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[dramatic music]

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♪ ♪

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- Hi, everyone, I'm Dan Abrams,
and this is "Court Cam."

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- You should be ashamed
of yourself.

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- I want dude off my case.
[spits]

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- Got a runner.

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[people yelling]

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- Get out!

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- This is not TV court.
This is for real.

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- First up, we head
to Las Vegas, Nevada,

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for a preliminary hearing.

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59-year-old
Yousuf Azami has been

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charged with sexual assault,
lewdness, and kidnapping.

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Four months earlier,
police say Azami

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met an underage
girl in the parking lot

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of a marijuana dispensary.

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He then allegedly took
the girl to his apartment

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and sexually assaulted her.

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The girl was eventually
able to escape,

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grabbing a piece of Azami's
clothing as she fled.

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She soon arrived
at a casino where

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she flagged down a stranger
who notified police.

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Azami was quickly arrested
and released on $5,000 bond.

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He pled not guilty.

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Today, Azami's
scheduled to appear

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before Judge Melissa Stratton
for his preliminary hearing.

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Before things begin,
Azami can be seen sitting

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by himself in the hallway.

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About 20 feet away,
a man seems

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to be watching the defendant.

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When Azami gets up
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the man follows.

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And when the man catches
up to Azami, he does this.

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The man who threw the punch
is 57-year-old

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Glenn Cromwell Jr., who's
associated with the alleged

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underage victim.

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Without warning, Cromwell
lands a powerful punch,

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sending Azami to the ground.

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As witnesses rush over,
Cromwell continues

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punching and kicking Azami.

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Several people,
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intervene and pull
Cromwell away.

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Azami was taken to
a nearby hospital

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but suffered no major
injuries in the attack.

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Cromwell was
charged with battery

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and released
on his own recognizance.

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His case is pending.

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As for Azami,
the judge adjourned

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his hearing to a later date.

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His case is also pending.

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If found guilty on all
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sentenced to life in prison.

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Next we're
in Centreville, Michigan,

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for a motion hearing.

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35-year-old
Carrie Haney is being

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sued by Riverside Townhouse

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for $3,903.61 in back rent.

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The mother of four
claims the rent

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should have been paid
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a local charity.

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When that didn't happen,
Haney filed for support

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from the state's CERA program.

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Today, Haney appears
without an attorney

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before
Judge Jeffrey Middleton.

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The judge had previously ruled
in favor of the plaintiff

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and gave Haney 30 days
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When she didn't,
Haney filed a motion

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requesting temporary
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and a stay of proceedings.

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Things get off
to a bumpy start.

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- Are you Carrie Haney?

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- Yes.

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- All right.

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You've come in as Grinch 74.

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That means there were
73 Grinches before you.

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- [laughs]

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- When you come into court,
you might want to consider

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what you come in named as.

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- After Haney switches
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the judge checks in
with Lorri Cousino,

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the property's manager,
who's represented

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by attorney Somchit Hart.

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- Miss Cousino?

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- Yes.

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- Has Riverside received
any money from Keystone?

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- No.

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- My CERA application is
still processing, it says.

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- According to whom?

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- On my-- when I go and check
the status of it.

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- All right.

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Miss Hart, what's
your position here?

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- Your Honor, we would
object to any additional time

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given to Miss Haney.

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It's been more than 30 days.

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We ask for the judgment
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- Miss Haney?

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- Yes?

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- They want you to move today.

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They're ready to do
an eviction tomorrow.

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And they're asking that
I don't grant your stay.

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For one thing, I don't have
any proof that your CERA

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application is in process.

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- It's still processing.

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I can't do anything about it.

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- You're saying,
well, someone else

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is supposed to pay my rent.

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Well, they haven't paid it.

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- I'm not saying someone else.

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I'm saying the application
that I applied for.

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I can't push it
through any further.

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I can't jump to the government
and make them push it through.

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- Yeah.
- I can't.

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This is bull.

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- Miss Hart, are you
willing to give 10 days?

