my half of the security deposit
and for my mom.
I have my SMUD bill here.
>> Judge Judy: Your what?
>> My SMUD bill, which is
the Sacramento
utilities that --
>> Judge Judy: From what year?
>> For 2015 and '16, they had
it shut off several times
as
I hadn't been given them money.
>> Judge Judy:
When did you move out?
>> I moved out early
July of 2016.
>> The bill was never
in her name.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
>> Judge Judy:
You moved out in July of 2016.
>> I lived there for a year
with them living there as well.
>> Judge Judy: Well, her lease
started in 2015...
>> Yes.
We each...
>> Judge Judy:
...with the landlord.
>> We each rented adjacent from
each other on the same property.
It was split, like, in two
separate properties.
>> Judge Judy:
Well, you should have taken care
of the security deposit.
Okay.
Good.
In whose name were
the utilities?
>> First, she put it into hers
because I was clever enough that
I didn't want it in my name.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
They were in her name.
That's not your problem.
>> Well, and then it was
in her husband's name because
she didn't pay that bill.
>> Judge Judy: Right.
Right. Right.
That's still not your problem.
>> And then we had to put it
in my name after they repeatedly
got it shut off, and...
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
So on what date
did it go into your name?
>> 1/27/2016.
Yeah.
>> I have that bill right here,
and it's not in her name.
>> I have three pages from SMUD
that they just sent me
from the entire bill
for the last two years of the --
>> Judge Judy: I don't care
about
the entire bill for three years.
When it was in her name, when it
was in her husband's name,
let them go against them.
I don't care.
January of 2016,
I would just like to see.
>> All righty.
>> Judge Judy: You say you have
a bill that's in your name.
>> My husband's name.
>> Judge Judy:
Oh, your husband's.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy:
I want to see it, please.
Brandon [bleep]?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: This is 2015.
>> Oh, it is?
Well, I have one
for March 24th of '16.
>> Judge Judy:
Oh, that's even better.
>> Okay.
All right.
I'm sorry.
>> Judge Judy: May I have it?
>> That's right.
After they had got it shut off
the first or second time,
I had to assume the rest of
the bill that I had been paying
for the entire duration of them
living there and then had
to assume responsibility
for the rest of it
to have the water
and power back on
because I have a small child.
>> Judge Judy:
All I can tell you is that
the bill dated March of 2016
is in Brandon [bleep] name,
so you're not
responsible for it.
>> I had to put it in my name
to have the --
>> Judge Judy: Well, show me
where you put it...
>> Right here.
>> Judge Judy: Just no.
Show me a bill
just like this in your name.
>> Your Honor, I have the entire
printout from SMUD.
>> Judge Judy: Show me a bill
just like this in your name.
>> It was never in her name.
>> One second.
>> Judge Judy:
And you can also show me
the check
that you wrote to SMUD, S-M-U-D.
>> She never wrote a check.
>> Judge Judy: Show me the bill.
>> I have it.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
Just...Miss Edwards.
>> Mm-hmm.
>> Judge Judy: Mm-hmm.
Show me the bill and your check
to SMUD at any time in 2016.
>> I have...
Let's see.
>> Judge Judy:
Don't tell me what you have.
Just hand it to Officer Byrd,
the bill and a check to SMUD
in any time in 2016.
>> There's the envelope
for this one and letters.
>> Judge Judy:
Byrd, I don't want an envelope.
I want a SMUD bill and a check
from the plaintiff for...
>> Oh, I did it all
with my credit card,
which they don't have a...
>> Judge Judy: Show.
Just a second.
Show me a credit card payment
to SMUD in 2016.
>> It's all in the SMUD records
right here.
>> Judge Judy: No, no, no.
Don't show me SMUD records.
I want to see your credit card.
>> I could get it from my phone.
Okay.
Neither of them
have a bank account.
I don't know how you do it,
be 40 years old
and not have a bank account,
but every payment
that was ever made...
>> I don't even know
what you're talking about.
>> ...in the entire time
that they lived there,
I have records of right here.
>> Judge Judy: I don't care.
>> Okay.
I'm logging on
to my Wells Fargo, sorry,
because some of the payments
were
with money orders that I have.
Some of them were
on my credit card.
Some of them were
on my debit card.
>> Judge Judy: Miss Edwards,
where do you come from,
what jurisdiction?
>> In Sacramento.
>> Judge Judy: In California?
>> Yeah.
>> Judge Judy: I suggest
you go home to your local court.
You're not ready for trial.
>> Okay.
>> Judge Judy:
You're not ready for trial,
so I'm dismissing with prejudice
the part of your claim
that has to do
with security deposit.
Do you understand?
I'm dismissing that part
of your claim.
That part of your claim
that deals with your payment
to SMUD, I'm dismissing
without prejudice.
You go get your evidence.
Go to your court in Sacramento.
>> Okay.
>> Judge Judy:
I'm not dealing with it.
Are we done?
>> If you think so.
>> Judge Judy: Perfect.
I think so.
>> Thank you, Your Honor.
>> Byrd: Parties are excused.
>> Yes.
We were friends.
Unfortunately, bad
things happen.
>> That's why I let her move
into my house,
and she's a backstabbing...
>> I was in fear
for the child's life.
So, yes, I did call CPS,
and I'd do it again.
>> But she called falsely
as well.
>> When a mother of a child
is drunk and passed out...
>> And I have proof
of my dismissal.
>> ...and the child
is running around
the house begging for food
and crying with no shoes on...
>> And it was dropped in
July of 2016.
>> ...maybe you shouldn't
do alcohol and drugs.
>> Because she was trying
to force me out of my house.
>> Choose who you move in with.
>> Not trust people.
>> Ann