Order in the court! Join us as we revisit the most jaw-dropping moments from television's toughest judge. From outrageous defendants to unbelievable testimonies, these cases left even Judge Sheindlin speechless. Warning: some of these cases are definitely not for the faint of heart!
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00:00You asked him, according to you. I told him to pick up the baby and play nicely.
00:05Correct. You're an idiot.
00:07Welcome to Miss Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the times when Judge Judy made us clutch our pearls.
00:13Moron! And you still don't even get it. You still don't get it.
00:20Number 10. A Doctor's Report
00:21Once you give Judge Judy access to your health records, anything goes.
00:25This defendant lies about the treatment he received for an incident with the plaintiff,
00:29and when she retrieves his documents, she exposes the real reason he went to the doctor.
00:33You went with regard to something else.
00:35Um, that was the first thing that I had addressed.
00:37You...
00:37I went for... I addressed multiple things while I was there.
00:40No. Well, you addressed the lesions that you said that you had.
00:43He was being treated for a more private medical reason than he probably doesn't want aired out on national television.
00:49The fact is, she probably wouldn't have done this if he hadn't lied about his visit in order to beef up his case.
00:54It wasn't at all, sir. You went there because he had a lesion on your groin.
00:59That's why you went to the doctor on June 11th.
01:01Not because of what was on your face.
01:03Still, it's one of those things you don't expect to hear on this show.
01:06Mr. Van Hanswick's going to understand that when he comes to court, he's supposed to bring all relevant information,
01:11not just the information that he wants me to read.
01:13Because otherwise, if he gets a judge who actually knows how to read,
01:17and looks at dates, and looks at information, it could be embarrassing.
01:21Number 9. Adult Novelty Items
01:23It's all downhill the moment the judge asks the plaintiff what kind of company she runs.
01:27What is adult novelty?
01:29Um, we go into homes and hold parties for adults, um, with lotions and potions and vibrators.
01:36Oh. That kind of adult party?
01:38Yes.
01:39An adult novelty business owner is suing the defendant for a list of personal items that she kept.
01:43This list is long and pretty shocking for a daytime court show.
01:47Ten catalogs, Making Love Oil, um, flavors strawberry and champagne.
01:52Apparently, the defendant was satisfied enough with these items to keep them without paying for them.
01:56What's worse, what was returned was, let's just say, not properly cleaned after use.
02:02From the whimsical names for these naughty items to Judge Scheindlin's reactions,
02:06this case just spins out of control in record time.
02:09The eager beaver which appeared to be used, um, so that may have been used,
02:14but we would have appreciated that to have been cleaned up before she returned it to us.
02:18Number 8. Rigor Mortis Stew
02:19This case takes the phrase, waste not, wants not, to a whole new level.
02:24What Carol Dettenheim lacks in financial responsibility,
02:27she more than makes up for in her resourcefulness.
02:30After hitting a deer with her sister's car, she did the only thing that she could think of.
02:34She brought it home and cooked it up.
02:35She hit a deer, damaged the car, and her defense is, you should have had better insurance.
02:40Is that your defense?
02:42I thought she had full coverage.
02:44I don't know.
02:45What made you think that?
02:46I just didn't think.
02:47You didn't think? Who do you rely on to do your thinking?
02:50If this weren't grim enough, the only offer that she made to make things right with her sister
02:54was a bowl of stew with the deer meat.
02:57Oh, it died.
02:58Did you wait for somebody to come and take the carcass away?
03:03Uh, no, I put pine straw over it and took the antler.
03:07Her sister's in-court response that she wasn't going to eat rigor mortis stew
03:18has gone on to become a classic Judge Judy moment.
03:21Is that true?
03:22Yes, ma'am, and she even offered me some, but I'm not having a rigor mortis stew.
03:28You did not have rigor mortis.
03:30Number seven, intoxicated lady.
03:32While filming in Antigua, defendant Dr. Noel Howell
03:35alleges the plaintiff was hired and fired as a makeup artist on the shoot.
03:40Howell presents himself well and seems pretty normal.
03:43Melissa had to leave for a number of reasons.
03:45The main reason was because Melissa was incapable of doing her work.
03:50That may still be true, but it's also what makes his decision to recreate the plaintiff's
03:54alleged erratic intoxicated behavior in the court all the more hilarious and borderline terrifying.
04:00Even his friend and witness can't keep it together.
04:02Usually, the judge is quick about shutting this kind of behavior down,
04:06but even she seemed shocked to dress him down.
