You may be seated.
Hello, Your Honor.
Hello.
This is the case of Harvey v. Jett.
Thank you, Jerome. Good day, everyone.
ALL: Good day.
Mr. Harvey, you are asking the court
to award you $496.52 for baby supplies
you say the defendant, Ms. Jett, demanded for a child
you adamantly deny is yours.
Yes, Your Honor.
Ms. Jett, in response to Mr. Harvey's suit,
you have petitioned the court for the results of a paternity test.
Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: You argue that today you're going to
finally prove he is your daughter's
biological father and say it's time
he steps up and acts like a man.
Yes, Your Honor.
So, Mr. Harvey, take me back first to this relationship.
You met on a dating site?
I met her on a dating site
and she got pregnant two weeks after,
after I was having sex she got pregnant.
I'm...
Your Honor, that's a lie.
In July, I started dating Harvey,
um, every day, actually, I moved in with Harvey, in July.
You moved in with him?
Yes, I did.
And every day, we had sex every day.
You got pregnant two weeks!
I didn't find out till I was pregnant.
We had sex the first week I met you.
No, I didn't.
Okay, so it was the second week.
I didn't find out till I was pregnant a month later which was August.
I was having sex with him every day.
You left a month later.
Morning, noon and night. No.
A month after I met her, she left and moved back to Orlando.
I stayed 60 miles from her.
After I found out I was pregnant, that's when I moved.
And she go up on my Facebook, and told me to buy all this baby stuff.
I asked him, okay.
I did not argue with her.
JETT: It takes nine months for someone to be pregnant.
So, hold on. So, you meet each other, move in together,
and get pregnant all within a month?
BOTH: Yes.
JUDGE LAKE: All right.
(AUDIENCE CHATTERING)
Yeah.
JUDGE LAKE: And when you find out you're pregnant,
you tell Mr. Harvey...
JETT: And he was so happy.
He was happy.
And Mr. Harvey...
You were happy when you heard the news?
He was.
HARVEY: I was happy.
JUDGE LAKE: Because you thought it was your child.
Yes. After she found out she was pregnant,
we stopped talking, she moved back to Orlando, she wrote...
JUDGE LAKE: Why'd you stop talking?
Because he was so sexually active with other women.
He was cheating on me.
(AUDIENCE GASPING)
JUDGE LAKE: Okay, so there was a breakdown in the relationship.
Yes. He was cheating on me.
And then it ended.
JETT: Yes.
So, at some point, you were living apart.
JETT: Yes.
And then you demanded he bring you...
Um, I was asking him months, and months and months,
can he get this, can he get that?
And he say, "No, I'm not getting you anything...
Your Honor...
"Until the baby is born."
...I have evidence to show you that I have bought
everything she said on this...
Everything she demanded of me...
He did not. I asked him months, and months...
JUDGE LAKE: I would like to see that evidence.
She wrote me on Facebook, demanding that I buy...
I said, "Okay," Your Honor.
I have the receipt. And it might be the date on there.
I have the receipt, where I bought everything on the list.
(READING) "You need to make sure you bring me all of these things."
(JUDGE LAKE READING LIST)
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
JETT: Yes, I said that.
And this is all before the baby's born?
Yes, but I...
JUDGE LAKE: And then, you responded back...
HARVEY: Okay.
Okay.
JETT: Okay, but, Your Honor, it took him months.
I asked him...
I bought it!
It took him months and months to buy this stuff.
I'd been asking for this stuff.
JUDGE LAKE: And then I see, attached to this...
JETT: I begged for him to buy this stuff.
...is a receipt...
HARVEY: A receipt, and I spent close to $500 on everything.
...that I see...
...a Pack 'n' Play, a pump, bottle, bottle scrubber, bedtime wash...
Everything you named off.
JETT: He did not get all of those things, Your Honor.
He did not.
JUDGE LAKE: He didn't?
No. Don't act like you did.
I didn't get a pillow.
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
You did not. The only thing you bought... Your Honor.
So, Mr. Harvey, you claim now you did all this,
because you thought it was your child, but in actuality,
now you don't even know if this child is really yours.
