An American district judge in Michigan was left embarrassed and astonished when a man with a suspended driver’s license joined a court Zoom call while driving a car.
WHAT HAPPENED?
Court footage shows the defendant, Corey Harris, joined for a court hearing from the driver’s seat, as Judge Cedric Simpson could not believe his eyes.
Simpson asked, ‘Mr Harris, are you driving?’
‘Actually, I’m pulling into my doctor’s office,’ Harris replies.
A public defender representing Harris then asked the judge for an adjournment for ‘possibly up to four weeks if the court would allow.’
‘Okay, so maybe I don’t understand something. This is a driving while license suspended [case], and he was just driving, and he didn’t have a license,’ a bemused Simpson replies.
‘That is correct your honor,’ the public defender responds.
PUNISHMENT FOR HARRIS
The judge revoked Harris’s bond, and he was ordered to turn himself in to the local county jail by that evening.
‘I don’t even know why he would do that,’ Simpson says.
