US Michigan man with suspended license logs into Zoom court hearing while driving - He's black

Link | Archive

A Michigan man with a suspended driver's license joined a digital court hearing about his case from behind the wheel of a vehicle he was driving.

Corey Harris did not physically appear in court for his hearing on May 15. Instead, he dialed into the Zoom call — while he was driving, according to video of the hearing posted on Washtenaw County Judge Cedric Simpson’s YouTube page.


Simpson asked Harris whether he was driving when he joined the hearing. He told Simpson that he was pulling into a parking spot at his doctor's office and would be ready for the hearing in "one second."

After a brief pause and Simpson’s confirming Harris was "stationary," the attorney representing Harris, Natalie Pate, who was in court that day, asked for an adjournment of two to four weeks.

"OK, so maybe I don't understand something," Simpson said after having appeared to review the case in front of him. "This is a driving while license suspended?"

Pate confirmed he was looking at a case involving driving without a license.

"And he was just driving? And he doesn't have a license?" Simpson asked.

"Those are the charges, yes," Pate said, but Simpson quickly replied: "No, I'm looking at his record. He doesn't have a license. He's suspended, and he's just driving."

Pate, again, confirmed the judge was correct.

Simpson then looked around the courtroom, taking a long pause, an incredulous smile on his face.

He then looked up and said, "I don't even know why he would do that," referring to Harris, who was still on the Zoom call from his car.

Simpson then revoked Harris' bond and instructed him to turn himself into the Washtenaw County Jail by that evening.

Harris dropped his head back and said, "Oh, my God."

It was not immediately clear whether Harris had turned himself in as Simpson requested.

A representative for the court said the judge does not comment on pending cases. Pate could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.

 

[Seychelle Pennyfeather]

It was not immediately clear whether Harris had turned himself in as Simpson requested.

When it comes from a judge, it's not a request, it's an order. It's about time these dumb niggers get locked up for their rampant lawbreaking. I hope he suffers, goes hungry, and loses weight while serving his brief period of confinement.

 

[sum ting wong]

Suspend this mans posting license. The other guy even included an article smh

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

if the defendend wishes to maintain that he isn't actually in court he'll have to issue a bench warrant for failure to appear.

now _that's_ funny

 

[blue gopher snakes]

How brazen that he didn't even try to HIDE it.

It probably didn’t even occur to him that he would need to hide that he was driving during this Zoom call. The most amazing part, to me, is that he ever successfully managed to obtain a drivers’ license in the first place. The amount of advanced planning required to get a license (study for the written test, practice for the behind the wheel exam) should be weeding out people this unintelligent.

 

[TheDarknessGrows]

Dat look of complete and utter disbelief at the sheer level of stupidity he is currently witnessing

"How do I monetize this??"

 

[break these cuffs]

Dare I say it?

Absolutely Based

It'd be based if it was on purpose. He didn't even understand what was happening until his bond got revoked.

 

[kcbbq]

I kind of feel for the public defender. "Umm, can we adjourn for a month? Please? There has to be something in My Cousin Vinny that will help."

 

[Fruttasecca]

Why is this "zoom court" stuff a thing now?
Just another bullshit cyberpunk thing they snuck in during the plandemic

 

[Eadred]

Is this a Key and Peele sketch?

 

[Big moth tiddies]

Why is this "zoom court" stuff a thing now?
Just another bullshit cyberpunk thing they snuck in during the plandemic

You should be cheering this on, not complaining that it's some "bullshit cyberpunk thing." The more transparency in the government, the better. The fact that no cameras are allowed in federal court is bullshit.

I've seen some dumbshit takes here on the farms, but less access to court and government transparency has to be top ten, easily.

 

[Fruttasecca]

You should be cheering this on, not complaining that it's some "bullshit cyberpunk thing." The more transparency in the government, the better. The fact that no cameras are allowed in federal court is bullshit.

I've seen some dumbshit takes here on the farms, but less access to court and government transparency has to be top ten, easily.

Just put a camera in the courtroom if you want more transparency (you just want the funny clips, you arent actually watching proceedings lmao).
I find it pretty distressing that everything is reduced to some stupid zoom call. If you have a court date, you go to court and sit there in the courtroom with your lawyer, you dont hang out on your phone acting an idiot as funny as it may be.

 

[Kugelsak Kastengrus 6th]

Zoom call court cases are the equivalent of giving the individual rope. They can either use the rope to pull themselves out or use it to hang themselves. It also allows some lubrication in the justice system to get things moving.

 

[Big moth tiddies]

Just put a camera in the courtroom if you want more transparency (you just want the funny clips, you arent actually watching proceedings lmao).
I find it pretty distressing that everything is reduced to some stupid zoom call. If you have a court date, you go to court and sit there in the courtroom with your lawyer, you dont hang out on your phone acting an idiot as funny as it may be.

