All Episodes Talk: All Rise

[SandyToes]

14 hours ago, lovesnark said:

And, after the stupid woman kept harping about the defendant harassing her and accusing her of vandalizing her car, it came out that she was driving on a suspended license! We also got the bonus of her loudmouth friend getting the boot from JJ. It was great.

Damn it! Of all the cases to miss!  Did the defendant even have to speak, or did JJ just let the plaintiff hang herself and then snap the trap shut?  Those are my personal faves.  When one party just stands there - and wins!  Good on stupid plaintiff for losing. Having the right to sue does not mean one automatically wins.  Which I think an awful lot of people believe.  "He who sues first wins."  Man, if only! 

[EtheltoTillie]

SandyToes, defendant spoke very little.

[Albino]

2 hours ago, GussieK said:

BTW I came several days late to the eyebrows gal. Wowza! I suppose boyfriend could get a job if he lost his gigantic neck tattoos and his drug dealing conviction. 

People would kill for eyebrows like that these days.  Despite her lying and overall stupidity, that girl was gorgeous.  Fabulous cheekbones, drama brows and perfect, even features.  Of course, the meth will destroy that in no time flat. 

[Miss Ruth]

One of my pet peeves on grammar is "cell foam."

[bear1]

Eyebrows chick also had a special spelling to her name.  Mom didn't seem to know how to spell...Her name was Emmily.

[Jamoche]

4 hours ago, GussieK said:

SandyToes, defendant spoke very little.

But she did point out the suspended license, which Judy hadn't noticed. When she tried to point it out, JJ was cutting her off with that "you're winning, you don't need to talk" tone, and then boom! Extra info she'd missed. It was sweet :)

Edited February 4, 2017 by Jamoche

[AngelaHunter]

5 hours ago, SandyToes said:

And, after the stupid woman kept harping about the defendant harassing her and accusing her of vandalizing her car, it came out that she was driving on a suspended license!

Just catching up now. Velvet Polk - her name was just as awesome as her outfit, her unmitigated gall and that wig. Sure, when I'm tooling around in my uninsured beater and smash someone's brand new car, prompting them to demand I pay at least their deductible, why - I say that's harassment and that person should be sued. How dare she expect me to pay for crashing into her car because I don't know how to drive? Not my fault.

Then there was Clinton, a 43-year year old hillbilly who has no idea who, when, what or where. HE wanted to buy a 17 year old car and decided to stop paying because the 4-wheel drive wasn't working and it costs 3K to fix it. (I expect to see his mechanic suing him). More of the "not my fault" defense. Can't expect him to take responsibility for his own decisions. He's only 43!  What a ridiculous, silly tool he was. I'm glad plaintiff at least learned "Cash up front." Better late than never.

[lovesnark]

Another thing Velvet did was say the defendant was being greedy because she had the nerve to go to a licensed auto repair place and get an estimate. Velvet had a guy! No reason the defendant needed to get an estimate and have a choice of who fixed her car! Velvet had gall to spare.

[Jamoche]

1 hour ago, lovesnark said:

Another thing Velvet did was say the defendant was being greedy because she had the nerve to go to a licensed auto repair place and get an estimate. Velvet had a guy! No reason the defendant needed to get an estimate and have a choice of who fixed her car! Velvet had gall to spare.

Can't you just see her on a Liberty Insurance ad? "You dented someone's brand new car. Nobody was hurt, but she wants to get it back to as good as new, even though you've got a perfectly good friend who can just hammer it out a bit. And now she's actually asking you for money!"

[AngelaHunter]

1 hour ago, lovesnark said:

Another thing Velvet did was say the defendant was being greedy because she had the nerve to go to a licensed auto repair place and get an estimate. Velvet had a guy! No reason the defendant needed to get an estimate and have a choice of who fixed her car!

Why sure. I'd just trust some guy up the street to fix my new car at a bargain basement price, just so Velvet can save a few bucks. It's all about her and I have a hell of a nerve being picky.