HARVEY: No, Your Honor...
JUDGE LAKE: And how did you get to that point?
Where you had doubt? When did you start putting two and two together?
Be specific.
HARVEY: Okay.
When I first met Shardasia, she got pregnant fast.
And then we stopped talking. Okay.
After she had the baby, she had told me,
the whole time she was pregnant, she was in a relationship.
Your Honor...
She said she was in a sexual relationship,
that's one.
Your Honor?
And another thing is she had the baby, and tagged the dude's name in the picture.
When the baby was first born. I got evidence for that.
Why she tagged another dude? Like, listen.
If the baby mine, why didn't you tag me in the picture?
Your Honor.
She tagged another guy,
and says she doesn't know who the guy is.
Well, why the picture still stayed on your Facebook?
Your Honor.
And my family had to tell me, "Oh, you know, she tagged
"another dude name in the picture."
(AUDIENCE MURMURING)
I got evidence for that too!
JETT: Your Honor...
Uh, let me see this evidence,
Jerome, will you hand this to me, please?
Yes, Ms. Jett, please.
First of all, I put a picture of my daughter on Facebook.
Why you kept it up there? That's all I gotta say.
Yes, and that right there where the arrow is,
that's the dude name who she tagged in the picture.
JETT: Okay, and I...
JUDGE LAKE: Why would you tag another man's name...
JETT: I didn't, Your Honor.
...on your baby's photo?
JETT: I did not tag...
HARVEY: She claimed the dude out of nowhere tagged himself.
He tagged his self in the picture by his self and I never met him.
At all. And I actually have proof that, um,
I actually wrote the dude, and I say, "Hey,
"my daughter's dad thinks you're her father
"because you tagged yourself in the picture."
And he said, "Oh, I'm sorry."
Why would this guy, Ms. Jett...
Why would this guy tag himself?
He said that maybe it was a accident that he
mistakenly tagged his self in her picture.
That's what he said.
JUDGE LAKE: But you didn't do it?
No, I never did. I never did.
She blocks me from my phone...
So you say you have been supporting the child.
JETT: No, he hasn't, Your Honor.
Yes, Your Honor. Your Honor, I have a money order right here.
JUDGE LAKE: I'd like to see that.
Jerome, will you get the evidence, please?
And a receipt for the money order. That was $100.
And then, when she was pregnant, I went shopping for her.
So, you say you gave her cash multiple times,
but you just have a receipt for one money order?
Yes, ma'am.
JUDGE LAKE: So, what about the other times?
HARVEY: I never kept it.
JUDGE LAKE: And so, has he given you...
JETT: No, Your Honor.
So, he hasn't given you money multiple times?
No, he hasn't.
But he has given you this $100?
Yes, he has.
Okay, that's what I want to be clear of.
HARVEY: Listen, Your Honor. To be honest with you,
I only have evidence for that, so she's going to say, "Yeah, he gave it." She got to.
But if I didn't have evidence for that, she would've said I never gave her that.
Ms. Jett, so I see you brought some evidence?
Yes, Your Honor, I did.
Here's all the expenses that I've been taking care for of my daughter alone.
He's suing me for $500.
Her diapers is a little less than what he's suing me for.
And plus her feeding, is double that.
I'm suing you for what I got a receipt for.
Okay, but her diapers are close to what you're suing me for.
Her diapers is dang near that money, $500.
Every time you needed diapers, you called me, and I gave it to you.
You never gave me it.
Whenever you needed something...
Every time she called me, I gave it to her, Your Honor.
He don't.
JUDGE LAKE: Ms. Jett, you claim that
what he's given you is merely a drop in the bucket.
Yes. It's really nothing. He doesn't...
These are your real expenses...
Yes it is.
...as it relates to your daughter.
I provide all these things.
HARVEY: You provide it? The state provide it.
I'm telling you, she doesn't...
JETT: What does it? How does it?
The feeding alone is state provided, she get WIC.
The state provide all the $800.
The state provide all that.
I ain't trying to make all of that.
(ALL TALKING)
JETT: I have to get help.
JUDGE LAKE: I can see your diagram. You may step back to your podium, ma'am.
