welcome back to the channel guys we are
back in zumkot with judge middleton and
samuel perdue aka samya siraj mauro bay
and if you remember from the last
hearing he was offered a very generous
plea deal by prosecutor deborah davis
and he was given two weeks to respond to
it or it was going to trial which was
set for march 2020 i think
well those two weeks are up and he's
back in court which can only mean he's
decided to accept the deal
let's get into the
all video i've got everything turned on
we're going to have a civil case
but we're going to start with this one
we schedule a short notice for today
these are three matters
in the matter of siraj maro bay also
known as samuel r perdue
there's file number
202073 which alleges driving suspended
second offense
on
uh
september 17th of 20
and no proof of insurance i think that's
going to be dismissed
uh driving suspended second offense and
file two zero two six five three
election on november 25th of 2020
and there's also a
speeding ticket in that case
and file two one
two one three st
january 31 2021 driving suspended first
offense
mr marrow bay is here on his own behalf
as he has been every time
deborah davis is here on behalf of the
plaintiff
prosecution
and we've had several
discussions in this case miss davis made
a plea offer
which was all-encompassing for all files
as i understand ms davis you've made a
plea offer of allowing another to
violate the motor vehicle code
for all driving suspended charges
in each three cases
202073
202653 and 21213st
you dismiss the no proof of insurance
defendant will plead to speeding
or admit to speeding you don't plead
73 and a 55
the 917 case
and 73 and a 55 on the
11 25 case those are several infractions
it's my understanding the defendant
would be pleading by no contest
to all of these charges
and
the court would proceed right to
sentence
i think we can all agree that that's a
pretty generous plea deal it would be a
really dumb move for him not to accept
it and move forward to trial
so let's break that down mr marlby
the two charges of driving suspended
second offense are misdemeanors they're
punishable by up to a year in jail and a
fine of up to a thousand dollars
they carry two points and require that
your license be suspended
uh the other driving suspended would be
a first offense no they're all second
offense
she's also going to dismiss the false
license charge
the charge that's left on each of those
is called allowing another to violate
the motor vehicle code
it's found under michigan
compile loss 257.326
it is a misdemeanor but it carries no
points and it doesn't get abstracted to
your driver's license
won't affect your ability to keep or
maintain your driving privileges
the two speeding charges are not
criminal offenses they're civil
infractions
you don't plead guilty to a civil
infraction you simply admit
now it's my understanding and your
discussions with ms davis that you've
agreed to plead no contest to these
charges
you and i discussed that briefly at the
last pre-trial
by pleading no contest
you don't
admit the charge
but you also don't deny it
and you allow or accept that a
conviction would enter
and i would take the factual basis off
the face of the ticket
the punishment for allowing another to
violate the
vehicle code it carries a fine of up to
100
plus costs
and it carries no points
and it doesn't go on your driving record
this would resolve all the pending
charges you have in st joseph county
and we would not be having a jury trial
in march of 2022
do you understand
oh yes offsets don't do the word
understand they think it means to stand
under your authority
so let's see what he replaces that word
with
um i definitely um
i comprehend
all right and you're appearing
i'm not sure how you wish to
characterize it under
protest but you are here and you mostly
appear
undirected uh are you going to enter no
contest please to those three charges
um
yeah um
me me and i
talked um friday and um and i decided
that
um as much as i don't want to um
but i feel like in in lieu of a fair
trial this is probably my my best bet so
um
like an intelligent man you and i have
had a number of conversations and gear
amanda knows his own mind let me ask you
this did anybody threaten you to try to
get you to plead to these charges
um i mean well
i mean of course i have no choice but to
be here i mean no one's forcing me to um
um to accept the plea well well i say
other than other than the plea agreement
did anyone promise you anything other
than miss davis has promised that she
will dismiss all these other charges
yeah he was promised by the people who
gave him the kool-aid to begin with that
if he used the right incantations and
magic words then file affidavits and
documents like the constitution
and the bill of rights all this would go
away
but he won't blame them for this failure
he'll blame the system like they always
do
um
i mean no one promised me anything but i
mean obviously if i don't if i don't
if i don't um show up for court
um if i'm not here um obviously a
warrant is sent out for my arrest
and then i'll be locked up so um so i'm
definitely here under threat the rest of
coercion but i decided to accept
the plea deal
how can you say that you won't get a
fair trial this judge and prosecutor
have been nothing but fair to you
what wouldn't be fair is picking and
choosing a jury from the people with the
same dumb beliefs as you
i would like to think you could get a
fair trial but we haven't gone to that
point there won't be a trial if you
enter these please do you understand
that oh yes definitely if you had a
trial you would have the right to be
represented by an attorney
you'd hire one or i would appoint one
you would also have the right to
represent yourself and you've expressed
that desire
every time
if you had a trial you'd have the right
to take the witness stand and testify on
your own behalf but you don't have to
because you have a right not to testify
and if you did not wish to testify the
judge or jury
could not hold your silence against you
you would also have the right to
have any of the witnesses against you or
for you called to testify if i didn't
already say that you'd have the right to
be presumed innocent
until the state was able to prove their
guilt beyond a reasonable doubt if they
could
in other words a fair and balanced trial
which i would love to see
especially because you are representing
yourself
all right well let's talk about these
one by one
the first incident occurred in september
of 2020.
