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    Default Indecent Exposure

    My question involves criminal law for the state of: West virginia

    My day started at the gym. I went to a shopping center, had a change of clothes in my vehicle. I pulled into a space where no one could see me, no one was around, but while changing my clothes a woman was walking to her vehicle and looked into my vehicle, seen me changing ( i never seen her ) she called police, and i was later called by police to come in to be questioned. She says i exposed my self to her, I never did such thing. I just changed clothes. She has no proof of anything. Is this enough for a jury to be convinced to say im guilty ?

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    Nope. That story has been done over and over. Most of my convictions that are on my load have told a variation of this story.

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    Quote Quoting viol8te
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    Nope. That story has been done over and over. Most of my convictions that are on my load have told a variation of this story.
    If I'm not mistaken, that exact story has been told here on this forum.

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    If I'm not mistaken, that exact story has been told here on this forum.
    OP needs to browse previous posts before he spins a story huh?

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    I pulled into a space where no one could see me, no one was around
    Any juror who has even been in a shopping center is going to have a hard time believing that. Especially when, as it turns out, someone DID see you. Any juror who has even been to a gym will understand that you could have changed THERE, and yet strangely, chose not to. Circumstantial of course, but a good portion of convictions occur with just that.

    She has no proof of anything.
    "Proof" INCLUDES the testimony of witnesses as well as circumstantial evidence, as noted above.

    Is this enough for a jury to be convinced to say im guilty ?
    It's certainly not little enough that you don't need to worry. Consult local counsel.

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    Hell, just in the medium sized town I used to dispatch for we'd get two or three of those cases a WEEK. Shopping center parking lots are overly ripe for such activity (why? Oh I dunno...maybe because "shopping center", by definition, implies a place where people GATHER to shop. Hardly the type of place one can expect to pull into to take one's pants off with ANY level of privacy. Things that make a jury go "hmmmm".)

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    The question is whether you changed your clothes but whether you exposed your "sexual organs". You can sit there in your car in your tightie whities or dance around that way in the parking lot and not be guilty of WV's indecent exposure statute. So unless you were taking your underpants off and she's going to testify to having seen your junk, you're not guilty.

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    Default Re: Indecent Exposure

    I once worked with a guy who...well...had to put lotion on a rash on his weenie (that was his excuse). Of course, why he could not do this in the bathroom is beyond anyone's guess.....no, he thought stepping behind a pallet would be sufficient. Needless to say, two of us saw him (plenty more than we wanted to see), and he got canned.

    Myself...I've had to change clothes in goofy spots before. Solution? Stop at McD's or a store with a bathroom at the entrance, and use a stall in their bathroom....

    Seriously though...why didn't you change clothes at the gym? Or use the restroom of the shopping center?

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    Quote Quoting PandorasBox
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    ...why didn't you change clothes at the gym? Or use the restroom of the shopping center?
    My guess would be that such activity would not have any sort of "entertainment" value.

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