On June 1, 2018, Catherine Salina Harris (BJU Class of 1996) called this archivist from a 917-area-code (Brooklyn, NY) after reading a WutBJU post about Harris’s May 30 conviction for disorderly conduct -- a charge replacing Harris’s original charge of falsification to a police officer.
This is Cathy Harris. You need to stop lying about me. You need to read that Court Document carefully. I did not plead guilty to falsification. I only pled guilty to disorderly conduct 'cause I had a nervous breakdown in December, and I did something and I said that I also called the cops names and I ended up checking into a hotel and taking an overdose of medications because of that. I was hospitalized for a total of 48 days. That's why I pled guilty to disorderly conduct but not falsification. They did not have the evidence for falsification. You need to read that again. That was replaced with disorderly conduct and the reason I'm on probation, And I don't have to check in. I don't have to talk to any probation officer. All I got to do is see a therapist for 6 months, and I am doing that now anyway, so please fix your falsehood.
Harris was asking for a correction about a mistake. This archivist makes mistakes. It happens.
Kind of like the mistake Ms. Harris made in saying how long she was in the hospital in her voice mail message. She says she was in the hospital for a total of 48 days, but in her public statement about her conviction, she claims that she was in the hospital for 42 days.
It’s an honest error. A mistake. No big deal. It happens. We’re humans.
That’s not something that would be elevated to a court trial, however.
But in the end, Ms. Harris was accusing WutBJU of “lying” and of “falsification.”
