- He lost the ring? - Yes.
I'm surprised it says here, "I took the ring."
- What? I beat her up? - But...
No, she handed me the ring.
This is the second time she gave me a piece of jewelry to fix.
I think she's, you know, strong-arming me.
You're an interesting character.
- Let's do the desert for a weekend. - [laughs]
Come on out to the desert, I'll take care of you. I'll cover you.
[Judge Levy] I wanna change my verdict.
[laughs]
What? You wanna go instead?
[announcer] Now, on Tribunal Justice...
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[announcer] Today's case was filed in Palm Springs, California.
Yeah, this is case number 2070 on account in the matter of Dorks versus Shearn.
- Thank you, Byrd. - You're welcome, Judge.
Parties have been sworn in. Everybody may be seated.
Ms. Dorks, you gave a ring that you received from your mother
to the defendant to repair.
Sir, somehow you lost it.
You say you didn't wanna give it to him in the first place,
but he took it from you.
Ultimately, you went and had it replaced. Cost you a thousand dollars to do that.
You say, "That's ridiculous. The ring isn't worth more than a hundred."
She's here suing you for the $1,000, which is the replacement value.
- So it's your mother's ring, right? - Yes.
[Judge DiMango] She's passed away. She passed away November 11th of 2011.
11/11/11.
When did she give you the ring?
It was given to me after her death. It was willed to me.
Did you get anything besides the ring?
I had an--another one of her wedding rings
and that was stolen years ago from my work.
[Judge DiMango] What did you do for a living?
I'm a massage therapist.
[Judge DiMango] And as a massage therapist,
was that part of your relationship with him?
[Renee] I did massages on him.
I met him about four years ago.
We all used to hang out at Cactus Jack's in Palm Desert.
Cactus is a restaurant?
- Cactus Jack's, yes. - [Judge DiMango] Yeah.
So now, you have the ring. You're hanging out.
How does the ring get damaged?
Um, I was at my house and it-- and it just fell out of the setting.
[Judge DiMango] I'd like to show a picture of the ring because that's very important.
- So is that the ring? - [Renee] Yes.
- [Judge DiMango] What kind of stone? - [Renee] Uh, aqua--uh, topaz.
[Judge DiMango] Topaz or aquamarine?
Because it looks aquamarine in the picture.
It's probably aquamarine.
I get--I'm not a really good person on, uh, gems.
But you would think you wore a ring for 11 years, 12 years,
you would know what it was, right?
Because the point here is you had another ring made.
And you spent a thousand dollars on it and he's disputing that.
So I think you gotta be kinda specific as to what your original ring was,
so that whether or not we find that the duplication of it was reasonable.
- [Renee] But it was... - So what stone was in your ring?
It was definitely an aquamarine
and the guy that I went to verified that for me
from the pictures that I showed him of the previous ring.
So why do your papers say topaz?
[Renee] It just-- I probably just got confused.
But it's definitely an aquamarine.
[Judge DiMango] And that's your new ring?
- [Renee] Uh-hmm. - [Judge DiMango] Very similar.
- Not identical, but similar. - [Renee] Correct.
So you bring the broken ring to the place
to ask him where--who his jeweler was,
you could've asked him that in a text, on the phone, or without the ring.
I had it in my purse with the intent of taking it to a jeweler
and I ran into him at Cactus.
And I knew he knew a jeweler guy, so I asked him at that point.
My intent was never to directly use his guy,
but I knew he knew somebody.
But now, what do you do for a living, sir?
I buy and sell and trade precious metals and rare coins.
I travel around the country to speak at investment conferences.
I do work at a store in downtown Palms Springs.
So, wait. Let me stop you a second.
- This is you? - [Ken] Yeah.
- [Judge DiMango] And who were you with? - [Ken] Steve Forbes.
[Judge DiMango] I want you to see something.
- Look at your hand. - [Ken] What about it?
