This is
Couples Court with the Cutlers.
This is the case of
Turchi vs. Pearson.
Y'all have been together
for a year and a half.
Ms. Turchi why have you brought
your boyfriend to court today?
I'm here because I think
he has been cheting on me.
with the girl in the apartment
that lives directly underneath
from me, downstairs.
I've invested over
a year with you.
So, I need to know,
'cause I'm too fine for this.
She said she's too fine
that that. Okay.
Sounds like you got a lot
of concerns.
What's at stake here?
I mean, if you found out
he's cheating, then what?
Your honor, I just need to know,
because if he is cheating,
I need to know 'cause I can
leave now, because I got lotta
outer guys.
A lotta other neighbours
that want me.
It's not just you, Bo.
I guess it's good
to have opetions, huh?
She got options.
It sounds like,
she got options.
Yeah, your honor.
Mr. Pierceson, I mean,
she said she's got options.
So, if you cheating on her...
Are you cheating on her?
Of course not your honor,
if she can get past
the insecurities,
we wouldn't argue,
we wouldn't argue
about anythihng.
How do you feel
about Ms. Turchi?
DANA: Okay, aside from the lust.
The very obvious lust.
Yeah...
I saw that...
What do you mean?
Okay, you see how he...
I feel I ought to give you
a knife and a fork
the way you looking at her.
Ready to eat her up, huh?
He is ready to bounce
I'm talking like... wow!
So you want this
relationship to work?
Of course. Of course.
DANA: How did you guys meet?
Basically, we met at a mailbox.
We both live in the same
apartment community.
So, I'm out there
getting my mail,
I had just worked out,
and this guy comes up,
just a normal guy
trying to holler again
and I'm like,
"Oh god, what does he want?"
you know.
I step back for a second
and then I see his car
and I was like,
you know, let me
give him a chance.
What kinda car does he have
to make you say, let me give you
a chance?
A Corvette.
Okay, so you looed at him
and it was like (WHINES)
but the you saw the car?
Cause it's like...
And that's what sealed the deal?
Not like I sealed the deal
but it's like, "Oh,
he got some swag."
Ah! You know Cutler,
swag.
KEITH: All right, so when
you first saw her,
what did you think?
I'm new to the area, so I went
to go check my mailbox.
and I'm seeing her and I'm like,
"Oh, who's this little baddie
with a fatty?" You feal me?
I had to close out, fast.
Once we went seprate ways,
when we pulled up to park,
we noticed that she
lives above me.
DANA: Oh, so you're at
 a mailbox down the street?
And then y'all realized ya'll
live right there together?
BOTH: Right, yes.
Well, before the fist date,
I felt like I have to stand out.
So, I had left some flowers
in her door.
 You know what I'm saying,
 I kept being persistant.
I would text her, call her...
If she needed anything, done,
I would do anything to
just get in her face.
Two weeks later after
the first meeting,
we went out to eat.
Just had good conversation,
good chemistry and we went
from there.
So, Ms. Turchi, did you feel
that he was putting on
the full core press?
Yeah, that swag, he was cool,
he was nice, he didn't seem like
you know, a jerk. Very well
mannered, would open my door,
the car door.
Just very respectful.
So that stood out, you know.
You eventually said,
yes, I'll go out with you.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay, 'casue it started out,
so you liked his car.
DANA: Yeah.
But he kept pushing,
he kept pushing...
Whenever I got in.
Kept pushin'...
And she fell for him.
See how that works.
Well, I know how that works,
if you remember,
if you remember, you were
just a friend?
Yeah.
And then...
I kept pushing...
Well, yeah, you did
'cause I was going out
with a guy.
You'se like, I don't want you
to do that no more.
Yeah.
So, I was like, oh, okay.
All right, so give it up
to the persistant brothers.
There you go, all right.
So, I mean, this sounds
really perfect,
he's your neighbour,
nice lookin' gentleman,
nice vehicle.
Nice car.
He's got the full court press,
he's respectful.
Why in the world
are you here today?
I'm here your honor because
he lives right underneath me...
