There's another guy who regularly appears on Judge Middleton's docket who thinks he owns a chain of gas stations and has got dozens of trespassing convictions.
i love Judge Middleton. He is embedded in his community. He knows it. He knows people. He knows how to exercise the law with common sense. I appreciate him.
@@kieronparr3403 LOL Yes, I retired from a large (134 attorney) prosecutor's office. The judge has to approve the disposition of charges and sentencing.
One of the first few vids I watched with Judge Middleton had one of the people who had come before him on charges some time previous come to visit him in his court. They wanted to show him their however-many-years clean and/or sober medallion, and thank him for all he'd done for them. Middleton remembered their name, congratulated them on their accomplishment, thanked them for sharing it with him, and encouraged them to keep it up. That's the kind of thing that tells you that this judge is doing justice right. Or at least just being a decent human being.
"Can't ignore the pink-elephant in the room." Judge Middleton really does have a way with words. But man, oh, man how sad is this case!? When are we going to start funding more mental health treatment and homelessness options in our society?
All of the money is at the top of society. And so long as a significant chunk of the electorate continues to support this system we have now it'll never change.
Money is a small part of the issue. It is difficult to have someone committed to a residential facility (mental hospital). The laws prioritize protect individual rights. The USA has a long history of vacillating on individual rights versus public safety.
@@NorWis744Why do you have to commit him? He's just delusional. It sounds like he would voluntarily agree to take medication if it kept him out of jail.
Sadly there was no other way around a lengthy jail stay, but judge Middleton made the right call here for a competency hearing. Middleton does an excellent job.
It sucks but you're exactly right. He can't get the help he needs otherwise. Seems like a sweet guy, just needs to get assessed and into mental health treatment. A real indictment of mental healthcare in this country but hopefully Middleton can expedite it. He doesn't need jail, he needs medication.
He built the sidewalk there when he was a child, and there's a stamp on it that proves ownership. Did anyone else picture him writing his name in the wet cement as a kid, and now he thinks he somehow owns it?
The guy is mentally ill and in need of help. The whole system is set up to punish rather than treat. Judge Middleton is doing his best to get him help.
I like that the judge took his time, and wanted to help this man, instead of punishing him. This man clearly has mental health issues, and needs to be dealt with at a health level, not a justice level.
Agreed, issue is that does not exist. People are held in facilities for a few months then released whether they should be or not. Asylums need to be reinstated.
When I was a kid myself and all my friends would carve our names in the concrete of sidewalks in our neighborhood. I guess we all own that property now and need to go a lay claim.
@@jenniferscott375 Yes, because it's perfectly normal to believe that you see your personal symbol in the pavement, which means you own it, and you see the same symbol in wiring in your cell. That totally doesn't sound at all delusional Doctor Jennifer Scott.
It was clear that everyone was trying to help him, except of course his own attorney I sincerely hope he gets the help that he truly needs and deserves
I am glad he's being evaluated. Hopefully he can get the help and support her needs. As the judge says, he's always a nice guy and respectful. He's not a bad guy. He has mental problems.
I love Judge Middleton. He's so chill, but he has a way of raising his voice to repremand someone (specifically the "sit down and shut up" video) and still remains cool and calm.
Big picture wise: think of all the time, money and resources we’ve got tied up in keeping a homeless dude out of a strip mall. There’s gotta be a better way.
Makes you rethink all those kiddie handprints and kitty pawprints in your back garden, doesn't it? So... if geese stomp across your driveway pour... does that make it a wetlands preserve?
Judge Middleton is one of favorites to watch but sometimes I get distracted because he looks just like Peter Davison; he played the 5th doctor on Doctor Who from 1982-1984 😂
LOL the man who thought he owned the Shell gas stations. Bless Mr. Hicks's heart, he offers such a believable version of owning that sidewalk and he sounds so rational and matter of fact, it is hard to go against him.
That seems typical for this kind of delusion. My mom worked on the psychiatric ward for a while when she was in nursing school in Pittsburgh. One of the patients was the heir to the Mellon banking fortune. He'd regularly go to the bank and try to withdraw a portion of his holdings. Not much, just a hundred thousand dollars or so. Anyway, my mom said when she talked to him, he sounded just as rational as you or me, as did his description of the injustices perpetrated against him by false heirs.
His attorney is doing more to get him locked up than the prosecution. Watching her body language, she just seems incredibly uncomfortable even being there.
@@KatzMeow268 Then you must really think Judge Middleton is a doofus if you judge people by their hair, right? His is just awful lol What is that? A wig? It's 2024 dude. Stop judging people by their hair lmao.
