On today's body cam we're checking out. Judge fought the release of her embarrassing DUI body cam. >> You're driving on the wrong side of Highway 30. Passed out over your steering wheel just standing here. I mean, you can't maintain your balance. Where you Where you come? Nope. Don't fall. Don't fall, man. >> On November 4th, officers are called about a woman driving the wrong way on an Iowa highway. When they arrive, they find the driver, later identified as Judge Adria Kester, slumped behind the wheel. >> She in the grass. Hi. >> Nice truck though. >> Hi ma'am. >> She just she doesn't know what happened. She can't respond. >> I'm Deputy Larson of the Boone County Sheriff's Office. Are you feeling okay tonight? >> Yes. >> Well, you're in the median here, so something happened. Are you sure you're feeling all right? Do you have any Do you have any medical conditions? Diabetic, anything like that? >> No. >> No. Okay. Do you have your license on you? >> Yes. >> Okay. Can you grab it for me, please? >> My driver's license. >> Yeah. >> This is Judge Ker. This is Nate's wife. >> Okay. >> PD. >> Okay. >> Do that. >> Well, you lost control of your vehicle. >> Nate's wife. >> I realize that. >> Okay. Where are you coming from tonight? My primary concern is your welfare, right? So, I want to make sure you're all right. So, medics are going to come and check you out, okay? But I kind of need to know what's go what what what what's going on with you tonight? Are you tired or having a medical episode? I need to make sure you're okay. All right. Cuz the ambulance is going to come check you out here. They need to know if you have any medical conditions, what your name and stuff like that is. >> I answered you earlier. >> What's that? >> I answered you earlier >> that you don't have any medical conditions. That's true. >> Okay. Where you coming from tonight? >> Are you not going to answer any questions? >> Come on. She a judge. See, and [ __ ] be getting on me when I be like, "Oh, you don't have to answer all those extra questions, yada yada. Told you. I told you. You that that stuff. Where you going? Where you coming from? Uh what's your plans tonight?" you know, ALL OF THAT EXTRA. NO, you don't have to answer none of that. The judge is This is a good video right here. You know, judge, you got caught out there now. You got caught slipping. Okay. Had too many wine coolers. All right. You got caught slipping. Okay. Too many white claws. All right. Whatever. But she is answering accordingly. Like she her faculties is together. They not all the way together. But she she she on point though. You have any medical conditions? Well, I She said no. Well, she did. She said that earlier, you know, and he keep asking the same goddamn [ __ ] and she said I already answered that. Where you coming from tonight? Just look at you. [laughter] got no nothing to say. That's exactly how it go. >> Okay, >> man. This is your husband here. >> You want to talk to him? You want to talk to Nate? She's just shaking her head. She's not answering any questions. So, I don't know where she's coming from. Is she Do you know if she has any medical conditions? >> I do not. >> She's got all kinds of stuff, but I don't know. I mean, she's cancer and all that [ __ ] but >> Okay. But like diabetes or anything like that? >> No, she doesn't. We'll let the paramedics. >> She said she said no. How many times are you going to keep asking that same goddamn question? >> Okay. We'll let we'll let the paramedics talk to her. We'll go from there. >> All right. >> Doesn't look like there's any damage to the truck. Just looks like she drove into the median here just outside Ogden. So, >> all right. Thanks. >> Thanks, >> Miss Caster. Can Can we get your ID from you before you leave? >> I'm not sure who you're asking >> for your ID. Your driver's license. >> Can you just get it? Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, I can grab it. Is that okay with you? >> Yeah. >> Okay. All right. >> Where's it at? In your car? >> Is it in the passenger seat? >> Your driver's license, is it in a purse or Yes. >> Where can Is that where they can find it? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Where's your driver's license at, man? >> Go to the ambulance. >> I don't see a purse. >> Run the RO, please. So, you know, you're south of Ogden. Do you know what year it is? >> Are you serious? >> I am. It's silly questions that I have to ask. >> I We're checking it. Okay. Got to give it a minute. So, you tell us that you're not confused, but we don't know that until we get answers from you. Okay. And so if we can't get those answers from you, that's why we have to take you to the hospital to figure it out. >> Is that fair? >> Okay. So, do you want to answer our questions or No. >> No, I will. >> Okay. Okay. Absolutely. >> Do you know what day of the week it is? >> It's Monday. >> Monday. Okay. >> We're going to try and keep this arm relaxed so when it blows up on your arm, it'll go real easy. Okay. >> I don't know. >> We'll just leave this arm. We won't move it. Okay. just for just now until it pumps up and then releases. Okay, >> we're just going to get one quick blood pressure and then we'll take it off. Do you have any health issues that we need to know about? >> Okay, >> that's between you and them. Okay. >> Okay, >> I'm going to give the medics a I'mma get a I'm I'mma give the medics a break on that question because they just popped up on the scene. But if that cop asks, "Does she have any medical conditions?" One more time. I don't want you to fall. You're kind of stumbling here. You okay? >> I'm not stumbling. >> Okay. I'm right here. >> Okay. All right. Our concern is you're driving on the wrong side of Highway 30. You drove in the median. A witness saw you passed out over your steering wheel. Just standing here. I mean, you can't maintain your balance. You had to be walked to the ambulance. You got glossy eyes. The beverage that was in your vehicle smells of alcohol. So, where you where you