So, I ring on the bell,
this woman answers
and she's like...
can I help you,
I go, "Is Jarmeul here?"
And she's like, "He's not here
right now." and she didn't
retaliate or question me cry,
She didn't have really
too much of a reaction?
And I just looked at her
and I was like,
I pointed at my car
and I pointed upstairs,
and I go,
"But who's gonna bring
my stuff upstairs, my groceries"
And she kinda just looked at me,
didn't even have a reaction,
like,
that's my man,
like, what you doing here,
like nothing.
She was so basic.
So, Ms. Turchi,
you confront this woman,
and you ask her...
I didn't assume, 'cause...
I'm bad, she's not,
so it didn't cross my mind
that this could be a woman
that he's involved with.
I really thought it was
a housekeeper or something.
KEITH: So, Mr. Pearson,
Yes, your honor.
you girlfriend knocks
on the door,
and finds that you're living
with another woman.
How does hat happen?
Your honor, this is a...
a friend from the past.
She was down on her luck,
he came to me last minute
asking me if she could
stay with me.
We had just started talking
when she was down on her luck
and came to my house.
She's being paranoid right now.
And is she still
living with you?
No.
Okay, so when she was
living with you, were you
ever sexually active with her?
No.
I'm trying to figure out
why you didn't tell
your girlfriend
I got another woman
staying with me...
I didn't tell her
cause it was last minute
and I didn't know how long
she was gonna stay,
so I didn't think it mattered.
I thought it was gonna be
a quick turnaround,
like maybe 90 days.
How long does it take you
to get on your feet?
KEITH: 90 days?
It doesn't take long
to get on your feet.
So you weren't gonna...
So if your girlfriend
had not knocked
on the door,
your friend would have stayed
there for 3 months without you
telling your girlfriend?
I mean, ain't that
the probationary period,
that's like 90 days...
You can get a repeal in 90 days.
DANA: No. No
Let me answer your question,
no!
DANA: That's a no.
KEITH: You'll be on
a probationary period alright.
If that's the csae, Mr. Cutler's
been on probation for 38 years.
'Cause that would be a no.
A no.
You can't have a woman living
with you and you
not say something.
I mean, ain't that probationary
period, that's like 90 days.
This is where I had
my ultimatum.
So, one night,
we were supposed to go
to the movies and he just
started like, not answering,
he was supposed to be at my
house... now it's to the point
where it's like.
past 8, 9, 10, 11 'O'Clock
and you're not here.
How we supposed to do
the movies?
He stood me up.
So now he's trying to act
suspicious all over again.
Did you stand down
Ms. Turchi up?
irst date, I did clairy to her
that I'm a real estate investor
and that my schedule is hectic.
And on that night,
we talked about the movies
but we didn't actually
plan it-plan it.
Oh my god!
You understand? So...
so, that night
I with a client.
And I get that but
Y'all had a movie picked out,
right?
You had a movie
picked out, right?
There's no romance
without finance.
You had a movie
picked out, right?
Yes, we did.
And at this point, Jarmeul
knows my biggest pet peeve,
I hate this,
is getting ready and then
the guy just doesn't show up.
That's my number 1 thing
that I hate and he just...
whatever so anyways...
Wait, wait, wait. So let me
ask you something.
So you believe,
that he wasn't closing
a real estate deal,
you believe he was closing
some other kinda deal?
Yes.
DANA: All right Ms. Turchi,
do you have anything else?
Yes. I had a formal event I had
to attend at a mansion
in Maimi.
I had told Jarmeul weeks prior.
It was very, very important
to me, he knew it was
very important to me.
I had planned for this.
We had RSVP'd,
wear a special attire,
 get a limo...
 it was just a very
 formal event.
So it get like 6 'O'Clock
and he's like yeah,
I'm on my way.
Eight o'clock comes,
he's now where to be found.
So, you're just gonna
stand me up?
I paid for my hair, my makeup,
I had to buy a ticket,
not only for me,
for me and him.
I had to...
DANA: What was the cost
of those tickets?
They were $600 for both.
Wow!
I mean, it's one thing a movie
but $600 worth of tickets?