04:08Give me an example.
04:09Um, on Saturday the 24th of January, I got on set and I was like,
04:15yo, you need to go talk to Melissa.
04:16Or maybe she's just as entertained as we are.
04:19She was like, why?
04:22Why?
04:24I got it.
04:25Number six, letting the dog decide.
04:27It's rare that Judge Judy lets anyone else decide a case in her courtroom.
04:31But here, she entrusts the verdict to a dog.
04:33The plaintiff's poodle was stolen, and she believes the thief sold him to the defendant.
04:38The judge instructs the defendant's witness to bring the dog into the courtroom to settle this once and for all.
04:43The question is, is this his dog?
04:46Your vet can't tell you how old the dog is.
04:48The vet can tell you whether the dog is a puppy, whether it has puppy teeth,
04:51whether it's three years old or five years old.
04:53Your dog can't tell you that.
04:54Despite the defendant's pleas not to do it, the witness lets the dog go.
04:58And he runs right to the plaintiff.
05:00Hey, baby boy.
05:00Madam.
05:01Hey, man.
05:02Madam, listen to me carefully.
05:03Put the dog down.
05:05Some things aren't a matter of paperwork.
05:07Sometimes the evidence is plain as day.
05:09The judge is satisfied, and it's a perfect ending.
05:12Pick him up.
05:12Hey, baby boy.
05:13Come up, man.
05:14Come up, baby boy.
05:16Oh.
05:17That's all.
05:18Take the dog home.
05:19Number five, you are a moron.
05:21Exes fighting over their children tends to bring out the worst in them.
05:25One of Judge Judy's favorite maxims is,
05:27you have to love your children more than you hate each other.
05:30Defendant Kathleen Kreftmeyer clearly doesn't think this applies to her.
05:34You're a moron.
05:36You are a moron.
05:37She baselessly told her very young daughter that the plaintiff might not be her father.
05:42Why in the world would you tell a six-year-old child that somebody who she believed was her
05:49father, who it turns out is her father, might not be her father?
05:53The judge, who comes from family court, absolutely lays into Kreftmeyer for being so careless
05:58and cruel to her ex and her daughter.
06:00You have a paternity test.
06:02If you have a question, then you know.
06:04You don't tell her first because you feel as if you have to get it off your chest that
06:09you were messing around.
06:11He was messing around first, Your Honor.
06:13Who cares?
06:14He didn't become pregnant.
06:16The defendant's complete indignation at this is pretty pathetic to watch,
06:20and it just drives home how incredibly wrong-headed she is in the first place.
06:24Luckily, Judge Shandlin specializes in setting people straight.
06:27All I know is, madam, you are one of the most marginal people that I've come across in a
06:32long time and you haven't even said two words.
06:34Number four, doused with boiling water.
06:36In a particularly ugly case, the judge sifts through evidence over a vicious attack
06:41between roommates.
06:42Plaintiff Kylie Jones, allegedly defendant, her ex-roommate, threw boiling water on her
06:47while she slept.
06:48So this indicates that officers responded to the scene, that burns were caused by hot
06:54water that Miss Camby had allegedly thrown at Miss Jones.
06:57As horrifying as that is, Jones' insistence that the responding officer was a fake officer
07:02makes it clear that there's more here than meets the eye.
07:05This is Hartford Police Department.
07:07Yeah.
07:10He's fugazi.
07:12What does that mean?
07:13That means he's fake.
07:15That...
07:16Why would she not be arrested for this, Your Honor?
07:20The police and medical reports from that evening paint a picture of substance abuse.
07:25As it unfolds, the judge is so disturbed by the case that she is genuinely compassionate
07:30towards Jones in a way we don't always see from her.
07:33Uncooperative in substance abuse.
07:35Flat affect.
07:37That's why.
07:38What she did was terrible.
07:39Yeah.
07:39What she did was terrible.
07:40Yeah.
07:41They didn't take you seriously.
07:42Yeah.
07:43And that is not an excuse for them.
07:45But part of the reason they didn't take you seriously is because you were your own worst enemy.
07:49Meow.
07:50Number three, Tupperware Lady.
07:52Every Judge Judy fan knows about Karina Roy, but they might not know her name.
07:57The plaintiff was suing her former landlord over unpaid rent and unreturned items.
08:02But the problem all seemed to stem from one issue.
08:06Tupperware.
08:06I go over there and I open it up and it's kind of on the ground.
