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00:02:42 Ladies and gentlemen, you've been brought here by the State of Texas versus Savannah Logan.

00:02:47 Miss Logan, will you please stand?

00:02:49 Miss Logan will be represented by Jamie Barnett and Taylor Williams.

00:02:54 And Hillary Holmes will represent the State of Texas.

00:02:56 She'll be assisted by Jack Kirk.

00:02:59 Miss Holmes?

00:03:00 Savannah Logan has been charged with two counts of public lewdness and one count of indecent exposure.

00:03:06 The maximum penalty is $9,000 in fines and three years in jail.

00:03:11 Public lewdness is when a person touches the breast or genitals of another person in a public place

00:03:18 with the intent to arouse or gratify sexual desire.

00:03:22 Indecent exposure is when a person exposes his or her genitals with reckless disregard for whether another is present

00:03:30 who will be offended or alarmed.

00:03:33 Now, knowing just the charges, is there anybody here with any questions?

00:03:37 Yes, that room that we were in earlier, you know, with about 300 people, why were we in that room so long?

00:03:45 I mean, that was a long time.

00:03:47 Well, sorry about that, but legal matters, they do take time.

00:03:50 I don't know who those people--I don't even know where they've been.

00:03:53 Any other concerns about our judicial system?

00:03:57 Yes, sir.

00:03:58 Thank you.

00:03:59 The way I look at it, you've got to give them a good meal, clean bath, good night's sleep, hang them in the morning.

00:04:05 Now, in this trial, you will hear words you wouldn't ordinarily use with your neighbors,

00:04:11 and I'm wondering, is there anybody here who might be uncomfortable with such testimony?

00:04:16 Will there be graphics?

00:04:17 You won't see unclothed genitals, but you might hear testimony like that.

00:04:21 Would you turn your ears off?

00:04:22 Well, it depends on how embarrassing it is.

00:04:24 This offense occurred at a gentleman's club known as Rick's Cabaret.

00:04:29 It's a topless joint, right, guys?

00:04:31 Has anybody here been there or known somebody who has?

00:04:35 And I have to raise my hand.

00:04:37 My husband had his bachelor party there.

00:04:39 That's quite a few of you.

00:04:43 I've been there.

00:04:44 Do you go for an occasional bachelor party, or is that the place you go to on Saturday nights?

00:04:49 Bachelor party, you know, that sort of thing.

00:04:51 I've been there, ma'am.

00:04:53 Is it a place that you frequent?

00:04:54 No, ma'am, not really.

00:04:56 How many times have you been?

00:04:58 It's hard to say, ma'am.

00:05:00 Oh, maybe 30, 40.

00:05:03 Has the defendant ever danced for you?

00:05:05 I couldn't say, ma'am.

00:05:07 She doesn't look familiar.

00:05:09 Well, ma'am, I try not to look at their faces.

00:05:12 It makes me uncomfortable to make eye contact with them.

00:05:15 But they got real nice butts, ma'am.

00:05:17 All right.

00:05:21 Um, how about you, Mr. O'Flaherty?

00:05:23 Have you been?

00:05:24 Are you kidding me?

00:05:25 I hang out there.

00:05:26 I like the free buffet.

00:05:27 You go for the food?

00:05:29 The women can help me appreciate my food that much more.

00:05:31 I like the way they smell.

00:05:33 The way they smell?

00:05:34 Yeah, I like the way they smell.

00:05:36 Um, they make me feel happy.

00:05:38 You know, their perfume passes my nose, fuses my brain.

00:05:41 I've always liked that kind of stuff.

00:05:43 I can imagine.

00:05:45 You don't like the way they smell?

00:05:47 Thank you, Mr. O'Flaherty.

00:05:48 A little more than we needed to know.

00:05:50 Who else has been to Rick's?

00:05:53 What about you?

00:05:54 Oh, I wouldn't go to a place like that.

00:05:57 And neither would my husband.

00:05:59 Okay.

00:06:00 Now, who doesn't like the idea that places like Rick's operate in our community?

00:06:04 I don't.

00:06:05 And what bothers you about that?

00:06:07 You know how men are.

00:06:09 Do you think those places tempt your husband?

00:06:11 I just think that some men aren't brought up correctly.

00:06:14 Ms. Potts?

00:06:17 Well, I just think the country has degenerated into the gutter for the last 30 years.