Looks like you're gonna steal Steve Forbes' watch right off his wrist.
- Nah. Nah. It's a Jersey thing. - It's a Jersey thing?
- [Ken] Yeah. - Yeah. Well.
- [Ken] Yeah. - I know Jersey.
So, you wanted to take the ring to help her out.
- No? - This is the second time
- she'd give me a piece of jewelry to fix. - [Judge DiMango] Uh-hmm.
- [Ken] And I did. - What was the piece of jewelry
- she gave you? The topaz? - [Ken] It is a ring.
Uh, but, you know, and we're talking...
- [Judge DiMango] But what... - ... a year ago.
- [Judge DiMango] Correct? - Yes.
[Judge DiMango] All right. Go on.
So anyway, around the corner from my store in Palm Springs,
there's a jeweler that I work with on items that are not expensive.
Topaz, aquamarine, these are not...
- [Judge DiMango] Well, that's still... - These are not precious metals.
- No. - [Ken] But she gave it to me.
She--you know, I'm surprised it says here, "I took the ring."
What? I beat her up? No. She handed me the ring.
- You really are from Jersey. - [Ken] Yeah.
[laughter]
And Jersey girls fight back. You gotta be careful with those, you know.
- But the point is... - And we Brooklyn girls
- are kinda tough too. - There you go.
So don't give me any [...].
[Ken] There you go.
So the point is, it was a topaz sterling silver something.
[Judge DiMango] Was it white gold, or white,
- or yellow? - No.
Yellow gold. Yellow gold with diamonds.
- [Judge DiMango] Okay. - Aquamarine.
[Judge DiMango] So let me ask you this,
if you knew that the ring that she had was a piece of junk basically,
- which is what you're saying... - Uh-huh.
[Judge DiMango] ... why would you go out of your way to take it
and why don't you just tell her "Forget it. It's junk?" You're her friend.
Why wouldn't you just let it go?
Because that's what people do. I did it before once.
She's my masseuse where, you know, we have a camaraderie of people
- that we hang out with. - Uh-hmm.
So it's just a friend doing a friend a deal.
[Judge DiMango] Okay. Where did you put the ring when she gave it to you?
Put it--she--I got it in a little tissue.
Yeah, we do that too. I put my jewelry--that's where
- [indistinct] earrings that way. - [Ken] You know.
So what happened, I'm with my lady friend.
- We're all there together. - [Judge DiMango] Uh-hmm.
I said, "You put it in the car. Put it in the cup holder."
How long were you with this lady friend?
Um, still am but she's, you know.
- [Judge DiMango] Okay. - Yeah. Yeah. But before this...
She's not--you haven't seen her wearing it, have you?
- [Ken] No. She's... - [Renee] No.
Because that's what they do in Jersey.
- [laughs] - [Ken] And this ring is too cheap.
- I wouldn't give her that. Anyway... - Ooh. That was very nasty.
[Ken] Oh, no. It's true.
- So the thing is... - Well, if it's so cheap, what the hell?
Pay her the thousand dollars already. Knock it off.
Oh, well, she could've came to me with it.
Go to my jeweler. Let's make an offer.
Let's go two or three places.
- So let me go back to you. - [Ken] Okay.
[Judge DiMango] How did you select the store that you went to
to make a duplicate of it?
Another friend of mine had a guy
that did a really nice piece for a lady friend of mine
and it was beautiful.
So I went to him and he did--
he looked at everything and he just gave me what his cost was.
[Judge DiMango] Now did you ask if you used a different stone
or a different metal?
Did they give you different prices?
No. I just--I told him that my mother's ring was 14 karat gold.
It meant a lot to me sentimentally
because it was one of the last things I had of hers.
And when I ran into him in Albertsons
and I told him I was getting it replicated,
he said, "Just let me know how much it is. I'll pay it."
- And that's... - [Judge DiMango] The defendant?
- [Renee] Yeah. And then... - He says, "I'll pay it."