All right, moving on.
So, at this point, are you involved in the child's life at all?
No.
Today? As of now?
I haven't talked to her.
He hasn't seen my baby since July.
JUDGE LAKE: You haven't seen the baby since July?
So, Mr. Harvey, your doubt is just based on a Facebook post tag?
No, it's not that, Your Honor.
Then what is it?
Okay, and then, another thing is, after she had the baby,
she was trying to get pregnant again,
and then she told me she was pregnant, or whatever,
so I went and got her stuff like that.
And then she start going through my phone,
I was like, all right, well, I'm gonna go through your phone too.
So, I go through her phone, right?
She telling this dude, she say,
"You need to pay for this abortion."
No, I didn't.
And the whole time, she was never pregnant.
She thought she was pregnant from me,
and then she telling some other dude he need to pay for abortion.
Your Honor.
So, Ms. Jett, is this true?
No, he's lying.
Oh, now I'm lying!
So, Ms. Jett. Is it your contention
that you were not intimate with anyone else during the window of conception?
No, I was not. I was only with him,
and I was living with him at the time.
All right, Mr. Harvey, you brought a witness.
Please, ma'am, stand.
Step to the podium.
Everybody looks like the Harveys or the Highsmiths.
Baby has no genes of us, at all.
I can sense your anger and your frustration.
I didn't even know about him until I got that phone call.
JUDGE LAKE: Well they only knew each other a month.
WOMAN: Exactly.
In the case of four-month-old Noelani Harvey,
you...
He did not get all of those things, Your Honor.
I didn't get a pillow.
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
You claim that what he's given you is merely a drop in the bucket.
Yes.
My name's Denise Highsmith.
Hi, Ms. Highsmith, thank you for joining us.
You are?
I'm his auntie.
JUDGE LAKE: You're his aunt.
What do you know about this doubt?
All I know is that when she had the baby,
looking at my nephew with the other children,
we have strong genes.
And all his brothers look alike, his brothers' kids look alike.
They have the same heads.
Our family has big eyes. The baby that was in with me...
X'Zaviar, it is in his family.
All his children look just alike, different moms.
Everybody looks like the Harveys or the Highsmiths.
Baby have no genes of us at all.
Head shape, everything.
Looks like me, I have strong genes.
Well, that's my opinion.
So, it's your contention that your family genes are strong.
Yes, ma'am.
And you see it in all the other children?
Yes, ma'am.
And the members of the family?
Yes, ma'am.
And when you look at this baby, you just see nothing?
Only the rare color and they're both rare. That's not good enough.
Thank you for your testimony.
Ms. Jett, you also brought a witness.
Yes.
I'd like to hear from her, ma'am, please stand, and step to the podium.
What's your name?
Kim Canty.
Ms. Canty, thanks for being here.
You are?
Shardasia's mother.
Ms. Jett's mother?
Yes.
Please, explain to the court the knowledge you have.
He called me, and told me that Shardasia was pregnant.
HARVEY: I didn't meet...
No, he hadn't met me.
But you called me.
And told me my daughter is pregnant.
And how I shouldn't worry about you leaving.
I did not know Ms. Kim until after the baby was born.
No, you didn't know me.
How could I call her if I didn't know her?
Oh, you called me, don't sit up there and lie.
You did call me.
I did not.
Now you're going to lie.
You lie.
I had just met Shardasia.
She didn't tell me, you told me.
I didn't, Your Honor.
And now you got amnesia now.
JUDGE LAKE: Is it your contention, Ms. Canty,
that he called to say,
you say he was going to take care of it.
That's what he was...
That was it. That was the end of the conversation.
And Ms. Canty, did you ever have any conversation
with your daughter that would indicate maybe
she was intimate with someone else,
and someone else could possibly be the father?
No, I didn't even know she was dating him.
I didn't even know about him until I got that phone call.
Well, they only knew each other a month.
Exactly. Exactly.
They testified to that in court.
And he promised you he was gonna step up,
and be there for your daughter, and for the baby?
Yeah.
"Don't worry, you ain't gotta worry about me leaving."
You said that.
