Judge: The defendant who made headlines for driving with a suspended license never had a license. Now he has been arrested again.

Corey Harris made headlines last week after a video surfaced showing him driving during a Zoom hearing on May 15. The case involved driving without a license, which earned Harris plenty of ridicule.

During that hearing, Judge Cedric Simpson of Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced that Harris’ bail had been revoked and ordered him to report to the Washtenaw County Jail by 6 p.m. that day or be held without bail, WJBK-TV reported.

“This should be a lesson to all of us. Mind your business. And at the end of the day, mind your business.”

Then, earlier this week, it was widely reported that another judge had ordered Harris’s driver’s license suspension to be lifted in 2022 – but the information about the lifted suspension never made it to the Michigan Secretary of State, so the record was never changed. This earned Harris a lot of sympathy.

However, when Harris appeared before Judge Simpson on Wednesday – this time in person – Simpson shared shocking new information.

Speaking to Harris’ new attorney, the judge said, “People say – and your client has frankly said this – that … this court acted on the basis of inadequate or erroneous information. And that, I can tell you, counsel, has led the court – given what the court has done – to examine my decision.”

Simpson then stated that Harris had in fact “never held a Michigan driver’s license,” nor had he held a valid license in any other state, and at the end of the hearing, Simpson had Harris arrested on the spot, WXYZ-TV reported.

It turns out that court officials said the information about Harris’s lifted driver’s license suspension never made it to the Michigan Secretary of State because Harris never paid his fees, WXYZ added.

“Nobody made a mistake,” Simpson said, according to the broadcaster. “It was a failure on Mr. Harris’ part to do certain things.”

How could Harris’s license be revoked if he didn’t have a license at all?

WXYZ reported that in Michigan, people without a valid driver’s license can have their license suspended. The station added that even if these people receive a license, they still would not be able to drive until the suspensions are paid off.

A spokesman for the Michigan Secretary of State confirmed to WXYZ – after the judge made the information public – that Harris never had a valid driver’s license.

While Harris told WXYZ in an interview Tuesday that he could not remember if he ever had a valid driver’s license, a Pittsfield Township prosecutor said at Wednesday’s hearing that Harris admitted to the officer involved in the October 2022 traffic stop that led to the viral May 15 Zoom hearing that he did not have a license.

Judge Simpson issued an arrest warrant for Harris at the end of Wednesday’s court session in connection with a 2015 driving without a license case in Allen Park, WXYZ reported.

Harris’ new defense attorney Dionne Webster-Cox told the broadcaster she was shocked: “This should be a lesson to all of us. Mind your business. And at the end of the day, mind your business.”

This story has been updated.

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