do you plead no contest to allowing
another to violate the motor vehicle
code in that case
are you asking me
yes are you pleading no contest to that
charge
um
i didn't know i'm sorry i guess i didn't
realize i had to actually answer that um
under tdc yes
all right
so
uh
and then i'll
the ticket indicates well i'll go with a
ticket
also that you were speeding at least 73
miles an hour i think it was like 84.
and you admit
or at least no contest for the speeding
charge
under threat i do
all right
and the next case which was november
25th of 2020
had a driving suspended and false or
orange forged license they're going to
dismiss that charge
and you're going to plead to allowing
another to violate the motor vehicle
code also by no contest
you believe no contest in that case as
well under the same terms and conditions
is that correct
oh yes
under threat yes
all right
and
the speeding charge as well
same thing they acknowledge 73
and a 55.
is that correct
um
only under thread the rest of the wars
and yes
okay
i get that you enjoy feeling persecuted
it's kind of been your thing throughout
these hearings
but just because you say you are under
threat duress and coercion
did i say that right coercion
or a
cohesion coercion cohesion coercion
it's coercion
doesn't mean you are you are free to
take this to trial nobody has your arm
up your back to plead no contest to
these charges that's why judge middleton
has specifically asked you if anyone was
forcing you into these decisions
then the last one
is the january 31st of 21
prosecutors going to dismiss false or
forged ops
and they're going to dismiss driving
suspended
second
well first offense
and you'll plead no contest to allowing
another to violate the motor vehicle
code once again under the same terms and
conditions as the other two cases
oh yes
all right
all right well let's
the good news is other than the speeding
tickets
no
none of these are going to show up as a
driving suspended on your record the bad
news is there are separate incidents and
each one will carry a fine
so let's do the first one first
september 17th i'm going to do the
normal fine and cost you did spend one
day in jail for failing to appear
i'm going to give you one day in jail
credit one day i'm not ordering any
additional jail time you understand
i definitely comprehend
all right
if you comprehend what the judge is
saying then you understand it your word
games don't mean a thing
i'm going to do a 75 fine 75 crime
victims rights being a 50 state minimum
fee that's the normal fine for this 200
the speeding charge
it's the same charge
one is 140 and the other is 205. i want
to make a bolt 140.
a speeding ticket by operation of our
policy is due within 30 days that will
be due by
january
31st
all right
the
file two zero two six five three the
november 25th case
uh i'm gonna do the same thing one day
jail credit one day
75 fine 75 crime victims rights fee and
a 50 state minimum 200 that's our normal
fine
we're going to determine when those are
due we haven't done that yet
and
you acknowledged that you were going
73 and a 55
that was 140
and that is
due by
january 31st
2022
all right and then the last one
is the january 31st
deborah was that was there's a speeding
in that one also was that part of the
deal or was
that i believe that we agreed to have
just two of the speeding tickets
that one's gonna be dismissed
and the no proof of insurance was also
going to be dismissed
same finite cost 2 1
2 1 3 s t
no contest
one day jail credit one day
75 fine 75 crime victims rights fee 50
state minimum fee
two hundred dollars
um
mr
morrow bay
you owe two fines of 140 dollars by
january 31st
we've gotta set up due dates for these
three
no contest misdemeanor please
i set these as a normal sentence i
didn't gouge you or add anything to it
i reduced the fine in one of the
speeding tickets by about
65
and i
dismissing the prosecutor's consent with
no proof of insurance
it's going to save you
215
which leaves three no contests please to
allowing another to violate the motor
vehicle code
it won't go on your driving record
there's three fines of 200
there are two speeding tickets of 73 and
a 45 which will go on your driving
record
the total you owe
is
i think 880 dollars
two 140s
oh that's pretty expensive
yeah it'd be even worse in kalamazoo
county
um
that's not that's way cheaper than it
would have been on the other stuff
breaking the law can be expensive yes
but you choose to believe all this right
to travel without a license crap you are
lucky that you have a decent judge and
prosecutor because i've seen way worse
than this over the years
so the 280 is due by january 31st
how long would it take you to pay the
balance of 600 i can make these do once
a month
like one due in february one new in
march and i'm doing april
um you want me to pay with uh
do you want me to quote unquote pay the
federal reserve notes
that would be sufficient you can also
pay that credit card if you use those
you can also pay by certified check or
money order
um but according to the constitution
article 1 section 10 only gold and
silver is money
well you pay by gold silver too i had a
guy once on a dog complaint that they
paid by silver or gold
i'm sure when you go to the grocery
store or the gas station
you don't pay by gold or silver
[Applause]
oh my god i've been wanting a judge to
tell us offset to go ahead and pay in
gold and silver if you like for years
because there's absolutely no comeback
to it thank you judge you just made my
day
possum here that's not what he wanted to
hear
now we have your address and i think
it's still the southwest ninja dress
now this resolves all three of your
cases
you and i have a fundamental
disagreement on what the law is you have
a vision of what you think it should be
and i have another one
this is a way that resolved this matter
without having to have three separate
jury trials which you would have been
entitled to have
uh i'm gonna make these two hundred
dollars due by march 15
20.
