> How much was the rent?
|
| 00:25:36 | >> The rent was $1,500.
|
| 00:25:37 | >> And my understanding is that
you were on section eight?
|
| 00:25:39 | >> Yes.
|
| 00:25:40 | I was on a section eight
program.
|
| 00:25:41 | >> That means that the
government helps to pay the
rent.
|
| 00:25:44 | >> Yes.
|
| 00:25:44 | >> How much rent was the
government paying?
|
| 00:25:47 | >> I don't have -- they was
paying --
>> how much were you paying?
|
| 00:25:52 | >> $400 Total.
|
| 00:25:54 | >> They were paying $1100 a
month.
|
| 00:25:56 | >> Yes.
|
| 00:26:02 | Up to around may, the end of
may, beginning of june, i
received a letter from section
eight saying that I was going
to be terminated.
|
| 00:26:11 | >> Why?
|
| 00:26:11 | >> Due to I had got into d ish
there was an altercation at a
restaurant.
|
| 00:26:17 | I got involved in the police
were they wanted to terminate
my --
>> did you get arrested?
|
| 00:26:22 | >> Yes.
|
| 00:26:23 | >> What did you get charged
with?
|
| 00:26:26 | >> Resisting arrest and
harassing an officer that I'm
fighting because --
>> it's pending.
|
| 00:26:31 | You're accused of punching a
police officer.
|
| 00:26:32 | >> Uh-huh which I didn't do and
I'm --
>> it wasn't quite the cinco de
mayo party, huh?
|
| 00:26:42 | >> Yeah.
|
| 00:26:44 | >> And others got arrested for
what?
|
| 00:26:46 | Yours was like the least of the
arrests that day.
|
| 00:26:50 | >> Exactly.
|
| 00:26:50 | >> Someone got arrested for
stabbing someone.
|
| 00:26:53 | >> Yeah, but --
>> so what happened?
|
| 00:26:55 | >> I couldn't pay.
|
| 00:26:57 | I could not afford august 1
rent.
|
| 00:27:01 | I received a letter about going
to court with her, that she was
suing for $2300 that included
august rent and late fees.
|
| 00:27:11 | >> You ended up in eviction
court in august.
|
| 00:27:13 | >> Uh-huh.
|
| 00:27:13 | >> Okay.
|
| 00:27:14 | Do you have the results of what
happened in eviction court?
|
| 00:27:17 | >> I don't know.
|
| 00:27:18 | >> Do you have it?
|
| 00:27:20 | May I see it?
|
| 00:27:28 | September 9.
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| 00:27:29 | In favor of the landlord.
|
| 00:27:31 | She has to pay $1747 plus cost
of $55 and a warrant of
eviction shall issue execution
to be stayed until september
16, a week later.
|
| 00:27:42 | So you get out when?
|
| 00:27:44 | >> All right.
|
| 00:27:46 | I -- after the court september
9 when we went to court, i
received an eviction letter.
|
| 00:27:52 | It did say eviction immediately
and sharon henderson has a
$1700 judgment against you.
|
| 00:28:00 | I didn't understand it so when
we got out of the courtroom, i
asked the officer how do I go
about doing this?
|
| 00:28:07 | He said you don't have to leave
the premises until she gets the
sheriff letter and then he was
like, after the sheriff letter,
you have about 72 hours after
that to do it.
|
| 00:28:19 | >> Do you have to wait that
long?
|
| 00:28:21 | Why don't you just get out so
you can get out?
|
| 00:28:24 | >> That's not so.
|
| 00:28:26 | >> The real question you're
asking the officer is how far
can I play the game?
|
| 00:28:29 | The officer is giving you the
correct answer.
|
| 00:28:31 | You can play the game until
they pry your cold knuckles off
of the doorknob.
|
| 00:28:40 | That's accurate.
|
| 00:28:40 | >> But that's not what I'm
doing.
|
| 00:28:47 | >> You're still not moving.
|
| 00:28:48 | >> This is what I figured.
|
| 00:28:49 | Whether it was wrong or right,
if she gives me the sheriff's
letter, then all right.
|
| 00:28:57 | I really have to get somebody
to do it.
|
| 00:28:59 | >> Why don't you just do what
you're supposed to do?
