Entitled Woman Yells After Sentencing—Her Reaction Is Priceless!

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]We were last here on April 8th, 2026, where the defendant plead guilty to amended count one of the indictment, attempted illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto the grounds of a specified governmental facility, a felony of the fourth degree. Count two, possession of cocaine, a felony of the fifth degree.

[00:00:18]Count six, tampering with records, and amended. Count seven, identity fraud, a felony of the fifth degree.

[00:00:25]>> Thank you, Mr. Matthews.

[00:00:27]>> Thank you, your honor. Uh, Miss Harris is requesting to be placed on community control. As the court is aware, she is currently on community control in Kyhoga County. The plan in Kyhoga County was for her to attend the CBCF, but unfortunately due to her uh medical issues. Uh, she was denied entry. She does have a number of concerns regarding her uh medical issues. She has experienced a couple of uh blood sugar drops in the jail, becoming very dizzy, sweating. U she does have a number of medical appointments. I >> have a pacemaker >> and she has a pacemaker. Thank you.

[00:01:07]>> Okay, Miss Harris, what do you want to tell me before I sentence you?

[00:01:11]>> I would like to apologize to the courts.

[00:01:13]Um I hold full responsibility for my actions.

[00:01:17]>> What What actions are you taking responsibility for? the charges that was brought upon me.

[00:01:22]>> All right.

[00:01:23]>> Well, you indicate in this pre-sentence report that you really didn't do anything >> that you you didn't you didn't know anything about those drugs that were taken into the jail beyond the blood pressure medication.

[00:01:41]>> Um >> that you had uh permission to uh have your uh sister's cards Those were my cards.

[00:01:52]>> And uh so you didn't really do anything wrong. So what is it you're taking responsibility for?

[00:01:58]>> Um those were my cards. Um I do >> they have your sister's name on them?

[00:02:04]>> No, they had my name on Katherine Harris.

[00:02:08]>> I just used my sister name when that was spoken to at Walmart.

[00:02:12]>> Far as the drugs you that was my proper take that behind my high blood pressure.

[00:02:17]Um, >> that was in that purse, right?

[00:02:20]>> Yes.

[00:02:21]>> That you that that you said belonged to your sister, right?

[00:02:26]>> The pur my my blood pressure pill was in a a bag >> in the purse.

[00:02:31]>> Ziploc bag. Yeah. I put it to in the side of the purse cuz I got the purse out because I didn't want nobody to just look in that thing. Money was in there and I think it was a piece of pipe. Um, like they say cocaine residue was on like a piece of glass from a pipe. I don't do drugs, Joanna.

[00:02:48]>> All right. Well, >> where before you put the the blood pressure medication in the purse, where did you have it?

[00:02:54]>> In my pocket.

[00:02:56]>> And why did you take it out of your pocket?

[00:02:59]>> Because when I got out to use the bathroom to go in, when I sat down on the toilet, you know, I didn't want it to fall out, so I just stuck it like on the side of the pocket purse.

[00:03:08]>> Right.

[00:03:09]>> Yeah.

[00:03:09]>> So, who who was it that that you went to Walmart with that day? Um, it was my sister.

[00:03:16]>> What sister? What's her name?

[00:03:18]>> Cassandra and her boyfriend.

[00:03:21]>> Yeah. And I stayed in the car cuz I wasn't feeling good. And I was just asking them what was taking so long. And they were like, "Well, we done."

[00:03:26]>> Where is Cassandra now?

[00:03:28]>> She's in Alabama, >> right? What was she doing at Walmart that day?

[00:03:33]>> Well, they came up here to visit. It was a relative had a funeral. They came to I had a previous incident with that store.

[00:03:41]I didn't even I don't even go in there without they was taking too long. And then the officer said that the lady said that I had to show receipts and I kept calling them and nobody answer and they left me and they said we need the bags and I gave it back to them. I didn't want no problem.

[00:03:59]>> Where did they why did they give you the bags to take?

