Cops are responsible for presenting criminals in front of a jury. But what happens when the same cops end up losing their minds in court? Here are four different cases where idiot cops went crazy in court. Do I have to answer that yes or no, or can I make somewhat of a statement? That's what I That is a yes or no answer, sir. Will I have the opportunity to say anything further? This is a recently retired Breenidge County Sheriff Todd Pate who found himself on the stand for a case of DUI or driving under the influence in March 2019 when another driver was injured in a car crash caused by him. He is put in front of the judge to plead guilty as per documents signed by him and his lawyer, Mr. Vows. We're here this afternoon. Initially, it was set as a pre-trial conference that was continued from a January pre-trial conference. The purpose of which was to further address opinion motion including motion to transfer venue and also then to get this member set. The court has subsequently been advised that uh the attorneys have negotiated uh a resolution of this case on guilty plea. It is further my understanding that the terms of that plea have been u fully discussed uh with uh is that your phone Mr. P? Yes it is. Put it away. Okay. I was just had a need to put it away. Okay. have been fully discussed uh with uh the victims in this case and that the terms have been um previously been agreed to by Mr. P. At this time, Mr. Vows, does it remain your uh your client's intent to enter guilty plea here today? I think you better ask him that question. Mr. Okay, if you'll raise your right hand, please. Do you swear or firm that the testimony you're about to give will be the true help you got? Yes, I do. State your name, please. Jerome Todd Pate. And Mr. P, what is the last four digits of your social security number? 1120. And what is your date of birth? It's October 15th, 1969. Have you ever been told that you suffer from any mental illness or condition that affects your ability to think or to reason? I've been told that I have PTSD, depression, but not that I am. No, I don't think that I have anything wrong with me at this time. Are you receiving any treatment for any sort of mental disorder or condition? depression, anxiety. All right. Are you currently taking any medication for uh depression and anxiety? Yes, I am. All right. And have you taken that medication as prescribed? Yes. Are you under the influence of any other drugs or alcohol today? No, ma'am. Have you taken any over the counter medication that contains coding, antihistamine, or any other substance that would affect your ability to think clearly? No, ma'am. At this time, is it your desire to change your plea uh from not guilty to guilty? Do I have to answer that yes or no? Or can I make somewhat of a statement? That's what I That is a yes or no answer. Will I have the opportunity to say anything further? If you It is your intention to change your plea from not guilty to guilty. Then I will take your plea and certainly you'll have an opportunity to make any statement that you want to make. But if it is not your intent to enter a guilty ple at this time, then I'm going to set your case for jury trial and you're going to stop wasting my time and everybody else's time. Ma'am, I'm not trying to waste your time. Then then is it your intention to enter a guilty plea at this time or not? No. Why am I wasting your time? Mr. Pate, once an officer of the law, here decides to not follow simple instructions of the court and couldn't give a straight yes or no answer when asked if he is pleading guilty today. Mr. Pade is purposefully wasting the court's time and continues to give unnecessary remarks which are not required in court, a fact that he should be well aware of. What is Mr. P's uh decision with respect to proceeding forward with entry of his guilty please? So I believe he's still under oath and I believe I'll just let him answer that question if it please the court. All right. So uh Mr. Um, what is your position today with respect to entering the guilty plea here consistent with the executed documents that have been tendered to me? Can I say a few things or I I need to understand what it is that I would just like for the court. Yes. I had every intention of coming in here today and entering a guilty plea. Based on the um based on the mediation that we had, uh it's very difficult for me to enter a guilty plea. Two felony related charges that I've been in law enforcement for 25 years and never have I ever charged someone with felony charges on a situation pertaining to this uh that was similar to this. The judge is irritated, as she should be, because Mr. Pate continues to make unrelated remarks in the hearing. He's intent on wasting not only the court's time, but the time of anyone present there with his foolishness. The court was only arranged for him to plead guilty, which he isn't doing, and is simply complicating a simple procedure. Mr. P, you know, it it's it's difficult for me to enter a guilty plea um for a lot of reasons. And I don't want this court to think that I am trying to minimize, take away from or deflect any responsibility that