

Presidio county is on the US-Mexico border and includes the town of Marfa and much of Big Bend national park. Ponton was representing the state of Texas in the hearing, which reportedly centered on a person who had attempted to leave the US with contraband and illegally-obtained cash. I’ve got my assistant here, she’s trying to, but I’m prepared to go forward with it … I’m here live. The Ponton/kitten entity then interrupts Ferguson in a panicked drawl: “Can you hear me, judge?”įerguson responds: “I can hear you. They have ranged from the inadvertently hilarious to the career-ending.įaced with hearing legal debate from a kitten, Judge Roy Ferguson of Texas’s 394th judicial district told Ponton: “I believe you have a filter turned on in the video settings. The coronavirus has prompted many computer mishaps, as many of the world’s workers adapt to working from home in the face of the pandemic.

The filter, which displayed a kitten instead of Ponton’s face, was able to capture the lawyer’s horror and confusion, its eyes flitting across the screen as Ponton scrambled to remove it.