[00:04:02]>> When I came in the store, I met them to see what was taking them so long and they was had their buggy with the bag.

[00:04:07]So I they were like, "We done. We got to go back and get something else." Where did they go? They said they had to get some school supplies. So, I took the bags onto the car and when I went back to the stores, see, you know, the officer was coming towards me and he said the young lady said, "I didn't have a receipt." But I had spoke to the officer and was talking to the officer on my way out. And he was like, "We need the bag." I said, "Sure." And I gave it to him. I'm like, "They need to call them, told them they needed the receipt.

[00:04:33]Nobody answered." And the security lady said, "Um, your ride has left you."

[00:04:39]They left me.

[00:04:41]>> Where'd they go?

[00:04:43]>> They left me at the store. Where they went, I don't know. After that, they just left me at the store.

[00:04:49]>> Yeah.

[00:04:50]>> You ever done this before? Use Cassandra's name.

[00:04:53]>> Um, once I did it cuz I was pretty mad, John. I'm not going to lie. I was mad because they I felt like I was a fall guy and it's, you know, I know people do a lot of things. I have done a lot of things in my life and I got my life. I turned it around. And >> so had you ever done that before? Used her name?

[00:05:12]>> Use Cassandra name? I I think so.

[00:05:16]>> You think so? Or you did?

[00:05:18]>> I don't. Yeah, cuz I used her name.

[00:05:21]Yeah.

[00:05:22]>> Right. Why did you use her name this time?

[00:05:26]>> I just thought they wanted to talk to me, you know, about the people at Walmart.

[00:05:31]>> Okay. But why did you >> Oh, because they left me and put me in, you know, they set me up for that. They left me. They wouldn't answer the phone and bring their receipt. You know, I know.

[00:05:41]>> I'm trying to figure out why you plead guilty if you didn't do anything wrong.

[00:05:45]>> Because I felt like that was the way that I can get my case or listening to my attorney. He said that's the best thing for me to do.

[00:05:54]That's what Mr. M >> Well, if if if you had done these things, that was a pretty good result, pretty good resolution of the case. if you had done these things. Problem is you you're insisting you didn't do these things.

[00:06:07]>> No, I was but I felt they I don't know how to put it.

[00:06:13]>> Huh?

[00:06:13]>> I I don't know how to put it. Yes, I did. Push that buggy out that store. I sure did. But when they said they needed a receipt and I didn't go in there and get anything, I gave them their bags back because >> Where where were you uh living between the summer of '09 and the summer of 23?

[00:06:32]>> 09 and 23.

[00:06:34]>> Yeah.

[00:06:35]>> Uh back and forth from Alabama to Cleveland. The 2023 I was here in Ohio.

[00:06:40]>> Right. You were in Willoughby Court for a theft.

[00:06:43]>> Yes. Mhm.

[00:06:44]>> What did you do on that? What was that theft?

[00:06:46]>> That's what I'm saying. That's why that was that I had a problem with that once before. That's why I didn't go in that store.

[00:06:52]>> I know what what you stole from Walmart.

[00:06:55]>> We went through the um check check out line.

[00:06:59]>> Uh-huh.

[00:07:00]>> Yeah. And a couple things that we didn't pay for.

[00:07:03]>> Who's we?

[00:07:05]>> Oh, some friends that I used to hang with that I don't see anymore. You know >> what about this this uh robbery and drug possession in Kyogre County that you're on probation for?

[00:07:17]that happened there.

[00:07:18]>> I um gamble a lot. That's my problem.

[00:07:21]And I never robbed nobody. Your honor, they had had it. The CHH police put it like a robbery. Somebody said I took $40 from this lady. And that's a lot of people I help out when I got it. And some when I don't give it to them, they do a lot of things to me. Just like over here in this jail. I have been through so much in this jail till I feel like you just sentence me to death. That's just how I feel right now.

[00:07:46]>> So, what why did they charge you with robbery? Why did you plead Did you plead guilty in that case?