[Bazinga]

Just watched the weekend rerun episode.  Case was a mother suing her son's ex-girlfriend for smashing her laptop.  JJ believed the son's story that the girlfriend smashed the laptop in retaliation for his smashing her cellphone during a fight over the failed installation of a showerhead.  JJ asked for a receipt for the laptop.  It was $616.  She gave the full value without pause.  Why?  She never asked when the laptop was bought; if it was basically new?  Why was this plaintiff given the full value of the item not the depreciated value?  Since this was an older episode, I guess Jerry hasn't yet told JJ that computers are disposable and need to be replaced yearly (like when she considered the old ladies computer basically worthless when her niece vindictively changed the password).  She was almost going to take the award away due to the defendant's counterclaim that the mother had put her electric bill in the girl's name and never took it out of her name, even after she moved.  Judge Judy never admonished the mother for putting her electric bill in the young girl's name.  Instead she got caught up in the bill having been in girl's name for ten months and she should have done something about it, ignoring ("how do I know?") the girl's claim that she never got the bills, as they went to the mother.  Seemed very unfair to me.  Seemed she just wanted to rule against the girl, who she repeatedly admonished for repeatedly (basically every sentence, basically) saying basically.  The companion case had another "basically" speaker and JJ didn't say a word to her about it.  Consistent, JJ is not.      

Edited February 5, 2017 by Bazinga

[ItsHelloPattiagain]

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 Velvet Polk - her name was just as awesome as her outfit, her unmitigated gall and that wig. 

Velvet Polk sounded like a porn name gone savagely wrong. . . . .  and her chutzpah was staggering. Talk about entitlement. 

[AngelaHunter]

Finally had a chance to catch up. Barnetta and Antoinette - that street brawl was... well, distasteful and sounded like feeding time at the zoo. Holy shit. Def's sister, she of the violent persona, threats and filthy language, works at a hospital. Will I ever stop being disgusted, depressed and amazed at the kind of vile creatures who are in charge of sick and/or helpless patients?

Mr. Elliot, the evasive ("Well yes. I guess that number does go to my cell phone"), lip-licking asshole who rented out property for the plaintiffs's wedding when he didn't own it and never even came close to owning it: I can't believe he'd show his face to 10 million people who now know what a scamming, slimy, scuzzball he is. When did people become so utterly shameless?  I did like the way he referred to himself as "we" - kind of like the royal "we" I guess. I'm sure there have been other litigants that I wished Byrd would beat to a pulp, but Mr. Elliot just moved to the head of the line.

Edited February 5, 2017 by AngelaHunter

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, AngelaHunter said:

When did people become so utterly shameless?

I find myself wondering the same thing after nearly episode of this show. And still I have no answer. 

[khyber]

On 2/4/2017 at 7:01 AM, GussieK said:

Don't forget to note that Miss no-insurance suspended-license gal was named Velvet. Nice touch. Velvet was hoisted by the clean-hands petard. 

 

I immediately thought of Eddie Murphy and his Velvet Jones character. (oops, someone else saw this)

Edited February 5, 2017 by khyber

[SandyToes]

On ‎2‎/‎4‎/‎2017 at 9:01 AM, GussieK said:

Don't forget to note that Miss no-insurance suspended-license gal was named Velvet. Nice touch. Velvet was hoisted by the clean-hands petard. 

This may be one of my most favorite posts ever.  Sheer poetry.

[AngelaHunter]

On ‎2‎/‎3‎/‎2017 at 9:30 PM, BusyOctober said:

I may have to stop watching JJ for a bit.  I can't take the butchering of words and phrases any more.  It's a silly thing to some people, but hearing obviously mispronounced words drives me up the damn wall.

I feel the same way. It never bothered me in the beginning, but now with 98% of litigants speaking English so mangled it gives me a physical jar, I often have to turn off eps. It's depressing and there is no excuse in the world for it. When someone actually speaks properly, I get so excited I want them to win no matter what heinous things they did.

[patty1h]

That PCP junkie should get a nomination for "2017 Best Dramatic Crying Hallterview of JJ".  That was cringe-tastic.

[AngelaHunter]

PCP junkie? Crying jag? Can't wait.

[Silver Raven]

JJ, you clearly don't know what you're talking about.  2 PM is rush hour in LA.  LA has rush hour 24 hours a day.  That's why distances in LA are measured in time it takes you to get somewhere, instead of miles.

[AuntiePam]

Nobody boils water for coffee in an open pan on the stove.  Do they?  I've boiled water for coffee in a tea kettle, and I've boiled water in a pan for pasta, but not for coffee.  So defendant was lying, but not for the reason JJ decided.  A pan of water knocked off a stove might well splash the lower part of a body. 

Whatever.  It was sad that JJ couldn't have ordered the $5K to go to a drug treatment center. 

[lovesnark]

1 hour ago, AngelaHunter said:

PCP junkie? Crying jag? Can't wait.

Me either! 90 minutes to go........

[SandyToes]

Today's new vocabulary word!  Foogayze?!  Better spelling?