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- Your Honor, that's not
amenable to the complex.

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She's, as you can see,
very combative.

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We would just want--

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- The one-- the one time!

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I've been on these calls for
freaking four different times

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and I've been fine,
because I'm tired!

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I'm tired of it!

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They've been picking
and picking at me!

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- Calm down.

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This wasn't my idea, but
you're not paying your rent.

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You're asking the government
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The government hasn't paid it.

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- I have tried
and tried and tried.

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I've applied for stuff.

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I've filled stuff out
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- All right.

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- I've gone through everything
they told me to go through.

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- Well, they didn't
pay your rent.

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- All right, this is going
to be very unpleasant.

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- Judge Middleton is
prepared to make his ruling.

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- Your motion for
ex parte order to stay

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the eviction is denied.

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I've signed the writ
of eviction.

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They're not even willing to
give you any additional time.

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They want you to go and they
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- The eviction
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and Haney
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moved to a new property.

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But according
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she still owes Riverside
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- Next we head to Jonesboro,
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26-year-old Todreeka Gipson
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with battery, simple battery,
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and other charges.

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Over two years
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Gipson got into an altercation
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her live-in boyfriend
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of their three children.

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Gipson allegedly
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and threw a number
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including kitchen utensils
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She was arrested
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And in an unrelated
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was charged with
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with a suspended license.

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Today, Gipson appears before
Judge Tammi Long Hayward

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to enter her pleas.

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- It doesn't appear that
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but I'm gonna tell you
each one of these charges

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carries 12 months to serve.

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And I could run
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meaning you could get more
than 12 months to serve.

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Do you wish to have an
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- Yes.

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- So Ms. Gipson,
at the appropriate time,

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we'll put you in a breakout
room with Mr. White.

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And he'll speak to you
about your charges.

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- Ma'am.

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- Yes, Ms. Gipson?

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- Can I just go ahead
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instead of waiting
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- That would make no sense.

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First of all, you're
looking at multiple years.

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So if you wanna spend four
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that's up to you,
but I don't think

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it's recommended to do
that without the advice

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of an attorney.

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- After meeting with her
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Gipson pleads guilty to two
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while three others
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and she's ordered not to have

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contact with the victim.

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She also pleads no contest
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Then, as Judge Hayward
begins to sentence Gipson--

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- Your Honor?
- Yes?

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- I do apologize.

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I just saw this message.

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But the victim, Mr. Bryant,
I believe, is on.

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- The victim, Michael Bryant,
joins the call.

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- Yes, sir.

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Tell me what you got
that you want me to know.

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- Well, she's my
child's mother,

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and I would have to have some
form of contact with her.

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- Sir, let me
disabuse you of that.

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If y'all haven't had these
children in marriage or if you

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weren't married soon after
the birth of the children

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and if you haven't gone
to Superior Court

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and legitimized the children,
no, you do not, in fact,

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have to have contact.

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The only contact
you're required

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to have under
those circumstances

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is you can pay child support.

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- Well, being a Black man and
raising a Black son, I would--

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- Well, being a Black man
raising a Black son you should

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have married the mother
or you should go

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to court and get
the child-- and get

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the child to be legally yours.

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So until such time as that
child is legally yours,

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I don't have to
consider any of this.

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- So you would rather see
young Black men start to grow

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up with father-- fatherless?

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- No. what I would rather
see is young Black men do it

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the right way, either have a
good relationship with the mama

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and marry the mama
and be in the home

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and take care
of their children,

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or go be legally bound to their
children through the courts

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if they can't
live with the mama

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and make sure that if something
should happen to them,

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then their children
are taken care of

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and provided for under whatever
is legally available to them

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because their parent
did the right thing.

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So what you're not
gonna do, sir-- uh-uh.

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What you're not
gonna do is come

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in here telling me about
what a Black man needs to be.

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I've been Black
a long time, Sir.

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I know I'm older than you
and your baby mama.

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Probably put your ages
together, I'm that age.