[00:07:51]>> I don't.

[00:07:52]>> Or did you go to trial?

[00:07:53]>> I didn't go to trial. No.

[00:07:55]>> So, you plead guilty to robbery?

[00:07:56]>> Yes, I did. That's I do trying to get it over because >> So, what happened? What was the robbery?

[00:08:01]the um the the girl owed me $20 and she was hesitating to give it to me and my Uber ride was waiting for me as I sort of like got, you know, while she was trying to give me the money, I was like, "Hurry up." So, I got the wallet and got my own $20. And I see on there they said 40, but it was 20. And then I left, but her boyfriend, they do drugs. the the boyfriend or the nephew or whatever pushed her up to say that I'm in the in the apartment gambling and I'm outside talking to CHH police that they robbing me while I'm in there, you know, but No, it was I don't I ain't that bad. No.

[00:08:43]>> What was the drug possession? What did you have?

[00:08:45]>> They It was a a garbage. It was some garbage that they looked through the um I don't know what it was. I didn't even see it. It was >> What apartment was it? It was um my friend boyfriend.

[00:08:56]>> What? So you didn't do anything on that?

[00:08:57]>> I'm talking about the the what now?

[00:09:00]>> Well, you were from what I can tell you plead guilty to robbery and drug possession in Kyhoga County.

[00:09:13]>> Yes.

[00:09:14]>> Okay. So, what you're telling me is you didn't commit the robbery and you didn't have any drugs. It was in a garbage can in the apartment that wasn't yours.

[00:09:23]>> It wasn't It wasn't in the garbage can.

[00:09:25]It was like when they cleaned the table off in a small um >> Why Why did they charge you with that?

[00:09:33]>> Because when they came in, I had the garbage in my hand. You know, we cleaned the table off to get the um table clean to play cards and they picked the bag up and started looking. It was I don't know what was in it, but they said it was rust. And like I said, listening to my attorney, I wanted to do a trial, but they said it would be bringing them in. You know, listening to attorneys, just wanted it over with. I My life is not like that.

[00:10:00]You >> Well, it looks like it's like that for the last few years. I mean that's yeah I could say I had a little bumps and bruises the last few years because my kids got grown, moved out, had too much free time and started going back to the old crowd and you know and >> was there a Miss Canals? Was there a victim impact statement received from uh Cassandra?

[00:10:25]>> There was not, your honor. She did call me.

[00:10:27]>> You did you speak with her?

[00:10:29]>> I did.

[00:10:30]>> What did she tell you? Uh, she asked if she had to complete the statement and I told her she did not. And then she told me that her sister does this all the time and she wishes she was a stopper.

[00:10:41]>> My sister didn't tell me that.

[00:10:45]>> She told me that two guys was trying to get her to press charges on me and she didn't want to. And that >> what what two guys?

[00:10:52]>> I don't know who she spoke to, but she told me that they kept calling her and said, >> "Well, they didn't press charges, honey. The police arrested you and charged."

[00:11:00]>> I know. She said that they was calling her to press charges on me, getting her to press charge. I mean, she said she told no, she didn't want to do that.

[00:11:08]>> Okay.

[00:11:09]>> I mean, they sent her the package and stuff.

[00:11:12]>> What?

[00:11:13]>> She said they sent her a package.

[00:11:14]>> When did you When did you talk to her?

[00:11:16]>> I talked to my sister all the time.

[00:11:18]>> Did you How did How did they discover that you were actually Katherine Harris instead of Cassandra?

[00:11:25]>> You know, >> I don't know. Well, did Cassandra call you or did you call Cassandra when you were in the Kyogre County Jail?

[00:11:34]>> No.

[00:11:35]>> What's her What is her What is What are one of the names Cassandra goes by?

[00:11:40]>> Diddy.

[00:11:41]>> What else?

[00:11:43]>> Jacqueline.

[00:11:44]>> Is it Lelay?