00:06:21 And these places caused it.

00:06:24 If selected, can you put aside any feelings or sympathy that you might have toward that defendant?

00:06:31 Well, you know, a $9,000 fine and three years in jail for sex morals?

00:06:36 It's not somebody's personal interpretation of morals.

00:06:39 It's the law of the state of Texas.

00:06:42 And the big question is, can you follow a law that requires you to find somebody guilty

00:06:48 even if you don't think that they should be punished for such activity?

00:06:51 I mean, look at her.

00:06:52 She's so sweet, sincere, and lovable.

00:06:55 Can you convict this girl?

00:06:57 Could you convict her if I prove that she's guilty?

00:07:01 Could you send her to jail for something that you do all the time?

00:07:05 No. No, I cannot.

00:07:07 Well, thank you for being so honest.

00:07:09 I guess we can all agree that there's an aspect of lewdness involved in any topless bar.

00:07:15 But can a perfectly legal form of topless entertainment change and become illegal?

00:07:22 Change is inevitable.

00:07:24 Cosmic microwave radiation disproved the steady state.

00:07:32 Are you a scientist, Mr. Reiner?

00:07:35 There is no steady state.

00:07:37 It's all big bag now.

00:07:40 Okay.

00:07:42 Now, would anybody have any concerns if one of the persons involved in this lewd act might be a police officer?

00:07:52 Ms. Holmes, may I ask a question, please?

00:07:56 Certainly.

00:07:57 Was this a sting operation?

00:07:59 If it was, would that upset you?

00:08:01 I worry about sting operations, especially when the police are involved.

00:08:06 What causes you to be concerned about the police?

00:08:10 I know how they operate. I know how they work.

00:08:13 They think we're not saying that, but we do.

00:08:15 I see them following me in their blue Ford Crown Victorious.

00:08:20 That's what they drive, you know. Dark blue Crown Victorious.

00:08:25 Oh, before they had the Crown Victorious, they drove something else, but always a Ford.

00:08:30 They just love to set people up.

00:08:33 Do you think of the sting as a set up?

00:08:35 Is that what this is about?

00:08:36 Is that why we were in that room so long?

00:08:39 Is that why you had us waiting so long?

00:08:41 Were there cameras in there?

00:08:43 Were there cops in there?

00:08:45 I bet there was a three-way mirror in there.

00:08:48 Are there cameras in here now?

00:08:51 Are the police watching us now?

00:08:53 No, Mr. Winorski. There are no cameras watching you.

00:08:56 Ms. Holmes, may I just ask one more question, please?

00:09:00 No, I'm sorry. We need to proceed.

00:09:02 But I really got to know. I want to know.

00:09:04 Thank you, Mr. Winorski.

00:09:05 Are we really going to be jurors, or do you have something else planned for us?

00:09:09 Well, six of you will be jurors, but the rest of you will go home.

00:09:14 What do you mean, six? I thought there was 12.

00:09:17 In certain crimes, the law allows us to have just six jurors.

00:09:21 Any more concerns about sting operations?

00:09:23 I have some friends that were unjustly persecuted in sting operations.

00:09:27 Time's up. Mr. Burnett.

00:09:29 Well, first of all, I need to know,

00:09:33 what do you think about police officers watching topless dancers?

00:09:38 Well, unless they pay full price like everybody else,

00:09:42 they shouldn't be allowed to.

00:09:44 No. No way.

00:09:46 I like that answer.

00:09:48 Now, the law says you can dance in a topless club.

00:09:52 It's perfectly legal.

00:09:53 Now, some people may think that that's morally wrong.

00:09:56 But some people think it's morally wrong to eat red meat,

00:10:01 to spank your kids, to have a shotgun by your bed.

00:10:06 But, by God, in Texas, you can eat red meat,

00:10:11 you can spank your kids,

00:10:13 you can have a shotgun under your bed,

00:10:18 and if you want to, you can go have a cold beer

00:10:23 and watch a girl dance topless.

00:10:25 I mean, if we all put each other in jail for stuff

00:10:31 that some of us don't believe in,

00:10:34 who'd be walking the streets?

00:10:37 Who?

00:10:42 Would you let your personal feelings about topless clubs

00:10:45 influence your impartiality?

00:10:47 Well, it's hard to explain how I feel.

