'Surprise for Deadbeat Dad' & 'Trashing the Neighbors' & Much More

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:01]Plaintiff Jeffrey Mack is legally married to the defendant, but they've been separated for years. Jeffrey claims he and the defendant had a son, but when the defendant got pregnant again, she claimed the baby was his. However, 7 months into the pregnancy, she said the baby was not his and she moved away.

[00:00:20]Jeffrey petitioned the court for a DNA test for the defendant's daughter and he's suing his estranged wife for emotional distress.

[00:00:29]Defendant Geraldine White says when she met Jeffrey, she was selling crack [music] and when she was pregnant with Jeffrey's son, he became physically abusive. Geraldine claims Jeffrey is a deadbeat dad who refuses to see his son and she does not believe he is her daughter's biological father. She's countersuing >> [music] >> for emotional distress. Start with you.

[00:00:53]Well, back in 2001, me and Geraldine got married.

[00:00:57]We had a son.

[00:01:00]Our marriage start messing up.

[00:01:02]We separated.

[00:01:05]Back in 2005, she came back. We tried to make the marriage work.

[00:01:10]She got pregnant.

[00:01:12]We got She got pregnant with my child, she told me.

[00:01:15]7 months later, she told me that my child wasn't mine's. It was somebody else. She left when she knew you're She had the child. I haven't seen the child since then. That's why I petitioned to test the court for a DNA test.

[00:01:30]Ma'am?

[00:01:32]We met 2000 uh Jeff, we uh hooked up pretty fast. I got pregnant um 3 months into my uh pregnancy, Jeff began to get abusive.

[00:01:45]Is 3 months into your first pregnancy?

[00:01:47]>> Yes, my first pregnancy. He began to get abusive. You know, um he shoved his knee in my stomach, told me that, you know, if he couldn't have me, no one else would and my baby wouldn't live.

[00:01:58]That's how we broke up.

[00:02:00]Um after that >> first child?

[00:02:03]>> Yes, that was my first child. In '01?

[00:02:05]Yes.

[00:02:06]Before the child was born, yes.

[00:02:08]>> Mhm. Um now the child was now Calvin's born and um Pardon me? My son, he was born now.

[00:02:15]>> Mhm. And uh Jeff wasn't working. He was being abusive, he wasn't working and um things weren't going good. So oh, we lost our apartment. When you all came back together, what was it like? Did was everything fine?

[00:02:29]>> No, it wasn't. What happened? What was going on there? He was still abusive and uh just, you know, still wasn't paying any rent, um abusing me mentally, physically, emotionally.

[00:02:40]>> you got um then you became pregnant? I didn't know I was pregnant when I got back to Detroit.

[00:02:47]Um couple of months into staying there, I started showing.

[00:02:51]Um me and Jeff, you know, we got in we we got got it in a couple of times, but I couldn't do it anymore because Jeffrey has a hygiene problems. And then what did you think about the child?

[00:03:03]What did I think about the child?

[00:03:04]>> Yes, you were pregnant. Did you think the child was his?

[00:03:08]>> to the doctors and found out uh got the ex you know >> Saying that you were pregnant? Yeah.

[00:03:13]>> Uh-huh. They um size the baby and they tell you how old the baby is in your belly.

[00:03:18]Jeff stood right there and did the math.

[00:03:21]Um it didn't add up. Okay. That's why he started arguing with me, you know, and and What didn't add up? It did the timing didn't add up.

[00:03:30]>> Okay, so it it it appeared it wasn't his?

[00:03:32]>> Yeah. All right, so what did you tell him? You told him it was someone else's?

[00:03:36]I told him later on that yeah, I don't think it's yours. I think it's the other guy's.

[00:03:40]>> Okay. What else is there you want me to know? Well, you about your marriage and why you all are still married after years of separation, but go ahead.

[00:03:48]Well, Yanna back in 2001 Mhm. while she was carrying my son the doctor calls over but as she was taking the pregnancy test and everything they check the blood work to see if the baby was healthy.

[00:04:03]They pulled me and miss um Geraldine to the side and say that we found some cocaine in your system.

[00:04:12]I was puzzled, she was puzzled.

[00:04:14]I looked at her was just wondering.

[00:04:18]Three days she become missing while after we had our child, after the child was born she I stopped putting two and two together.

[00:04:27]She say she sell crack.

[00:04:31]Cocaine in the system, three days gone, sometime a week.

[00:04:33]>> she sold crack?

[00:04:34]>> Yes, sir.

[00:04:36]Okay. Yes, your honor. I'm sorry.

[00:04:38]>> Your honor, when Jeffrey met me I was selling crack and everything. Did the doctors tell you there was crack in your system when you were pregnant?