08:09So I kneel down and there's my Tupperware and I grab it.
08:12And when I'm down, she's leaning her whole body into me, pointing her finger in my face.
08:16How dare you?
08:17Don't you even dare.
08:18Shame on you.
08:19That's it.
08:19I want you out of here.
08:20And she hit my head with her finger.
08:22To hear Roy's version of events, her collection of prized plastic food containers became a weapon in a brutal assault.
08:29To anyone else who hears this story, she just sounds overdramatic.
08:33And said, hey, and looking directly at me and said, hey, hey, the babies, the babies, as she's looking at me.
08:41And I had not said anything through this whole entire time.
08:44What did she say?
08:45The babies.
08:46The babies.
08:49Hey.
08:49Clearly, the judge had a lot more patience in the early days of the program.
08:53Roy's histrionics wouldn't even get past the 10 second mark these days.
08:58It was just like somebody just ripped my, I mean, I just felt hollow in here.
09:01I mean, I felt, I did not, I did not feel stable at all.
09:05My driver has been.
09:05You're not stable.
09:06So, anybody that walks into a bedroom, somebody sleeping in their bed, to ask for two pieces of Tupperware and start an argument with them while they're in bed over two pieces of Tupperware isn't too stable.
09:19Number two, this is my episode.
09:21Defendant Danny Gonzalez must think he's on a different show.
09:24The judge gets on him about his being 21 years old and he tells her he has 10 children.
09:30You're 21 years old.
09:31You have 10 children?
09:31No, no, no. You're not telling me the truth.
09:35Yes, I am.
09:37Why do you have 10 children?
09:39I love kids.
09:40He decides it would be smarter to make an inappropriate, barely coherent joke about her daughter being the mother of one of his many kids.
09:46How many?
09:47About four.
09:48About four? What do you mean about four? What does that mean, about four?
09:51About four of them, including your daughter.
09:56What are you talking about?
09:57The judge doesn't even have to expend the energy of raising her voice. That almost makes it even more tense. Her audience's audible shock is enough.
10:06I'm the only one who makes jokes. And I'm not being, I'm not making jokes.
10:09This might be your show, but this is my episode.
10:11No, no, no, no, no, no. You don't have, listen to me. You don't have, you don't have an episode.
10:16She instead explains all the ways in which he and his 10 unfortunate children are barely a blip on her radar.
10:24From whom you purchased bootleg movies in the past and teddy bears for your 10 unfortunate children, came to your house on that day, and that day he was selling BB guns.
10:34So you and your two genius cousins over here went out in the backyard with the salesman and let the salesman set up a target.
10:42I'm speaking!
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10:59Number one, suing a grieving mother.
11:01This is one of those cases that starts with a horrific premise and just gets worse.
11:06Wendy Moore is suing defendant Nelda Bailey, whose daughter died in a car accident while driving Moore's car.
11:13She's suing for damages.
11:14And Miss Moore, you want Miss Bailey, you want her to pay for your son's medical bills?
11:20Yes, ma'am.
11:21And the car, because the car was totaled?
11:25Right.
11:26Miss Bailey has a counterclaim for a daughter's pain and suffering and her loss of life.
11:32The problem here is that Moore allows her unlicensed son to drive her car, and he was the one who gave Bailey's daughter the keys.
11:39The circumstances are tragic enough.
11:41However, to sue another mother, whose daughter died partially due to your own negligent parenting, is the height of hubris.
11:49Think carefully what you just said.
11:51That I never gave her permission to drive the car.
11:54No, that's not what you just said. You said I never gave her permission to drive off the property.
11:58I never gave her permission to drive the car.
12:00You don't have to!
12:02You gave them the method.
12:05You gave them a car with the keys in it.
12:08Even after the judge berates her for her callous and unfeeling attitude, Moore is unwilling to offer condolences.
12:15Instead of money, she earns the disgust of Judge Judy, the audience, and the millions watching from home.
12:21I would say to her, I can't tell you how terrible I feel that in my home, in my car, with the keys that I leave in the car, your daughter met such an early death.
12:35Instead of saying that, you sue her for the damage to your car. You're an idiot.
12:38Judgment on the counterclaim for $5,000.
12:40What's your favorite Judge Judy moment from over the years? Let us know in the comments.
12:46I'm a lawyer.
12:47Where?
12:48San Antonio, Texas. Hope you don't use that against me.
12:51No, I'm going to hold your lawsuit against you because it's stupid.
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