I had in this situation that occurred. Uh, I do absolutely feel like that because of my bad decisions that this whole case took a turn that it wouldn't have taken had it not been the Breenidge County Sheriff. It's difficult for me to plead guilty to felony charges where a prosecutor indictes me and immediately after getting an indictment recuses himself and basically testifies at the grand jury to facts that were not at all. And again, if I hadn't did done what I did and drank and drove on March the 8th, I would not be sitting here, nor would anybody else. But I absolutely think I was indicted. That prosecutor said, "Got my indictment. I will jump out." Then I made an offer based on those indictments on a Monday. We sent an email back to Mr. Chambers's office to not accept. and two days later I'm indicted for assault first one that if you're found guilty you spend 85% of this was never an assault first case should have never been an assault first case but it became that and it became that to push me in a direction to take a plea I'm willing to take a plea but I now understand how some people feel I've defended the court system many many times and still do. But I feel like I feel like I'm being very much bullied into doing something that's not right. Now, the gamble is big. If Mr. Chambers wants to go to trial and say, "Well, let me tell you this, that, and the other." Then I'm I'm risking leaving my family, which I did that March 8th when I drank and drove. Thank God I didn't kill anybody. But I want this court to know. I want the people to know. And I want the public to know that Todd Paid holds himself responsible for everything that he did. But it's hard for me to lay down and plead to felony charges that don't apply. So I think we are back, Mr. Peyton. It probably should have have stayed in the place where we started. Again, I wanted to give you an opportunity to have further discussions with your attorney. U and I'm sorry, ma'am, for doing this. I'm sorry for for I need to I think we're back to where we were before. Is that is it your intention today to enter this guilty plea? I think we're at a yes or no place at that. Let me just say, let me can I say one more thing? I think everybody in this room wants this over with. And if I could address Blake, Blake, I hope you learn from this case. I'm not mad at you. I'm not in any way upset with you, Mr. P. Not that it matters. Okay, this is either a yes or no. Are you going to enter your plea? I guess everybody thinks it's funny. Mr. Payton knows the law and knows how important the time of court is and still keeps on wasting it for no good reason as he has already signed a document agreeing to plead guilty. He's panicked and can't even listen to his lawyer and continues to ramble in court about what should have been and other concerns that are not of the courts at this time. This irritates the judge who has already shown great patience as he cannot make up his mind and can't tell if he is going to plead guilty or not. Something that seemingly had already been decided. But if you're thinking Officer Pate went crazy in the courtroom with his answers, wait until you find out how confused and strange Deputy Wester was. Let's look at how he couldn't even manage to keep his statements straight and consistent. You don't look you. You just said a moment ago to this jury that you didn't know if it had evidentiary value or not. You just said that a moment ago and now you're saying that you already looked at it and it didn't have evidentiary value. Which one is it? So, as I just stated a couple seconds ago, it did not appear to have evidentiary value. I did not examine it. I did not open it up at this point and examine it. This is Deputy Zachary Westerester, who was arrested in 2019 when he was caught on his own body cam video planting drugs in innocent citizens vehicles during traffic stops. He was put in front of a jury for the cases of raketeering, fabricating evidence, official misconduct, false imprisonment, and possession of controlled drugs and paraphernalia. Okay. Like several of the other listed victims in the case, she consents to the search of her car, doesn't she? Her car. She does. Yes. She mentions that she's got $5 that's missing um in that in that video before you find anything. Isn't that right? That is correct. Yes. Okay. She's specifically drawing your attention to to her purse or her pocketbook cuz she's missing $5. Isn't that right? Correct. Yes. Okay. She's not trying to take her purse with her when she gets out of the car and goes st and stands with backup deputy Hey, is she? I don't believe so. No. Video doesn't show and the video doesn't depict it. Do you remember hearing it? I do not remember it. Right. So, she didn't try to take her purse. Now, you say you've testified on direct that you don't dispute that there's something in your hand like those photos the state's exhibits depict. Is that correct? Correct. Yeah, I don't dispute that at all. Your dispute is that you say that it's not the same item that you charged Terresa Odin with. Correct. Correct. It is not the same item. Right. It was a different baggy is what