KEITH:
So where were you Mr. Pearson?
 Your honor, that day,
 my day started very early
 at 5 a.m.
I ran a whole bunch of errands,
I hit the gym,
so I called her and told her,
I'm gonna go home and take
a cat nap.
Uncoftunately, when I got home,
I took a cat nap,
when I woke up,
it was 5'O'Clock in the morning.
So, you went home to take
a cat nap and now you find
yourself in the dog house.
In the dog house.
Just wake up and you're
already in it.
You slept through the party?
I slept through it.
Fineser, I fell asleep,
I took a nap.
Come on.
She knocked on
the door.
You live upstairs
from him right?
Yes!
So, you didn't go downstairs
and knock on the door?
I went downstairs, knocked
on the door, ring the video
doorbell, and...
nothing.
My car was outside.
My car was outside...
So, I knew he was there.
I was asleep.
So, you knew he was there,
You just think he was there
with another woman?
Yes!
Yes!
and I didn't know how long
she's gonna stay so I didn't
think it would matter.
My car was outside...
So, I new he was there.
I was asleep.
I was probably tired.
How would you not hear
somebody pounding on your door?
I'm tired!
DANA: So you...
(JARMEUL LAUGHING)
you actually saw his car
parked in the driveway?
Yes, your honor.
So, you knew he was there.
Yes! Yes!
You just think he was there
with another woman?
'Cause why else would you
not answer the door?
Well, he was asleep.
(CROWD LAUGHS)
Please, he heard it.
Hey, you've opened
your case today,
because youu'r suing to recoup
the money that you put out
for those tickets.
Correct. I think he should pay
for both of our tickets because
he made me get ready.
That's...
DANA: Did you go the party?
I went to the party.
I had to get my hair...
Out outfits had to
coordinate with each other.
I had to spend money on
my wardrobe, my make-up.
Let me ask you this,
how much are you asking
this court to,
award you.
I'm asking him for $1600
To re-emberse...
DANA: All right, so I know
$600 for the tickets,
what does the other
$1000 cover?
I had to do my botox
and my lips,
and that combined
was another thousand.
DANA: Botox and lips...
JARMEUL: You know, she was
 gonna do that regardless.
 That's crazy, your honor.
He's always telling me...
I won't charge her
for a haircut.
I would never charge her
for a haircut or a carwash.
He's always tell me...
That's crazy.
She wanted to do that
regardless.
She want to do that regardless.
It has nothing to do
with our dinner date.
You told me, you wanted me
to get my lips done
You said they were looking
a little deflated, anyways.
(CROWD CRINJING)
Mr. Pearson, did you commit
to go to this party?
I did commit.
Okay. Ms. Turchi,
what do you hope for
in this relationship?
I hope that he's not cheating.
Like, maybe he did a little bit
in the beginning when we
first met, that's fine.
But, once we established
a relationship,
and I gave you an ultimatum
and you actually evicted
the girl...
Like, there is no reason
to cheat after that.
You got all this...
why would you mess that us?
DANA: Well, there it is.
Well, to get to the truth,
The court has retained
the services of licenced
Private Investigator,
and polygraph examiner,
Kendall Shull.
Ron, would you please show
Mr. Shull into the courtroom.
Yes, your honor.
DANA: Mr. Shull,
how are you?
Good, your honor, thank you.
Good to see you, Mr. Shull.
Good to see you, your honor.
Ms. Turchi has come concerns
about her boyfriend.
Now, you performed
an investigation in this case.
Is that right?
Yes, I did, your honor.
So, what did your investigation
in this case, entail?
Our investigation entailed
a female associate,
who went undercover
posing as a letigate,
coming to court...
What the... what is this?
because she too
is being accused of cheating.
Her assignment...
A setup.
Her assignment was to find out
if Mr Pearson is a cheater.
he firted with him
to see if he would bite.
I didn't even move.
I didn't even budge.
Look.
You're lookin
at her like... (TOOTS)
I was being nice!
I know he like big booties.
All she got is a butt.
Well, that's all you need!