Not everything is mental. Stop excusing their ridiculous behavior with that lame excuse. He is trying everything to get out of trouble in hopes something sticks. He knows exactly what he's doing.
@teresajeffries3934 seems pretty mental to me. Maybe you should consider the concept of empathy to try and understand your fellow human beings instead of passing judgment because it makes you feel superior.
Mr Hicks is sadly rather unwell - he deserves much more sympathy than a SovCit. Judge Middleton does his usual sound judicial job. That County really is lucky to have him
"We don't have the resources to get you the due process you are deserved so we are going to leave you in jail for months". That is an absolutely insane position for the state to take.
Tell this guy the story of how a developer in Hawaii did not get a survey & built a $500K home on property which was not his. The court just ruled he is to remove the house, clean up the mess and restore the property as he found it w plants & trees and all. The property owner has photos to guide him. just because you build an improvement does not give you ownership of the land it sits upon. !
To address your comment, @Wolf, I honestly don’t think he’s trying out a grift. I feel like this man actually believes he has a right to this property. Maybe he helped install the sidewalk or part of the parking lot, and it might have something about the 3Rivers Indian tribe helped install it, or gave this land to the city as a “gift” or tribute. At any rate, this man apparently thinks that it means he owns it, or he’s a partial owner, but of course, I doubt that it was meant to be attributed as a partial land parcel that anyone “owns”. I believe it was gifted to the city of 3Rivers, the name of the tribe is attributed as donors, so it’s more of an honorable public notice to mention the tribe & the City of 3Rivers. I think he believes it belongs to the tribe, or to each person that was there or worked on it that day, so therefore, he feels it belongs to him. Even though it actually belongs to the 3Rivers City, I guess. Being that he’s “homeless”, and it seems that’s by choice, I think he does have some mental different-ness, due to the fact that most people would prefer to NOT live on the streets. 😊 😮
I'm really confused why Judge Middleton is getting so much praise in the comments. HE was set to just send this guy back to the vacant lot and to bothering the businesses in the plaza. The real MVP in this case is this man's attorney. She stood up and said no. She is interested in truly helping him, not just getting him off with the least inconvenience possible for all concerned. Good for her! SHE is the reason this man will receive a mental competency exam and, most likely, some treatment since it seems fairly obvious he has some issues that need dealing with. He may not continue with treatment after he's released, but at least there'd be a record and that will alter how his future cases will be handled (because if he stops his meds, he'll be right back there sooner or later). Middleton (who I like and think is a pretty nice guy in general) only acted because he had his hand forced by the defense attorney.
But not as they were. They were, in some cases, little more than prisons themselves. Some verging on 3rd world country prison status. No, there needs to be a reconfigured attitude overall on how they are run and with the strictest oversight.
Why do these trespass people think the OWNER needs to make them leave the property and only if they committed a crime? ANY person that has control of the property can make you leave for pretty much any reason EXCEPT a very limited "protected class" reason.
It's infuriating to see these obstructing resisting cases plead out to time served misdemeanors. This just serves to ensure that every arrest will be a fight because the prosecutor and judge don't think it's a serious issue or take a plea for their convenience. But when someone is injured, there's an outcry of "Oh! The BRUTALITY!" Perhaps we need the Judges and Prosecutors to do ride-along's and get their loafers dirty.
the defense lawyer certainly looked uncomfortable sitting there next to the defendant. I have two adult daughters and I think they stopped wearing pigtails by the time they were 6 or 7 years old.
This is what a cruel, nasty and inconsiderate society does to people with these severe mental health challenges. There's nowhere for him to go to live, nothing he can do to earn a living, there aren't the support networks or services to help him... so he's just living on the streets. When you're homeless and have mental health challenges, it's only a matter of time before you come into contact with the CJS. Thank goodness Middleton is patient and compassionate, trying to find a good solution to this mess.
You can thank the American Silly Liberties Union. Mentally ill people used to be institutionalized, but the ACLU argued in the late 70s early 80s that the government cannot give free room and board to needy people against their will. That was the start of the current homeless problem. You can't have it both ways. I would rather give this guy three hots and a cot, rather than have him sleeping under a bridge and committing crimes to support his needs and habits.
What are you doing to intervene? I don't think you have to be especially trained in mental health care to counsel someone to see that they're full of baloney and not thinking in their right mind. You might need to start with the parents. Government intervention is not the answer to everything. Too bad we have fallen so far away from the church.