I used to let these livestreams play while driving. Not all of the defendants appear on zoom, especially if they have a record of not appearing, or if they're in danger of being immediately locked up. 99% of the time, the appearances are pretty mundane. They're arraignments where the person pleads guilty/not guilty, or they're continuances/plea deals. These interactions are perfectly fine being done on zoom, especially for blue collar people who can't really afford to take an entire day off to sit in a courtroom while the three bumbling niggers ahead of them plea out driving while suspended charges.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

yeah it's just traffic court, this isn't a triple homicide or some shit

 

[Sicko Hunter]

Seems like the perfect time to bring up IQ's below 80 used to be considered mentally retarded in the US but because so many blacks are in the mid 80s (the average for them) it got lowered to 70. When you see shit like this remember your average black person is operating just above a high functioning mental retard.

 

[WonderWino]

He'll just keep driving anyway.

And when eventually pulled over? He'll be combative and noncompliant with the cop who tells him his liscense is suspended because "I went to court over that man, I didn't du nuffin!" and have to be pulled kicking and screaming from the car.

Or, he'll panic and run.

And crash.

And have to be pulled kicking and creamign from the car.

And every leftist will call him a victim of racist police behavior, and another city goes up in flames.....

I hate this world sometimes.

You left out or he'll spaz out on the cop, get shot or otherwise end up dead and lead to another BLM riot where he gets to be the newest martyr

The left have been itching for a new floyd for awhile now

 

[likeacrackado]

Court hearings are just YouTube content now?

View attachment 6036400

You've got be fucking kidding me.

Since 2020 at the latest. The IP2 people were interested in a random Michigan county court system in 2021.

The Middleton court streams are the perfect combo of white noise with some funny moments sprinkled throughout. I've been watching through the old ones and you can really tell when it got the attention of ip2. Chat goes from a few jolly boomers to walls of schizo-posting and shoutouts. Most of the accused are polite to get better treatment by the judge which makes it really stand out when a sack of shit comes on.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

There's a certain irony that this happened in Washtenaw County. For those unfamiliar, this is the county containing Ann Arbor - a city that has made "reforms" to their justice system so that minorities won't be unduly oppressed by the court system. All the defendant had to do was act apologetic, maybe shed some crocodile tears, and promise not to do it again and he may have gotten off with a slap on the wrist. Showing himself on Zoom while driving when he shouldn't be, however, made it hard for the judge to show any sort of leniency even with the court slanted that way.

If America's Dumbest Criminals was still a thing, this guy would definitely be in consideration for the next episode.

 

[Snekposter]

He'll just keep driving anyway.

And when eventually pulled over? He'll be combative and noncompliant with the cop who tells him his liscense is suspended because "I went to court over that man, I didn't du nuffin!" and have to be pulled kicking and screaming from the car.

Or, he'll panic and run.

And crash.

And have to be pulled kicking and creamign from the car.

And every leftist will call him a victim of racist police behavior, and another city goes up in flames.....

I hate this world sometimes.

For the Kiwis still uninformed about the former most infamous act of police brutality towards a black man, Rodney King, all of the above is scarily applicable since he was... dramatic drumroll...

Leading the cops on a car chase since he was violating the terms of his parole for a violent robbery by deciding to drink and drive.

 

[Mister Ferro]

Huge Wild Update:

Michigan man driving during viral Zoom court hearing had license suspension lifted in 2022​

Article | Archive
A Michigan man who went viral after a judge noticed him driving while he attended a virtual Zoom court hearing with a "suspended license" is being vindicated by an apparent clerical error.

What Simpson and no one in the courtroom apparently knew was that another judge had rescinded Harris' license suspension in January 2022, according to Saginaw County court records obtained by USA TODAY on Monday.

Harris' license had been suspended during a now-settled child support case with Saginaw County Friend of the Court before it was ordered reinstated, court records show.

The reason Simpson and no one in the courtroom knew about the reinstatement is because the Michigan Secretary of State's office never received a clearance from the Saginaw County Friend of the Court, reported WXYZ-TV, which was the first outlet to track down the clerical error in court records.

Harris spent two days in jail after the hearing, abiding by Simpson's order and turning himself in. Although Harris did the time, he told WXYZ-TV that the license suspension was "supposed to have been lifted two years ago, but they didn't."
"It's very embarrassing," Harris said about the whole situation.

Khyla Craine, deputy legal director for the Michigan Secretary of State, told the station that the process to get a driver's license reinstated "can be complicated."
"Sometimes it is simple as we at the Secretary of State's office did not get a clearance from the court that everything was done, but something happened in the wires, and we needed to talk to the court to get the clearance and clean it up for the resident," Craine said.