[00:11:45]>> No, >> I'm Lelay.

[00:11:46]>> You're Lelay? I see. I get confused.

[00:11:49]>> I'm get I get confused cuz you're Catherine, right? Cassandra. Okay.

[00:11:55]>> Okay. So that's how they figured out you weren't Cassandra.

[00:12:00]>> Yeah.

[00:12:00]>> Okay. So you think you you say you think you might have done this once before. Use >> No, I use my sister Cassandra your name.

[00:12:10]>> Okay.

[00:12:11]>> Well, I'm I apologize. I like I said, I went towards the wrong direction. I've been doing so good in my life, especially when I found out I had this heart trouble and stuff. Like I said, I was just angry. Why? Why are you causing such a ruckus in the jail all the time?

[00:12:27]>> See, that's what I'm about to get to.

[00:12:28]I'm not causing ruckus in the jail, y' I'm a peacemaker. I don't care what my background show. I'm a peacemaker. You got people in jail. We got to live together because we all house together.

[00:12:41]You got some people in a group that want to take control over TVs, tablets, and when I get to saying stuff like >> share, they get mad and secret kite me.

[00:12:52]>> Well, I mean, there's simple things that you just won't comply with.

[00:12:57]>> What is that? I comply with any and everything. I give them the utmost respect.

[00:13:01]>> March 6, you were charged with a you were locked down for 23 hours because you you weren't ready for the headcount.

[00:13:08]>> I had just got to jail and I didn't know how it went.

[00:13:12]You notice every time I'm locked down is by Anderson. I mean for nothing. I don't even Sergeant CO Anderson. I don't even know why I be getting moved from different people do different. You got inmates jail. You surrounded by different type of >> be you got one, two, three, four, five, >> six different things on here, >> right? And tablets, TV the sergeant.

[00:13:36]Usually if I have a sentencing and there's one that that's unusual. You got six.

[00:13:42]>> It's not my fault, your honor.

[00:13:44]>> I know nothing's your fault.

[00:13:45]>> Yeah. I mean it's my only sir when I talk biblical to people like get along and let's share. We got to live together. These people get mad and then they write secret.

[00:13:59]>> Quit talking to them about the stuff.

[00:14:01]>> They don't want to hear it. Why you talking to them about it?

[00:14:04]>> Because you got black and white. That's simple. Black and white. Let me just say it then. It's we got black people and we got white people in the jail. The white people want control over everything.

[00:14:13]They want power over everything. And when I speak up for us, you know, let us watch TV. Let us watch what we want to watch. Let us use the tablet. When they get up in the morning time, they grab two and three tablets for their friends.

[00:14:26]We don't have a tablet. You know, they say we all agree to watch a TV uh program. We can't watch TV. You know, it's not like I'm taking it a racial thing or that, but it's always about them. You know, we have other inmates in jail. Let us do something. Let all let's all come together, you know, and and and get an understanding of who can watch what who could do this. Kite, like Sergeant said, it's stupid, you know.

[00:14:51]Sergeant, whatever. He said, you got it's only about TVs and tablets and you know, I can't just these are young kids, you know, they group up. They in a group. They want the table all night with voices echoing, you know, and I don't want to look at it like it's a racial thing. But let me say this here. I've been through hell in that jail for no reason. I've been through hell in that jail for people riding kites on me by me respecting them, telling them words of encouragement.

[00:15:19]>> What did you uh what what was the drug that you had uh that you were charged with the conveyance with?

[00:15:26]>> Okay. It was a uh piece of glass pipe.

[00:15:30]>> What else was there? Anything else?

[00:15:31]>> Oh, it was a um sub uh they said a suboxin strip.

[00:15:34]>> All right. Where was that located?

[00:15:36]>> Um the suboxin strip was in between my credit cards in between my cards.

[00:15:40]>> In the shoe.

[00:15:41]>> In my shoe. Those was my I had no purse.

