His legal defense was a total car crash.
A Michigan judge was astonished when a man busted for diving with a suspended license appeared before him in a courtroom Zoom call — while driving a car.
Corey Harris, 44, popped up on screen behind the wheel as Washtenaw County Judge J. Cedric Simpson flashed a dumbfounded facial expression on May 15.
“Mr. Harris, are you driving?” Simpson asks, according to footage posted by mlive.com.
Simpson casually confesses that he is.
“I’m pulling into my doctor’s office actually,” he says.
After he parks, Simpson calls him out for flagrantly breaking the law.
“So maybe I don’t understand something. This is a driving with a suspended license [case],” Simpson says to Harris’s lawyer. “And he was just driving. And he didn’t have a license.”
Harris’s attorney then tries to explain that those are simply “the charges” — to which Simpson fires back, “No, I’m looking at his record. He doesn’t have a license.”
“I don’t even know why he would do that,” Simpson says in video posted by CBS News, before revoking Harris’s bond and sentencing him to jail time.
“Defendant is turning himself into Washington County Jail by 6 p.m. today,” Simpson declares, as Harris’s face drops.
“Oh my god,” Harris says.