|
| 00:29:02 | >> Becaudon't have nobody
at the time.
|
| 00:29:03 | >> How are you going to get
somebody later?
|
| 00:29:06 | How are you magically going to
do it later?
|
| 00:29:08 | >> The cousin of mine moving my
stuff told me that he was going
to move it that sunday.
|
| 00:29:15 | >> That being what day?
|
| 00:29:18 | >> It wasn't september 12.
|
| 00:29:19 | It was the following sunday.
|
| 00:29:20 | >> That was way after the
sheriff was going to come in.
|
| 00:29:24 | According to what I'm looking
at, the only document anybody
has given me from the court, it
says that a warrant of eviction
shall issue execution to be
stayed until september 16.
|
| 00:29:34 | September 16 is a thursday
before the 19th which is when
you're god and ready to get
your stuff out.
|
| 00:29:40 | Wrap it up here.
|
| 00:29:41 | What did you do, honey?
|
| 00:29:42 | You didn't get your stuff out.
|
| 00:29:43 | One day you go tlo efr and you
see all your stuff at the curb.
|
| 00:29:47 | What day is that?
|
| 00:29:51 | >> It wasn't the 12th so it was
LIKE THE 18th.
|
| 00:29:54 | >> THEN IT'S THE 19th, THE DAY
You're supposed to move with
your cousin.
|
| 00:29:57 | Did you go there with your
cousin?
|
| 00:30:01 | >> I did.
|
| 00:30:01 | >> Everything you had in there
was outside?
|
| 00:30:03 | >> Everything I had from my --
everything.
|
| 00:30:06 | All my belongings.
|
| 00:30:06 | My bed --
>> what's going on?
|
| 00:30:08 | Let me hear from you.
|
| 00:30:09 | What's the story?
|
| 00:30:11 | >> I rented the apartment.
|
| 00:30:11 | >> We don't have to go that far
back.
|
| 00:30:14 | You end up in court with her
because she's not paying her
$400 or she's paying it late.
|
| 00:30:21 | >> Can my daughter --
>> sure.
|
| 00:30:23 | Come up.
|
| 00:30:24 | What's your name?
|
| 00:30:26 | >> Sharon henderson.
|
| 00:30:27 | I'm called vanessa.
|
| 00:30:28 | >> Who is that?
|
| 00:30:30 | >> That's sharon my mother.
|
| 00:30:31 | >> Go ahead.
|
| 00:30:31 | >> I manage the property.
|
| 00:30:34 | WE WERE IN THE COURT ON THE 9th.
|
| 00:30:35 | You have the whole story.
|
| 00:30:39 | >> SO THE 9th, WHAT DO YOU SAY
The judge says?
|
| 00:30:45 | >> The judge says he's going to
give her the eviction letter.
|
| 00:30:48 | >> What did he say about
getting out?
|
| 00:30:51 | >> He said seven days.
|
| 00:30:52 | >> That would take us to the
16th of september.
|
| 00:30:56 | NOT THE 19th.
|
| 00:30:56 | The judge says you have seven
days and that's not good enough.
|
| 00:30:59 | She's figuring out the angle of
how she can wait a few more
days because she knows you're
not allowed to do what you did
which is to dump the stuff on
the street.
|
| 00:31:12 | >> Right.
|
| 00:31:12 | That was our error.
|
| 00:31:15 | >> You think?
|
| 00:31:15 | When did you go in and take her
stuff and put it out?
|
| 00:31:18 | >> SUNDAY THE 19th.
|
| 00:31:21 | Sunday the 19th after the
judgment was filed.
|
| 00:31:25 | >> She showed up the 19th
because somebody called her up
and said, girl, your stuff is
on the street.
|
| 00:31:31 | Otherwise, it would be another
month.
|
| 00:31:32 | >> We have photos of what was
left in the apartment.
|
| 00:31:34 | >> Let me see:
>> What were you thinking?
|
| 00:31:40 | Why would you put her stuff out
there like that?
|
| 00:31:43 | Who gave you advice?
|
| 00:31:45 | Why did you think that was a
good thing for you to manage
the apartment?
|
| 00:31:48 | >> After all the time --
>> I don't mean why it felt
good.
|
| 00:31:53 | It would make me feel good but
it would not be legal.