you say. Correct. Correct. Okay. Where on your body camera video do we see you handle that baggie and and either picking it up or putting it down or looking at it closely to determine what's in it? Are you referring to the baggie that was in my hand before I put my search gloves on? Yes, sir. Okay. So, as you noticed on the video, there were multiple semiis, multiple vehicles driving by in the opposite direction. Whenever I put that baggie in the front driver's side floorboard, I never seen it again. I'm not sure if it's because when a semi came through, it blew it into the roadway. After I found the baggie in her purse containing methamphetamine, and after I found the spoon, which was used as paraphernelia, there was really no need for me to go walk across 231 at the busiest time of the day to try to find something that I didn't even know was evidentiary value or not. How could the body cam go off just when he was handling a baggie that he says was not of evidentiary value and hadn't even confirmed its contents? This clearly shows that there's something wrong with the procession of events and it raises the suspicions even higher. Why' you set it down on the floorboard if you didn't know if it had evidentiary value or not? Why did you set it down if it was already in your hand? Why would you set it down on the floorboard with that setting like you've just described to the jury if you didn't even know if it had evidentiary value or not? So that I could search the vehicle. How about searching what's in your hand? How about that? Wouldn't it make more W wouldn't you agree that it would make more sense to start with what's already in your hand before you if if if it indeed was a different thing that it would make more sense to start with what's already in your hand before you set it down on the floorboard on admittedly a busy road? Yeah. In this particular case, no, that would not make sense because whenever I looked at the bag, it did not appear as I testified earlier that it was of evidentiary value. You don't look you you just said a moment ago to this jury that you didn't know if it had evidentiary value or not. Okay. You just said that a moment ago and now you're saying that you already looked at it and it didn't have evidentiary value. Which one is it? So, as I just stated a couple seconds ago, it did not appear to have evidentiary value. I did not examine it. I did not open it up at this point and examine it. It did not appear to be of anything of evidentiary value. Deputy Wester changed his statement entirely and the high contradiction in the two statements of his in a couple of minutes shows how confused and dishonest he is about what happened. At what point on that video do you have time or does it even show you looking at it to make some type of a reasonable inference as to whether or not it had evidentiary value? Sure. So, whenever I went to the passenger side of Miss Odum's truck, from the passenger side, you could pretty much see the whole front cabin of that vehicle. Whenever I looked across, I noticed that that particular item that was in my hand was no longer on the driver's side floorboard. Didn't really concern me that much because I had found methamphetamine in her purse and I had found the spoon. Like I said earlier, Mr. Williams, I was not going to walk across Highway 231 or shut down traffic to try to find something that was most likely just a piece of trash. It was already in your hand and you made a conscious decision to set it on the floorboard, didn't you? I did. Yes. Did you or did you not look at it? This is This is assuming that clearly we're disputing this. Okay. That it's a 100% we are. Absolutely. So, your your testimony is that it was a different item and in order for you to put it on the ground, you had to determine whether or not it had evidentiary value because it was already in your hand. So, from it going from your left hand onto the floorboard, at what point you stop and look at it and handle it the way you do all the other exhibits that you found in all the other videos to make that decision if that if it was indeed different. Okay. I would not have opened up a baggie with my bare hands. First of all, I will say that um your hand No, no, no. I'm sorry. We need to we need to let me break that down. It's already in your bare hand. So, you've already picked it up in your bare hand. Correct. Okay. Okay. So, what difference is opening it up in your bare hands going to make? But, Mr. Williams, I didn't open it up and turn it inside out for the contents, if there were any contents, to get on my bare skin. Was it a clear baggie? I believe it was an off-white baggie. You could have seen inside it, couldn't you? I don't believe I could have with this particular baggie. I don't believe I could have because from what I remember, it was an off-white almost an eggshell white. You can't give a consistent answer on this because there isn't a consistent answer. Correct. As the trial goes on, the contradictions in Deputy Wester's statements keep on growing, and he is unable to give a consistent answer to any of the prosecutor's questions. This is what happens when