CLEVELAND, Ohio — The 26-year-old woman who argued with and was punched by an RTA bus driver was found guilty this morning of disorderly conduct for her role in the altercation that went viral in an online video.

Shi'dea Lane will meet with the Shaker Heights probation department before a sentencing date is set in Shaker Heights Municipal Court.

The driver, Artis Hughes, 59, of Garfield Heights, is also awaiting sentencing after pleading no contest April 2 to assault.

Hughes faces up to six months in jail, five years of probation and a $1,000 fine, while Lane faces up to 30 days in jail, five years of probation and a $250 fine. RTA fired Hughes.

He punched Lane Sept. 18 in Beachwood, which sends its misdemeanor cases to the Shaker Heights court, after she shouted obscenities at him when he called her derogatory names over paying the fare.

Lane, in court with attorney Dale Friedland and her 5-year-old daughter, entered a no contest plea "without consent to a finding of guilty," her attorney said.

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Friedland told the judge that Hughes started the altercation by calling her a "ho," and another slang term that means the same thing, when she didn't immediately pull money from her pocket.

She stood up for herself after being a victim of domestic violence in the past and receiving counseling to speak up, Friedland said.

He described Lane as a religious woman who had never been in trouble.

Judge K.J. Montgomery asked Lane, "How do you square your religious beliefs with your verbal conduct that day?"

Lane responded that Hughes had insulted and shocked her, and after running late for work and forgetting her backpack, "I couldn't take anymore," she said.

After lashing out verbally, she moved closer to the driver's seat. Witnesses and Hughes' and Lane's statements to police differ on whether she then touched and spit on him, but she did pay the fare before he walked into the aisle and punched her, then threw her off the bus.

Shi'dea Lane speaks to reporters after she was found guilty of disorderly conduct for her role in an altercation with an RTA bus driver in September.

The confrontation was captured on video by several passengers and has been viewed by millions.

Lane said after the ruling that she wished the passengers had starting pointing their cellphones her way sooner, to catch the first thing the driver said to her.

"I could have handled it better, but I was standing up for myself."

She no longer rides RTA. A friend drives her to work.