00:10:49 I mean, I wouldn't want to take my clothes off.

00:10:51 I don't know anybody that would.

00:10:53 I use my breasts for something constructive,

00:10:55 like nursing children, not wagging them in people's faces.

00:11:00 I think I'm still in pretty good shape.

00:11:02 I'm sure I've had three kids as old as everybody else.

00:11:05 I got most of my flesh back in line, though.

00:11:07 Now, I have a husband.

00:11:09 When he gets next to me, I want him thinking about me,

00:11:12 not some big old breasted little slut.

00:11:15 She's excused.

00:11:17 Ladies and gentlemen, any of the witnesses here in the courtroom,

00:11:20 please listen.

00:11:21 You must remain outside and not discuss your testimony

00:11:23 with any of the other witnesses.

00:11:25 So please remain outside.

00:11:27 We have invoked the order of the rule.

00:11:29 We have four women and only two men.

00:11:31 That's the way the cards are dealt, aren't they?

00:11:33 Well, what we wanted to do, Your Honor,

00:11:35 was maybe if we could get a, uh, a word.

00:11:40 Uh, excuse me, Your Honor.

00:11:42 Uh, excuse me, ladies.

00:11:50 I assume you all work with Savannah Overton-Riggs.

00:11:52 Now, listen, the jury just fixed me a come out,

00:11:54 so, I mean, if you all could wait out in the hallway,

00:11:57 it'd be a big help to us.

00:11:59 Go ahead. Thank you very much.

00:12:01 We'll keep you informed. Thank you.

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00:12:19 In the name of the state of Texas

00:12:21 comes now the assistant district attorney

00:12:24 and presents that Savannah Logan did unlawfully

00:12:28 with intent to arouse and gratify her sexual desire

00:12:32 pull her G-string aside,

00:12:35 exposing her genitals to Officer Hunt,

00:12:37 that Savannah Logan did unlawfully engage

00:12:41 in two acts of public lewdness

00:12:44 by placing and rubbing her buttocks

00:12:46 against the clothed genitals of Officer Hunt

00:12:50 and Officer Tubbs

00:12:52 against the peace and dignity of the state of Texas.

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00:12:59 To which she pleads not guilty.

00:13:02 Lieutenant Munson, what was your role

00:13:04 in the investigation of Riggs?

00:13:05 I determined the game plan for the raid.

00:13:07 Could you explain the investigation?

00:13:09 On August 2nd, two officers initiated the investigation,

00:13:12 and on August 10th, 12 officers went in to make cases.

00:13:16 On August 17th, 20 officers went in to catch more girls,

00:13:20 at the conclusion of which time we raided the establishment

00:13:23 and arrested 30 dancers on 48 different charges.

00:13:26 Do you know what it means to stack charges?

00:13:29 That's when you have more than one charge

00:13:32 alleging the same crime against one defendant.

00:13:34 And what is your policy on stacking charges?

00:13:37 Well, we're advised not to,

00:13:39 but when you have 20 officers throughout the club,

00:13:43 you can't tell which officer's investigating which dancer.

00:13:46 One girl could make sexual contact with lots of,

00:13:50 maybe even all my officers, and, you know, that stuff happens.

00:13:54 Pass the witness.

00:13:56 Good morning, Lieutenant.

00:14:00 Good morning.

00:14:01 Comfy?

00:14:02 Oh, yeah, I'm fine.

00:14:04 Now, did you receive any complaints

00:14:06 about Riggs from the public?

00:14:08 No, shoot, they like Riggs.

00:14:10 They like all that stuff.

00:14:11 So you investigated a business

00:14:13 for which you received no complaints?

00:14:15 Yes, sir.

00:14:16 It's our job to ensure compliance with vice laws.

00:14:18 When you raided Riggs, did you make a list

00:14:20 of the women who allegedly violated the law?

00:14:22 Yes, sir, it's right here.

00:14:23 Could you read the list, please?

00:14:25 Okay.

00:14:26 All right, that would be Chastity, Cherry, Tiffany,

00:14:32 Brandy, Princess, Sugar, Pumpkin.

00:14:35 And Pumpkin.

00:14:36 Ah, could you read the full names, please?

00:14:39 Fonou LaNou, a.k.a. Chastity.

00:14:42 Fonou LaNou, a.k.a. Cherry.