a person is guilty, and he tries to defend himself with all the lies he can think of, but the truth always shows itself in the end. As for Deputy Wester, the jury could see through his lies and gave him 12 and 1/2 years in prison. After watching that, you must be thinking how Deputy Wester misused his power. But we're just getting started as we see the wrongdoings of Marshall Fox who arrested a lady for reporting a crime against him. Tell the truth. Tell the truth. Tell the truth. You can watch the video. The video. I'm just kind of covering myself. I'm just trying to stay out of trouble. Sir, I never did anything to anyone. I'm a lawyer. How did you Why are you here? This is Marshall Fox who sexually assaulted Monica Contreres in her family court hearing in the Clark County courthouse regarding her divorce case in August 2011. Patricia Doninger, the hearing master, was present at the moment but neither stopped them nor reported them. Why are you I mean he had me in the room and he asked me he said listen I'm supposed to have a female with me and have her check your bra for me but I just want to get you out of here. He said, "So I can I just can I just have you pull up your shirt and show me that there's no drugs in that?" And I said, "Um, well, I would I would I would surely let you check my bra and then I'm not scared of anything." I said, "But I really don't. I think I'd rather have And you went in there and this was going to take her home." I was just offended by this. I thought mama go to her. I'm just offended that that he asked me to do that. Okay. store stands. Handcuffed. Why would I be arrested? Can we do something with a little be arrested though? For what? Turn around. Hold on. For what, sir? Hold on. Okay. Why would I be arrested? Can you please tell me? Turn around. Put your hands behind your back. Can you please tell me? Turn around. Put your hands. Because of false allegations made against the police officer. So, if you could call up childh for me. How could you prove that that was false? Turn around. We can clearly see that in the presence of the hearing master, Marshall Fox and the other marshall are trying to forcefully arrest Miss Monica while she asks what she did. These inhuman officers didn't listen to a word uttered by her while their duty is to protect such innocent citizens. Marshall sexually assaulted her and then reported her for false accusation while that young lady is tensed about her divorce case. And all of this is done in front of her little girl. How can an officer of the law, a human, be this cruel? How could you prove that that was false? Okay, that was false. You're saying it now turn around. I will. Okay. What did I do now? Tell tell the truth. Tell the truth. Tell the truth. You can watch the video. The video and the show. I'm just kind of covering myself. I'm just trying to stay out of trouble. So, I never did anything to anyone. I'm a law. I didn't. How did you get Why are you here? Because my ex-husband is jealous of me. He doesn't want to be seen. But she'll be okay. So nothing is your fault. No sir. He's making up everything. I never did anything to anyone. I've only been trying to be a good person my whole life. And this whole time everybody keeps trying to be him. Child, please. M. We are on record, right? I don't want to press charges. I don't want to bring anyone. I just wanted to end. I just want to be good. Oh, because now because you Please, sir. Follow my We're happy. She have you have a No, cuz if she wants to make the allegations, I'm going to I'll I'll pursue. When was the last time you used anything? Do two things at once. Walk in the loot. Watch. We've never used any kind in our car. Have we run here yet? What's that? Have we runner? No, not yet. I haven't run her for warrants yet. The reason. Have you ever been arrested? Just so you guys see, there's nothing in my hands. Uh, Jimmy, I got court. I stuff to do this. So, arrest her. I take the kid. We're done. Why would you? Because you're making false allegations, youngster. Why would you put me in this position? I'm a good person. Why is that? You just told me you were arresting us before for allegations. In addition to assaulting her sexually and charging her for reporting it, they are trying to put another allegation of consuming drugs on her. They are doing this only because they think they are in a position of authority and are taking advantage of it. This goes to prove that every family court should have cameras to record hearings to catch misconduct such as this. No, I don't want to deal with this. Please, I just want to end it. Okay. It was all lies. It was all lies. It was all lies. It was all lies. Let me go. Please. Let me go. It was all lies. I don't want to deal with anything. It was all lies. All lies. All lies. All lies. Please stop. We can do this the easy way. We can do this to her. So here on record on tape in the courtroom. I just want to go home. Please. Miss the table. Step to the table. That's what I have. Right near the microphone. You told you you put me in the room and you asked me to lift up my shirt without it without a witness. You asked me to lift