DANA: Oh, boy.
Okay, what else happend?
At some point, my associate
talked about being in Vegas
for an event,
that he too
is planning to attend.
So my associate asks
for his phone number,
and I have that tape as well.
All right, let's see that.
JARMEUL: You're honor...
DANA: Hold on.
You can tell I'm not
even interested.
You just put y
our phone number in there.
That was a fake number.
Okay, how do you prove it?
And you gave her your instagram?
Wow!
I was being social,
that's all it was.
So, Mr. Pearson, this lady
talked to you,
about hookin' up in Vegas,
and you give her...
I gave her
the cold shoulder
at first.
But she wa so agressive
and kept coming.
I didn't wanna be...
Remember when we started dating
you was really agressive
and I was giving you
the cold shoulder and look
how this turned out.
Okay, but...
I'm the hunter,
I don't want to be
hunted.
What do you mean?
I was chillin'.
All right, but to further
investigate this case,
we ordered a polygraph test.
And we have those result,
right Mr. Shull.
Yes, we do, your honor.
Mr. Pearson was aksed,
"In mid April,
"did you have physical
sexual contact
"with a woman on the night
you stood up Ms. Turchi
for your movie date?"
What was his response
to that question?
He said no.
What did the lie detector
determine?
The lie detector determined
that he was being...
deceptive.
KEITH: Mr. Pearson...
you have been deceptive,
what happened?
Really?
DANA: All right, let's go
to the next question.
To futher investigate this case,
we ordered a polygraph test.
Mr Pearson was asked,
"Did you have physical sexual
contact
"with another woman,
"the night you didn't go
to the dinner party?"
What was his response?
He said no.
What did the lie detector
determine?
The lie detector determined
that he was being...
deceptive.
On the night of my event?
Are you kidding me!
Wow!
You couldn't have chosen
anyothe night to go out
with any other woman!
You had to choose that night?
You knew that was
important to me,
I can't believe
you would do this to me,
for some basic... (BEEP)
KEITH: Mr. Pearson,
you're 0 for 3.
Ron, would you please go
get Ms. Turchi?
Yes, your honor.
Ms. Turchi, your obviously
upset. Would you share with
Mr. Pearson, how you're
feeling right now.
I mean, you walys talk about
trust any loyality and
you just lie about everything.
So, now, it's just
a conformation.
So, why would even pursue me
for over a year,
just to cheat on me?
For what reason?
If you're gonna be a player,
play the game properly!
Just say it.
Sometimes I heckle
with other women.
DANA: All right.
And so you've done that
since you've been dating her?
Yes.
They don't mean
anything to me.
Obviously they meant
our realationship, 'cause,
I'm not dealing with this.
So you're saying your done?
Yes, your honor.
KEITH: Well, we still need
to rule on the lawsuit.
And your claim for the lawsuit
was that you spent,
$1600.
$600 on tickets.
300 for you, 300 for him.
Pus the cost for your botox
and your lips.
Yes, your honor.
I wish I could award you
the full $1600,
but I can't.
Because the botox and lips
that was for your benefit
as well.
The ticket that you bought for
him, you are entitled to
reimbursement for that
and the court is gonna order
you, Mr. Pearson to reimburse
Ms Turchi $300.
For the ticket,
for the mansion party event.
So ordered.
(GAVEL BANGS)
 This is Couples Court
With The Cutlers.
This is the case
of Stewart v. Smith.
You all have been together
for two and a half years.
You're engaged.
You have one child together.
And allegations of cheating
are destroying
this relationship.
Is that right?
BOTH: Yes, Your Honor.
Miss Stewart, why did you
bring your fiancee
to court today?
Well, Your Honor,
I believe he's cheating on me.
Um... I've had to, you know,
ruin all my relationships
with all my family
just to be with him,
and we have a kid together.
So I'm really seeing
if he's worth it.
If you find out
that he is cheating,
you're not only potentially
gonna lose this relationship,
you will be alone.
Yeah.
You will not have
your family to go back to.
No, I will not.
That's a tough choice
to have to make between...
This is...
Yeah, yeah.