[00:15:44]It was my business in cuz I had just left the med the hospital and I had all my stuff in my shoe. And like I said, I >> Where did you get the suboxin from? I who I I got it I think it from a guy just being around people saying let me get one of them you know >> for what?

[00:15:58]>> Huh?

[00:15:59]>> For what? Why would he give you a suboxin?

[00:16:03]>> I don't know. People take suboxin I think. And I was cuz I be around a lot of white girls that do heron and I would have probably gave it to them. I don't do drugs. Yana.

[00:16:13]>> Well, if you don't do drugs, what are you doing with drugs? I didn't have what my pill and that suboxin that >> suboxin is a drug that you didn't that you just can't you you can't have suboxin unless it's prescribed.

[00:16:27]>> Like I said, I be around people that do these and I have >> Why would you if somebody gives you a How did you know it was Suboxin?

[00:16:35]>> How did I know what it was?

[00:16:36]>> Yeah, >> because all the people I be around, they do hate >> Why are you If you If you don't do drugs, why you hanging around people who do drugs? They be in the vicinity where we be at gambling in the highrise >> where >> on Way Park, >> right?

[00:16:50]>> Yeah. I play a lot of poker and ton.

[00:16:54]>> So, but if you don't if you don't do drugs and somebody gives you drugs, why did you take the drugs?

[00:17:00]>> I took the suboxin. Like I said, I'd be around girls that do heron and I know they be talking about suboxin and I would have gave it to them. I I >> You would You were just going to give it to somebody else.

[00:17:10]>> Yes. Yes.

[00:17:15]I don't do drugs.

[00:17:17]>> Well, you my conditions I've been I don't even do marijuana with my pacemaker and my diabetes. That's I stopped that. Only thing I do is I like to play cards. I like to play poker.

[00:17:27]Like I I don't I mean, like I said, I did the wrong way of going back when my boys left home, but my life has been good. You know, I I've I've had a excellent I've been stable. I've been stable. I don't have a a hunky dory pass, you know.

[00:17:46]>> So, why does why does Cassandra tell Miss Canals that you you you keep doing this? You keep using her name all over the place, which causes her problems.

[00:17:55]Why does she say you keep doing that?

[00:17:57]>> Cassandra might have just said something out of the way, but Cassandra know I don't keep using her name. She know my sister don't. She She probably just probably misunderstood Cassandra. I don't keep doing this.

[00:18:08]>> Did you misunderstand Cassandra when you when you talked to her, Jennifer?

[00:18:12]>> I don't believe I did, John.

[00:18:14]>> Okay.

[00:18:17]>> No, please.

[00:18:18]>> I don't know how I don't know how I reconcile all all that you've told me because what you've told me is >> that on the on the theft from Walmart in 23, it wasn't really your fault on >> I didn't say that. I said I had on the robbery and the drug possession in Kyhoga. It wasn't you didn't do anything.

[00:18:40]>> And in this case, you you didn't do anything wrong either. It was just >> I don't know what it was. All I know is >> you you plead guilty to something now that you're telling everybody you didn't do.

[00:18:54]>> I'm going I was God.

[00:18:56]>> Huh?

[00:18:57]>> I I think it was God getting me out of the way, stirring me back in the right place. It was God that took me.

[00:19:04]>> If you were Why Why would he have to steer you in the right place?

[00:19:09]>> Well, listen. You You're You're sitting in the car.

[00:19:13]Cassandra and her boyfriend, go to Walmart. You're sitting in the car and and what you're telling me is you wanted to go into the bathroom and you wanted to find them because they were taking too long. You met them in the aisle.

[00:19:29]They gave you the bags. You took out the bags. You got arrested. They disappeared.

[00:19:34]You got uh drugs in your shoe, a pipe in the purse.

[00:19:42]>> It wasn't a pipe.

[00:19:43]>> And and >> and then you you use Cassandra's name.

[00:19:50]So >> my lord, >> if if you were presumably you telling me all that meant you were in the right place to begin with because you were just going along for the ride to Walmart.