|
| 00:31:57 | >> Right.
|
| 00:31:57 | >> All your stuff is out.
|
| 00:32:00 | You get there and the stuff
itself, other than -- you say
you had a pillow top.
|
| 00:32:04 | >> I had a pillow top mattress.
|
| 00:32:05 | >> Do you have pictures of the
damage to your stuff?
|
| 00:32:08 | >> Yes.
|
| 00:32:09 | Those was every piece I had two
tv's, even some of my irons.
|
| 00:32:15 | She cut every cord.
|
| 00:32:17 | >> The cord?
|
| 00:32:20 | >> The cord.
|
| 00:32:21 | Even my son's playstation, if
you see like the red, yellow
and white pieces?
|
| 00:32:28 | Each one.
|
| 00:32:28 | Every cord to every piece of
electronic and you know as soon
as I seen cords cut, I have two
police statements from when i
called the police on her in
july when she came into the
house.
|
| 00:32:42 | I had her air conditioner on.
|
| 00:32:44 | It was in the lease that i
could pay $60 extra a month to
use her air conditioner.
|
| 00:32:49 | They came in the house.
|
| 00:32:50 | I let them in the house.
|
| 00:32:52 | I'm thinking they're coming in
the house to fix something.
|
| 00:32:56 | Vanessa goes very politely
right to the air conditioner in
the wall, in the living room
wall, goes in the air
conditioner.
|
| 00:33:02 | I even moved my couch for her
because I'm thinking she's
going to fix something.
|
| 00:33:08 | She takes the scissors out of
her pocketbook and cuts the
cord to the air r conditioner and
her mother is in my face, give
me the money for her air
conditioner.
|
| 00:33:18 | >> Is there an extra fee?
|
| 00:33:20 | >> Yeah.
|
| 00:33:20 | But I had it on no longer than
24 hours.
|
| 00:33:24 | I would have gave her the $60.
|
| 00:33:26 | Following month came and i
would have paid.
|
| 00:33:29 | >> But you don't pay your bills.
|
| 00:33:36 | Did you cut the cord?
|
| 00:33:37 | >> I did, your honor.
|
| 00:33:40 | >> This is every single
electrical cord for everything
on the curb and it's all cut.
|
| 00:33:46 | >> Who is in the dark now?
|
| 00:33:48 | Will the plaintiff get three ,,
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|
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| 00:35:31 | What's in your wallet?
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| 00:35:32 | ..
|
| 00:35:33 | Call me.
|
| 00:36:11 | >> So the landlord can't throw
the stuff in the street.
|
| 00:36:14 | What is the landlord supposed
to do with the stuff?
|
| 00:36:16 | >> Give notice.
|
| 00:36:17 | >> You give notice and it's
like, okay.
|
| 00:36:19 | Your stuff is in my apartment.
|
| 00:36:20 | I can't rent it out.
|
| 00:36:21 | >> A courtesy call.
|
| 00:36:22 | I'm going to throw it out.
|
| 00:36:23 | >> How long do you have to wait?
|
| 00:36:25 | >> One to two days.
|
| 00:36:26 | Courtesy.
|
| 00:36:27 | >> Really?
|
| 00:36:28 | >> He has to rent the apartment
out.
|
| 00:36:31 | >> I think maybe a week.
|
| 00:36:33 | >> You have to give like a week.
|
| 00:36:35 | >> Like a week's notice.
|
| 00:36:37 | Then if they don't come --
>> throw it out.
|
| 00:36:40 | >> Yes.
|
| 00:36:41 | >> Do I need to give you a
recollection of how you cut it
or are you ready to tell me you
cut it?
|
| 00:36:47 | >> No.
|
| 00:36:48 | I'm not ready to tell you I cut
it.
|
| 00:36:50 | >> Who is the scissor wielder
if it's not you?
|
| 00:36:54 | >> I don't know because those
weren't my belongings.
|
| 00:36:57 | Air conditioner was my
belongings.
|
| 00:37:03 | >> When people see stuff on the
curb, they think what can i
take?
|
| 00:37:08 | Is this the tv that you say is
worth $300?
|
| 00:37:10 | You have to be kidding me.
|
| 00:37:12 | >> Actually, it was.
