'I'm Not a Cat,' Says Lawyer Having Zoom Filter Difficulties - The New York Times - 0 views
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Courts usually don’t let cats argue cases. But here was Rod Ponton, a county attorney in Presidio County, Texas, unable to figure out how to turn off the cat filter on his Zoom call during a hearing on Tuesday in Texas’ 394th Judicial District Court.
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“If I can make the country chuckle for a moment in these difficult times they’re going through, I’m happy to let them do that at my expense,” he said in a phone interview on Tuesday afternoon.
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It offered an injection of harmless levity when many people are experiencing a rough time — and Mr. Ponton took it in good spirits.
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“Mr. Ponton, I believe you have a filter turned on in the video settings,” Judge Roy Ferguson, presiding over the case
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“I don’t know how to remove it,” he said. “I’ve got my assistant here and she’s trying to.”To get the hearing moving, he offers: “I’m prepared to go forward with it.”Then, crucially, he clarifies: “I’m here live. I’m not a cat.”
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All in all, the episode took less than a minute before he figured out how to turn the filter off, and they returned to business as usual.
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This isn’t Mr. Ponton’s first brush with fame. He appeared in the final episode of the Netflix series, “The Confession Killer,” in 2019, about the convicted killer Henry Lee Lucas, who confessed to more than 600 murders in the 1980s, according to The Big Bend Sentinel