Laura Owens

Ten minutes later, Mike and Omar came back out.

Mike was in tears.

He went over to Danielle, and they left the building.

I didn't have a chance to speak with them.

Later, Mike explained what happened in his closed-door meeting with the judge.

We walk in, and Laura's up on the screen, and she was in a car, and she's got just like a laughing spark on her face, like, oh, I got you guys again.

So I immediately sat down, knowing something was wrong.

Because the judge told her to be there in person the day before, and she's up on the screen, confident as can be with her smirk.

And the judge says, we received some information about an ADA.

We are going to be continuing the court date.

And they use a lot of other legal jargon in between.

An ADA.

Laura filed a formal request for accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

It's a federal civil rights law that all courts are obliged to comply with.

And the judge is like, no, it's already been processed.

We're going to be pushing court to November 5th.

In other words, they all thought it would be over.

But by filing for an ADA accommodation request, the deadline was pushed back by another two weeks.

Later, I asked Danielle Maricini about this moment.

Like Mike, she'd been expecting this day to finally be the end of Laura's domestic violence restraining order.