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So let me tell you something.

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When you wanna do something the
right way, do it the right way.

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But what you're not
gonna do is play

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on my sympathy, talk about,
you don't want

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a Black man to raise his son?

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If you wanted to raise
your son the right way,

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you should have done it the
right way from the beginning.

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You out here having three
kids with this woman,

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and then y'all
can't even get along

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enough to raise the child.

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So what you ain't
gonna do, sir, is

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bring that foolishness to me.

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- Bryant tries to respond,
but he's muted.

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And shortly after,
he leaves the call.

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Judge Hayward returns
to Gipson,

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and based on the plea deal,

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sentences her to two days

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in jail, a year of probation,

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plus 110 hours of community

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service, a fine of $2,891.25,

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a driver improvement course,

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and a family violence

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intervention program.

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- Now, Ms. Gipson,
let this be the last time

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we meet like this, OK?

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- It will.
Yes, ma'am.

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Thank you.
- All right.

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♪ ♪

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- Next, we head to Walterboro,
South Carolina, for a verdict.

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53-year-old Rita Pangalangan
and her boyfriend,

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45-year-old Larry King,
have been charged with murder

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and committing
great bodily harm.

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Four years earlier, police say
Pangalangan, a schoolteacher,

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brought her
13-year-old daughter,

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Cristina, to King's house.

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While the couple spent time
making out on the porch,

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later smoking meth
and having sex inside,

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Cristina, who suffered
from cerebral palsy

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and was unable to
communicate verbally,

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was left in Pangalangan's
car for four hours.

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It was August, and
according to police reports,

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temperatures inside the car
reached 135 degrees

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before they realized they'd
locked Cristina and the

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keys inside.

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An hour later, having finally
retrieved a spare key,

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they were able to open the
car and pull Cristina out.

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Paramedics then arrived,
but it was too late.

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Cristina had suffered
severe hyperthermia

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and was pronounced
dead at the scene.

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♪ ♪

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Pangalangan and
King were arrested,

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charged, and later released on
bonds of $100,000 and $50,000.

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♪ ♪

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Both pled not guilty.

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♪ ♪

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The case went to trial,
and after four days,

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both sides came to rest.

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Today, after deliberating
for just three hours,

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the jury is ready
to deliver a verdict.

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♪ ♪

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- In the case
against Larry King,

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the jury reaches
the same verdict.

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Guilty.

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♪ ♪

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Later that day at sentencing,
Pangalangan's older

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daughter, Elizabeth Clyde,

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asks Judge Clifton Newman
for leniency.

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- She loved Cristina so much.

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She made bad mistakes.

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She got up-- she hung out with
people she shouldn't have hung

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out with, but that
mistake should not

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define the rest of her life.

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We've already lost our sister.

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Please don't take our mom away.

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So we're just asking
for mercy and understanding

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and compassion
for my mom, please.

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♪ ♪

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- Thank you.

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- When she's finished,
Pangalangan's husband,

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Anthony Leisure, whom she
married while free on bond,

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delivers a statement
to the court.

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- Rita has been
an inspiration to me,

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and I pray that you
give her leniency

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and allow her to come home.

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You know--

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- When a person
is convicted of murder,

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there's a minimum sentence.

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- Will you please allow--

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- The minimum sentence--

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- --the minimum sentence, sir.

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- --is 30 years.

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- Yes, sir.

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I ask the court for leniency.

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- Next to speak
is Pangalangan.

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- When she's finished,
the judge

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has a statement of his own.

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- On top
of her murder sentence,

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Pangalangan was given
20 years for committing

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great bodily harm.

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That sentence will be
served concurrently.

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As for King, he was sentenced
to 32 years in prison.

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Neither is eligible
for parole.

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♪ ♪

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- Next we're in Cheboygan,
Michigan, for an arraignment.

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♪ ♪

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48-year-old Trevor MacLeod
has been charged

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with resisting
conservation officers

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and operating a boat
while intoxicated.