I'm with you and a little dismayed at other commenters that rush to judgement that he's playing the judge and being deliberately difficult. Whilst none of us watching can know for sure until he is professionally assessed, but I'm happy to trust the intuition of a very experienced judge and even his defense lawyer that there is a genuine mental health issue.
Are you referring to an entire court room full of people including the prosecution trying to advocate on his behalf, protect his rights, and try to access resources for him? Like the housing resource he’s also involved with? What would you like ‘society’ to do for him? Oh, I get it, you are admonishing a business for trying to balance the safety and rights of their customers, with his, so they’ve trespassed him. There aren’t always going to be universal solutions, sometimes it’s just trade offs, and the trade off of him being arrested is that these court officials will be able to get him the mental health assessment he needs, the jail will be able to regulate any of his medications, he will have somewhere indoors to stay and meals to eat, he’s not being held in prison, it’s jail, they have a mental health liaison on staff. It’s awfully judgemental of you to criticize ‘society’ so harshly, but I suppose you can do that because you must be doing the work yourself, right?
I am not a fan of the practice that seems to be done in every court, where they sentence the offenders to however many days they already served. Shouldn't there be a defined number of days for trespassing? What if he'd been charged with, or pled down to, something that has a 10-day sentence, but spent 17 days in jail before coming to trial on it?
Once the evaluation is done, if he's found incompetent, what happens? He's not responsible for his actions? A doctor gives him medication if he's in jail, can they make him take it? Either way, he thinks he owns the property, he's not going to stop going there!?
Good question. Evaluation will provide a defense to the charges, but if the prosecution and the court are convinced already, then the charges should be dismissed without the need of an evaluation. Keeping him incarcerated, pretrial, beyond the length of any reasonably expected sentence on the false premise of "helping" him is absurd. Release him on bail on condition that he not return to Dollar General, postpone the case for a year or two, and if he never returns to Dollar General, then dismiss the charges. If he returns, then hold him for evaluation.
Of all the people we should be able to help it is him. Why can’t we stop sending money all over the world and build facilities to give him a place to live, and maybe he could get better.
The national budget is set and different from local and state budgets that would be building and running these facilities that this dude needs. The national budget also has appropriations for projects set years in advance, so often if the money isn’t used for a goal it will either get reabsorbed or spent somewhere else. Congresspeople can vote in funding for mental health, but their constituents don’t see it as a priority cuz they never vote out those who do. Not much was done by the average person in the 80s either when Reagan closed a bunch of mental health facilities down
He doesn't seem like a sov cit. He's just a bit delusional thinking, among other things, he owns sidewalks that he put his mark on and he has a tribal claim on the property.
Did his lawyer just say, rather than get you out of jail today, let's do an evaluation that will leave you in there for months, despite being pled down to a misdemeanor.
This must be a small town because the judge often knows the kin of people who come before him. He works hard for the outcomes that work the best for everyone, He doesn't like for people to be held in the jail if he thinks it can be avoided. When I was preteen I took many shortcuts that I quit taking as I got older. I think this fellow just never matured out of that sort of mind set. Hasn't our great, in touch with the common man SCOTUS, taken a break from billionaire gifted vacations and stuff to rule that homelessness is a crime. Being poor is already a crime in our justice system, you can tell that by the nature of the people we see in videos like this. Those who stay in jail for minor stuff because they can't raise bail, they are in jail because they are poor yet haven't even been convicted.
At least he is not pulling that sov cit crap, those Moorish Nationals are so whacked out they think they are Native Americans, and ALL this land is theirs
At least he has shelter, a bed, and heat. 🤣Judge: "the paper must be somewhere, prolly in an alternate universe"😆 BTW try adjusting the playback speed to 1.25 it's better for continuity.
I get it, i do.... But this is the First time I've seen a defense attorney fight to keep her client in jail. He could have walked out a free man with both felonies dropped and admitting to 1 misdemeanor
This poor guy is the reason we never should have closed the asylums. Regulations? Yes. But closures only put people on the streets with limited resources.
Only Judge Middleton could drop “pink elephant in the room” and get away with it. Like it’s a great line, no doubt, but saying it to the guy’s face and knowing that he is being perfectly understood as mocking the delusion itself to lighten the mood rather than making light of the fact that the defendant is mentally ill is all down to him being a legend. He all but straight up says “I don’t think you’re crazy friend but you do have some full blown delusions and if we don’t get you help you’re gonna end up doing way more time than just the few weeks while we sort this out.”
I do feel sorry for him. He seems to have genuine issues, but the sad reality is that he's already been held in prison for longer than he would have been if he was able to take that plea. "You're too crazy to accept this plea seal, therefore we're going to incarcerate you for longer than if you HAD accepted it". That just feels....wrong, frankly.
