you rented a room -- is that
correct? -- from the defendant?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: And you were
there for a few months.
She found that
it wasn't working out.
You found that it wasn't
working out,
and you were going to leave
on January 28th,
is that correct?
>> That's not correct.
>> Judge Judy: When were you
supposed to leave?
>> I was supposed to be leaving
on January 31st,
be out by the 1st.
>> Judge Judy: Were you paid
fully for the month of January?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Is that correct,
Ms. Cassaro?
>> No.
>> Judge Judy: When did he pay
you rent in January?
>> He started renting from me
on May 21st.
It was month-to-month.
He was supposed to be out
on January 21st.
I gave him leeway to leave to
the next weekend, which was the
28th, and actually the 27th
was 60 days notice from the last
check that he gave me
because he put 60 days notice
to leave on the last check.
>> Judge Judy: I'd like to see.
I'd like to see the last check.
>> There's all of the checks
from the first one,
on the 20th, to the last one.
>> Judge Judy: His cashier's
check for $750 says 60-day
notice to move by February 1,
2017.
>> Yes, but it says
60 days' notice.
Sixty days from the 29th...
>> Judge Judy: Sixty days'
notice to move, comma --
>> He was actually
supposed to move on the 21st.
>> Judge Judy: Well, let me tell
you this.
Not based upon
this cashier's check,
which I assume you cashed.
>> I did.
>> Judge Judy: Well, that's what
it says here,
to move by February 1st.
So what he's suing for is
he said you locked him out.
And you locked him
out on January 28th.
Is that correct?
>> That's correct.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
>> He was moved out by then.
He was out.
There was nothing left
in the house
except garbage on the floor.
All his clothes were gone.
His television was gone.
His toiletries were gone.
He was out of the house except
for just garbage, empty --
I have actual pictures
that he took himself.
>> Judge Judy: Are they dated
pictures?
>> No.
He took these himself
from outside the house,
what I put out.
It was actually his...
There were empty liter sodas --
>> Judge Judy: May I see it,
please?
>> This is pictures that
Mr. Hawthorne took himself.
I put it outside
because I didn't know
if his trash was his treasure.
>> Judge Judy: Was it a
furnished room?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Are these
photographs that you took?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Is that what she
put out?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Are you telling
me that you had no property
anywhere other than in
Ms. Cassaro's house?
>> That's not true at all.
>> Judge Judy: I had my family
in town from Kansas City,
and I stayed the night
with them on Friday night.
I came back on Saturday morning,
and I was going to have
some friends come
over and help me start
doing some moving.
When I got back to the house,
I was locked out.
I had no intentions of moving
before the first.
The only thing I had moved out
of there was my big-screen TV.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
Where did you put
your big-screen TV?
>> In my car.
>> Judge Judy: Mr. Hawthorne,
you were staying
with some relatives.
If you weren't planning
on being out until February 1st,
why, on January 27th,
would you put your big-screen TV
in your car?
That doesn't make sense to me,
Mr. Hawthorne.
>> Well, the reason I had...
I moved the TV because I had
no other help to move the TV.
>> My neighbor
helped him move the TV.
>> Judge Judy: Shh.
>> I'm sorry.
>> Judge Judy: Mr. Hawthorne,
I actually think that I'm only
getting
half the story from both of you.
But, clearly, based upon
the contract that you had,
which was on your check,
which said
you would be out by the first.
And you still had something
in the apartment.
She had no right to lock you out
until the 1st of February.
Now, do you have proof
that you stayed in a hotel
on the 28th,
the 29th, for those 4 days?
What?
Somebody changed the date
from May.
Is this what you're giving me?
>> The reason that was done is
because I went to the hotel
and tried to get a copy
of January 28th
through the 31st,
and they said they would not
go back and redo anything.
And I said, "Well,
you know, I'm going to court.
I need something to show
that I was there."
They said, "The only dates
we have that reflect those dates
is the dates
that we show in May."
>> Judge Judy: Well, then I
can't help you because I don't
know whether you stayed there or
not.
That's a ridiculous thing
for you to give me.
there's nothing to suggest to me
that you didn't have someplace
else to go, that there was just
a whole bunch
of junk left in the apartment.
>> The thing about it is
I had contract paperwork
there that I couldn't get to.
>> Judge Judy: Did you file a
police report alleging
that she stole your computer?
>> Yes, I did.
>> Judge Judy: I'd like to see
it.
This doesn't say anything
about a computer.
>> Said I had property left
in the house.
>> Judge Judy: Your case is
dismissed, sir.
>> I have a counterclaim,
Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy: For what?
>> For damages that he did
to my property.
>> Let me see the photographs
of what you allege damage
he did to your property.
>> He never left the house,
Your Honor.
He sat in that house 24/7.
>> Judge Judy: I don't care.
I don't care. He paid rent.
He can do whatever
he wants to do.
We're done. Goodbye!