Between somebody you love
and your family.
Right. And then
you've chosen love.
Yeah, I did.
JUDGE DANA: And the question is
has love chosen you?
STEWART: Mmm-hmm.
JUDGE DANA: All right.
Mr. Smith,
has love chosen her?
Oh, yes. I'm really
in love with her, Your Honor.
We've been through
thick and thin, hard times,
really hard times,
and we've been at
our high points together.
She's the love of my life.
I want to marry her.
What do you hope
to prove today?
That I'm not cheating.
That I'm loyal to her.
 And I just want her
 to know that,
 so we can move on.
JUDGE DANA:
 So your wedding plans
 have been even put on hold,
because of these allegations
of cheating. Is that correct?
Yeah, that's correct,
Your Honor.
Are you starting to see
the classic warning signs?
STEWART: Yeah, I am.
JUDGE DANA: Okay,
tell me about that.
Well, a lot of times,
when I'm checking his phone,
I'll see text messages
when he's texting, like,
a woman or something,
and he'll call them
"bae" or "boo."
I can't control
what somebody says to me.
STEWART: No, it's not...
Oh, no!
BOTH: Not the
"I can't control!"
All right.
If I had a dollar...
You can always.
JUDGE DANA: All right.
Let me tell you this.
You can't control,
but let me tell you
what you can.
When somebody does that,
you have to put them
in their place. You have
to say, "Hey, hey, hey.
"I belong to somebody else."
Because when
you don't check them,
they presume,
"Oh, okay, this is all right."
So you have to be like...
JUDGE KEITH: When you say
you can't control it,
yeah, you can.
But what I mean by that is
them texting me the first text.
You know, I'm saying
I can't control that first
text coming in.
But I can say something
like you just said.
But you never do.
You never do.
JUDGE KEITH: Do you say
something or do you reply back
saying, "Hey, bae," "Hey, boo"?
Nah, I just kinda ignore it.
You never respond back?
I respond back,
with, like, not... Not...
"Bae, boo..."
JUDGE DANA: But you don't
respond to the "Bae" part?
Yes, you have!
Okay, maybe sometimes.
JUDGE KEITH: Okay, so,
sometimes, you have, okay?
That's what we need to get at.
So when you said
you can't control it,
not only are you
not controlling it,
you're encouraging it
by responding in like fashion.
JUDGES DANA AND KEITH: Right?
Right, right.
And that's not good, is it?
SMITH: No.
'Cause this has got you
here talking to us.
What else you got?
Well, when I check his phone,
or sometimes when
I check his location,
he'll say, "I'm going here
to hang out with my friends"
or something,
but he always
stop here, stop there.
Or sometimes, he'll just be
somewhere else for an hour.
How do you
check his location?
Well, on Snapchat,
you can check it on there.
Sometimes I use Google,
and I can check it
through my email,
see where his phone's at.
JUDGE DANA: Wow.
JUDGE KEITH: Why you
doing all this?
Just to make sure.
'Cause a lot of times,
like, 'll check his phone,
and I'll see that.
So now I want to make sure
he's not cheating on me.
That's like five minutes
after I leave
the house, though.
JUDGE DANA: But you know
if you go looking,
you gonna find, right?
Yeah.
You understand that?
But here's the thing, though.
If she's gone through his phone
and found text messages,
"Hey, boo, hey, bae."
He's responding.
Yes.
Then she's probably thinking,
"Okay, lemme check up on this."
I understand.
So that might be
what's fueling some of this.
Is that a fair statement?
Yeah, that's a fair statement.
JUDGE KEITH: Okay,
see, I get that.
But I think it's very difficult
to hold a person...
"Were you at the donut shop
instead of the drugstore?"
All right, well, let me
approach it this way.
All right, let me
see what you got.
JUDGE KEITH: Has he been
unfaithful in the past?
Yes.
There you have it.
Okay. Well.
What happened?
Well, he was with
a family member of mine.
And he cheated on her with me.
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMING)
JUDGE DANA: Oh!
JUDGE KEITH: So you know
what you're looking for?
You know what
the signs are.