He only had to stay that long because the court is understaffed and there’s probs a backlog of competency hearings. If county courts received more funding or options he could be seen sooner
Evsm if he does have some delusion, it doesnt seem right to hold him in jail until at least September. The system can be such a huge mess sometimes. This is sad.
Effectively, there is no difference between three and one trespass charges from the same address, especially when they’ve already been in jail for more than two weeks. Whatever sentences given on trespassing charges will be concurrent and almost certainly be time served.
JHC, Have some damn sympathy. This man has mental illness and is homeless. Jail should be for people who willingly break the law. This dude thinks that he owns the sidewalk. He needs to be somewhere that people can help him through his mental illness and jail is not that place.
It's the first time I've ever heard someone claim their right to be near a Dollar General as a birthright.
There's another guy who regularly appears on Judge Middleton's docket who thinks he owns a chain of gas stations and has got dozens of trespassing convictions.
Sovcit are eternally creative, if perpetually annoying.
Well when you are the General. 😂
@StopWhining491 not a regular sovcit, true mental illness
I mean, it's nice of him to keep his delusions of grandeur... uh, weirdly mediocre.
i love Judge Middleton. He is embedded in his community. He knows it. He knows people. He knows how to exercise the law with common sense. I appreciate him.
Offering time served for a felony obstruction resisting is not "Common Sense."
@@vegasilkitit's the DA who made the offer
@@kieronparr3403 LOL Yes, I retired from a large (134 attorney) prosecutor's office. The judge has to approve the disposition of charges and sentencing.
It was impressive the Judge remembered the defendant's brother.
One of the first few vids I watched with Judge Middleton had one of the people who had come before him on charges some time previous come to visit him in his court. They wanted to show him their however-many-years clean and/or sober medallion, and thank him for all he'd done for them. Middleton remembered their name, congratulated them on their accomplishment, thanked them for sharing it with him, and encouraged them to keep it up. That's the kind of thing that tells you that this judge is doing justice right. Or at least just being a decent human being.
"Can't ignore the pink-elephant in the room." Judge Middleton really does have a way with words. But man, oh, man how sad is this case!? When are we going to start funding more mental health treatment and homelessness options in our society?
All of the money is at the top of society. And so long as a significant chunk of the electorate continues to support this system we have now it'll never change.
💯 Well stated~
Money is a small part of the issue. It is difficult to have someone committed to a residential facility (mental hospital). The laws prioritize protect individual rights. The USA has a long history of vacillating on individual rights versus public safety.
@@NorWis744Why do you have to commit him? He's just delusional. It sounds like he would voluntarily agree to take medication if it kept him out of jail.
The Supreme Court just made it legal to allow punishment for homelessness, jails and courts are just gonna get that more bogged down with this.
Sadly there was no other way around a lengthy jail stay, but judge Middleton made the right call here for a competency hearing. Middleton does an excellent job.
Lol sadly? It's a sov cit it's sad he's not being deported
middleton is a lightweight libtard
@jamesrowden303 You might be but he isn't. He's got a mental health issue. And?
It sucks but you're exactly right. He can't get the help he needs otherwise. Seems like a sweet guy, just needs to get assessed and into mental health treatment.
A real indictment of mental healthcare in this country but hopefully Middleton can expedite it.
He doesn't need jail, he needs medication.
@@Extraxi274 Why would an American citizen be deported...?
He built the sidewalk there when he was a child, and there's a stamp on it that proves ownership.
Did anyone else picture him writing his name in the wet cement as a kid, and now he thinks he somehow owns it?
Ur government does the shit all the time claim land and other things as if they created it
The guy is mentally ill and in need of help. The whole system is set up to punish rather than treat. Judge Middleton is doing his best to get him help.
@@teamchimpokay
I like that the judge took his time, and wanted to help this man, instead of punishing him.
This man clearly has mental health issues, and needs to be dealt with at a health level, not a justice level.
Agreed, issue is that does not exist. People are held in facilities for a few months then released whether they should be or not. Asylums need to be reinstated.
Judge Middleton "Paperwork in an alternate universe". 🤣
This man's mouth is his worst enemy 😂
😂😂😂
"The sidewalk there was laid by me when I was a child"
Yep! He was the best damn 3 year old concrete man in the tri-state area...
Yep and there's a stamp on it to prove that it's his heritage.
He did a good job on my patio, but left a chunk of Juice Box stuck in a corner.
@@eileennovak1656 That must be the stamp he was talking about.