[00:04:46]>> all, I'mma be honest with you.

[00:04:47]>> Mhm. Jeffrey gave me a STD. Mhm. Yeah, we're not talking about the baby and tracking. Were you a crackhead at any time?

[00:04:54]Were you good? That's all we're >> life. asking right now. All that you're trying to defame him with about his hygiene and now him having an STD and all that. Uh with that's not where we're at and uh he made his allegation, you denied it other than saying you did sell crack. Ma'am, anything else you want to tell me? My son, Jeff, 14 years hasn't paid 1,400. That means everybody knows you ain't paid $100 in a year. You ain't paid anything in a year. I'm not money seen I'm not >> year? Nothing in in 14 years.

[00:05:28]>> years or 1 year? And I feel like he hasn't >> You feel like he hasn't? All right, let's move on. What else you want me to know? Well, I want you to know that um my son, you know, he's he's been going through so much, you know, he's getting arrested. He's 14 years old.

[00:05:44]>> been in his life?

[00:05:45]>> No. And I and I say to Jeff that saint you know brought me here today saying that I don't allow him to speak to my son. I have proof. You say she withholds your son from visiting with you? This She don't allow me to talk to my son on the phone. Okay, how does she prohibit you?

[00:06:02]When I call all she do is harass when I say can I talk to my son?

[00:06:06]She say no you cannot.

[00:06:08]>> He is 14 now I say it since >> know how to locate him other than calling at her phone? Only through her.

[00:06:14]She got pregnant [music] with my child she told me.

[00:06:17]7 months later she told me that my child wasn't mine. It was somebody else. She left went to New York.

[00:06:25]She had the child I haven't seen the child since then that's why I petitioned the court for a DNA test.

[00:06:31]Defendant Geraldine White is legally married to the plaintiff and he suspects he may be her daughter's biological father even though Geraldine denies it.

[00:06:41]So he [music] petitioned the court for a paternity test.

[00:06:44]How has he caused you emotional distress ma'am?

[00:06:47]>> Your honor 14 years.

[00:06:49]He's like you know you don't want to be with me I'm not doing nothing for you.

[00:06:53]It's not doing it for me it's for my son. You know I don't ask you for nothing. I call you on September for his birthday. What do I get? I get a either no answer or I get a you be go go you know do whatever you got to do cuz I'm not giving you you know what I mean?

[00:07:09]>> Have you done what you had to do? Have I done what I had to do?

[00:07:12]>> going to child support services.

[00:07:14]>> Yes I did. And what occurred? Um I don't know what recently when I checked on it >> No it's been 14 years. So what happened the first year the second year? I've never gotten a child support check.

[00:07:25]That's why I'm asking did you file?

[00:07:27]>> Yes I did.

[00:07:27]>> When did you first file?

[00:07:29]>> about probably 4 years ago. Okay that was the first time and did they determine you are due child support?

[00:07:36]Yes. Okay. Well that's what you need to follow up on the legal process they'll hold him accountable for all those 14 years that he has not paid. So, what else you want to tell me other than about child support? I I I feel like so alone.

[00:07:55]14 years. I don't bother him. I'm not one of those mothers that, you know, call to get their nails done or get you know, bag of weed. I'm not like that. I even say, you know, so you don't have to go through me, you can go through a family member. Speak to them if you don't want to speak to me.

[00:08:11]>> Is there any way he has harassed you?

[00:08:13]Tell me how he has harassed you.

[00:08:15]>> a [ __ ] and calls me a [ __ ] and crackhead.

[00:08:19]>> calls you or something?

[00:08:20]>> smoked crack in in When does he do this?

[00:08:23]>> Whenever I call.

[00:08:24]Whenever I call. When he says he'll be like, oh, I don't got it today, so call next day. I'll call that next day and he won't have it. And when he don't have it as of I don't call often. It's very very rare.

[00:08:35]>> know? I call him >> Every other month, every couple of months.

[00:08:38]>> I call him when probably a couple of weeks go by and he hasn't speak to his son. I'll call him, hey, you need to speak to Colin. Speak to Colin, you know? I make those phone calls. Other than that >> So, he cusses you out when you call.

[00:08:50]That's your harassment. That's your harassment. So, what is your emotional distress for? Emotional distress is for her.

[00:08:58]All the years ever since 2001 until last week.

[00:09:04]Come to find out she's a crackhead. I asked him for a child support. Who Where did I Call me harass me. Where did you see me ever smoke crack?

[00:09:12]>> Where do you get this idea that she's a crackhead, sir?

[00:09:14]>> Where? She admitted to selling it, so why wouldn't she admit to using it? Why You're lying. Selling it?

