Indecent Exposure?

bcp

In My Opinion
If you live in a residential neighborhood, its incumbent upon you to either cover your windows, or not parade in front of them naked.
I dont. I dont even have neighbors that I can see. If someone I dont know is in my yard close enough to the house to see in a window, chances are he is getting shot at.
 

glhs837

Power with Control
I dont. I dont even have neighbors that I can see. If someone I dont know is in my yard close enough to the house to see in a window, chances are he is getting shot at.


And that's fine. But not the case under discussion.
 

smilin

BOXER NATION
Another side to the story:
The complainant is the wife of a Fairfax leo. I would assume right after she called hubby, and told him what she had seen, he may have told a few friends who congregated at the nude diver's home. I'm sure they were not pleased that this happened to a fellow officer's wife. A slight over reaction? Naah...
 

BadGirl

I am so very blessed
I have to sign up to read it. Last time I did that, I had to create a new email address because I got so much spam.
Ooops. Sorry. I didn't realize that some might have difficulty accessing the link.

Here is the jist:

By Tom Jackman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 8, 2010

A Fairfax County jury needed fewer than 20 minutes Wednesday to decide that a man who was naked inside his Springfield home last fall, allegedly flashing passersby, was not guilty of indecent exposure.

The acquittal of Erick A. Williamson, 29, ended a long run of bad legal luck that started when he was rousted from his bed at gunpoint by Fairfax police Oct. 19 and questioned about whether he had been standing naked in the doorway and front window of his rental house on Arley Drive.

Shortly after that encounter, the officers arrested Williamson for felony indecent exposure because a 7-year-old boy had been walking with his mother when the woman allegedly spotted him naked in the doorway to his carport. A Fairfax magistrate reduced the charge to a misdemeanor, but Williamson then had a long walk home from jail, during which he received a phone call from his boss -- also his landlord -- telling him to move out. The police were the ones who called his boss, Williamson said.

Williamson, who claimed he'd merely been sitting naked in his house having coffee, was outraged by the arrest and called Fox 5 News. The story drew wide attention, and the saga of The Naked Guy began.

In December, Williamson went to trial and denied exposing himself. But because two women had reported the nudity two hours apart, Fairfax General District Court Judge Ian M. O'Flaherty convicted him, likening him to John Dillinger and saying that "the fact that it went on for so long indicates an obscene display."

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libertytyranny

Dream Stealer
Ok this may seem like a silly question...and remember I don't have children..but is it a really HUGE deal that a kid saw him naked? I mean..I may be coming from a different perspective since as a CNA I have seen more naked bodies than Jenna Jameson...but I fail to see why it is soooo terrible that the kid see a naked body. We all have basically the same bits..and pretending like looking at a naked body is perverted is bizarre to me..am i terribly wrong on this?
 

vraiblonde

Board Mommy
PREMO Member
Patron
Most people take care not to walk around naked in front of windows so their neighbors can see them. Even in his own house, if he's parading around nekkie with the intent of people outside seeing him, that would be your basic indecent exposure.

However, if he's going about his business having no idea that some woman and her kid are cutting through his yard and can see him, then it's innocent and the woman needs to get a life.

Not enough information for me to give an opinion as to his intent.
 

MMDad

Lem Putt
Not enough information for me to give an opinion as to his intent.

The jury believed his version. It only took them 20 minutes, and that includes getting to the jury room, picking a foreman, reading the paperwork, voting, filling out the form, and sending it back to the judge.

Sounds like either the defense was awesome or the prosecutor was the worst since the OJ trial.
 
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