I think, I would need some concrete evidence on this one!
Judge Middleton is a man of great intelligence and compassion. I truly respect him and the good he does for his community.
I was on a jury for a competency hearing to let a person out of a mental institute, he remained in custody. This guy is as delusional as that guy was.
The shot of Ms. Jackson backing up uncomfortably as soon as he said he owned the sidewalk was pretty funny.
5:20ish for anyone who's looking
Her face was like dammit we almost got away clean
“Wanna get away?”
She almost certainly told him not to say anything like that. And he couldn't help himself. It's sad.
That is hilarious. The way she snaps those papers down on to the table...
When I was a kid myself and all my friends would carve our names in the concrete of sidewalks in our neighborhood. I guess we all own that property now and need to go a lay claim.
I know right, we drew on side walks with the chalk growing up😂😂.
He clearly has mental Health issues, but Judge Middleton can't just declare that until the experts diagnose that.
It's not a mental illness it's bad advice and an entitled attitude.
@@jenniferscott375 Yes, because it's perfectly normal to believe that you see your personal symbol in the pavement, which means you own it, and you see the same symbol in wiring in your cell. That totally doesn't sound at all delusional Doctor Jennifer Scott.
I really felt for him when he said he likes the superhero and gi joe shows. Poor dude
It was clear that everyone was trying to help him, except of course his own attorney I sincerely hope he gets the help that he truly needs and deserves
There's only so much his own attorney can do when you're popping off mental delusions to a judge who truly listens to what you say.
I am glad he's being evaluated. Hopefully he can get the help and support her needs. As the judge says, he's always a nice guy and respectful. He's not a bad guy. He has mental problems.
Judge Middleton is so awesome.
I love Judge Middleton. He's so chill, but he has a way of raising his voice to repremand someone (specifically the "sit down and shut up" video) and still remains cool and calm.
Judge Middleton is a fair and compassionate judge.
I hope this person gets the help that he needs.
Judge Middleton is the best! The most humane judge…
Another accurate ruling by the good judge!
Big picture wise: think of all the time, money and resources we’ve got tied up in keeping a homeless dude out of a strip mall. There’s gotta be a better way.
"Have you given it another thought since we last talked?"
[3 minute diatribe that can be summarized in the word "No"]
This is the first time I've seen the word "VEX" in a TH-cam video title. Well done!
Look up videos about the "vexatious" Kim Blandino 😂
He is the definition of vexing and that word is used constantly.
Makes you rethink all those kiddie handprints and kitty pawprints in your back garden, doesn't it?
So... if geese stomp across your driveway pour... does that make it a wetlands preserve?
Yes.
Watch out for those geese in your future. They can get quite irate and more than a little violent.
Judge Middleton is awesome!
Judge Middleton is one of favorites to watch but sometimes I get distracted because he looks just like Peter Davison; he played the 5th doctor on Doctor Who from 1982-1984 😂
I live in St Joseph county, I am thrilled Judge Middleton is getting well known nationwide.
Definitely more than a few french fries short of a Happy Meal.
Judge Middleton has been very patient with this man.
LOL the man who thought he owned the Shell gas stations. Bless Mr. Hicks's heart, he offers such a believable version of owning that sidewalk and he sounds so rational and matter of fact, it is hard to go against him.
That seems typical for this kind of delusion. My mom worked on the psychiatric ward for a while when she was in nursing school in Pittsburgh. One of the patients was the heir to the Mellon banking fortune. He'd regularly go to the bank and try to withdraw a portion of his holdings. Not much, just a hundred thousand dollars or so.
Anyway, my mom said when she talked to him, he sounded just as rational as you or me, as did his description of the injustices perpetrated against him by false heirs.
I can't think of a more perfect name for this guy than 'Dusty Hicks'. I don't even mean that maliciously. It just suits him.
Unfortunately this man has mental health issues, I'm glad the Judge made the right the decision to get him properly evaluated and the help he needs.
I think the fact that all solicitors involved with him suggest a mental assessment is necessary is very telling.
Prime example of the need for more community based resources. Not only for mental health support, but for safe living solutions.
His attorney is doing more to get him locked up than the prosecution.
Watching her body language, she just seems incredibly uncomfortable even being there.
If he is deemed incompetent, that is better done sooner than later. And he sounds like he might actually be....
A middle aged professional woman wearing pigtails just doesn’t sit right with me.
@@KatzMeow268 That's hairist!
Indeed, it struck me that she just wanted to dump him. I.notice that she did not represent him at the next session.