Well, I noticed in his papers
you said, "Renee was upset and I felt bad
so I asked her what I could do to make it better?"
Renee, what could he do to make it better?
Pay me the thousand dollars. That's all I asked.
Hey, Jersey boy. What do you think?
I think she's charging me. I think she's, you know, strong-arming me.
I think I could've taken that particular photograph
of that particular ring,
taken it to a very qualified jeweler
and had it done for $100 or $200.
[Judge DiMango] Well, I'm gonna ask you then,
since none of your papers,
I think, even show a ring that's worth $50 that's similar to that.
- So the bottom line is... - There it is, right here.
But it's not a gold ring.
- [Ken] See, right here. - You have 199 for this.
But these are all gold-plated.
Well, that she said hers was gold-plated.
- [Judge DiMango] It was silver. - No, it's not.
- No. I'm gonna tell you something. - [Ken] She said it was gold-plated.
She has not once said the words gold-plated.
- [Ken] Gold-filled. She said gold-filled. - She did--you--
I think you're hearing echoes in your own head.
- I'm agreeing with you. - And can I say one of the thing?
- I'm gonna agree with you. - [Judge DiMango] Okay. Good.
You look like you're going to the beach today.
Come on. The guys in New Jersey know better than that.
Judge Levy?
- [Judge Levy] So Ms. Dorks? - Uh-hmm.
[Judge Levy] You have the burden of proof here.
And you're here telling us that the replacement ring was $1,000.
I have the receipt. Yes.
[Judge Levy] Can we put that receipt on the screen?
Because you understand the defendant's position, right?
The defendant's position is that this was like custom jewelry.
And he knows that he's responsible for what he lost.
It's a bailment.
But what he's saying is that you're trying to rip him off.
You're trying to get him to pay for real gold jewelry
when you gave him custom jewelry.
That's what he's saying, but it's not correct.
[Judge Levy] And that's what you say, it's not correct.
- Exactly. - Did you ever tell him
that the ring was more valuable than a thousand dollars?
- [Renee] No. - You sure about that?
Yeah. I never told him that. I just told him--
when I was in Albertsons, I told him that I was getting it replicated
and he said, "No problem. I'll pay for it."
- And that was like several months... - [Judge Levy] So you know...
- ... down the road. - So you know from the receipt...
- [Renee] Uh-hmm. - ... that your out-of-pocket
- was only a thousand dollars, right? - Correct.
[Judge Levy] Did you ever indicate on any official court document
that the ring cost $1,200?
Twelve hundred due to I had to keep traveling to go back and forth
to approve the, uh, waxing and the stone that he got
because he would get them from LA, bring 'em in,
show me 'em, have me approve it or get another one and then show me.
So I went back and forth to his shop to get this done.
But that's not what you said to the court.
So in other words, when you come to adjudicate your case
before Tribunal Justice,
we only take cases that were actually filed already
- in small claims court, right? - Right. Correct.
And then you come here and agree to allow us to adjudicate them
- on your behalf, right? - Yes.
What we do is we obtain copies
of the original filings from that court to see
- if what you say to us... - [Renee] Uh-hmm.
... is different than what you said to another judge.
And in that court filing
which was November 21st, right, 2023--
that's when you filed
- in small claims court. - Uh-hmm.
You specifically said that he owes you $1,200
because he took my blue topaz ring,
not your aquamarine ring.
You said that was a mistake that you made to us.
You told that judge it was a topaz ring.
Well, I probably told you I'm not very good with gems
- and I--it's just sentimental... - [Judge Levy] Well, hold on. Stop.
- [Renee] ... I was upset. - Stop. Stop.
I may not be from Jersey,
but when someone writes in a court document
that it was a blue topaz ring, that's specific.
- You would agree with that, right? - Correct.
You could've wrote, "I don't know what kind of gemstone it was."
- Yeah. - [Judge Levy] You didn't.