[00:09:21]She admitted to selling it. Where do you get information that she is a crackhead?

[00:09:25]In my on Facebook.

[00:09:29]Where she had posted things Saying that she was a crackhead?

[00:09:34]>> Showing that she sold drugs, sold crack.

[00:09:36]She's admitted that. We're talking about her being a crackhead because so far you being unable to even explain THE ALLEGATION MAKES YOU SOUND LIKE THE CRACKHEAD. [laughter] Makes you sound like the crackhead.

[00:09:49]>> my son was born I heard ALL THAT. SHE DENIED IT. I HEARD THAT.

[00:09:54]I said she she admitted that part.

[00:09:57]DO YOU HAVE DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER EVIDENCE? You say you have something on Facebook. Give it to me.

[00:10:03]That's all I'm going to say you're the crackhead. If you can't show me, we're going to see WHO THE CRACKHEAD IS. If he if you're lying, then you're the crackhead. Who's the crackhead today?

[00:10:12]WILL THE REAL CRACKHEAD please stand up?

[00:10:16]That's what we're going to see. We're going to see who the crackhead is today.

[00:10:21]Keep a looking. He's looking, yes.

[00:10:24]>> Can I say something about this Facebook stuff? Uh-huh.

[00:10:27]Jeffrey waterboarded my son.

[00:10:29]>> Mhm.

[00:10:29]Accused him of trying to um commit sexual acts to his girlfriend's daughter. Right? Instead of questioning my son, he tied him to a chair, put a rag over his face, and threw water over him.

[00:10:42]>> Okay, has there been any police action on that? Colin ran away. This is how I got Colin back.

[00:10:47]>> the police they'll still take the uh the I don't know. That was in Detroit. I'm in New York. Colin ran away. I had to come all the way I used my last money to get come out to Detroit to pick up my son. Oh, I want my son. I want my son. I want my son. Here's your son. The very month that I gave him, come get your son. He says to my Cuz you said you was going to kill her. Sir, sir, you need to be finding that allegation that concludes she's a crackhead. That's what you need to be doing. Yuronna, and and that's that's really um >> Let's see it. foster care's they had her taking blood tests. Let's see it.

[00:11:22]This letter is to inform you that there will be a court hearing scheduled on 2011 at the Staten Island. The court hearing is to discuss the permanency of your child, Colin Mack, who currently in foster care, it says absolutely nothing about her using drugs, crackhead. It says nothing about it, crackhead. You said you had direct evidence stated on Facebook or otherwise called confirming that be quiet, ma'am. Now you're starting TO ACT LIKE ONE.

[00:11:52]TRYING TO DEFEND YOU.

[00:11:54]GET OUT of here with this emotional distress. Let me cuz I'm the only one suffering emotional distress.

[00:12:00]Let me get the results. They um size the baby and they tell you how old the baby is in your belly.

[00:12:06]Jeff's the right age to do the math.

[00:12:08]Um it didn't add up.

[00:12:10]All right, and so what did you tell him?

[00:12:12]You told him it was someone else's? I told him later on that yeah, I don't think it's yours. I think it's the other guy's.

[00:12:18]Defendant Geraldine White is legally married to the plaintiff, and he suspects he may be her daughter's biological father, even though Geraldine denies it. So, he petitioned the court for a paternity test.

[00:12:31]I don't know why you haven't been divorced and get rid of each other, but you want to come in here. I know you all don't want to get rid of each other. I'm going to get rid of y'all.

[00:12:41]>> [laughter] >> I bet you that.

[00:12:42]We're going to do that real quick.

[00:12:45]>> [applause and cheering] >> We're going to do that real quick. And Mr. Mack, you are the father. There you go, buddy. Have a good day. Claim is dismissed for emotional distress, BOTH OF YOU.

[00:12:58]RESULTS, DNA. Can I see that? See.

[00:13:02]That says daddy.

[00:13:03]>> God don't like ugly.

[00:13:05]To the daughter?

[00:13:07]To my daughter? God don't like ugly.

[00:13:09]>> me?

[00:13:10]You only did this You only did this so you can get some more income tax from me.

[00:13:13]>> No, it ain't going to be no income tax.

[00:13:15]>> from him. You ain't going to never know her.

[00:13:17]>> Hey, all right, Skeletor. How is this?

[00:13:19]>> I'm okay, SKELETOR. OH, WOW.

[00:13:21]>> TO KICK HEY, I'm okay.

[00:13:23]Jeff, wait so I can come spit in your face. Uh shut up.

[00:13:27]Got that on voicemail, too. He's going to continue to ignore his child.

[00:13:32]>> No, I send child support.