@@KatzMeow268 Then you must really think Judge Middleton is a doofus if you judge people by their hair, right? His is just awful lol What is that? A wig?
It's 2024 dude. Stop judging people by their hair lmao.
Judge Middleton is an excellent judge. He shows concern for the people in front of him. He knows the law. He knows the people in his community.
2 minuets in, and we we find a jewel of humanity
A homeless person who thinks he owns the property where a shopping center is clearly mental.
Not everything is mental. Stop excusing their ridiculous behavior with that lame excuse. He is trying everything to get out of trouble in hopes something sticks. He knows exactly what he's doing.
@@teresajeffries3934 I agree with @heehaw8401 He is sincerely mental.
It's not "mental" it's arrogance and stupidity
@eileennovak1656 no he's not. Just avoiding the law.
@teresajeffries3934 seems pretty mental to me. Maybe you should consider the concept of empathy to try and understand your fellow human beings instead of passing judgment because it makes you feel superior.
"Its my land and i want it now!"
Mr Hicks is sadly rather unwell - he deserves much more sympathy than a SovCit. Judge Middleton does his usual sound judicial job. That County really is lucky to have him
"We don't have the resources to get you the due process you are deserved so we are going to leave you in jail for months". That is an absolutely insane position for the state to take.
The politest deluded dope I've seen...doesn't he realize I OWN ALL THE SHELL STATIONS?! (love their coffee) 😂
but I own all the coffee.
Tell this guy the story of how a developer in Hawaii did not get a survey & built a $500K home on property which was not his.
The court just ruled he is to remove the house, clean up the mess and restore the property as he found it w plants
& trees and all. The property owner has photos to guide him. just because you build an improvement does not give you
ownership of the land it sits upon.
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He's clearly non compos mentis. Should be in care.
"There's no reason to"- he 100% is supposed to be on some kind of psych meds but refuses to take them.
The defendants voice sounds like Milton from Office Space...
To address your comment, @Wolf, I honestly don’t think he’s trying out a grift. I feel like this man actually believes he has a right to this property. Maybe he helped install the sidewalk or part of the parking lot, and it might have something about the 3Rivers Indian tribe helped install it, or gave this land to the city as a “gift” or tribute. At any rate, this man apparently thinks that it means he owns it, or he’s a partial owner, but of course, I doubt that it was meant to be attributed as a partial land parcel that anyone “owns”. I believe it was gifted to the city of 3Rivers, the name of the tribe is attributed as donors, so it’s more of an honorable public notice to mention the tribe & the City of 3Rivers. I think he believes it belongs to the tribe, or to each person that was there or worked on it that day, so therefore, he feels it belongs to him. Even though it actually belongs to the 3Rivers City, I guess. Being that he’s “homeless”, and it seems that’s by choice, I think he does have some mental different-ness, due to the fact that most people would prefer to NOT live on the streets. 😊
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This is one of those times when doing the right thing doesn’t match up to doing what’s best ,,,,
I'm really confused why Judge Middleton is getting so much praise in the comments. HE was set to just send this guy back to the vacant lot and to bothering the businesses in the plaza.
The real MVP in this case is this man's attorney. She stood up and said no. She is interested in truly helping him, not just getting him off with the least inconvenience possible for all concerned. Good for her! SHE is the reason this man will receive a mental competency exam and, most likely, some treatment since it seems fairly obvious he has some issues that need dealing with. He may not continue with treatment after he's released, but at least there'd be a record and that will alter how his future cases will be handled (because if he stops his meds, he'll be right back there sooner or later).
Middleton (who I like and think is a pretty nice guy in general) only acted because he had his hand forced by the defense attorney.
I’ve never actually seen a defense lawyer physically squirm in her chair🤣
Omg, haven't seen you in awhile,Wolfie! Always great content, thanks!
Imagine how Native Americans feel about their heritage rights
I meant *actual* Native Americans
This is an example of why the states need to bring back Asylums;
The Republicans closed them in the 80's. Now the jails have turned into psychiatric hospitals.
But not as they were. They were, in some cases, little more than prisons themselves. Some verging on 3rd world country prison status. No, there needs to be a reconfigured attitude overall on how they are run and with the strictest oversight.
I went to school with Dusty. He was a normal kid in school but, he was very poor and constantly bullied.
Why do these trespass people think the OWNER needs to make them leave the property and only if they committed a crime? ANY person that has control of the property can make you leave for pretty much any reason EXCEPT a very limited "protected class" reason.
Love ya Wolf, but he’s not really a sovcit. Not arrogant enough!