|
| 00:37:13 | >> Show me some receipts for
the amounts you're claiming.
|
| 00:37:16 | You're claiming three grand.
|
| 00:37:17 | Back it up.
|
| 00:37:19 | So now show me proof that you
have been hurt to the tune of
three grand.
|
| 00:37:22 | >> The most I did was go on the
computer and just write down --
>> but that's not going to help.
|
| 00:37:27 | What I need to know is what
your stuff is worth.
|
| 00:37:30 | That's not worth $300.
|
| 00:37:35 | Stop.
|
| 00:37:39 | Your bad.
|
| 00:37:40 | What planet do you think you're
living in that you think you
can take the law in your hand
and put somebody's stuff on the
curb without the sheriff doing
it and then cutting the wire?
|
| 00:37:52 | You don't have the right to do
that.
|
| 00:37:54 | In some states like new york
it's a misdemeanor when you do
that.
|
| 00:37:58 | You can be arrested and she can
sue for punitive damages.
|
| 00:38:02 | Do you understand?
|
| 00:38:03 | >> Yes, we do.
|
| 00:38:06 | >> And the police statement,
she tried to offer $250 for my
things.
|
| 00:38:10 | >> To get you out of her hair.
|
| 00:38:11 | >> Yes.
|
| 00:38:12 | To get me out of her hair.
|
| 00:38:15 | >> What have you paid of that
$1700 judgment?
|
| 00:38:19 | >> She has my -- she kept my
$1,500 security.
|
| 00:38:22 | >> Was there a security deposit?
|
| 00:38:23 | >> Yes, your honor.
|
| 00:38:26 | She paid $1,500 security.
|
| 00:38:28 | >> Okay.
|
| 00:38:29 | Here's what I'm going to do.
|
| 00:38:33 | Based on the illegal lockout
that occurred, because it is
illegal, you cannot do that --
by the way, let me explain to
you what you're supposed to do
so you know for the next time
this happened.
|
| 00:38:43 | You're not hostage to her and
her whims and I'll see if I can
get my cousin, maybe yes, maybe
no.
|
| 00:38:48 | You're not a hostage.
|
| 00:38:50 | But the right way, legal way to
do it, you take her stuff and
it may cost you $100 but you
put it in a storage and then
you hand her the key and then
from then on in, she either
pays the storage or her stuff
is confiscated by the storage
company.
|
| 00:39:04 | >> That's a good idea.
|
| 00:39:05 | Okay.
|
| 00:39:06 | >> That's how it's done.
|
| 00:39:07 | You can't just take it upon
yourself to throw out what they
leave on the day after they're
not supposed to be there.
|
| 00:39:13 | That's not how it works.
|
| 00:39:15 | Abandoned property takes longer
than that.
|
| 00:39:17 | You have certain obl gags to
make sure her stuff is well
protected, whatever stuff is
left there.
|
| 00:39:22 | All right.
|
| 00:39:22 | I find that you're able to keep
the $1,500 security deposit.
|
| 00:39:25 | That means that she still owes
you $302.
|
| 00:39:29 | I find in your favor in the
amount of $500 which means that
the defendants in this case owe
the plaintiff a sum total
judgment in the amount of $198.
|
| 00:39:42 | That's my verdict.
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| 00:39:48 | >> See what the defendant has
to say.
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| 00:39:51 | Come out here.
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| 00:39:52 | So the sum total is ruled on.
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| 00:39:54 | What's going through your mind
coming out of the courtroom
right now?
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| 00:39:57 | You wire cutter you.
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| 00:39:58 | >> She's out of the house and
we owe $198.
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| 00:40:01 | >> We still win.
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| 00:40:02 | >> You still win?
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| 00:40:03 | >> We still win.
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| 00:40:05 | >> As long as she's out.
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| 00:40:08 | >> I offered her $250 so she's
still losing.
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| 00:40:12 | >> Don't cut any wires when
you're headed around the corner.
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| 00:40:14 | We need the lights to stay on
here.
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| 00:40:16 | >> Thank you.
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| 00:40:17 | >> Head right this way.
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| 00:40:19 | Step in here.
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| 00:40:19 | What's your feeling on the
outcome here, final judgment?