[00:13:33]>> No, you don't send Ask me the verbal abuse I get all the time from her for 14 years.

[00:13:39]>> you. That's why I end up in Michigan getting away from her before I might have to catch a case. And I'm not going to have that happen.

[00:13:59]Plaintiff Tammy Wagner says she's lived next door to the defendant for 11 years, and they [music] were good friends until a year ago. Tammy claims the defendant is a cocaine user who had Tammy falsely arrested for threatening her daughter, but the case was dismissed after [music] the defendant's daughter changed her story in court. So, she's suing for attorney fees, emotional distress, and defamation.

[00:14:25]Defendant Angela Dockery says she was forced to file a no-contact order [music] against Tammy because she was threatening her daughter. And the reason Angela had Tammy arrested was because she violated the order. Angela's countersuing because she claims she has video of Tammy harassing her and her family. [music] Start with you.

[00:14:47]Yes. Um We're neighbors. We've lived next door to each other for about 11 years.

[00:14:54]And we've been we was started off as friends.

[00:14:58]And it come down to um it got to the point where I found out that she was using cocaine.

[00:15:07]And uh we was the kids were playing in the backyard, and my my granddaughter has this great big bouncy ball, and it went over in her yard. And instead of giving it back >> She You to snort it? Like she used to like she used to.

[00:15:24]>> [applause] >> She she she >> [laughter] >> What happened? She stuck a knife in it.

[00:15:31]>> back. She wouldn't give it back to her.

[00:15:33]She just she hollered for my granddaughter and she's you know she made her watch her.

[00:15:37]>> true.

[00:15:38]>> And she you know stuck a knife in it.

[00:15:40]And popped it. So I mean that was the end of it.

[00:15:43]>> When did that occur? That happened um about a year or so ago. Okay. So that's what started everything. Yeah that's what started all the stuff and then so we just kind of you know fell apart and the cocaine and stuff I you know we didn't have any of the kids go over there cuz they >> you know?

[00:16:02]How do I know? Yes. Because a friend of mine told me about it that she was using cocaine and told me not to let the kids go back over there because she didn't want >> All right. So this is gossip. What else?

[00:16:15]Okay.

[00:16:16]But >> That's the only way you know that is gossip.

[00:16:20]It well I know for a fact.

[00:16:22]>> How?

[00:16:23]Because She's a detective. of the stuff that's been going on over there. There's been a lot of I've already turned it in to the police. There's been a lot of traffic in and out in and out.

[00:16:36]And for one they've got no trespassing up in their windows. They've got cameras all around their house.

[00:16:42]I mean why else would you are you would you do something like that?

[00:16:45]>> Because we have neighbors like her. All right ma'am. That's how you know for a fact the woman is using cocaine because of that. All right. You'll give me some background on your relationship with your neighbor. Basically what the ball thing? Yeah I did that. Cocaine no is there any proof? No Uh-oh. Don't say that. No whenever I hear that there's no proof.

[00:17:10]Her husband come in my house and he was trying to intimidate me.

[00:17:14]Their grandson choked another grandson.

[00:17:17]They get a check off of this son, right?

[00:17:20]So, they thought I were going to call CPS on them.

[00:17:24]So, they didn't want the kids at my house.

[00:17:27]That has nothing to do with why I'm here. Then tell me why you here.

[00:17:31]I'm here because I was arrested on or I had a warrant taken out on me on April the 14th, 2016.

[00:17:39]>> All right, because what? Uh supposedly threatened her daughter, Angie Dockery's daughter, Megan. Dockery.

[00:17:46]Not supposingly, she did. All right, and what became of that? You had a warrant issued, did they arrest you?

[00:17:54]>> They arrested me on April the 26th. I spent 3 days in jail. For a no contact order.

[00:18:01]>> And uh 10 days on home incarceration.

[00:18:05]You [snorts] were convicted then? No, I wasn't.

[00:18:09]I went to >> part This was a bond. This was your fault or the bond.

[00:18:11]>> was in jail for 3 days. I was on home incarceration for 10 days. I couldn't go home for 21 days.

[00:18:19]When I went back to court on May What in the hell did she do? And and supposedly intimidating uh intimidating a >> all live where you get 3 days overnight in jail? Intimidating the participant >> 10 days home or house arrest.

[00:18:37]Right there. Can't go home for another 21 days.

[00:18:41]They didn't want the kids at my house.

[00:18:43]That has nothing to do with why I'm here. Then tell me why you here.

[00:18:48]I'm here because I had a warrant taken out on me on April the 14th.

[00:18:52]I supposedly threatened her daughter, Angie Dockery's daughter, Megan. [music] Not supposingly, she did. Friend of Channing Wagner says the defendant, who is her neighbor, had her falsely arrested for threatening her daughter.

