LAWSUIT FILED A SUIT AGAINST THE
SHERIFF FOR LOCAL DEFAMATION.
>> YOU'RE A 19-YEAR-OLD ZERO.
>> Reporter: JUDY IS THE TOUGH 
TALKING GAVEL-POUNDING JUDGE YOU
DON'T WANT TO CROSS.
>> LISTEN TO ME CAREFULLY.
>> Reporter: THE DAYTIME TV 
COURT SHOW "JUDGE JUDY."
>> YOU'RE AN IDIOT!
>> Reporter: NOW SHE'S WEIGHING 
IN ON A LEGAL MATTER INVOLVING 
HER OWN SON, A NEW YORK STATE 
DISTRICT ATTORNEY WHO SLAPPED A 
MILLION-DOLLAR LAWSUIT AGAINST 
SHERIFF DONALD SMITH FOR 
DEFAMATION.
TO READ IN THE NEWSPAPER 
STATEMENTS MADE BY DON SMITH 
THAT I INTERFERED WITH, USED MY 
OFFICE AND MY TITLE AS DISTRICT 
ATTORNEY TO INFLUENCE HIS 
INVESTIGATION, I WAS OUTRAGED.
>> Reporter: SMITH HAS ACCUSED 
LEVY OF INTERFERING WITH A CHILD
RAPE CASE AGAINST HIS FORMER 
TRAINER ALEXANDER HASSOU IN 
MARCH, ACCUSED OF RAPING A 
13-YEAR-OLD GIRL ON TWO 
OCCASIONS IN 2010.
LEVY ACCUSED HIMSELF FROM THE 
RAPE CASE AS SOON AS HE LEARNED 
HASSOU WAS UNDER INVESTIGATION 
AND THIS 30-PAGE COMPLAINT FILED
HE ALLEGES DEFAMATORY COMMENTS 
WERE MADE PUBLIC.
INCLUDING "IF HE COULD HAVE HIS 
OWN WAY MR. HOSSU WOULD NEVER 
HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO JUSTICE."
HE SAYS THE LAWSUIT IS 
POLITICALLY MOTIVATED.
>> IT'S OBVIOUSLY INTENDED TO 
INFLUENCE THE OUTCOME OF THE 
UPCOMING SHERIFF'S ELECTION.
>> Reporter: IN A STATEMENT 
JUDGE JUDY SAID THIS ABOUT HER 
SON, "HIS MORAL COMPASS IS DEAD 
CENTER."
SHE ADDED "WHEN SOMEONE ATTACKS 
HIS CHARACTER PROFESSIONALLY OR 
PERSONALLY, THEY BEST BE 
PREPARED TO BACK IT UP, SHUT UP 
OR PAY UP."
IT APPEARS THE TWO HAVE A 
HISTORY OF NOT GETTING ALONG, 
PRIOR TO THE LAWSUIT, ON ISSUES 
RELATED TO THE COUNTY.
THE COMPLAINT ALLEGES SMITH'S 
OUTWARD HOSTILITY TOWARD LEVY 
