Posted on 12/18/2009 9:06:08 PM PST by myknowledge
A US man has been charged with indecent exposure for being naked in his own home.
Erick Williamson, 29 was observed without clothes through a doorway and a window, by a seven-year-old boy and his mother who were walking by.
Williamson argued that it was his home, and therefore he could choose to go nude.
But a judge found against him, saying that he intended to make himself visible to passers-by.
The Virginia man said he will appeal the decision.
"I think that being tried and found guilty of something like this is outrageous," Williamson said after he was convicted and sentenced.
"I feel like I'm living in a fishbowl."
Williamson testified that he never intended to expose himself and was simply exercising "personal freedom" as he spent several hours naked in his Springfield home packing up belongings.
Police, prosecutors and two witnesses, though, said Williamson's actions were designed to draw attention to himself.
The first woman who passed by, school librarian Joyce Giuliani, said she heard some loud singing as she left her home and drove to work. As she drove by Williamson's home, she saw him naked, standing directly behind a large window.
A few hours later, Yvette Dean was walking her seven-year-old son to school along a trail that runs by Williamson's home.
She heard a loud rattle, looked to her left and saw Williamson standing naked, full frontal, in a side doorway.
"He gave me eye contact," Dean said.
As she turned the corner, she looked back at the home, in disbelief at what she had just seen.
Again, she saw Williamson, naked in the same window.
One of Williamson's housemates testified that Williamson had been nude well before dawn.
Timothy Baclit testified that he woke up around 5am to go to work and saw Williamson walking around "naked ... with a hard hat."
He said he warned Williamson that he would be visible to passers-by but that Williamson did not respond.
Williamson, 29, said the conversation with Baclit never occurred and that he never noticed that two women had seen him.
He said "it did not occur to me" that people outside the home might see him naked.
Regardless of whether he was seen, Williamson's conduct does not constitute indecent exposure, said his attorney, Dickson Young.
Under Virginia law, the charge requires "an obscene display or exposure" and must occur in "a public place or a place where others are present."
Young argued that neither prong had been met.
"Mere nudity is insufficient to declare conduct obscene," Young said, noting that none of the women testified that Williamson was aroused or that he made any sort of obscene gesture.
"Nudity in one's own home is not a crime."
So,
How conservative would you rate yourself 1-10 with 10=maximum?
Have a blessed CHRISTmas.
So if this guy is intentionally exposing himself, it’s okay?
Over the years, I’ve seen several female neighbors nude .
He DID want to be seen Bunny Slippers. How you doing by the way?
He constantly uses this “my home is my castle” defense and as I put in my comments, which really should be, go with me here, READ, some conservatives, loyal and true believers in private property sometimes to a fault, fall for his silly line.
You don’t get to stand in front of a big picture window wiggling your willy and use the concept that hey, I’m in my own house what’s your problem? You sure don’t get to go in your carport, wearing nothing but a hard hat (I do that all the time) and stand naked for passing school children to see, all the while proclaiming it is MY house and I can do this.
Evidently a judge and a courtroom full of witnesses agree.
I have some experience with this. They are sickos. It has nothing to do with conservatism, it has to do with protecting your family from perverts.
Oh I don’t know....I’d rate myself maybe a 9 on the conservative scale as you present.
I’m a little liberal on homosexual but not homo marriages, maybe abortion, I dunno, mostly cause I don’t think it can be changed. But I sure think conservatives...ie Republicans from time to time, could do more to stop this late term nonsense if they’d give it a try. Babies’ heads being pierced in the womb breaks my heart.
Beyond that, I think I read pretty much spot on on most conservative issues, limited gubmint, low taxes, American exceptionalism....and yeah, your home is your castle but not if you use it as a peep show to offend innocent passersby...that sort of thing.
Oh, and you have a Merry Christmas as well.
Thanks.
I think that’s about how I had you pegged.
Blessings,
Apples and Pumpkins
ditto
At 70 I don’t dare walk around my house naked...could cause some trauma or heart attack to someone with a weak heart..or send some kid screaming into the street and getting hit by a car...
Thats a good way to get rid of them, still laughing as I type.......
Just standing out in my yard. Three instances. Different neighbors.
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