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03x62 - Joy Ride Blow-Up

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Judy Justice". Aired: November 1, 2021 – present.*
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American arbitration-based reality court show presided over by former Manhattan Family Court Judge Judith Sheindlin.

03x62 - Joy Ride Blow-Up

Post by bunniefuu »

She stole the keys to your car
and your car.

-Correct.
-I was out for less than two minutes.

It had noticeable issues. It got worse
and worse. And I had to get it towed.

Because the way he drives.
There's videos of how he drives.

What an idiot!

[announcer]
This is Judy Justice.

Sean Spencer is suing his friend,

Cierra Coia,
for engine damage


after Cierra drove his sports car
without permission.


[Kevin]
Court come to order. All rise.

Have a seat, please.

Case 3099.
Spencer v. Coia.

-Thank you.
-You're welcome.

-Mr. Spencer, how old are you?
-Nineteen.

Who is this?

This is the person who evaluated
my car, the mechanic.

-How old are you?
-I'm eighteen, Your Honor.

This is your claim, Mr. Spencer.
Your claim is that the defendant

took your car
without your permission

and for sort of a little test drive
or joy ride

and she blew the engine
on the car.

-That's your claim.
-Correct.

The defendant says it's
absolutely not true.

She didn't do anything to the car.
She does acknowledge

that she took it for a test drive.

She said, "I did nothing to the car.
The car was perfectly fine

-when I brought it back."
-Yes, Your Honor.

Okay, so, tell me
on what date

you were hanging out
and your car was taken

by the defendant.

It was September 28,
Your Honor.

-What kind of car is it?
-It's a 2013 Scion FRS.

-Two-seater sports car.
-So, the car is eleven years old.

-Correct.
-How long have you had it?

I've had it since May. May 25.

-Of this year?
-Correct... Or, yeah, 2023.

Who'd you buy it from?

-I bought it from a neighbor.
-How many miles does it have on it now?

It has 140,000 miles.

-How much did you pay for the car?
-I paid twelve grand.

You paid $12,000 for a car
that had 140,000 miles on it?

Correct. It's a sports car.

Okay. Where'd you get
the $12,000 from?

Uh, some of it's through a loan
through my mother

and the rest
was in cash.

-Where'd you get the cash from?
-Jobs or...

-So, you saved up.
-Correct.

Okay, so, tell me what happened
in September.

Uh, September 28, we were all
hanging out for a couple of hours,

-I...
-Where?

This is up in Palmdale,
just off 49th Street.

-At a friend.
-Who... Where were you... At a friend?

Yeah. It was one of the friends
that we were hanging out with.

-Okay, how many people were there?
-Five of them, me makes six.

So, six total. My girlfriend's
birthday was the following day,

so, we were gonna hang out
throughout the night, up until midnight.

What time had you gotten
to your friend's house?

Uh, roughly, like,


What time did you get there?

-I got around 3PM.
-Okay.

Now, tell me what happened
with the car.

Uh, we were all hanging out in
her room at the place in Palmdale.

-Uh, my key...
-Your friend's room.

Yes, correct. My keys,
as well as wallet and phone

were all on a desk.

We were gonna head down
to Canyon Country, Santa Clarita.

And just before leaving, the defendant
had punched me in my stomach

and kicked me,
ran off, stole the keys.

-Just a second.
-And then...

Out of nowhere, she came
and she punched you in the stomach

and kicked you where?

Like, somewhere in the side.
I was on a bed

and then she had hit me
and I turned over

and she had kicked me
and then ran off.

You mean from nothing.
You didn't have any incident with her.

No, no, not at all.

-So...
-She's rather physical

-and has been in previous...
-Physical how?

Uh, just punching, hitting,
pinching.

-You're talking about playfully.
-Uh, not necessarily.

Because otherwise
you wouldn't hang out with her.

I don't necessarily like to,
but it's a friend group

that, everyone else,
I enjoy being around.

So, I kind of, sort of
deal with it, if you will.

So, now she's punched you
in the side

-and kicked you.
-Mm-hmm.

-And then what?
-She proceeded to take my keys

and run out of the house.

By this time, three others
were out of the bedroom

and starting to get
out of the house.

Just a second. So, you were
alone with her on the bed?

So, we were all
getting ready to leave.

Uh, three people
had already left the room.

What was left in the room was me,
my girlfriend and the defendant.

-Then.,,
-Where were you all?