[00:19:06]But the case was dismissed after the defendant's daughter changed her story in court.

[00:19:13]That's you?

[00:19:15]Yeah. That's And here is the my video.

[00:19:20]>> [applause] >> Here is the letter from my lawyer where it was all dismissed and you also had you also have video of the court when we went to court. Uh You tell me what happened.

[00:19:32]Thank you, Judge.

[00:19:34]She got locked up. We had we went and got a no contact order. That was for my 17-year-old daughter.

[00:19:41]There's been all kinds of crazy things going on with the neighbors following her. She just started driving. They almost made her have a wrecks, you know.

[00:19:50]So, we got our contact our no contact order. That was a third party. So, my daughter comes home that day to come to her house and they're all out in the driveway cussing and carrying on saying my daughter needed to move her car out of the sidewalk. So, they were they were harassing her, right? So, the no contact order I went down and had her locked up cuz she don't know how to listen to the judge.

[00:20:17]When was the no contact order?

[00:20:19]She had been issued a no contact order previously.

[00:20:23]>> Yes. Show me that.

[00:20:25]>> Who has that? I have it, Judge. Where she had been issued a no contact order.

[00:20:31]>> Okay, this is it. She didn't sign it in front of the judge, but it is a no contact order for my daughter.

[00:20:38]>> it and and it's her name on there. Hold on. This is February of 16.

[00:20:43]That was when we got the no contact order, Judge. Now, what was that for?

[00:20:47]She had done something to your daughter already? They are witnesses in the case that we got going on with their friend.

[00:20:55]Well, I have to write >> supposed to contact the young girl, is that what we're saying?

[00:20:58]>> And I didn't. Absolutely. And you're saying she did. Absolutely.

[00:21:02]>> what you had her arrested and jailed for?

[00:21:04]>> video, yes. All right. And we have a video to show what happened on this And her daughter says that I didn't do anything.

[00:21:14]Um, this is her husband spitting on our cameras.

[00:21:18]That would That's kind of intimidating.

[00:21:20]That's What day is this? That's dog feces going in my yard from her.

[00:21:26]This is my daughter in her car while they're calling her names.

[00:21:30]What is the dates of these?

[00:21:32]Doesn't matter. Yes, it does matter.

[00:21:35]Okay. Cuz this has nothing to do with what we're going what I'm here for. My 17-year-old kid is why I'm here.

[00:21:43]This has No, this has nothing >> There's my daughter pulling up. She closes the door because they're out in the driveway.

[00:21:49]There they all are out there like they're some kind of WWE wrestlers. If you watch, Tammy is running around the front of the car hiding, but guess what?

[00:21:58]The cameras got her. She's in the blue shirt.

[00:22:02]Okay, and this is your counter-claim for harassment.

[00:22:05]>> Yes.

[00:22:05]>> Fine.

[00:22:06]All right. Who was that?

[00:22:08]>> Is this the 12th? This is on the 14th. I mean the 14th? Who is the woman in the yellow? Britney, my daughter. And And Angie's coming in my yard.

[00:22:18]Mom, go in the house, please. Mom.

[00:22:22]Go in the house, come on, please. You can come No, I want to sit here and listen.

[00:22:26]I got IT ON CAMERA.

[00:22:32]LET'S GET TO WHAT YOU WERE JAILED ABOUT.

[00:22:34]I see this is mass you are have mass for. You were jailed for this?

[00:22:38]>> I was jailed about.

[00:22:39]>> All right. You were going to show me a video exonerating you. All right, let's play that. To your knowledge, has Tammy told her family members to reach out to you in any way?

[00:22:52]Not that I can recall. Okay. What did Tammy say to you that day? She told me that I needed to move my car, that it was in the way if her grandkids were on their bikes. Okay, and that was it?

[00:23:02]Yeah.

[00:23:04]I'm asking about April 14th of 2016.

[00:23:07]During this time you're outside in the yard and you're taking a video.

[00:23:11]Before and after you're taking the video, your testimony was that Tammy Wagner never said anything directly to you. Is that right?

[00:23:20]No, she did say something to me.

[00:23:22]>> What did she say to you?

[00:23:23]>> Directly to me, she said that I needed to move my car.

[00:23:27]Okay, and then you ignored her and walked in the house. Yes. All right. And then she never said anything to you later that day, anytime after that, right?

[00:23:36]>> That I know of.

[00:23:37]Okay.

[00:23:39]Well, that you heard, right?

[00:23:40]>> Yeah, that I heard. I didn't hear no more.

[00:23:43]Megan, has Tammy Wagner ever threatened you in connection to the underlying case? No, ma'am.