OMG!  Mr. Toes and I both shouted at the same time, "They're sisters?!"  How did we miss that?  Criminy.  Excellent halterview!

Edited February 6, 2017 by SandyToes

[Miss Ruth]

47 minutes ago, AuntiePam said:

Nobody boils water for coffee in an open pan on the stove.  Do they? 

        Yes, if they don't have a teakettle.

[SoapDoc]

53 minutes ago, AuntiePam said:

A pan of water knocked off a stove might well splash the lower part of a body. 

True but the pattern of injury would be different. Listening to the doctor's comments, it sounded like the burn pattern was more consistent with pouring rather than splashing.

 

Either way it sounds painful.

[patty1h]

Here in Brooklyn, I've seen it spelled "fugazi" and it's Italian slang for phony/fake; "Did you hear his fugazi story about why his wife left him?"

[AZChristian]

Halterview:  "I wasn't on PCP THAT NIGHT.  I was smoking marijuana."  I'm thinking that wasn't the only time she was smoking MJ; she seemed high on the show.

[Brattinella]

I loved seeing the PCP-heads, especially the Plaintiff, who couldn't hardly speak.  How do you go to court (or go on a TV show) being THAT loaded??  I also believed that the boiling water was poured on a seated or sleeping victim, between the thighs is a hard place to reach from a vertical throw.

[Taffy]

38 minutes ago, patty1h said:

 

Here in Brooklyn, I've seen it spelled "fugazi" and it's Italian slang for phony/fake; "Did you hear his fugazi story about why his wife left him?"

 

We have an Italian restaurant nearby named Fugazi's. First time I ate there I said this isn't real Italian. That explains it. Thanks Patty!

[SRTouch]

57 minutes ago, Taffy said:

We have an Italian restaurant nearby named Fugazi's. First time I ate there I said this isn't real Italian. That explains it. Thanks Patty!

Ah, sounds like truth in advertising ?

Now, off to watch the show.

[Guest]

 I got nothing today.

I swear if there was a second coming it wouldn't garner as much television time as Tom Brady and the Patriots.

JJ was preempted so we could all "wait" for the Patriots plane to land.  In the meantime I had to listen to the talking heads giggle because, well, because Tom Brady. 

Thrown boiling water, tea, coffee or pasta, PCP.  The hell.  Of all days to miss.

Tomorrow won't be much better.  The parade is in town and I'll have to leave for work at 5:30 am to be assured of a parking space. Then when I come home there will be recaps of the parade. 

It will be expected of me to be cheerful and in a celebratory mood.  But my friends here will know that my joy is fugazi.  Mega fugazi.

[Quof]

I'm with you PsychoKlown.  I'm in Canada, so I probably care even less about the Patriots than you do, but I get my cable feed from Boston and they preempted my JJ.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

5 hours ago, Taffy said:

We have an Italian restaurant nearby named Fugazi's. First time I ate there I said this isn't real Italian. That explains it. Thanks Patty!

Fugazi is also a band, one that formed back in 1987 and has toured with the likes of Henry Rollins and Black Flag, both separately and together. I feel very odd knowing this new piece of information.

[AngelaHunter]

I'm in Canada too, and usually JJ gets bumped for the least little thing but I got it today. Thank goodness for small favours.

I learned "fugazi" from The Sopranos, along with a few other choice Italian words.

4 hours ago, Miss Ruth said:

Nobody boils water for coffee in an open pan on the stove.  Do they? 

You mean a frying pan? Not I. In emergencies I've used a small pot or maybe even a big pot, but never a pan.

[shksabelle]

Wow. Just WOW!  Those may have been the hoodiest hood rats I have ever seen. Three grown women F'D up on PCP. 

No doubt JJ, Byrd, you and I are supporting them. 

I shudder to think how the 5 grand award will be spent. 

[momtoall]

Sandy toes, the defendants and the witness were the sisters.  I found the entire case sad.  I got a case with an eighteen year old defendant who had no problem telling millions of viewers that she had multiple sexual partners (some of whom were best friends) but it was mostly casual.  I don't understand.  Where is the self-esteem??  I weep.

Edited February 7, 2017 by momtoall

[SRTouch]

27 minutes ago, momtoall said:

Sandy toes, the defendants and the witness were the sisters.  I found the entire case sad.  I got a case with an eighteen year old defendant who had no problem telling millions of viewers that she had multiple sexual partners (some of whom were best friends) but it was mostly casual.  I don't understand.  Where is the self-esteem??  I weep.