You know...
So it's the classic
"How you get 'em
is how you lose 'em."
(AUDIENCE CLAPPING)
JUDGE KEITH: And that's why
your family
won't talk to you.
Yeah.
That's why you've had to
make this choice between...
So it's not just disapproval
of, like, "We don't like him."
It is, they don't like this.
Yes.
JUDGE KEITH: Now, you stole him
from another woman.
Yes.
A family member,
not just another woman.
A family member.
It was more like
I just fell in love with her.
I was down at the time...
And the other family member
wasn't there for me.
You cheated on her
with other people, too.
Yes, yes, I did.
But in my defense,
we wasn't like...
You know?
So you were
with her family member,
fell in love with her,
and said, "This is the one
I need to be with."
Yes, Ma'am.
JUDGE KEITH: And now,
she thinks you're ready
to move on to somebody else.
SMITH: Yes.
Because there's text messages.
Because of
your location issues.
It's everyday, all day.
JUDGE KEITH: What's it like
in your relationship?
SMITH: So say
I drop her off at work.
Uh-huh.
SMITH: Round 2:00.
Probably by 4:00,
she's pinging my phone.
Or she wants to know
where I'm at.
Or she'll ping my phone,
and then call and ask me
where I'm at.
Which, like,
that's weird to me.
'Cause you just
pinged my phone,
it comes to my phone.
She does it,
so I know
every time she does it.
So you know
you're being hunted?
Yeah, so it gets...
So it gets kinda annoying.
So, like, sometimes, I just
stop answering the phone
if I already told her
where I'm at, you know.
You already know
what I'm doing.
I hang out with...
Most of the time...
Most of the time,
you're not where you're at.
I'm where I'm at.
No. A lot of times
you'll just say,
"I'm here and there,"
that's why I question you
before I say anything.
Because a lot of times,
you just lie.
JUDGE DANA: Okay,
so here's the question.
Are you where you say you are
or do you disappear?
Sometimes.
JUDGE DANA: But a
little bit of both?
Most of the time,
he'll disappear,
'cause he'll just turn it off.
What periods of time
does he disappear?
Um, sometimes when
he goes out at night,
after the bar.
He'll just disappear.
He'll turn off his location,
he'll say, "Oh, you know,
I'm gonna pick you up,
"we're gonna go
to a party at 2:00 a.m.,
"or whatever
after I get out
from the bar."
He'll just turn off
his location,
not answer the phone,
and then not come back
till, like, 9:00 a.m.
Usually, it's 'cause I'm drunk.
Sometimes, I fall asleep
in the car.
Sometimes, I fall asleep
in a friend's house, you know.
JUDGE DANA: All right.
JUDGE KEITH: What else
do you have?
STEWART: We share
a phone together,
and one day, I went to...
He was dropping me off at work,
and I took the phone
with me on accident.
JUDGE DANA: Okay.
And somebody had texted,
literally, soon as I
walked into the door.
Like he had told them,
"Hey, she goes to work
at 2:00, text me after."
Hit me up.
Yeah.
So I got a text from...
It was a woman.
And they texted and said,
"Oh, when are we
gonna hang out?"
So I texted back
acting like I was him.
And I said, "Oh yeah,
we can hang out later."
She said, "Great."
And I texted back and said,
"Are we gonna hook up,
you know?"
And she said,
"No, I'm on my period."
Like they had hooked up
before in the past.
No, Your Honor...
All right, this is...
You submitted that information
in your court papers.
Yeah, I have evidence.
JUDGE DANA: And this is your
recollection of the text.
(JUDGE KEITH READS FIRST TEXT)
(JUDGE DANA READS SECOND TEXT)
JUDGE KEITH:
"Can't today because..."
Yeah.
Mr. Cutler, you can't say that?
We got kids, man.
You can say that.
I'll try.
All right.
SMITH: I have
a lot of female friends.
JUDGE KEITH: Well, Mr. Smith,
you say you have
a lot f female friends.
Yes.
I'm curious as to what
comes after that statement.
Because it could be,
"I have
a lot of female friends.