[00:23:50]Her husband has.

[00:23:51]Thank you.

[00:23:54]But Tammy Wagner went to jail.

[00:23:56]Plaintiff Tammy Wagner says the defendant, who is her neighbor, had her falsely arrested for threatening her daughter, but the case was dismissed after the defendant's daughter changed her story in court. She went to jail for that? Yeah. No, she went to jail for the no contact order.

[00:24:13]>> Yeah, and you saw what happened at the trial.

[00:24:15]>> said you had to go.

[00:24:15]>> this cuz she said her husband Yeah. may have violated. Yeah, her daughter said >> she did nothing but tell her to move her car. Jasmine, for the plaintiff, your claim is dismissed. You have A GOOD DAY.

[00:24:27]>> [cheering] >> THANK [applause] YOU VERY MUCH.

[00:24:30]BYE.

[00:24:31]TRASH ONE.

[00:24:34]THANK YOU.

[00:24:35]>> THANK YOU, JUDGE MATHIS. You are awesome. They can't, you know, go out and start trouble and pretend to be the victim cuz that's what they do. They go out and start trouble and then, oh, let me put my camera on and record. But they're not the victim, honey. No.

[00:24:49]People like that always want to go out for money. It's not a big deal.

[00:24:54]Trash is trash.

[00:25:00]>> Plaintiff Sophia Valentine dated the defendant, [music] and she says the defendant often accused her of cheating. When in reality, the defendant was cheating on her with her [music] witness. Sophia claims the defendant gave her a ring and a necklace because she wanted to get married, but they broke up because the defendant is a pathological liar. She's suing for stolen money and a loan.

[00:25:25]Defendant Tyronia Montgomery says Sophia is delusional because they never dated.

[00:25:31]Tyronia claims she was not interested in Sophia because she's not her type, [music] but Sophia was so obsessed with her that she constantly tried to buy her love. She's countersuing for harassment.

[00:25:43]Start with you.

[00:25:44]Well, your honor, I met Tyronia on a dating website around July of 2015.

[00:25:51]Um during that course, things moved pretty quickly.

[00:25:55]Um and then after I started noticing seeing some inconsistencies and soon What was the name of the website? movingquick.com >> [laughter] >> I've been on it. And then you noticed things.

[00:26:09]>> [laughter] >> How long after you all started do you notice inconsistencies and what were they?

[00:26:19]Uh it was soon after the relationship and I noticed that she became a pathological liar. Um she portrayed this type of life lavish lifestyle um claimed that she had her own home. Um and then I realized that she was still at home staying with her mother.

[00:26:37]Um >> [laughter] >> Then in addition to that, she started to accuse me of cheating on her with my best friend.

[00:26:45]Um later on, I discovered that she was actually cheating on me with another woman who is actually present here today.

[00:26:53]She then uh told me that she was going to marry me.

[00:26:58]Um I even have evidence of that as well as a ring that she uh purchased for me and this necklace that she also gave me.

[00:27:08]And what did happen with the relationship? Well, after I found out that she was cheating, of course we ended up going our separate ways.

[00:27:17]All right. to give me some background?

[00:27:19]Yes. Um Ms. Valentine is delusional.

[00:27:24]She [snorts] is She's put something in her mind that is just not there. It It doesn't She's I guess a fairy tale.

[00:27:30]>> Okay. So, you do have the big house.

[00:27:33]Yeah, I have a pretty big house. Okay.

[00:27:35]When you met her Yes, sir. You didn't You didn't live with your You didn't live with your parents. No, I I live with my my mom. My mom is was ill. She was living with a cousin of ours and as she got ill, I moved in with me. Okay, and then you went back to your big house.

[00:27:49]No, I bought my mom's to my big house.

[00:27:51]When you met her, that was my question.

[00:27:53]Listen carefully. When you met her, did you have a big house as you told her that you owned? That was my question. My question wasn't whether you bought your mother's big house. [laughter] Yeah, I know it's funny. You were on that game or her, baby, but I don't see game a thousand times. Wrong one.

[00:28:13]You got the WRONG ONE, BABY.

[00:28:16]>> [laughter] [applause] >> THAT'S WEAK GAME.

[00:28:20]HEY. Let's move along. You just started out with weak game. I hope you I hope your game is stronger than that. All [laughter] right. What else you want me to know? Well, Ms. Valentine uh lost a car. She didn't have a place to live.

[00:28:33]Felt sorry for her. You know, she seemed to be a good person. Uh moved her in.

[00:28:37]Uh tried to find her a place to work. It was a little place up up the street. She couldn't work with them. She didn't have a car, so >> You all were dating?

[00:28:43]No, we were not We never dated. Never dated. Hold on. Why you moving in?