I was on the bed
and my girlfriend was on the bed.

She was standing
just in front.

-And?
-And then

she proceeded to hit me,
kick me.

So, what you're telling me,
is she leaned over, she punched you,

and then got her foot up
and kicked you someplace.

-Yeah.
-Got her foot up on...

Got her foot up...

over the bed...
[laughs]

-and kicked you.
-It was, like, hip-level.

[laughing]

-You think I believe that?
-[laughter]

[whispers]
I don't.

And then she took your keys
and ran out of the house.

-Correct. She ran...
-Okay!

Now, tell me how you got
the keys to the car.

Um, he had them
laying on the desk.

We were all
just messing around.

I didn't hit him
or kick him.

-I...
-Would you just tell me...

Don't tell me what you didn't do.
Tell me what you did.

I grabbed his keys
and I went out of the house.

So, when you say you grabbed
his keys and went out of the house,

you took the car
without permission.

-Yes, I did.
-Why?

It was a sports car,
so, I wanted an experience

of, like, driving it.

It was supposed to be
as a joke.

I didn't mean it
in a harmful way.

I don't think you meant it
in a harmful way.

But you took the car
without permission.

Yes. And I apologized for it.

And he said it was okay
and forgave me.

When did you apologize?

Directly after I took his keys
and took the car.

-When you brought it back.
-Yes.

Okay. So, you didn't apologize
before you took it.

You took it.
And it was about what time?

-9PM. 9:30.
-Okay, 9PM.

And you'd been hanging
around for a while.

So, you'd been hanging around
since three,

so, you were there
between five and six hours.

-Yes.
-Anybody doing any drinking?

-No.
-Anybody doing any smoking?

Uh, nicotine, yes.

-Okay, but nothing other than that.
-No.

Okay, so, now, it's six hours later
and you took the car.

Where did you go with the car?

Up and down the street.
I did not leave the neighborhood.

I was out for, maybe,
less than two minutes.

-Did you hit anything when you traveled?
-No. No.

-Not at all.
-Okay, and when you came back,

he must've been annoyed.

-Yes, he was.
-Okay.

-So, he's waiting for you outside.
-Yes.

Now, Mr. Spencer,

she took your keys... she acknowledges
she took your keys without permission.

You went following outside
after her, I assume.

By the time I was making it outside,

she had started the car
and started to back out.

-Okay, so you were there...
-[Sean, indistinct]

Just a second. So, you were there
when she backed out of the driveway.

I was there as she had stopped
getting out of the driveway

and she was going forward.

She was in the process of taking your car,
not returning it.

-Correct.
-In effect, she stole the keys to your car

-and your car.
-Correct.

Okay, so, now, you're standing
out in front of the house,

in front of your friend's house,
waiting for her to come back.

-Correct.
-How long were you standing there

waiting for her to come back?

-Uh, it was roughly...
-Hmm! Careful.

-Three minutes.
-Three minutes?

-Correct.
-So, she didn't go very far.

-No.
-Now, did you see the car?

-Uh...
-"Uh" is not an answer!

-Sorry.
-You saw her pull away with the car.

For the first 200 feet.
Until she turned onto a new street.

Two hundred feet you saw, and then
you saw 200 feet when she was coming back.

-Because she was out for three minutes.
-Correct.

So, you just... So, there...
She didn't go...

-Maybe she went around the block once.
-Right.

Okay, and then she brought
the car back.

What did she say
when she got out of the car?

She says she apologized to you.

Yeah, I was infuriated with fact
that she had taken the car

because it wasn't the first time
that she had tried to do this.

This was just the final time
that she finally went through with it.

And, then, when she had come,
she had said, "I'm sorry," this and that,

because she could tell
I was really mad.

And, at the time, I was just, like,
"It's okay,"

because the next day
was my girlfriend's birthday,

I was trying to not keep the mood down
and, really, just mellow.

Okay. Now, you said you were gonna
hang out someplace that day.

Where were you gonna hang out?

-We didn't have any specific plans.
-9:00 at night. Where did you go?

Uh, after that, we ended up
driving down to Canyon Country.

-Okay.
-But my car...

Ju-Ju-Just... Just a second.

-You drove down to Canyon Country.
-My car did not make it.

If he had given you
permission to take his car,

and four miles down the road,
when he's in the car,

the car starts to act up,

I would've said I really can't tell
whose fault it was.

Your problem is
you stole his car.