JUDGE LAKE: And I can sense your anger, and your frustration.
And that's because you feel like he's turned his back on...
Yes.
...the baby and your daughter.
Your Honor, he was there for the delivery.
Your Honor, I lost my job because of that too.
He cut the cord...
I lost my job,
because I was supposed to go to work that morning.
And I came over there, I came there, we wasn't even talking.
She was in a relationship our whole pregnancy.
Called me, said, "I'm having the baby."
I didn't go to work, and got fired.
Mr. Harvey, how did you go from cutting the cord to bringing her to court?
Like, I didn't know Ms. Jett. I did not know her.
After she had the baby, that's when I got to know her.
She is not the person that...
Why would you be with somebody that you don't know?
Your Honor.
Because the child, the child...
I wanted to be in the child's life.
If that child's mine, I want to be in the child's life.
That's the reason why I still was there.
If you want to be in the child's life, why you not there now?
Why you not there?
I'm not there now,
because situations that happened, and...
I'm not even gonna put her out there like that.
JUDGE LAKE: Let's talk one at a time.
JETT: Your Honor, can I say something?
I wanna understand that though, Mr. Harvey.
Because it seems like you were on board.
HARVEY: I was!
And I have not really heard testimony that
would substantiate the departure from the commitment that you've made.
I don't understand where the doubt is coming from.
JETT: Your Honor.
The doubt, the reason why I stopped, okay...
JUDGE LAKE: Facebook tag, I got that.
Okay, the Facebook tag...
What else?
That's my reason.
Because multiple dudes, she got pregnant fast, and the departure,
I was still there, and the real departure,
when I stopped seeing the baby was,
because she had threatened me.
That's the reason why I didn't go.
I stopped seeing the baby.
Because she had threatened my life. You know what I'm saying?
And I don't know her, and I got other kids.
And I wasn't gonna go through that.
I saw her, I said, "You know what?
"Go through child support, and if it's mine,
"I will be there, and I will do everything."
JETT: Your Honor.
I was there, Your Honor.
Let's get some order.
Every single month, I go.
And the reason I stopped going there, because she threatened my life.
And listen, I should've gotten a police report.
Your Honor, he tried to make me walk home.
JUDGE LAKE: Listen.
(SIGHING)
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
And this is why, Jerome... Kids having kids...
It just, I mean...
You don't even know how to conduct yourselves.
Fighting and carrying on.
This is ridiculous.
The only way we're going to be able to move forward with this,
is just to get the results.
Thank you, Jerome.
You're welcome.
I have to have these results before I can rule on your arbitration,
and your suit for $496.52, Mr. Harvey.
Are we ready for the results?
BOTH: Yes.
These results were prepared by DNA Diagnostics, and they read as follows.
In the case of Harvey v. Jett,
pertaining to four-month-old Noelani Harvey.
Mr. Harvey...
In the case of Harvey v. Jett,
pertaining to four-month-old Noelani Harvey.
Mr. Harvey.
You...
Are not her father.
(AUDIENCE GASPING)
JETT: It's fine. That's fine.
It's fine. Because I was in a relationship before I met him.
Oh, now you in a relationship?
Before I met you, yes. But I was never pregnant.
Ms. Jett, you so diplomatic now.
Because, no, listen, Your Honor.
I just witnessed, probably about 30 minutes
of you taking this young man through the wringer.
JETT: Yes, Your Honor, but...
JUDGE LAKE: And I asked you,
could there be anyone else?
And you said no, and then as soon as I read the result,
you went straight into politician mode!
"Uh huh! Uh huh! Yup, everything's going to be okay!"
Shaking hands, and kissing babies!
JETT: Oh, that's fine.
You weren't surprised.
I wasn't.
I just think that's a little unfair that you put him through that
knowing all the while that it could potentially be
this other person's as well, so after your arbitration,
Mr. Harvey, she sent you an itemized list of items
that you were supposed to bring.
This was a demand.
It is this court's opinion,
and judgment that you are entitled to the $496.52...
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
You spent on the child
that we determined here today is not, in fact, your biological daughter.
So the ruling is for the plaintiff,
and court is adjourned.
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