[00:28:48]>> [laughter] >> Just say charity? No, because her family No, no, not charity. Her family She couldn't live with her mom, she couldn't live with her dad. Her family wouldn't take her in. She had nowhere to go. So, yes, charity. Charity. So, yeah, let her move in for charity.

[00:28:59]>> any more room? I got a lot of folks.

[00:29:01]>> a lot of folks? I got a lot of folks who need a place to stay. [laughter] I can make them fit. We can make them fit.

[00:29:06]>> alone in that.

[00:29:07]>> We can We can make We can make We can make room. We can make room.

[00:29:10]>> All right.

[00:29:10]>> Um but uh we I brought her in uh save save your money, you know, try to find you a place. She didn't save money. She spent money on me.

[00:29:18]Uh anything I wanted I could say I was hungry, she'll go try to buy the restaurant I guarantee you.

[00:29:23]>> Oh, she was trying to buy my love, you know, she she she's not my type. She was a She was a sweet person, you know, but then I found out she was You know, she's crazy. Plaintiff Sofia Valentine says she dated the defendant and they talked about getting married, but the defendant says Sofia is delusional because [music] they were never in a relationship. Did you present gifts to her? One of which was in proposal of marriage?

[00:29:47]>> No, Your Honor. Okay. Did you give her gifts at all? I gave her a one necklace.

[00:29:52]Why?

[00:29:53]Uh it was a big like she said it was she was for birthday and she didn't nobody gave her nothing. So, I went and I gave her necklace. I don't I don't know.

[00:30:03]After the birthday she told you nobody gave her anything.

[00:30:05]>> Yeah, after the birthday.

[00:30:06]>> When did you get it for her?

[00:30:07]>> I don't recall.

[00:30:09]Okay.

[00:30:10]>> [laughter] >> You talking silly to me.

[00:30:13]Let me explain something to you. You're talking silly to me, but you're the one being sued and I'm the one making the decision. NOW, THAT'S SILLY.

[00:30:22]>> [laughter] >> HI.

[00:30:25]>> [applause] [cheering] >> YOU BETTER RUN THAT ON HER. SHE MIGHT not know any different cuz she wised up to you and now she's suing you. And you wake up one day so you can be over there and you sue her.

[00:30:39]Cuz her game is weak as you see. I'm tearing it apart. And so has she. That's why she's suing her. Now, go ahead.

[00:30:46]What's your lawsuit about? And what else did you want to show me? You had What is this? This is proof and evidence of >> And what is the necklace? Is that what you have in the box? Or what is that in the box?

[00:30:58]>> I'm actually wearing it right now, but That's it. This is where she purchased the necklace for me.

[00:31:05]Because through all my bad, you only see the good. You are a God-fearing, praying woman, and I need you in my life. Who's saying this? Tyronia. Yeah, that's what it says. T Y T Y >> [laughter] >> I need you in my life, no matter how hard life gets. Looking at you, I know it will be better. Therefore, you complete me. I'm 1,000 0 0 0 0 0 0. I'm ready to do this. Marry you, Mrs. Montgomery.

[00:31:34]Anything to say about that?

[00:31:36]I don't remember that.

[00:31:38]>> Okay. I'm going to >> [laughter] >> Your little playing games are over. So, your claim is granted, and yours IS DISMISSED. PERJURY.

[00:31:48]>> [laughter] [applause] >> WATCH, YOU PLAY SOMEBODY, YOU GOING TO END UP getting played yourself. She just hasn't learned it yet, so you stick with whatever you think you know. She good.

[00:32:03]That's all that matters.

[00:32:06]Plaintiff Josephine Bartlett is suing her grandson, [music] and she claims after he got out of the Navy, his behavior changed. Josephine says the defendant started hanging out with the wrong [music] crowd, acting violent, and he was in and out of jail. Josephine's suing him today for an unpaid student loan.

[00:32:27]Defendant Christopher Medina admits that after he was medically discharged from the military, >> [music] >> he didn't know what to do with his life.

[00:32:34]So, he started fighting and stealing to get by. Christopher claims he turned his life around after his son was born and he insists his stepfather agreed to pay off the student loan if he was unable to.

[00:32:49]Start with you?

[00:32:51]Chris is my grandson and I do love him very much.

[00:32:55]I've noticed a big change in him after he got out of the Navy, a few years after got out.

[00:33:01]He started hanging out with the wrong crowd, started lying, becoming angry, just super aggressive with family members.

[00:33:11]Um he's been in and out of jail. Was he in combat, do you know?

[00:33:15]All right, so we got that excuse out of the way.

[00:33:19]What do you think went wrong? Did he start hanging out wrong? Did he start working immediately after coming home?