[announcer]
Sean Spencer claims his friend,

Cierra Coia, owes for engine damage

after she drove his sports car
without permission.


Okay, you got into your car
with your girlfriend.

-Correct.
-And how far did you get?

-A couple of miles.
-So, you drove it a few miles.

Yeah. Probably about four.

Now, how long did it take you
to drive the car these four miles?

-Did it take you ten minutes?
-I would say more like five to six.

Six minutes in four miles.
That's going pretty fast.

-Correct.
-How fast were you going?

I think it's 55 there.

-I was going 55.
-Okay.

So, let's say
you were doing 55 miles and hour.

-And, then, what happened?
-Uh, that whole six-minute drive,

I could not get
much power out of it.

-It wasn't working...
-You were traveling 55 miles an hour.

-That's power.
-Yeah, but it wasn't...

Like, it wouldn't get there quickly.
It was having noticeable issues.

There were sounds.
I have a video of the sounds as well

that was taken
after that six-minute drive.

And it had started
the second I got in the car.

-Mm.
-And got worse and worse.

That's why I pulled over,
took the video, had all of that.

-Okay.
-And I had to get it towed.

And did you have it towed
to his shop?

Uh, I took it to one shop first.

It was a friend of my mother's.

Uh, he gave us a quote
for 7200.

And that was not
in our budget.

So, then, I ended up
taking it to him.

-Okay, and where did you find him?
-Uh, this is my uncle

-who also works for...
-It's what?

-He's my uncle.
-He's your uncle.

-Correct.
-Stand up, sir.

-Is he your mother's brother?
-No.

-He's your father's brother.
-Correct.

Okay. You have a shop, sir, or do you
do this as a sideline?

I was a mechanic for twenty years
and now...

That's not what I asked you.

I asked you whether you have a shop
or is this a sideline.

Sure. I run a shop.

-What kind of a shop?
-The LAPD Central Division Police.

-And what do you do for them?
-I'm an automotive supervisor,

so, I supervise all the mechanics.
I'm in charge of 1300.

And did you, in fact,
fix it?

I didn't do it personally.
I diagnosed it

and had one of my guys
repair it.

-I didn't have time to fix it.
-You had one of the guys from LAPD do it.

-Yes.
-Where did he do it?

At his house.

How long did he have the car at his house?

-About two weeks.
-Did he present you a bill

or did he present
your nephew with a bill?

Well, we bought the engine
from an importer

and, so, with the bill, I just had him
buy the engine from them

-and then we just paid him...
-Just a second.

-So, you bought the engine secondhand.
-Yes.

And how much did you pay
for the engine?



And how much did you pay
to put the engine in?



-Five hundred of that was for the labor.
-Okay.

Now, you heard. You have
a certain amount of expertise.

-I assume.
-Yes.

Based upon what you told me,

what was wrong with the engine?

It had, uh, a piston that had
contacted a cylinder head

and bent the valve, um, so, it
had low compression in one cylinder.

-How does that happen?
-Over-revving the engine.

-Over-revving?
-Uh, when,

like, if you... to put it in
a drastic measure,

if you're on the freeway
going 70 and you're in fifth gear

and you stick it in third gear,
what's gonna happen?

Your RPMs sh**t up
and the engine has too many RPMs

and it's not made to have
that many RPMs,

that's why there's a red line
on your tachometer

you're not supposed
to go over that.

The mechanics can't function
and it over-revs

and it makes contact
with each other.

When that happens
to the engine,

does the engine seize?

Well, it bent a valve, so the valve
just stays at a bad angle

to where it can't seal the combustion
chamber in the cylinder

and, so, that's...
one of the four cylinders

doesn't make full power anymore.

-But it has power.
-You can drive it. It's still drivable.

And it could go four miles.

You could probably drive it
across the country,

but you get poor gas mileage,
check-engine light would be on

and you'd have noise...
it'd be noisy.

Because it, ultimately, stopped.

Because your nephew drove the car
four miles at 55 miles an hour.

When I saw it,
the car was still running,

just making a horrible noise

and I don't know if it stopped on him
or if he stopped it because of the noise.

-Did you stop it because of the noise?
-Yeah.

It started to stop and, then,
as I was slowing down,

I probably hit maybe two miles an hour
and all the lights came on on the dash

and then it seized for, like,
the next ten feet.

Okay, and Mr. Spencer, prior to
the 28th of September,

had you had any mechanical
difficulty with the car?