It's infuriating to see these obstructing resisting cases plead out to time served misdemeanors. This just serves to ensure that every arrest will be a fight because the prosecutor and judge don't think it's a serious issue or take a plea for their convenience. But when someone is injured, there's an outcry of "Oh! The BRUTALITY!" Perhaps we need the Judges and Prosecutors to do ride-along's and get their loafers dirty.
the defense lawyer certainly looked uncomfortable sitting there next to the defendant. I have two adult daughters and I think they stopped wearing pigtails by the time they were 6 or 7 years old.
It's actually back in now. One of our attorneys wears her hair like that.
Holy hell that guys younger than me? Life on the streets ages you
I really enjoy watching Judge Middleton
This is what a cruel, nasty and inconsiderate society does to people with these severe mental health challenges.
There's nowhere for him to go to live, nothing he can do to earn a living, there aren't the support networks or services to help him... so he's just living on the streets.
When you're homeless and have mental health challenges, it's only a matter of time before you come into contact with the CJS.
Thank goodness Middleton is patient and compassionate, trying to find a good solution to this mess.
You can thank the American Silly Liberties Union. Mentally ill people used to be institutionalized, but the ACLU argued in the late 70s early 80s that the government cannot give free room and board to needy people against their will. That was the start of the current homeless problem. You can't have it both ways. I would rather give this guy three hots and a cot, rather than have him sleeping under a bridge and committing crimes to support his needs and habits.
Seeing how intimately crime is related to poverty, the good ole US of A is condemning him to an endless cycle of sanctions from the court.
What are you doing to intervene? I don't think you have to be especially trained in mental health care to counsel someone to see that they're full of baloney and not thinking in their right mind.
You might need to start with the parents. Government intervention is not the answer to everything. Too bad we have fallen so far away from the church.
I'm with you and a little dismayed at other commenters that rush to judgement that he's playing the judge and being deliberately difficult. Whilst none of us watching can know for sure until he is professionally assessed, but I'm happy to trust the intuition of a very experienced judge and even his defense lawyer that there is a genuine mental health issue.
Are you referring to an entire court room full of people including the prosecution trying to advocate on his behalf, protect his rights, and try to access resources for him? Like the housing resource he’s also involved with? What would you like ‘society’ to do for him? Oh, I get it, you are admonishing a business for trying to balance the safety and rights of their customers, with his, so they’ve trespassed him. There aren’t always going to be universal solutions, sometimes it’s just trade offs, and the trade off of him being arrested is that these court officials will be able to get him the mental health assessment he needs, the jail will be able to regulate any of his medications, he will have somewhere indoors to stay and meals to eat, he’s not being held in prison, it’s jail, they have a mental health liaison on staff. It’s awfully judgemental of you to criticize ‘society’ so harshly, but I suppose you can do that because you must be doing the work yourself, right?
Today I learned that if you build a sidewalk, or mark your name on it, you own it. It's going to make public property in most cities complicated.
Judge: we can’t ignore the pink elephant in the room.
Defendant: I know, he’s so big and keeps waving at me.
my family owns a road back East, so it’s possible … 🤷🏼♀️
not probable, but possible nonetheless
thank YOU, Wolfy dear
Thank you for being firm but kind.
Native Americans never had anything resembling an “Indian Princess.” He’s delusional.
I am not a fan of the practice that seems to be done in every court, where they sentence the offenders to however many days they already served. Shouldn't there be a defined number of days for trespassing? What if he'd been charged with, or pled down to, something that has a 10-day sentence, but spent 17 days in jail before coming to trial on it?
I'm going to go to Buckingham palace and write my name on the wall and then tell the judge I live there and it's mine now.
I like your wolf avatar :)
Defense attorney seems to be praying, maybe to be fired.
Once the evaluation is done, if he's found incompetent, what happens? He's not responsible for his actions? A doctor gives him medication if he's in jail, can they make him take it? Either way, he thinks he owns the property, he's not going to stop going there!?
Good question. Evaluation will provide a defense to the charges, but if the prosecution and the court are convinced already, then the charges should be dismissed without the need of an evaluation. Keeping him incarcerated, pretrial, beyond the length of any reasonably expected sentence on the false premise of "helping" him is absurd.
Release him on bail on condition that he not return to Dollar General, postpone the case for a year or two, and if he never returns to Dollar General, then dismiss the charges. If he returns, then hold him for evaluation.
"It's my land, I inherited it!". Native Americans enter the chat. People crack me up when they talk like this.
I remember the gas station "owner". That was a sad case too.
