21-year-old
Treyvon King for threatening him
with a knife.
>> Byrd: Order!
All rise!
This is case
number 141 on the calendar
in the matter of Minter vs.
King.
>> Judge Judy: Thank you.
>> Byrd: You're welcome, Judge.
Parties have been sworn in.
You may be seated.
Folks, have a seat.
>> Judge Judy: Mr. King,
is this your younger brother?
>> Uh, no.
This is actually um,
my, uh, my friend.
>> Judge Judy:
Your younger brother isn't here?
>> No, ma'am.
He's still on house arrest.
>> Judge Judy: House arrest
for what?
>> Uh, I think it was
a gang loitering or something.
I don't know the exact,
uh, case.
>> Judge Judy: How long has
he been on house arrest?
>> For approximately, like,
2 to 3 months now.
>> Judge Judy:
Was he incarcerated
for any period of time?
>> Yeah, for about,
like, a week or two.
That's about it.
>> Judge Judy: How old is he?
>> He's 18.
>> Judge Judy: Now, there came
a time when you had
some sort of an altercation
with his little brother.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Tell me about
the altercation, if you want to.
>> So the particular problem
where me and him actually
had a fight came March 17, 2016.
I was on my way
to get my driver's license.
In order to get to him...
I stay 63rd,
my auntie stay 64th.
So I have to walk past
they house
to get to my auntie house.
I was on my way to get the money
'cause
she's the one paying it for me.
That's when the brother
comes down,
we get to arguing --
>> Judge Judy: You mean
his brother came down?
>> Yes. I'm a call him --
>> Judge Judy: What was the --
what was the argument about?
>> 'Cause the night
before then,
I entered they house
without knocking.
And it just got on some --
You're supposed to knock.
Well, if I'm coming here
for the person,
and they told me to come in,
you need to take that up
with the person
that told me to come in, not me.
>> Judge Judy: You went
in there --
>> And just opened the door.
>> Judge Judy: 'Cause
somebody...
And opened the door.
So the younger brother said...
>> "You need to knock,"
but he didn't say it
that nicely.
>> Judge Judy: I got it.
Did you get into a physical
altercation with him?
>> The next morning, not that --
not that night.
That night it was just,
"Okay you a police."
He called me a police.
Okay, whatever you want to say.
I left 'cause I was
at they house.
I left, went home.
The next morning I was outside.
I was going to get my, um --
>> Judge Judy: Driver's license.
>> Driver's license,
walking past my auntie --
to my auntie house
to get the money for it.
The brother run off the porch,
something saying,
"So what was all that stuff
about yesterday?
Come on, man.
Ain't no body on that with you."
That's just how we talk.
He swung, missed.
I swung, connected. We fighting.
I leave to go get
my driver's license,
he leave to go to the hospital.
>> Judge Judy:
So you won the fight?
>> I'm -- I'm guessing.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
And then, it is your claim --
I don't actually think that
Mr. King disputes the fact
that Mr. King was very angry
that his brother ended up
in the hospital,
and at some point,
he came to your house.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: When did you go
to his house?
>> Um --
>> Judge Judy: What date?
That date? March --
>> Uh, actually March 17.
Um, uh, if I can show you this,
like, uh, it basically state
from the day
that they got into it
for until now.
>> Judge Judy: Something that
you wrote out?
>> No, this is actually
text messages of him texting me.
>> Judge Judy: Fine.
I want to know when
you went to his house.
>> March 19, to be exact.
>> Judge Judy: What time?
>> Um, I get off works at 2:00.
So it had to be like 2:00,
about 3:00, 4:00.
>> Judge Judy: In the afternoon?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: And who did you
go over there with?
>> My friend.
>> Judge Judy: How many others,
other than that one friend?
How many others?
>> No, it was just us.
Now, my father was there,
but he --
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
So you, your friend
and your father.
>> Yes.
Well, my father,
you know what I'm saying,
like he -- he had a bad crash.
So he was basically just
telling me to come over there
and find out what's happening.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
>> Okay.
>> Judge Judy: All I asked you
was, "How many people
went to his house?"
So it was you, your friend
and your father?
>> Okay.
Yeah, just that went to
his house,
it's just me and my friend.
>> Judge Judy: Where was
your father?
>> My father was, you know,
at the porch,
you know what I'm saying?
Basically just telling us like,
to just leave it alone.
>> Judge Judy: Why didn't you
listen to him?
>> Because I didn't go
down there to fight.
I actually, I went down there
to talk to him as a man.
>> Judge Judy: When you went
down there to talk to him,
did you have a knife?
When you went down there
to talk to him,
did you have a knife?
>> Not the first time.
>> Judge Judy: So you went down
to talk to him twice?
>> Yes, the first time I went --
went to talk to him as a man.
But I was, you know what
I'm saying, being aggressed as,
you know what I'm saying?
Like, just these text messages.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
So when you went back
the second time,
was that also on March 19?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Then you did
have a knife.
And who went back with you
the second time?
>> I went back down there
by myself.
>> Judge Judy: You were there
by yourself with a knife?
So you left your friend,
and you substituted a knife
for your friend.
Now tell me what happened
when you got there
the second time, with the knife.
>> Okay.
Well, during the first time,
before I left,
I was, you know what I'm saying,
people, they was reaching
and stuff like that.
And then, like, him
and his family had knives, too.
So I went about it
the wrong way.
But I did go back down there
'cause I wanted
to get to the bottom of it, uh,
why this continuing co--
problem with my --
my -- my baby brother out there.
>> Judge