- I didn't. - But the replacement
for this highly sentimental hand-me-down,
you decide to get a different stone.
- It's the exact same stone. - No. You said it was aquamarine.
Well, he corrected me when he saw the picture.
- [Judge Levy] Hold on. No. No. No. - The jeweler.
I don't care whether he corrected you or not.
- What? [indistinct]. - [Judge Levy] Yeah. Stop.
- Don't--I don't need your help, Jersey. - [Ken] Okay. Well.
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Was there anything else that you recall about the ring?
Well, it had the diamonds similar to the ones that I have.
Yeah. Diamonds on it now.
Diamonds.
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[announcer] Renee Dorks is suing former friend and jeweler, Ken Shearn
for a thousand dollars,
the replacement cost of a ring she claims he lost.
But Ken says the ring was worth no more than $50.
Your mother left you, presumably in a will the ring that he lost
that the replacement ring is something different.
It's not different. I was wrong on what the gemstone was.
- Stop with that. - [Renee] Okay.
Because the "I don't know what it actually was"
is inconsistent with your sworn prior testimony
when you said you did know what it was.
Well, that's what I thought it was.
And when you wrote out this complaint on November 21st,
where you said that the ring was $1,200,
you didn't say travel expenses or nonsense.
You said to replace the blue topaz ring.
You knew it only cost a thousand dollars, but you want twelve hundred from him.
You understand how he could think that you're trying to rip him off?
- I do understand that actually. - [Judge Levy] So explain that to me.
I did not put in there that the travel which is what I just told you.
- I did not put that in there. - You could've done that.
- [Renee] I could've and I did not. - And you didn't?
Show me proof that you actually paid that thousand dollars.
I paid cash.
- But he wrote paid on it [indistinct]. - [Judge Levy] No, no, no,
you didn't just tell me you paid cash, did you?
Again, it's your burden.
- I'm not saying that you didn't. - I get that.
What I'm saying is that based upon the prior inconsistencies
that I don't believe this receipt.
And I wanna see that you actually paid it, that you're out-of-pocket.
- Do you have it? - I don't have it.
- I would have to get... - [Judge Levy] That's all. Thank you.
- Judge Acker. - [Judge Acker] Thank you, Judge Levy.
Mr. Shearn, by the way, aquamarine is my birthstone.
And I really don't like it being given short shrift.
I feel like you all are talking about it like it's a ring
from a Cracker Jack box.
- I'm just messing with you. - Basically.
But--oh, it's heartbreaking.
Tell me what's the price difference between say blue topaz and aquamarine?
Your Honor, I don't know,
- um, because it varies. - Yeah.
[Ken] Okay. Like, uh, if you wanna talk about a diamond,
it's called the three Ks.
- Cut, clarity, and carats, okay? - [Judge Acker] So there could be
- different varieties of aquamarine? - The how big--how big--
yes, how big it is.
Is it a square? Is it a marquise-cut?
- You look at... - Which one would be more expensive
assume the same cut, assume the same size?
- Yeah. - Which would be more expensive?
Probably the topaz.
Hey, my birthstone is so cheap.
[laughs]
You can have an emerald, big deal. You know.
- There's a bunch of that. - [Judge Acker] But so,
you have the burden of proof in this case.
- Right. - [Judge Acker] So my first question,
you know, when I was looking at the evidence
and looking at the facts of this case, I'm like, I see the ring.
She could've gone to a jeweler down the street.
Why did you need to get it custom-made?
I just wanted it to be as close to my mother's ring as I could get it.
And like I said, another friend suggested to me
and this guy gave me a deal on it,
- so I went there. - [Judge Acker] But you understand
- where I'm going with this. - I do.
So why should he pay that?
Well, he said he would. He didn't even question me on it.
He didn't, but I believe as I understand the testimony,
Mr. Shearn said that he would replace it, he would handle it.
- I don't think he gave you a blank check. - No, he didn't.
