Sunday, May 25, 2014 Jamaica Observer
A taxi driver faced the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court last week for reportedly dropping his pants and showing the police his buttocks when they tried to accost him for using indecent language.
The accused, Chester Davis, was arrested and charged with indecent exposure, resisting arrest and driving with no insurance coverage.
However, last Thursday when he appeared before Senior Resident Magistrate (RM) Judith Pusey he denied the allegations.
"What you mean by indecent exposure?" the magistrate asked.
"Him drop him pants, your honour," the liaison officer answered.
"What happen, the pants belt gave way?" she jokingly asked Davis.
"Your honour, I never expose myself, I was wearing a shorts," Davis said.
As a result, his bail was extended for him to return to court on June 26. He was also told to go to the Traffic Court on July 17 to answer to the traffic offence.
According to police reports, on May 16 police personnel were on their way to court when Davis, who was travelling in his motor car, swerved on the road in front of the court and uttered several expletives.
He was reportedly heard by the police who chased him to Molynes Road where he ran onto a business place, pulled down his pants and exposed himself to the lawmen to prevent them from arresting him.
However, the police called for back-up and he was taken into custody and charged.
Man admits to cheating
with his neighbour
There was laughter in the court on Tuesday after an accused man openly confessed that he was a cheater and that his cheating was the cause of the problem between him and his woman.
"All this is coming from cheating," he said. "I am a cheater, I go as near as next door."
Berchel Mayne was dragged before the court for hitting his common-law wife in her back, causing bruises and swelling and assaulting a police officer by tearing his shirt when he was being arrested
Interestingly, Mayne, before his confession, initially blamed the complainant for causing the problem between them.
"Your Honour, she is a very nice woman but she ignorant," he said while claiming that she always attacked him with a weapon.
"Your Honour, one time she run me down on the road in a tights and brassiere with a chopper, a stone and a cutlass," he said.
Mayne then told the court that he was a good man in his community, a good man to the complainant, and treated her well.
The magistrate then asked him if he did not hit the complainant and he admitted that he did but said he was innocent of the other charges of resisting arrest, assaulting a constable and malicious destruction of property.
However, the complainant who fathered three children by Mayne during their 14-year relationship, denied Mayne's report and told the court that he was an abusive man who had hit her several times, even during pregnancy.
"Your honour, that's not true, ask anybody in the community, I never hit her before. I am not a woman beater," he said.
Mayne then told the court that the complainant had thrown him out of the house since the incident and he was suffering. more
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