[00:33:24]No, he did not.

[00:33:25]>> had idle time. When he got out of jail, that's when he started getting angry and aggressive, lying, >> jail for?

[00:33:33]Maybe that has something >> stealing, he he attacked my son and his mother.

[00:33:40]And my son can tell you some of the You want to come up and tell me, sir? State your name. My name's John Mason.

[00:33:47]>> to tell me?

[00:33:48]He was saying a lot of bad stuff about me and his mom and stuff and we were we were the ones helping him. We we helped him with lawyer fees. We helped him with uh with his children to see his children because he had a restraining order on him from his wife. For doing what to her? For abuse. Physical? Physical abuse.

[00:34:08]And uh so on the weekends we would get the kids and give him the kids, which was okay with his wife.

[00:34:15]Um then we get the kids back and then give them back to the wife. Can you speculate why his behavior Yes. Yes.

[00:34:24]>> way, what? He he was a very respectable young man after, you know, he got out of the Navy and stuff, but um when when he got out of jail It it with the Navy.

[00:34:35]What he went to jail? How did he go to jail? He was a nice respectable man.

[00:34:40]Then he went to jail. So, there's something happened that caused him to go to jail.

[00:34:44]>> [music] >> Defendant Christopher Medina is being sued by his grandmother who claims after Christopher got out of the Navy, he became violent and was in and out of jail.

[00:34:55]But, let me ask you, sir.

[00:34:57]Did your behavior change after being such a nice and respectable young man?

[00:35:02]Yes, sir.

[00:35:03]>> so, go ahead. You tell me about yourself.

[00:35:06]She is my grandma through marriage. My mother married John Massey here.

[00:35:11]Um before I went to the military, I had a fallout with my family. I moved out, lived with my biological grandmother when I was 17.

[00:35:21]She helped me graduate high school. It was a place to stay, a roof over my head, and food so I can finish graduating high school, get my high school diploma, and go to the military.

[00:35:30]I did that. I got out with a medical discharge for tearing my rotator cuff, failed my physical PTs.

[00:35:37]After that, I hung out with the wrong crowds cuz I didn't know what to do with my life after that. I started fighting, started stealing, doing what I had to do to get by and not making a great impression of myself.

[00:35:48]Okay, you couldn't work after leaving the armed forces? I had troubles holding a job because of the wrong crowd that I was hanging out with. I kept losing my jobs.

[00:35:58]Um when my son was born is when I decided to try to turn my life around and that's when Josephine tried to help me with the student loan.

[00:36:05]And where what schools or what type of um profession did you get?

[00:36:09]>> get my class A driver's license so I can do over-the-road trucking, cross country. Good paying job? Yep.

[00:36:15]And what happened? Um I got rear-ended a week before I graduated. So, I lost everything right there. I failed the schooling because I got rear-ended in my personal vehicle pulling in my driveway.

[00:36:28]So, I lost my license because of that because I was considered a professional driver.

[00:36:34]So, my >> what happened, ma'am? Is that what happened?

[00:36:36]>> I did I didn't know nothing about There wasn't anything he was doing reckless or self-destructive that caused him to lose out on his opportunity, in your opinion. Yep. The accident is what to your knowledge caused his loss of opportunity? Yes. All right. So, you suing him for the loan.

[00:36:56]He owed college loans and tell me you co-signed for him, obviously.

[00:37:00]>> Yes, I did.

[00:37:01]>> So, they came after you when he failed to pay and that's why you suing him?

[00:37:04]Yes, it is.

[00:37:05]>> Sir, what do you say to that? I feel I don't owe because yes, she did take the loan out for me. She co-signed it for me, but her and John Massey and I also signed an agreement stating that if I was to fail to make my payments, he would take over for me.

[00:37:20]>> that agreement?

[00:37:20]>> I do not have it. Did you all sign an agreement?

[00:37:23]>> No. No. All right.

[00:37:24]>> We never signed an agreement like that.

[00:37:27]I got news for you. Whenever someone co-signs, that's just what that means.

[00:37:31]If you fail to pay, they have to.

[00:37:34]And it does not mean, however, that they don't come after you and get their money from you since you caused them to be indebted. I'm sure you can still go back, can't you? At this moment, I'm focusing something else on my career right now. What are you focusing on? Uh right now, I'm a class B painter.

[00:37:54]I just got my license for that through my job for entry level. Good. All right.

[00:37:58]That's a good paying job, right? Yeah, I'm I'm making pretty good money doing it right now.

[00:38:04]>> Excellent. You going to get your 5,000 sooner than you thought. Trust me for the plane. It's 5,000.

[00:38:11]>> [applause]