[Judge Acker] I mean, you've got to prove a number of things and again,
I don't have any evidence
that this was a ring that your mother actually gave you.
I don't have any evidence, as Judge Levy pointed out,
that you actually paid for this ring.
In fact, given the record,
you seem to have really vacillated
in terms of how much the ring actually cost.
I don't know the original value of the ring.
So the ring may have been incredibly sentimental to you.
But if your mother bought the ring for $25 and held on to it
because some paramour of hers had given it to her back in the day,
that doesn't make it a thousand dollar ring.
- Uh-hmm. - [Judge Acker] I get fault.
He lost the ring. He says he lost the ring.
But it's not the lottery.
- You don't get to empty the bank. - [Renee] No, I understand that.
But he didn't even tell me for a month and a half that he lost it.
- He kept giving me excuses and all that. - [Judge Acker] And he said that.
[Judge Acker] So you felt badly
- about losing the ring? - Embarrassed.
- [Judge Acker] You were embarrassed. - Beyond belief.
And it got to the point
whenever I had to backtrack, where the heck it coulda gone,
and that's when we discovered that when I went to work,
my girlfriend went to do her errands and went to the carwash.
The guy reaches down and takes the tissue out...
- There's no evidence of that either. - [Judge Acker] It--no, no, no,
but it's not as if he sold the ring
- and then was trying to... - How do I know that?
[Judge Acker] Well, wait, maybe he did,
but fortunately for him, he's a defendant.
You have the burden of proof. You're suing.
It's your job to prove things.
I mean, again, Byrd could lose my earring.
I could go buy like a $20,000 pair of earrings
and say, "Okay, I replaced them. Pay me."
What would you say if I said that, Byrd?
[laughter]
I don't have anything further.
I'd like you to step up, sir.
- Who are you? - Eric.
[Jude DiMango] Eric. What is your last name?
Zittel.
[Judge DiMango] And what is your relationship to anybody on...
She's my fiancée.
[Judge DiMango] And do you know the defendant as well?
- [Eric] Yes. - [Judge DiMango] How long have you
and the plaintiff been in a relationship?
Two years.
So you're familiar with the ring that she had before it was lost, right?
- [Eric] Yes. - Is--this is it?
- [Eric] Yes. - This is it?
[Eric] No, that's not. That's the new one.
- [Judge DiMango] This is what? - [Eric] It looks like it.
- [Judge DiMango] Well, tell me. - I'm not sure if that's the ring
she had or not. It just looks like it.
- It looks like the ring? - [Eric] Yeah.
- Very much like it, right? - [Eric] Yes.
You see, and this ring is only a hundred ninety-nine dollars.
Okay. I never held her ring in my hands. It was always on her finger.
So it's more sentimental value than anything.
You can never replace it. It was her mother's ring.
I know as much as she's told you.
It's true. You can't replace the sentimental value.
But I appreciate you for your honesty.
- So you can be seated. - All right. Thank you.
[Judge DiMango] Ms. Dorks, you're wearing the ring, right?
- [Renee] Yes. - Can I have it?
[Renee] Uh-hmm.
The judge will give it back to you.
- She's not gonna lose it. - [laughter]
- [Judge DiMango] Wait, wait, wait. - Well, that's good.
- No, don't put it in a tissue. - [laughter]
- That's how they started. - That's why I did it.
- Putting it in a tissue.
No, no, this is the tissue.
Why do you think I did that, Byrd?
All right. So just for the record, this is what the ring looks like.
[Ken] And also, you're right.
But the point you don't know if she paid a thousand dollars.
- She says she did, but... - [Judge DiMango] We know--listen.
- ... we're talking about retail. - [Judge DiMango] Yeah.
Talking about retail so you're talking about probably...
- Byrd, I'm gonna give you this to return. - ... $15 worth of material.
You ask questions like we're not aware of things
just because we're asking questions.