come? Nope. Don't fall. Don't fall. Ma'am, do you want to sit down in my car and we can continue the conversation? I don't want to see you fall and get hurt. >> Or you can sit down right here in the grass if you want to. It's up to you. >> Okay. >> Or if you think you're fine standing, >> we will uh we'll just walk you over to my car. Okay. >> Can you walk yourself? I really don't want to make this any harder than it has to be. Okay. >> Put her in the back. >> Yeah. We'll just >> Oh, okay. Okay. >> She just keeps falling. So that's why >> we're good. We're just going to set you in the back of my car cuz I don't want to see you get hurt. Okay. >> Step up there and have a seat for me. >> There's a handle there if you want to grab that. Right up here where my light is right there. If you want to grab that handle, >> I'm just trying to make sure you don't fall. Ma'am, >> can you not push me? >> I'm not trying to push you. You were falling backwards, so I was trying to make sure you didn't fall backwards. Okay. >> Okay. You don't have any weapons on you or anything like that? Do you want to talk at all? I told you what my concerns were. You were driving on the wrong side of Highway 30. You ran into the median. A witness saw you pass out over your steering wheel. Okay. She's a judge. YOU THINK SHE GOING? Come on, man. I hope y'all taking notes, man. Y'all better get y'all pen and pad out, man. Take notes of what you should answer and what you shouldn't. Take notes. Take notes. >> You have an alcohol called beverage in your vehicle. You have glossy eyes. You can't even walk. You have slurred speech. So, I want to offer you field sobriety tests if that'd be something you're willing to do to make sure you're okay to be driving. Is that something you want to do? >> I want to give you every opportunity. >> You're We're going to go to the law enforcement center. We're going go to the jail and we're going to do some stuff for Ody investigation. Okay. Do you have any questions about that? Okay. And I'm just going to put handcuffs on you in the front. You don't have any weapons on you? Anything like that? >> Even that. Do you have any do your frisk? You don't have to answer that. Is there anything I can do or say to to get you out? Because I do eventually have to get you out. I don't want to have to drag you out or anything like that. I'm trying to be super uh compliant with you or trying to get you to be super compliant with me. I understand you're upset, but I am going to need you to step out of the car for me, okay? You don't want us to have to drag you out, do you? >> Cuz one way or another, you're going to have to come out. I really am trying to do everything I can to not have to escalate this all. I don't want to have to pull you out of the car, you know, anything like that. I would really just rather you step out of the vehicle for me. Okay. So, I mean, >> come on, judge. You know better. You know better. I'm with you, Judge. I'm with you. But, um, yeah, I can't support this not stepping out the vehicle, Judge. You're going to have to step out the vehicle. Um, yeah. Before they get you together. Okay. I'm with you, Judge. I I Hey, listen. If I come through to Iowa, I'm with you, Judge. I'm Listen. I'm with you, but um you're going to have to step out this vehicle, man. Cuz he said, "I don't want to have to escalate it, but boy, we know he will." >> And I have a supervisor on the way. Would you rather talk to him than me? Well, what we're going to do then, since you don't want to get out of the vehicle, because I don't want to, you know, pull you out right now, I'm gonna wait for my partner to get here. >> Okay? And you can talk to him. He's my supervisor. And if that doesn't go anywhere, we're going to have to take you out of the vehicle, which we really don't want to have to do. Well, it seems you don't want to get out. My supervisor, Sergeant McCrae, he's on the way here. Um, you can talk to him. If you want to talk to someone that's higher than me, >> that's fine. But at some point, you do have to get out of the vehicle. And like I said before, we don't want to have to pull you out. We want to do this cool, common collector, right? What's going on? >> Okay, I got you. >> Will you maybe I will just do it here then. >> She don't sleep good. She's so drunk, boy. Just so you know, we do have a blood draw warrant for you. Um, >> so just letting you know. Um, obviously speak with Nate or whatever you guys want to do. >> I want to speak with a lawyer. So, >> yeah, >> that's totally fine. Um, your phone is there for you. Obviously, I assume you have numbers or anything like that in there that you'd like. >> So, can you explain what happened? >> Yeah. So, um, someone called you in, um, and you were traveling on US Highway 30, and they reported that you were slumped at the wheel. You were found in the ditch right south of the Ogden Football Stadium on Highway 30. You know where it goes? It goes from the narrow road to the wide road right there. So, you had driven on the wrong side of the highway. So, you were driving on the wrong side of Highway 30 and went in the ditch there. >> So, I just want to know if I'm charged with anything right now. Uh, you're probably going to be charged with OBI tonight. >> Right there. >> See, they gave her some fluids, boy. She back up now. They gave her a good IV, boy. >> Straight. >> Yep. Just straight ahead. And Jailers will come and instruct you what to do next. in there. When did she How long ago was that? >> Yeah, not too long ago. >> How long she had? >> She just got blood drawn. All of it and an IV. >> Adria Ker served as a judge in Iowa's second judicial district for >> served served. That sound past tense, boy. >> Nearly 8 and a half years before this incident. After her arrest, she pleaded guilty and immediately resigned. She later tried to block the release of this footage, an appeal which she lost this month. If you enjoyed this video, [singing] [music] Bounce [singing] to the let the baseline hit [music] reaction. [singing]