you asked me to lift up his shirt without a witness. You do this to me. How could you watch? How could you watch? She's got blue hair. Hey, you asked me to pull up my shirt and leave me alone. I don't want to go to jail. I just trying to defend myself. First you said I don't want to go to jail. He said he said, "Can I He said, "Can Can you please pull up your shirt without a witness?" He said, "Can you please pull up your shirt without a witness?" I'm going to have to take one kid to Child Haven, but get into custody come over. He said, "Can you please pull up my shirt without a witness?" And I said, "I don't think that's a good idea." Yes, I do. If you have a female, send me somebody. How is this happen to someone? She right down over there. Leave me alone. Don't Don't go anywhere yet. The marshals here had despicable inhuman behavior as they targeted an innocent woman and threatened her with force to arrest her. And if she didn't cooperate, they threatened her with her child. These bully officers did as they pleased and arrested her forcefully while she kept crying. All she wanted was to go home with her kid. She first reported this to the Marshall Internal Affairs and 2 months after that, the Marshall was fired. On April 5th, Contrarus filed a federal lawsuit against Marshall, Kenyon, and Donninger, as well as Clark County, the state of Nevada, and the courts on grounds that her civil rights were violated. You must be thinking how bad these cops were. But wait until you meet officer Derek Schovin, who killed a man in his custody by being so forceful that left Mr. Floyd unable to even breathe. And then he put his hands on his head. Right. That's correct. Yes. And there was one officer who said that they were going to tase him. Right. That's what I heard. Yes. This is former Minneapolis police officer Derek Schovin who arrested a 46-year-old black man on May 25th, 2020. Videos from bystanders and security cameras showed officers taking a series of actions which left Mr. Floyd unable to breathe. And even if he called out for help, nobody helped him. Testified that you were the officer who approached the passenger side of the vehicle. You approached George Floyd on May 6th of 2019. Is that right? That's correct. Yes. And you had your gun drawn when you approached Mr. Floyd. Isn't that right? Yes, I pulled it. Yes. And when you approached Mr. Floyd, he said, "Don't shoot me, man. I don't want to get shot." Right. Something like that. Yes. You told him to undo his seatelt. Correct. That's correct. Yes, ma'am. And he did that, right? Yes, he did. And then you said, "Put your hands where I can see them." Correct. Yes. And then he put his hands in the air. Yes. And then you told him to put his hands on the dash. Is that right? That's correct. And that was when you grabbed his hand and forcibly put it on the dashboard of the vehicle. Correct. Following. Yes. And then the other officer with you on the other side of the vehicle changed that to put your hands on your head. Correct. That's correct. And then you put his hands on his head. Right. That's correct. Yes. Chauvan's answers show how remorseless he is as he tells about his oppression on the victim with a straight face. And there was one officer who said that they were going to tase him. Right. That's what I heard. Yes. And you were yelling pretty loud. Correct. Yes, I was. Yes. It it escalated real quick. Some profanity as well. Correct. Yes. And you had your gun drawn the whole time you were giving commands. Right. Once I started ordering him and he refused to show me his hands. Yes. I eventually it escalated to where I pulled my gun. Yes, ma'am. And he was awake, correct? What's that, ma'am? Mr. Floyd was awake. Was he awake during this incident? Yes. He was conscious? Yes. He didn't appear to be in medical distress to you when you were pulling him out of the car. Is that right? He was talking to you. He was standing up. Is that right? Um, I don't know if it was specifically. Sometimes he was talking, sometimes he was mumbling. Uh, he was incoherent in my mind a lot of the time during there. But you got him out of the car and you handcuffed him, right? That's correct, ma'am. And he stood next to the car, right? Yes, ma'am. He asked you not to beat him up, correct? That's correct. Yes. He was able to walk, right? Yes, he was. He continued to talk to you. Officer Chovin seems to have escalated the situation while dealing with Mr. Floyd. He pulled a gun on him while Mr. Floyd didn't do anything except not pay for the cigarettes. Derek Schovin used excessive and unnecessary force on Floyd while pushing him against the dashboard of the car. His crime wasn't big enough to be treated with such caution and force. And yet, Chau stays a heartless man in front of court, too. The racist officer bullied him and made him unable to breathe, which soon caused his death. In the courtroom, he seems like he has no regrets for what he's done. On May 29th, the Henipin County Attorney announced thirdderee murder and seconddegree manslaughter charges against Derek Schovin. He was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison on June 25th, 2021.