And that's why you got to kind of chill out, calm down, and...
Oh, I'm chill. I'm good.
- I don't have any other questions. - I do.
So Ms. Dorks, when your mother passed and you got the ring from the will...
- [Renee] Uh-hmm. - There are descriptions that are included
in wills to indicate exactly what jewelry would go to you or your siblings, right?
That's what happened.
Yes, but I have no idea where to look for it.
[Judge Levy] That's okay.
But you understand that that's something that someone in your position
looking for a thousand dollars
- in a court case... - Uh-hmm.
[Judge Levy] ... would be expected to bring.
And I understand. You don't have it.
- I get that. - [Renee] Uh-hmm.
Was there anything else specific that you recall about the ring
besides it being topaz and gold?
Well, it had the diamonds similar to the ones that I have.
Yeah, diamonds on it now.
Diamonds, because that's, according to the receipt that you provided us,
there were .31 karats of side stones
that you got in this new replacement ring,
because that's what you told the jeweler that you wanted in your new ring.
Well, that's what shows on the photo of the original ring.
No, what it show--no, no, no, no, no.
We would need someone, an appraisal to come in and to tell us
what looked to be pieces of glass were actually glass or diamonds.
As the plaintiff, you're responsible to give that to us.
- You did not. - Correct, I did not.
- Do you have anything to add? - [Ken] I do, Your Honor.
Think about this.
If it's an aquamarine or it's a topaz, okay?
What are you putting diamonds in it for?
Yeah, why would you put high end diamonds that are...
- [Judge Levy] I get it. - Thank you. Period.
[Judge Levy] Okay. I got nothing further.
Then we are going to retire to deliberate at this time.
- Thank you all. - Okay. Thank you.
[Byrd] Court now stands in recess.
This case will be recalled. Parties are excused.
[announcer] Coming up on Tribunal Justice.
[Judge DiMango] That's Byrd's thing.
You know, you don't turn around and do that.
[Ken] He's from Brooklyn, my man over there.
- Same as me. - You're from Brooklyn?
Let's do the desert for a weekend.
- Oh, my God. - [laughter]
- [Judge Levy] I wanna change my verdict. - [laughter]
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When I was looking through the case, I kept saying,
how is she going to demonstrate to us,
first, the value of the ring that she received
and as to whether or not the replacement value was reasonable
and/or that she had to replace it at that cost?
And did she replace it at that price and pay for it?
I had no way of knowing this.
And I kept saying it's sad.
I really doubted that a mother would give a woman her age
a piece of junk jewelry to say, here.
But he didn't dispute the fact that the mother gave her the ring.
And it's a bailment, of course, it was a mutually beneficial bailment.
But what is the value of the ring that we are replacing?
Was it gold? Was it not gold?
Was it blue topaz? Was it aquamarine?
Like you pointed out. Well, I have a special one made.
There are millions of these online.
I just looked and I looked at what he showed.
So let me hear from you.
She got the burden of proof.
She told the small claims court that the ring cost $1,200
at a time where she knew that she had a receipt that said a thousand dollars.
She specifically said it was blue topaz...
- [Judge DiMango] Uh-hmm. - ... in the prior filing.
To us, when she's called on it,
she says, "Oh, I was mistaken. I didn't understand."
She also told the court in that prior small claims action
that he took the ring without my consent.
So bring him up on theft.
Which is clearly not even close to what happened
and she figured she had him over the barrel.
- He was gonna have to give her something. - Right.
Why not just make it the best something possible.
And then her failure to provide us with any evidence of her payment,
that receipt doesn't even say paid.
It could have just been an order.
So, um, I wanna give her nothing or $200.
That's my point.
We know she had a ring.
We know she doesn't have it now.
And we know that he had it and he did not return it.
- So I agree with placing a nominal value. - And the only...
We have to. We have to 'cause it's a bailment.
And it's based on, frankly, his evidence because he brought in...