just for the record
uh if anybody were to hold this in the
future i just wanted to make note that
number one we spoke on thursday um the
defendant had called me to make sure
that he met the deadline that i had sent
so i do appreciate his diligence with
that and we did have two fairly long
conversations uh over the past couple of
weeks uh discussing the the options in
the plea agreement and he was very
respectful even though we definitely had
disagreements about our interpretations
of the law and constitutions but i do
appreciate that he was respectful when
he was
discussing these items with me i would
encourage him though to
discontinue driving
especially in our jurisdiction unless he
is fully licensed to do so uh the review
of the police videos
there was not the level of respect for
the officers that that he gave me and i
would encourage him to
in the event he is pulled over again
keeping in mind that these officers are
just doing their job just like we were
doing our jobs and i would you know it
was bordering on the line of resisting
and obstructing and the officers did
their best to calm the situation down
even though
these officers standing in the rain
knocking on the windows so
i just encourage the defendant to
consider
the other people involved when he's
having these issues with the with the
police so with that i am pleased that
this is resolved and that we can uh all
go on our ways thank you
well said deborah well said i too hope
that he learns from this but in my
experience this will only strengthen his
resolve and he will somehow spin this
lenient plea deal into a win
i mean he already has that fake morris
driver's license even though it serves
absolutely no purpose
he's been very respectful to me of our
last couple hearings as well we've
managed to get along i try to treat him
with respect
he's been respectful to me
he is a thoughtful man he had some
thoughtful discussions with you and he
said it was in his best interest
although he didn't like it
to resolve these matters in this manner
and i've accepted as no contest please
and i have assessed fines
so 280 is due by january 31st
the others are due by march 15th
if you need more time you can contact
the court
i was going to give you the same advice
if you keep driving please don't do it
here they can
arm wrestle with you in kalamazoo county
all they want but
you're free to go on about your business
mr maro bay do you have any questions
um i do um
just just um i think just one um
now i know i was um arrested a few times
i know one of the times i had to pay uh
uh if i'm not mistaken my girlfriend had
to pay 500 bucks
for uh
to buy me out i believe that was the
first time let me see perhaps there is a
cash bond in one of these i was i looked
earlier but 22073
may have a cash bond in it let me look
at that
it's good that friends let's see what we
got here i'd be very happy if i had a
500 cash bond
apply to this
i do
there's a 500 cash bond in that case
so i'll apply
200 a bond
in 2073
now zero
200 of bond
and two six five three
you know zero
and one hundred dollars a bond
in two one three st and you know 100 and
that
so that reduces your 880
to
380.
i use the bond to pay off two
let me make sure there's not a bond in
another one of these
um
that is 207
three
you spent two days in jail on that one
two days credit to
uh
i looked for those bonds and all i saw
was the surety bond let me make sure i
don't have
any more bond money in here
no they're all sureties
so i've used the 500 of your bond to pay
two of the misdemeanors off
and apply one hundred dollars to the
other misdemeanor
that leaves the two speeding tickets of
one forty and one hundred dollars in the
other case
this tomorrow bay that resolves all of
your cases here in st joel county it
would make me happy probably make you
happy
he didn't come back here in 2022.
i wish you the best these matters are
all resolved i'm not ordering any
additional jail time you will
100
plus two speeding tickets of 140 each
we'll send you that information
to your address
on west niche and kalamazoo
all right thank
all right thank you
and so ends the ballad of samuel purdue
a.k.a samia siraj mauro bay
that was definitely a good deal he got
from prosecutor deborah davis and judge
middleton definitely helped him out a
lot at the end there
it's a far cry from how cocky and
confident he was at the beginning of the
year
i guess only the future will tell if he
learned his lesson here today anyway
what do you guys think were they too
lenient or was this a wake-up call for
him
i'll be honest i'm skeptical but let me
know your thoughts in the comments
thanks for watching guys and let's end
with that golden silver clip
you want me to pay with uh
do you want me to quote unquote pay the
federal reserve notes
that would be sufficient you can also
pay by credit card if you use those
you can also pay by certified check or
money order
um but according to the constitution
article 1 section 10 only gold and
silver is money
well you pay by gold silver too i had a
guy once on a dog complaint that they
paid by silver or gold
i'm sure when you go to the grocery
store or the gas station
you don't pay by gold or silver
you