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♪ ♪

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Three months earlier,
police approached

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MacLeod after spotting
an expired registration

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sticker on his boat.

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That's when they say MacLeod
stumbled onto the dock

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and his speech was slurred.

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When officers asked
if he'd been drinking,

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MacLeod admitted consuming
four or five beers in a couple

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of shots of whiskey.

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He refused to take
a breathalyzer test.

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And after he resisted arrest,
MacLeod was taken into custody

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and officially charged.

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Today, he appears
without an attorney

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before Judge Aaron Gauthier

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to discuss
next steps in the case.

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Because it's his second
resisting offense,

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MacLeod is facing
a maximum sentence

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of three years in prison.

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- So do you understand
your right to a lawyer,

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including a court
appointed lawyer?

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- I understand that.
- OK.

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Do you understand
the maximum penalty

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for the charges against you?

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- That's fine.

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Do you understand the-- do you
understand the maximum penalty

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that I just explained to you?

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- What is it that
you don't understand?

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Do you not understand
how long three years is

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or how much the fine is
that I've articulated?

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Can you tell me what is--

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- That's not what I'm
asking you right now.

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- MacLeod seems to be using
an argument often employed

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by so-called sovereign
citizens, challenging

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the jurisdiction of a court.

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- OK, so you want me to explain
to you why I have jurisdiction?

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- This court has subject matter
jurisdiction over crimes

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punishable by more than
a year under the Michigan

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Constitution of 1963.

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That is the underlying law
of our sovereign state

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of Michigan.

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- I did address it
and I denied your objection.

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I have explained--

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- Your objection is noted.

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00:18:45,591 --> 00:18:47,159
- Mr. MacLeod, stop.

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00:18:47,226 --> 00:18:48,628
Stop, Mr. MacLeod.

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00:18:48,761 --> 00:18:51,897
If you don't understand it,
I'm going to revoke your right

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to represent yourself and
have an attorney represent

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00:18:54,033 --> 00:18:55,234
you because I can't
establish that you

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know what you're doing.

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00:18:57,003 --> 00:19:01,007
So do you know the maximum
penalty that you would face?

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00:19:11,217 --> 00:19:12,518
- That's not how it works.

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00:19:12,585 --> 00:19:14,186
Are you refusing to
answer my question?

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00:19:16,555 --> 00:19:18,658
- Then answer it.

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00:19:18,791 --> 00:19:19,925
♪ ♪

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00:19:20,026 --> 00:19:22,995
Mr. MacLeod, two things
are gonna happen.

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You're gonna answer
my question or you're

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going to jail
for summary contempt

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00:19:26,265 --> 00:19:30,202
for not complying
with the court's requests.

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00:19:30,269 --> 00:19:32,038
♪ ♪

419
00:19:38,310 --> 00:19:40,413
- Mr. MacLeod, your
sentence is one day in jail.

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00:19:40,513 --> 00:19:42,114
We'll reconvene tomorrow
and get your notice.

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00:19:46,786 --> 00:19:50,022
- Two weeks after serving
his day in jail for contempt,

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MacLeod returned to court
where Judge Gauthier asked

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him the same question again.

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00:19:55,961 --> 00:19:58,230
- Mr. MacLeod,
do you understand

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the maximum possible
sentences for those charges?

426
00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:02,401
- Can I say something
for the record?

427
00:20:02,468 --> 00:20:04,670
- No.
I'm asking you a question.

428
00:20:04,804 --> 00:20:09,241
Do you understand the maximum
penalty that they're charging?

429
00:20:09,308 --> 00:20:10,910
- [indistinct]

430
00:20:11,043 --> 00:20:12,878
- OK.

431
00:20:12,945 --> 00:20:15,448
- The judge entered a not
guilty plea on MacLeod's

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behalf and his case
is pending.

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00:20:19,652 --> 00:20:21,420
That's it for this
edition of "Court Cam."

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I'm Dan Abrams.

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00:20:22,788 --> 00:20:23,989
Thanks for watching.

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♪ ♪