- [Judge DiMango] The rings. - ... so many examples
of comparable rings,
so based on his evidence, I would award her no more than $200.
[Judge DiMango] And that was why I picked out of all the rings that he showed us
an 18-karat gold-plated ring
with blue topaz/aquamarine was 199.99.
But for that, I give her nothing.
And I'm almost still inclined to, even though it's a bailment I won't,
because I think it's insidious to suggest that this man was a thief.
- You know, she makes it sound like he... - Yeah, he stole it.
... ripped the ring off of her hand and then absconded with it.
- I put... - I mean, that's a silly story.
- And for that... - Just 'cause he's from Jersey.
- Yeah, just 'cause he's from Jersey. - And for that reason,
she wasn't credible to the other $800 that she was asking for.
She was only credible to $200.
- I agree with that. - [Judge DiMango] All right.
- We're unanimous? - We're done. We're unanimous verdict.
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[Byrd] Court is back in session.
Parties are reminded you're still under oath.
- Thank you, Byrd. - Uh-hmm.
- Mr. Shearn, I was playing... - [Ken] Your Honor.
... with you a little because you make good TV.
You're an interesting character.
Come on out to the desert, I'll take care of you. I'll cover you.
- You can't even cover the ring. - [laughter]
[Ken] Oh, that's what--oh, wait a minute.
- [Renee] Oh, thank you. - I can--that's good.
- That's good. - That was good.
No, I can cover it, but I...
- But you don't want to. - [Ken] But I'm not--yeah.
- That's pretty good. Yeah. - [Judge DiMango] I don't foresee myself
traveling to the desert with you, not for any reason.
[Ken] I just--Your Honor...
Um, other than, you know, the professional relationship
we now all have here.
You have a burden of proof.
You need to show by a preponderance of the credible evidence
- that your position should prevail. - [Renee] Right.
And you really didn't.
- No, I did not. - [Judge DiMango] But we do know
a couple of things with a little bit of help from our Jersey friend.
And that is, one, you did have a ring, two, that there was a stone in it.
And you showed us some photographs.
So it's some pictures of rings that look very, very similar
to the one that she handed me up here at the bench.
And the value of one ring that looked identical to that,
which was the one I showed the three of you...
- Uh-hmm. - ... was valued at $199.99.
Retail.
[Judge DiMango] But we don't have your connections.
- I could--I could hook you up.
[Judge DiMango] So we're gonna give her the value...
I could hook you up.
- No. That's what we're afraid of. - [laughter]
That's Byrd's thing.
You know, you don't turn around and do that.
He's from Brooklyn, my man over there.
[Judge DiMango] I know. Same as me.
You're from Brooklyn?
- Oh, you know, ignore these. - Oh, my gosh.
You know, let's do the desert for a weekend.
- Oh, my God. - [laughter]
I wanna change my verdict.
[laughter]
What? You wanna go instead?
Who knows?
[Ken] I'll tell you, this guy.
- [indistinct] for you. - [Judge DiMango] Uh, okay.
The side skits are over.
We agree, however, that because of those factors,
that we have actual proof by a preponderance of the evidence and beyond,
we're going to award you $200.
And that is the unanimous verdict of this court.
- Okay. I appreciate it. - So, okay.
- [Renee] Thank you. Thank you. - That's the judgment.
[Byrd] This case is now concluded.
Parties are excused. You may step out.
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I just felt like I wanted him to understand
that you can't treat people like that.
They gave her 200 bucks. The ring's worth two.
And I just don't feel like somebody who couldn't keep their word
to what they said they would do is worth being a friend of mine.
I don't keep toxic people in my life.
You know, she gives me nude massages, but those are gone now.
I lost that privilege.
He called her and upset her.
And she was crying so I called him back on the phone, "Hey, pay her money,"
and he threatened me and I said, "Bring it," and he never brought it, so...
Oh, that little punk. Are you kidding me?
I'd snap his ass in half.
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