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Judge Judy

5 days ago

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00:00Amber Johnson says her son's schoolmate, 14-year-old Alvin Johnson, stole and broke her son's iPhone.

00:08Now, what's your first name?

00:10Alvin. Alvin.

00:12You remember being brought into the principal's office on the 20th?

00:15Yes.

00:16You remember having a discussion with the principal?

00:18It wasn't the principal. It was like somebody like in the main office.

00:22You want to tell me what you told them about the phone?

00:24I told them that it was a broke iPhone that I found in my six-hour class.

00:28Oh, no. Let's start again. They said you were here about the iPhone.

00:31Mm-hmm.

00:32Uh-huh is a yes.

00:33Oh, no. My mom, she came and pulled me out of class, and we went to the main office.

00:38So when your mom came to pull you out of class, I'd like you to tell me what she said to you on the way to the main office.

00:44She told me that I returned the phone, and I said that I forgot it at home.

00:48So it was at home.

00:49Yes.

00:49Tell me what you told to the person in the office about the phone.

00:53I told them that I found a broke iPhone, but I left it at home.

00:56And where did you find a broken iPhone?

00:58In my six-hour class, U.S. history.

01:00Are you in the same class?

01:02So in your history...

01:04Don't speak to him.

01:05Where did you find it in your U.S. history class?

01:08In my desk.

01:09And how was it broken?

01:10Um, the back was broke, and the front was broke.

01:12So you mean it was like somebody smashed it?

01:14Yeah. Yes.

01:16Yes.

01:16You were in class?

01:18Yes.

01:18You have a teacher?

01:19Yes.

01:20Is there any reason why you didn't hand the phone to the teacher?

01:22I wasn't thinking.

01:23Correct.

01:25When you walked out of class, did you have other classes?

01:28Yes.

01:28How many others?

01:29One.

01:30Now you have had time to think.

01:31Did you give the phone to the other teacher?

01:33No.

01:34Then you went home.

01:35And what happened when you went home?

01:36I told my mom that I found a broke iPhone.

01:38Where were you when you told your mother that you found a broken iPhone?

01:42In the living room.

01:43Now, I have five children.

01:45If one of my children said to me, I found a broken iPhone, the first thing I would say

01:50to them, thinking or not, is, let me see it.

01:54Got me?

01:54Mm-hmm.

01:55Your mother says she didn't say that to you.

01:57I know.

01:58That sounds very peculiar to me.

02:00Now, do you usually follow your mother's instructions?

02:02Yes.

02:03Or do you ignore them?

02:04I follow them.

02:05So, if I believe that your mother didn't ask to see the phone, your mother told you

02:09to bring it back to the principal's office.

02:11Yes.

02:12Did you do that?

02:13We was running late, and I forgot the phone.

02:15Well, so you weren't thinking when you found the phone on your desk to turn it into the

02:18teacher, and you didn't follow instructions when you were going back to school the next

02:22day.

02:23Do you have your own iPhone?

02:24No.

02:25Sit down.

02:26Can I see the bill for the phone, please, and the phone itself?

02:30When you went back home, did you all go back together on the 20th to get the phone?

02:35Yes.

02:38Did you go into the house with them?

02:40No.

02:40Who else went with you?

02:41It was myself and my husband.

02:44Miss Ebony was there, and her son went to the backyard and retrieved the broke phone.

02:49Went to the backyard?

02:50Yes.

02:51Stand up.

02:54What was the phone doing at a tree?

02:57It was nothing I could do with the phone, so I just threw it in the backyard.

03:00Well, your mother had told you the day before to take it back to school.

03:03So what I want to know is, at what point did you throw it into the backyard?

03:08So you would have to go out to the backyard to get it, to follow your mother's instructions

03:12to bring it to the principal.

03:13I know.

03:15He's trouble.

03:18Sit.

03:21Miss Johnson, I don't know where he gets the attitude from or where he thinks he gets

03:24the license from, but I'm going to tell you, I've been involved in family court for a long

03:29time.

03:29He's got a bad attitude.

03:31So if somebody's not giving him either good advice or the wrong advice, but there isn't

03:36a question in my mind that your son stole the phone, and when he got caught, he smashed

03:40the phone and went in the backyard and got rid of it.

03:43No question.

03:43And you know it, too.

03:45Judgment for the plaintiff in the amount of $1,400.

03:47We're finished.

03:48If parties are excused, you may step out.

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