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| 00:40:23 | >> I'm not happy because I feel
like my things was worth more
than $500.
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| 00:40:29 | >> Yeah.
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| 00:40:29 | So what do you do next here?
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| 00:40:32 | Once you leave here, what's
your next plan?
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| 00:40:36 | >> Hopefully never run into
another landlord like her.
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| 00:40:38 | That's about it.
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| 00:40:40 | >> I'm sure harvey has
something better than that.
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| 00:40:43 | >> Abandoned property is a
tricky thing.
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| 00:40:45 | It really varis on what
constitutes abandoned.
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| 00:40:49 | From city to city, various
cities have different rules.
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| 00:40:51 | Before you take any action like
this, call your local police
department.
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| 00:40:55 | They'll give you the ground
rules.
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| 00:40:56 | That will do it for this case.
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| 00:40:58 | Litigants on the way into the
courtroom right now.
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| 00:41:03 | >> This is the plaintiff.
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| 00:41:05 | He says he hired the defendant
to fix his steel door which
wasn't closed properly.
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| 00:41:10 | The door worked for about a
week and then started rubbing
and not closing again.
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| 00:41:15 | Same old problems.
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| 00:41:17 | The defendant is not honoring
his work so he's suing for $150
he's owed.
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| 00:41:28 | This is the defendant, clinton
forrester.
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| 00:41:31 | He says he does indeed honor
his work when he starts from
scratch and replaces something
old with something new.
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| 00:41:37 | The mrfr, however, was too
cheap to get a new door so he
did the best he could with
replacing the hinges.
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| 00:41:45 | The plaintiff's problem is the
frame.
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| 00:41:46 | It's all roted and he needs to
replace it for the door to work
properly and that's that.
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| 00:41:51 | He's accused of not geting it
right.
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| 00:41:57 | >> All parties please raise
your right hands.
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| 00:42:01 | >> I'm a busy person and it
took me some time until i
finally found it.
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| 00:42:05 | >> How much time did it take
you?
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| 00:42:07 | >> I called him back in
september.
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| 00:42:10 | >> Okay.
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| 00:42:11 | That's six months later.
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| 00:42:15 | If it lasts a week, one would
expect you to call him after a
week.
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| 00:42:18 | >> Right.
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| 00:42:19 | >> And your answer to ,,
>> next case on the docket,
plaintiff hired the defendant
to fix a steel door but it's
still the same old problem.
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| 00:45:11 | The defendant says the real fix
would have been for the cheap
plaintiff to get a new door.
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| 00:45:15 | It's the case of open and shut
lawsuit.
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| 00:45:17 | >> Thank you, douglas.
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| 00:45:19 | Okay.
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| 00:45:20 | stern, you're suing
forrester iron works
represented here by clinton
forrester for $450, the amount
you paid him to repair a steel
-- what is it made out of?
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| 00:45:34 | >> Yeah.
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| 00:45:36 | Steel door.
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| 00:45:37 | >> An iron door.
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| 00:45:38 | >> Steel door.
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| 00:45:40 | >> That you feel he needs to
return to you because it didn't
-- the repair didn't last.
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| 00:45:46 | Talk to me and tell me what
happened.
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| 00:45:48 | >> Yes.
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| 00:45:49 | We have this steel entrance
door on the street level.
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| 00:45:54 | It's an entrance door to our
house, the first floor
apartment.
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| 00:45:57 | And the door was not closing.
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| 00:46:01 | forrester's
company and he came and he said
he's going to change the hinges
on the door and that should
solve the problem.
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| 00:46:10 | He changed the hinges.
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| 00:46:11 | I paid him $150.
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| 00:46:12 | >> When was that?
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| 00:46:14 | >> In march of this year.
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| 00:46:15 | >> Do you have a receipt?
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| 00:46:19 | >> I do.
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| 00:46:20 | And his repair lasted
approximately a week.
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| 00:46:24 | After that it started rubbing
against the doorjamb and, you
know, in time it just went back
to the way it was.
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| 00:46:31 | >> What do you mean?
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| 00:46:33 | Did you not call him back?
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| 00:46:35 | If the repair lasts a week, why
didn't you call him back after
a week?
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| 00:46:38 | >> I didn't have the receipt
handy.