Very telling, when asked how she supported herself - mommy pays my bills, and lives with daddy between times when she  hops from bed to bed. Anyone else wonder if this girl might also be the result of her mommy and daddy mating a week after they met - 2 weeks before they broke up.

Edited February 7, 2017 by SRTouch
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[Eliza422]

48 minutes ago, SRTouch said:

Very telling, when asked how she supported herself - mommy pays my bills, and lives with daddy between times when she  hops from bed to bed. Anyone else wonder if this girl might also be the result of her mommy and daddy mating a week after they met - 2 weeks before they broke up.

I hate to say this about anyone, but she had a face I just wanted to punch! eighteen and already a real piece of work....

[AuntiePam]

1 hour ago, shksabelle said:

I shudder to think how the 5 grand award will be spent. 

Party at Kyley's!  I think it's dangerous to give druggies $5K at one crack.  Pun intended. 

[WaitForMe]

6 hours ago, Eliza422 said:

I hate to say this about anyone, but she had a face I just wanted to punch! eighteen and already a real piece of work....

This x 1000

[Guest]

9 hours ago, Cobalt Stargazer said:

Fugazi is also a band, one that formed back in 1987 and has toured with the likes of Henry Rollins and Black Flag, both separately and together. I feel very odd knowing this new piece of information.

You are not alone! (Black Flag fan here.) 

I only saw the hallterview in the Don't Rain on My Leg and Tell Me It's pcP-ing (I have the rest on the DVR to watch today) case, but did the one sister say they're now going to *really* try to get off the PCP? The crying jag felt like amateur hour at the Community Center acting class. 

Edited February 7, 2017 by Guest

[BusyOctober]

I'm in Boston so I missed several hours of "normal" TV due to the Patriots coverage.  I'm happy they won, but I don't understand why the local channels think we need to watch hungover yahoos waiting for planes & buses for 8 hours at a time.  Tomorrow is the celebration parade and that will be aired in its entirety I'm sure.  sigh...

Hopefully I can catch the PCP rerun sometime soon.  Sounds like a real enlightening episode!

[seacliffsal]

These episodes were the best!  Loved Judy telling PCP girl that she didn't know or care what she was on during the trial.  Also loved how Judy broke apart the 18 year old girl's lies about the plaintiff whose car she keyed.  They must save the better episodes for sweeps months.  These have totally erased my intense disagreements with some of her recent rulings.  They were gold I tell you, gold...

[Toaster Strudel]

I am so looking forward to the pig case today!

[Guest]

15 hours ago, PsychoKlown said:

 I got nothing today.

I swear if there was a second coming it wouldn't garner as much television time as Tom Brady and the Patriots.

JJ was preempted so we could all "wait" for the Patriots plane to land.  In the meantime I had to listen to the talking heads giggle because, well, because Tom Brady. 

My knowledge of football is terrible, to say the least. But doesn't this team win the Super Bowl, like, every year? I would think with a commonplace occurrence like that, the "news" of the arriving flight might be better left for its rightful time slot. I mean, come on, it's not everyday when JJ gets a PCP case -- with a real, live PCP user. That only comes around once in a lifetime.*

*One would think.

[DoctorK]

I am really sorry that I missed the PCP kids, but I can't complain. Our local news preempted the case to provide news on a suspected triple murderer running around one county over from here. That is actual breaking news, I just wish it could have come during a boring JJ case.

[WaitForMe]

42 minutes ago, DoctorK said:

I am really sorry that I missed the PCP kids, but I can't complain. Our local news preempted the case to provide news on a suspected triple murderer running around one county over from here. That is actual breaking news, I just wish it could have come during a boring JJ case.

They weren't kids!!!  Oh, no. Had to have been in their 30's but looked much older!  I hope you get to see it!

[bad things are bad]

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I shudder to think how the 5 grand award will be spent. 

Had exactly the same thought

Really loved JJ apparently believing that Fugazi was a jurisdiction...."this police report is clearly from (whatever) county, not Fugazi"

[Ilovecomputers]

On 2/5/2017 at 2:03 PM, ItsHelloPattiagain said:

Velvet Polk sounded like a porn name gone savagely wrong. . . . .  

Funny/-I told my husband the same thing.  I saw a comedian once say that if you were going to be an exotic dancer, your stage name was always the name of your childhood pet followed by your middle name. 

[Ilovecomputers]

Okay, I've made a terrible error and I apologize. Somehow I went to the very first page of this board and started reading comments.  They were funny, even if I didn't recognize the cases. Turns out the first page posts are from 2014, and yes, I "liked" several of these posts before I realized I had entered"The Twilight Zone."