-Never.
-You had never taken it to a mechanic

-or anything else?
-Not... No.

-Okay.
-I had no reason.

So, the evening of this event,

was the first time you had heard
this kind of a noise in the car?

-Correct.
-Didn't hear it

when you got to your friend's house? Okay.
"Coia"...

-Is that how you pronounce your name?
-Yes.

Miss Coia, so let me tell you this.

This is the decision that I have to make.
You can have a seat, sir.

Thank you for your assistance.

It is very hard, almost impossible,
to say for certain

that you caused damage to his car.

I don't have to find that
as a certainty

that you caused damage
to his car.

I could look at circumstantial evidence.

Now, if he had given you
permission to take his car

and you drove it and four miles
down the road

when he's in the car,
the car starts to act up,

I would've said, "You know what?
I really can't tell whose fault it was."

He's traveling 55 miles an hour

You took the car because you've been
hankering to take that car

and have a test drive
for a while,

according to him,
which I believe,

because you stole the keys
and stole the car.

That's what you actually did.

-So, it's a very easy decision for me.
-Yes, but he did end up...

they did go to Ventura.

They did drive that night to Ventura
and he was speeding that way. And...

-How do you know?
-Because the way he drives.

There's videos of how he drives.

Your problem is
you stole his car.

Yeah, and he admitted in text
that he was low on oil

and the engine seized because
he had no oil in it.

May I see the text
that she's talking about?

- Who's [removed]
-A friend that was there with the group.

Well, you explained what happened
with the car.

Now, you can stand up, sir.

You understand what I was telling her,

that if I couldn't make a determination as
to what caused this problem with the car,

the fact that she took the car
without permission, makes my life easy.

-You would agree with that.
-Yes.

But you would agree with the fact
that if there were some other basis

for the car to have malfunctioned,

-it wouldn't be her fault.
-Yeah.

Could the car malfunction
as the result of being low on oil?

There's millions of reasons a car
can malfunction, yeah.

-Was that... Well, I'm not talking
-That's not what happened.

about millions, I'm talking
the problem with the engine

A lack of oil can't make
the piston hit the valve, no.

Well, let me read you
what he said to his friend...

I had sent that text after
the first mechanic had looked at it.

So, first, you write,
"Every cop knows me now,

so when they pull me over they only give
me speeding tickets of 60 miles an hour."

"What happened?" "So, it was
low on oil and the engine seized up.

Ruined just about everything.
It's beyond repair.

In order to fix it,
its needs a new engine

and then the labor and parts put in it,

which is about $8000
from what I've heard.

Scrap yard offer only about
$1000 for the car."

And he says, "Damn. I'm sorry."

Does that sound familiar to you?

-Uh...
-Uh!

-Yes.
-Yeah.

Do you know that
when I am on a parkway

and I see a moron like that
weaving in between cars,

all I say is,

"I hope they k*ll themselves
alone

and don't take anybody else
with them."

You shouldn't
have a car.

[announcer]
Sean Spencer has accused his friend,

Cierra Coia, of driving
his sports car without permission


and damaging the engine.

Cierra claims Sean drives recklessly
and damaged his own engine.


Why would you drive a car
that was low on oil?

Uh, the first mechanic
that had it looked at,

that's what he said,
but I drained the oil...

So, "It was low on oil
and the engine seized up."

That's what the first mechanic told you.

-Yeah.
-Yeah. That wouldn't be her fault.

-Correct.
-Right?

However, it wasn't in need
of any oil

and I check it on the first
of every month.

[laughs] Okay.

I had it serviced...
Well, this was four months...

-Do you understand what I'm saying?
-No, I...

You get what I'm saying to you.

You have any other texts
for me to look at?

Yes, I have these two and, then,
the video of him speeding.

Uh, he speeds. But I'll look
at the video anyway

'cause I like to look
at pictures, it's...

-And, then, I also have...
-Shh!

I don't know what this
has to do with anything.

That they were speeding
on the way there.

How? "So, the drive from Starbucks
to Chick-fil-A"...

-You went to Chick-fil-A?
-Yeah.

-Yeah.
-These are other...

[Judy]
Yeah, yup. Yeah.

"Was supposed to be, like,


This is on September 15.

-You following this, sir?
-Yeah.

"So, the drive from Starbucks
to Chick-fil-A was supposed to be,

like, 45 minutes,
we did it in 15."

-