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| 00:46:41 | It took me -- I'm a busy person
and it took me some time until
I finally found it.
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| 00:46:46 | >> How much time did it take
you?
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| 00:46:47 | >> I called him back in
september.
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| 00:46:51 | >> Okay.
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| 00:46:52 | That's six months later.
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| 00:46:54 | If it lasts a week, one would
expect you to call him after a
week.
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| 00:46:58 | >> Right.
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| 00:47:01 | >> And your answer is because
you're a busy guy?
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| 00:47:05 | How did you pay him?
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| 00:47:06 | >> I paid him with a check.
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| 00:47:11 | >> Were you too busy to look at
your checkbook?
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| 00:47:13 | >> No.
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| 00:47:14 | I paid him in cash.
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| 00:47:15 | >> Why did you say you paid him
with a cash?
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| 00:47:21 | >> It was nine months ago.
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| 00:47:22 | >> But I just asked you nine
seconds ago.
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| 00:47:25 | It's six months later and you
call him and say to him what?
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| 00:47:28 | >> I showed him the door.
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| 00:47:30 | He says why didn't you paint
the door?
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| 00:47:33 | Prevent the rust from coming?
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| 00:47:36 | I said once it started
scraping, the paint would have
been just removed.
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| 00:47:40 | >> Where is it scraping?
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| 00:47:41 | The door is scraping?
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| 00:47:43 | >> The door is scraping the
jamb.
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| 00:47:46 | >> Do you have a picture?
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| 00:47:47 | >> I do.
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| 00:47:48 | >> Let me see it.
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| 00:47:50 | Tell me your version and I'll
come right back to you, mr.
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| 00:47:53 | Stern.
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| 00:47:53 | >> Good morning.
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| 00:47:55 | >> Good morning.
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| 00:47:57 | >> In march, about the 25th of
march he called me to do a job
on his house.
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| 00:48:02 | I WENT OVER ON THE 28th.
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| 00:48:04 | I charge him $150.
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| 00:48:05 | It was the hinges on the door.
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| 00:48:07 | >> Did you change the hinges?
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| 00:48:09 | >> Yes.
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| 00:48:10 | >> Completely?
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| 00:48:11 | >> Yes.
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| 00:48:11 | The hinges on the left side of
the door.
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| 00:48:15 | >> What material is this door
made out of?
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| 00:48:21 | >> Wrought iron, steel.
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| 00:48:22 | >> Go on.
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| 00:48:23 | >> I made sure everything was
fine.
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| 00:48:25 | He paid me.
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| 00:48:25 | If it wasn't done right, he
would not have paid me.
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| 00:48:28 | Everything was done right.
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| 00:48:30 | I gave him a copy of the
receipt, which I have the
duplicate.
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| 00:48:36 | >> Did you hear from him a week
later?
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| 00:48:38 | >> No, your honor.
|
| 00:48:41 | When I heard from him, he said
I need to you to look at it
again.
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| 00:48:46 | When I went over again, the
whole frame on the right side
is rotted out.
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| 00:48:52 | I have pictures of the hinges
that I welded for him showing
the door is in good condition.
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| 00:49:02 | >> Showing that the door was
what?
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| 00:49:04 | >> That's the hinges that i
weld.
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| 00:49:07 | These are the hinges that i
welded on.
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| 00:49:10 | It's perfect.
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| 00:49:10 | Nothing is wrong with it.
|
| 00:49:11 | stone, you
have your door, the whole side
on the right side, the frame is
rotted out.
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| 00:49:18 | You should have painted -- this
is from years of --
>> wait.
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| 00:49:22 | I'm not getting it.
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| 00:49:22 | Is it september or november
that he calls you?
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| 00:49:25 | >> He called me september z.
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| 00:49:29 | >> When you see the door, what
is wrong?
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| 00:49:32 | >> He said the door is not
closingment e -- closing.
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| 00:49:37 | First he said because the door
is not closing.
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| 00:49:39 | You didn't do it right.
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| 00:49:40 | >> Tell mow -- me how the
frame is not closing.
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| 00:49:45 | >> It's rotted out from the
support at the bottom.
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| 00:49:49 | So moved away from the wall.
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| 00:49:50 | I have pictures showing it.
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| 00:49:51 | >> Let me see that.
