Being behind the wheel probably wasn’t the best way for him to argue his suspended licence charge. A judge was stunned when a defendant charged with with using a suspended driver licence appeared at his virtual court hearing while behind the wheel. Judge Cedric Simpson in Ann Arbor, Michigan , can be seen with a dumbfounded expression on his face in the video below when Corey Harris appears via Zoom from the drivers seat of his vehicle.
The proceedings began with Judge Simpson asking the defendant: “Mr. Harris, are you driving?”. “Actually, I’m pulling into my doctor’s office,” Harris responds.
“Just give me one second. I’m parking right now.” Suspended driver shocks judge by turning up to court call while driving The public defender representing the driver, who was present in the courthouse, jumped in to ask the judge for an adjournment for “possibly up to four weeks if the court would allow.
” The judge, who seemed perplexed by what was unfolding before him, asked: “OK, 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.” “That is correct your honor,” the public defender responds.
The judge revoked Harris’s bond, and he was ordered to turn himself into the local county jail by that evening. “I don’t even know why he would do that,” Simpson says. People on social media found the video, and the exchange between the bemused judge and the seemin.