"I don't know which one
of these I was planning
on hooking up with."
If you give somebody phone,
and that person
is interested in you,
whether you've cheated with
her or not, and you play
like you're that somebody,
when you're talking to them,
and they're interested in you,
and you say,
"Oh, you wanna hook up?"
and she's wanting to hook up,
I feel like she's gonna reply
just like she would
if it was me.
But she's playing like
she's somebody else.
So you think that
because she was catfishing
for the most part,
she caught some bait?
SMITH: Yeah.
Okay.
So my question is
have you ever caught him
or found anything physically
to support he's cheating.
Yes.
During the summer
he would go to the pool a lot.
And there's a lot of
pretty ladies at the pool
in swimming suits.
Well, one day,
when I went to work,
and I came home,
I found a bathing suit
in the bathroom.
And I want to presume
that was not your bathing suit
because you were
not swimming at the time.
Yeah, I have evidence.
Ron, would you please
get that folder, please?
Thank you, ma'am.
JUDGE KEITH:
And so you came home,
you found a bathing suit...
A woman's bathing suit?
I take it.
Yes.
Where did you find it?
STEWART: It was hanging
on the knobs on the cabinet.
JUDGE KEITH: Where in
your house was this?
STEWART: In the bathroom.
In the bathroom,
you found
a woman's bathing suit
hanging on the knob,
so when you found it,
what did you do?
I got really mad.
I asked him about it.
And he said, "Oh, you know,
she was changing in the room
"and she just needed
to change out of her clothes."
Do you know who this woman's...
Yes, I've seen her
wear it at the pool.
I knew exactly who it was.
Has she ever been around
Mr. Smith before?
Yes, yes.
JUDGE DANA:
Have you seen them
flirting together?
Yes.
So you think this might be
one of the women
he's hooking up with?
STEWART: Yes.
I'm not flirting
with 'em, Your Honor.
Okay, what's this
woman's bathing suit
doing in your bathroom?
It wasn't just me and her,
it was another girl, too.
That doesn't sound good.
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMING)
No.
JUDGE KEITH: Mr. Smith...
I'm concerned and intrigued.
How many women were there?
There was just two.
JUDGE KEITH: Just two?
Yeah, just two.
Just two.
SMITH: But at the time,
um, we came from the pool,
and we were all changing
to go out to eat somewhere.
You and these
two other women?
I wasn't changing with them.
Why would they be in the room?
They were in the room,
because our bathroom
is in the room.
Why your place?
SMITH: Our place?
Because it was close...
No, because, that woman...
The one that's bathing suit,
she had plenty of friends.
I mean, she was very popular.
And so she had plenty
of friends that was all
women's apartments
where she could have
went and changed.
Why our bathroom?
So in your complex,
at the pool,
she could have gone to
a number of women's apartments
and this
wouldn't been an issue.
JUDGE DANA: Is that correct?
STEWART: Yes.
Do you see why
this doesn't sound...
You know, Your Honor,
I ain't thinking much of it,
because she's seen me
hanging with them before,
she's seen us kicking...
I've kicked it with them
numerous of times.
Okay, so what if I had
a dude come in our bathroom
and change?
JUDGE DANA: And his
trunks are on the...
As long as she wasn't
in the bathroom with him.
Like, I'm fine with that.
Like, that's where the...
You know, the button's pushed
if she's in the bathroom
with him.
I wasn't in the bathroom
with her.
Okay. Mr. Cutler,
I think
that we have enough evidence
at this point.
What we got is the following.
She goes on the phone,
and she finds text messages
saying "bae" and "boo."
Mmm-hmm.
She comes home,
after a hard day's work,
no less,
and finds a woman's bikini
hanging in her bathroom.
And then the final thing was
that he doesn't
tell the truth
about where he is.
So based on all of these
different factors,
she believes he's cheating.
Miss Stewart,
if you found out he's cheating,
your relationship is over?
Yeah.
JUDGE KEITH: You're done?
Mmm-hmm.
JUDGE DANA: But there's
more at risk here.
She's already severed ties
with her family.
So she's just out there.