[00:20:02]>> No, they picked me up.

[00:20:03]>> Okay. They picked you up. That's fine.

[00:20:06]Okay. They picked you up, but you were you weren't doing anything wrong. So you were already in the right place. You didn't do anything wrong in Kyoga. You were already in the right place. Why would God have to steer you to the right place?

[00:20:16]>> Because I I I say I hold responsibility for it. It's not what it seemed to be.

[00:20:21]It's not the way they wrote it. Things are, you know, it's not how it happened.

[00:20:26]It's not the way they wrote it. It's not how it really happened. You know, I don't I don't >> That's the >> I don't know what to say. I don't know how to put it, >> but like I said, it happened. It happened, >> right? But what you're telling me is these things keep happening to you and none of it is any of your fault.

[00:20:51]>> It's my fault.

[00:20:51]>> Okay.

[00:20:52]>> It's my fault. I hold full responsibility for my action. It's my fault.

[00:20:57]>> Miss Gold.

[00:20:58]>> Thank you, your honor. It is the state's position that the defendant is not amendable to community control sanctions and the state is asking for a prison sentence.

[00:21:07]>> Oh, no.

[00:21:09]No.

[00:21:11]All right. I have reviewed the uh precent report.

[00:21:15]>> No.

[00:21:15]>> And I have listened to uh Miss Harris, listen to councel.

[00:21:22]>> No, >> Miss Harris doesn't take responsibility for anything.

[00:21:26]>> Yes, I do. Your honor, >> she doesn't acknowledge doing anything wrong.

[00:21:30]>> Please don't.

[00:21:31]>> Either in this case or in the Kyhoga case.

[00:21:35]>> Please don't do this. Please. The presence report reflects >> this is all Alabama.

[00:21:43]>> A 94 conviction for lararseny 96 for theft of property.

[00:21:52]99 for theft of property 99 negotiating worthless instrument.

[00:21:59]>> Well, that's my past.

[00:22:01]>> I know it's your I'm going over >> I got past that. Please don't come from where I >> theft of property in ' 04.

[00:22:07]>> Fraudulent use of credit card theft of property in ' 04.

[00:22:12]>> Fraudulent use of a credit card theft shoplifting in '05.

[00:22:17]05 theft of property criminal possession forge instrument domestic violence. 05 criminal possession forge instrument.

[00:22:27]06 theft of property. 07 theft of property. 09 criminal possession of a forge instrument. Then we get to uh Ohio. I don't know what happened. You were in Alabama. I don't know what happened in Alabama between uh nine and when you came here, but in 23, you got a theft out of this Walmart.

[00:22:49]Then in uh 25, you got a robbery and a drug possession and a falsification.

[00:22:54]And then you've got this thing.

[00:22:57]So, this seems to be a long-standing issue for you >> that you uh >> I'mma die in jail. Please don't do this.

[00:23:07]Don't >> that you uh don't do this.

[00:23:09]>> Steal from people and use your sister's name apparently quite a bit. So, I'm going to find you're not amunable to community control.

[00:23:18]>> And I'm going to sentence you on each of these counts to uh 12 months in prison.

[00:23:27]When you get out, you might be on postrelease control for up to two years under the parole authority.

[00:23:32]>> I'mma die in jail. I'mma die.

[00:23:34]>> Placed on postrelease control.

[00:23:37]>> Violating the conditions of parole authority could return you to prison for up to 9 months for each violation up to one half of my sentence.

[00:23:45]>> If the violation is a new felony, you could get an additional consecutive prison sentence for the violation. The maximum of which is the greater of 12 months or the time left under post-release control. The costs are assessed and your machine counts are dismissed. Anything else?

[00:23:59]>> Forfeite.

[00:24:00]>> Forfeite. Anything else, Mr. Matthews?

[00:24:02]>> No, you're not.

[00:24:04]>> All right.

[00:24:07]You too.