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| 00:49:54 | >> The first part shows the
rotten part and the second
shows how it's away from the
wall.
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| 00:50:01 | >> How old is the door?
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| 00:50:03 | >> We're living in the house
about 12 years.
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| 00:50:05 | I believe it was there before i
arrived.
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| 00:50:09 | >> I believe it arrived before
we were on the earth combined.
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| 00:50:12 | It's really old and it's rotted
and rusted.
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| 00:50:15 | Why should his job last you --
let's assume that, you know --
I'm not buying this, oh, i
noticed it a week later but i
couldn't find it.
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| 00:50:25 | I'm not buying it.
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| 00:50:27 | I'm a little insulted you
thought I would.
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| 00:50:30 | How long do you expect the
hinge last you that he should
return the money when the first
time you surface again, it's
six months later on a door that
old and rotted?
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| 00:50:39 | >> Who is about to get unhinged?
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| 00:50:43 | Will the plaintiff get 150
bucks?
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| 00:53:19 | >> Guy waited six months.
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| 00:53:21 | Too long?
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| 00:53:21 | >> He's out of luck.
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| 00:53:22 | Yeah.
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| 00:53:23 | He waited too long.
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| 00:53:23 | >> Do you have to like
immediately complain?
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| 00:53:28 | >> Yeah.
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| 00:53:29 | Like if there's a problem with
it, then you're immediately
going to notice it.
|
| 00:53:34 | You have to complain.
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| 00:53:36 | >> You should boom, immediately
complain?
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| 00:53:39 | >> Definitely immediately
complain.
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| 00:53:41 | >> Wait a week?
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| 00:53:41 | >> You're out of luck.
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| 00:53:43 | >> You're a harsh person.
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| 00:53:44 | >> It's like a put a band-aid
on the hemorrhage and now you
want the surgery for the price
of the band-aid.
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| 00:53:50 | >> The preplacement of the
hinges was obviously not the
correct repair for this door.
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| 00:53:55 | >> The correct repair would be
to buy a new door.
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| 00:53:58 | >> Then why didn't he say so?
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| 00:53:59 | >> You want him to say so.
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| 00:54:01 | >> Why did he go ahead --
>> for $150 you were able to
kick the can down the road for
awhile.
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| 00:54:06 | >> For a week?
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| 00:54:09 | >> A week?
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| 00:54:09 | If I believed you, that would
be fine but I don't believe you
at all on that.
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| 00:54:17 | At all.
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| 00:54:17 | It is insulting to me that you
are insisting that once again.
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| 00:54:20 | You knew how to find this place
six months later, okay?
|
| 00:54:24 | And it is insulting to me that
under oath, you look me in the
eye and insist that you knew
that this was wrong a week
later and said nothing for six
months.
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| 00:54:33 | Now I'm starting to get a
little hot under the collar
that you have said it a third
time.
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| 00:54:37 | >> It's a fact.
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| 00:54:39 | >> Verdict for the defendant.
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| 00:54:42 | >> Thank you, your honor.
|
| 00:54:44 | >> Something about that
testimony just didn't add up so
come on in here.
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| 00:54:47 | You come out on the losing end
of this case.
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| 00:54:49 | And so turn around a little bit
this week next to him.
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| 00:54:53 | What's your feeling coming out
of the courtroom after that?
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| 00:54:59 | >> She didn't believe it took
me six months.
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| 00:55:00 | If you would look at my desk
and see all the mess, then she
might understand why something
could be displaced for six
months.
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| 00:55:09 | Sfwl and then you could
understand why she doesn't
believe you.
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| 00:55:12 | >> That's her prerogative.
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| 00:55:16 | >> Okay.
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| 00:55:16 | Right down this way.
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| 00:55:21 | Is there any better way you
could have handled the door?
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| 00:55:23 | >> I did the best with the
situation at hand.
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| 00:55:28 | >> Why didn't you tell him to
get a new door?
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| 00:55:30 | >> There's nothing wrong with
the hinges.
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| 00:55:32 | All he had to do was take a
steel brush, clean up the door
and paint it.
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| 00:55:38 | He wouldn't have this problem.
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| 00:55:40 | >> Okay, harvey.
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| 00:55:41 | >> There are two simple
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