“The seat belt comes off the driver’s side,” the judge noted. “You’re lying to me now aren’t you?”
“No, I’m not, sir.”
At this point, the angry judge asked Carroll to “let me meet the driver.”
However, he did not show him a driver. Instead, he said, “hold on a second.”
“Now!” roared the judge.
“I have to get their permission,” he said.
But he did not ask permission from anyone. Instead, the car stopped at what appeared to be a gas station. Carroll picked up the phone, opened the car door and got out of what appeared to be the driver’s side of the car.
At this point, the seething judge was ready to call the meeting.
“Do you think I’m that stupid?” he said. “I’m going to go ahead and issue a standard sentence. . . . You lied to me.”
He instructed the court clerk to note that Carroll was driving while he said he was not. He would have to pay the full amount of the claim in the case, plus some court costs.
“Have a good day,” the judge concluded the session. “Thank you.”
“A Viral Play”
FOX 2 News reached out to Detroit Contact CarrollIn his testimony, he answered that he denied to the judge: Yes, he was driving a car.
He took responsibility for “my mistake”, saying: “I panicked at the time and made the wrong call instead of going around or retiming it. I’m very sorry for that.”
But Carroll was unhappy that her “brief moment of judgment” turned into a “viral spectacle that affected my reputation, my family and my ability to move forward in life.”
