She Showed Up Late to Zoom Court — Then Started Making a Sandwich. The Judge Had Enough

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• Asja Outerbridge was kicked off a court Zoom call after making a peanut butter sandwich during a hearing

• Outerbridge was attending Detroit’s 36th District Court hearing online

• Outerbridge told CBS News that she should have been dressed better and more prepared

​​A Michigan woman was kicked off a court Zoom call after she was caught making a peanut butter sandwich during a hearing by the judge.

Asja Outerbridge was attending Detroit’s 36th District Court hearing online for a misdemeanor charge, CBS News reported.

During the hearing, 36th District Court Judge Sean Perkins asked Outerbridge, who was late to the call and appeared to be spreading peanut butter on a slice of bread, to put the food down.

“Put whatever you are trying to prepare down,” said Perkins.

He also told her to get “properly dressed.”

She told him she was properly dressed.

“Is that a robe?,” he asked.

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Outerbridge told him she was trying to feed her daughter. “My daughter is sick I had to keep her home from school I’m just trying to feed her. That is it.”

“I am sorry that your daughter is sick but again you are in court, and we are going to treat it as such.” Perkins responded.

Outerbridge told CBS News that she “definitely was wrong.”

“I could have came dressed better and more prepared, and I don’t want to judge to think that I’m laughing at the situation at him because I’m not. I take that very seriously, I do genuinely, with a serious face, apologize to the judge,” she said.

“I’m a personal stylist, so I know how to present myself, but that day, you know, it’s hard for moms out here. I’m not gonna lie. I took that transition of what you wear to court, and I will show different outfits you could wear to court, how you can present yourself, and how you cannot be caught lacking in a robe, making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. You don’t want to do that.”

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