Of all the people we should be able to help it is him. Why can’t we stop sending money all over the world and build facilities to give him a place to live, and maybe he could get better.
The national budget is set and different from local and state budgets that would be building and running these facilities that this dude needs. The national budget also has appropriations for projects set years in advance, so often if the money isn’t used for a goal it will either get reabsorbed or spent somewhere else.
Congresspeople can vote in funding for mental health, but their constituents don’t see it as a priority cuz they never vote out those who do. Not much was done by the average person in the 80s either when Reagan closed a bunch of mental health facilities down
He doesn't seem like a sov cit. He's just a bit delusional thinking, among other things, he owns sidewalks that he put his mark on and he has a tribal claim on the property.
Did his lawyer just say, rather than get you out of jail today, let's do an evaluation that will leave you in there for months, despite being pled down to a misdemeanor.
A "borogove" - if ya know, ya know.
and the momes rathe outgabe.
He’s not a SovCit, he’s a standard wingnut.
He isn't a SovCit at all.
This must be a small town because the judge often knows the kin of people who come before him. He works hard for the outcomes that work the best for everyone, He doesn't like for people to be held in the jail if he thinks it can be avoided. When I was preteen I took many shortcuts that I quit taking as I got older. I think this fellow just never matured out of that sort of mind set.
Hasn't our great, in touch with the common man SCOTUS, taken a break from billionaire gifted vacations and stuff to rule that homelessness is a crime. Being poor is already a crime in our justice system, you can tell that by the nature of the people we see in videos like this. Those who stay in jail for minor stuff because they can't raise bail, they are in jail because they are poor yet haven't even been convicted.
This poor man, I can see the judge's dilemma
I hope someone is able to help this guy out. Judge Middleton is doing what he can as are both lawyers.
At least he is not pulling that sov cit crap, those Moorish Nationals are so whacked out they think they are Native Americans, and ALL this land is theirs
😆 ::pets the talking wolf:: 😍
xD My guy over there tryin' to look like Steve with that shirt, but he ain't got a single clue! xD
At least he has shelter, a bed, and heat. 🤣Judge: "the paper must be somewhere, prolly in an alternate universe"😆 BTW try adjusting the playback speed to 1.25 it's better for continuity.
Magical thinking.... dissociation
But, but, he must be innocent. He's wearing very nice pajamas.
He's off his head.
I get it, i do.... But this is the First time I've seen a defense attorney fight to keep her client in jail.
He could have walked out a free man with both felonies dropped and admitting to 1 misdemeanor
This poor guy is the reason we never should have closed the asylums. Regulations? Yes. But closures only put people on the streets with limited resources.
Any questions we need a stronger social support system in this country this is why. Jail or the streets is not a viable option.
All this is over a trespass when people are walking in stores and stealing stuff or if they do get arrested they get let go just messed up system
Only Judge Middleton could drop “pink elephant in the room” and get away with it. Like it’s a great line, no doubt, but saying it to the guy’s face and knowing that he is being perfectly understood as mocking the delusion itself to lighten the mood rather than making light of the fact that the defendant is mentally ill is all down to him being a legend. He all but straight up says “I don’t think you’re crazy friend but you do have some full blown delusions and if we don’t get you help you’re gonna end up doing way more time than just the few weeks while we sort this out.”
He was pouring cement as a child?😂😂😂😂😂
I want someone to look at me the way he looks at his lawyer
I do feel sorry for him. He seems to have genuine issues, but the sad reality is that he's already been held in prison for longer than he would have been if he was able to take that plea.
"You're too crazy to accept this plea seal, therefore we're going to incarcerate you for longer than if you HAD accepted it". That just feels....wrong, frankly.
He only had to stay that long because the court is understaffed and there’s probs a backlog of competency hearings. If county courts received more funding or options he could be seen sooner
I'm sure it's good for him to know and very supportive that you also had a run in with a family member of his, sad
Evsm if he does have some delusion, it doesnt seem right to hold him in jail until at least September. The system can be such a huge mess sometimes. This is sad.
I wish they would stop dropping charges, the more charges, the better. He will probably go back to trespassing knowing he will get off.
Effectively, there is no difference between three and one trespass charges from the same address, especially when they’ve already been in jail for more than two weeks. Whatever sentences given on trespassing charges will be concurrent and almost certainly be time served.
JHC, Have some damn sympathy. This man has mental illness and is homeless. Jail should be for people who willingly break the law. This dude thinks that he owns the sidewalk. He needs to be somewhere that people can help him through his mental illness and jail is not that place.
How do these judges and attorneys keep a straight face? 🤣🤣