She's by herself with a child.
This court has done
a full and complete
investigation to determine
is he cheating?
(AUDIENCE CLAPPING)
At this time,
the court would
like to hear from
licensed private investigator
and certified polygraph
examiner, Kendall Shull.
Ron, please escort Mr. Shull
into the courtroom.
Yes, Your Honor.
RON: Kendall Shull, step
right over to the monitor.
SHULL: Thank you.
RON: Thank you.
Good day.
How are you, Mr. Shull?
Good day. Fine, Your Honor.
How are you?
JUDGE DANA: We're good.
JUDGE KEITH: It's good
to see you.
Mr. Shull, what did you do
to investigate in this case?
We put Mr. Smith in a room
with a very sexy woman
to find out one thing...
Is he a cheater?
JUDGE KEITH:
Tell us what you found.
Well, as you can see
here in the footage,
Mr. Smith engaged in
small talk with this woman.
 She put the moves on him
 to see if he would bite.
 And I give him credit.
He showed no signs of cheating.
Were you able
to gather any information
from this exchange?
We were unable to
find any evidence
during this entire exchange
that shows signs of cheating.
JUDGE DANA: All right.
To further
investigate this case,
you also conducted a polygraph
examination of Mr. Smith.
Is that correct?
I did, Your Honor.
JUDGE DANA: All right.
JUDGE DANA:
And Mr. Smith was asked,
"Have you ever had
sexual intercourse
"with the woman
who left her bathing suit
in your bathroom?"
Is that correct?
SHULL: That's correct,
Your Honor.
JUDGE DANA: And what was
his response?
SHULL: He said, "No."
What did the
lie detector determine?
The lie detector determined
that he was being truthful.
(SOFTLY) I'm sorry.
(CHUCKLES)
And we have one other question.
Mr. Smith was asked
"Since your relationship
began with Miss Stewart
two and a half years ago,
"have you had sexual
intercourse with anyone
other than Miss Stewart?"
What was his response?
What was his response?
Well, to this
particular question,
Mr. Smith
did make an admission.
AUDIENCE: Oh!
He said that when he is mad
at Miss Stewart,
he stays out all night,
and sometimes,
he sleeps with
another woman.
(AUDIENCE GASPING)
JUDGE KEITH: Mr. Smith,
how many other women
are we talking about?
(SIGHS) Your Honor,
it's just one.
But when you get mad,
you run to this woman?
No, no, not repeatedly.
It was a one-time thing.
JUDGE DANA: This young lady
has severed herself from
her family for you.
So, are you telling the truth?
Are you lying now?
Were you lying
when you confessed to him
that you were with other women,
sometimes, more than once?
JUDGE KEITH:
When you get mad?
No.
JUDGE KEITH: And now,
your fiance
has just stormed out.
SMITH: Yeah.
JUDGE KEITH: What do you
have to say about that?
I figured she was gonna get
emotional about it, but...
"Emotional"?
It was a one-time thing
early in our relationship.
One time.
Ron, could you go and see
if she has pulled it together
and can come back?
Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE DANA:
Okay. There she is.
Miss Stewart,
I know that this is a lot.
So much so,
you had to leave the room.
But you did come here
for answers.
I just want to know
who it was with.
Um...
Was it with the family member
or somebody else?
The family member.
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMING)
Wow.
Well, now that
you know that, Miss Stewart,
what do you do
with that information?
I want to move on. Honestly.
Mr. Smith, is there
anything you want to say
to Miss Stewart right now?
I apologize.
I'm sorry.
I really love you,
like truly.
You mean everything
to me, really.
If you really loved me,
you wouldn't have done that.
(MOUTHING INDISTINCTLY)
You have a child together.
And the family unit
is so important.
And if you,
somehow in your heart,
can figure it out
and bring him
back into your home,
God bless you.
But if you choose not to,
'cause my mama said,
"You can do bad
all by yourself,"
then you will need counseling
on how to co-parent together.
As we say in this courtroom,
don't cheat yourself
out of a chance
for a good relationship.
Court is adjourned.
(GAVEL BANGS)