00:14:45 Fonou LaNou?

00:14:47 They're all Fonou LaNou.

00:14:48 Means first name unknown, last name unknown.

00:14:51 They use aliases.

00:14:53 So Pumpkin is an alias like Scarface

00:14:57 was an alias for Al Capone?

00:14:59 More or less.

00:15:00 You caught all the Scarfaces,

00:15:02 and you got nothing better to do but chase Pumpkins?

00:15:04 Ha ha ha, no, sir.

00:15:07 With what stage name did your officers

00:15:09 identify the defendant?

00:15:10 Fonou LaNou, a.k.a. Savannah.

00:15:13 How'd you get the true name?

00:15:14 The cashier at Riggs,

00:15:16 she wrote the true names next to our stage names.

00:15:19 And what did the cashier write next to the stage name Savannah?

00:15:22 Savannah King.

00:15:24 Savannah King.

00:15:25 Well, that's not Savannah Logan, is it?

00:15:28 No, sir, but it's very possible

00:15:30 that the cashier made a mistake.

00:15:32 So you use a list to lock people in jail

00:15:34 that has mistakes on it?

00:15:35 Apparently the cashier's not perfect.

00:15:37 Cashier's not perfect.

00:15:39 It's hard to get good help, sir.

00:15:40 Tell the jury how much 12 vice officers spent

00:15:44 on the night of August 10th.

00:15:45 Total spent on drinks and dances was $3,200.

00:15:49 $3,200?

00:15:51 Well, they had a good time, didn't they?

00:15:53 Well, it takes money if you're gonna conduct

00:15:55 a thorough investigation, yes, sir.

00:15:57 You don't think $3,200 is rather much?

00:16:00 No, sir, not at all.

00:16:01 Like my daddy said, if you're gonna do it right,

00:16:04 do it right or don't do it at all.

00:16:05 I'm sorry, what'd your daddy say?

00:16:07 He said that you either got to do it right

00:16:09 or just don't even do it at all.

00:16:11 That's what my daddy said, and he meant what he said.

00:16:13 Oh, I bet he did.

00:16:15 He was a hard-nosed, full-blown, stone-grown redneck.

00:16:19 He said, "I got blood lines run from here to yon and back."

00:16:24 So how much did you spend for the whole investigation?

00:16:29 $7,224, but that was over three nights.

00:16:36 Well, how many drinks and how many dances

00:16:38 do these officers have to buy

00:16:40 in order to spend $7,200?

00:16:43 Well, that's difficult to say exactly, but--

00:16:45 You just go back to the station, you say,

00:16:46 "Chief, we spent seven grand on the whole thing."

00:16:49 No, sir.

00:16:50 Do you tell your officers they can drink whatever they want?

00:16:52 It's each individual officer's responsibility

00:16:55 to make certain that they conceal their identity.

00:16:57 So you're saying that officers have to drink alcohol to fit in?

00:17:02 Sure they do. They got to look like customers.

00:17:04 30 ladies arrested at $20 a dance, that's $600.

00:17:08 So that leaves $6,600 for drinks?

00:17:14 No, sir.

00:17:16 We may have to buy several dances

00:17:19 before a girl commits a crime.

00:17:21 I'm sorry, you pay girls to commit crimes?

00:17:24 Oh, no, sir. No.

00:17:26 We pay for dances.

00:17:27 Now, we may have to pay for several of them

00:17:30 before an actual crime is committed.

00:17:32 How many whiskeys do your officers have to drink

00:17:35 in order to spend $7,200?

00:17:39 You're totally negating the hors d'oeuvres.

00:17:45 The hors d'oeuvres.

00:17:48 My men get hungry.

00:17:50 It's just not an easy job.

00:17:52 The eyes got to stay sharp.

00:17:54 The men got to stay strong.

00:17:56 If you're not observant and focused, right on target,

00:17:59 well, some of them suckers slip right by you.

00:18:01 So $7,200 divided by 30 dancers equals $240 per arrest?

00:18:08 Now, that's not including the officer's salary, right?

00:18:10 Yes, sir, that does not include salary, sir.

00:18:12 $240 divided by $20 equals 12 dances to find one violation?

00:18:22 Am I math correct?

00:18:23 Normally, you can tell within a dozen dances

00:18:27 whether or not a girl's gonna mess up.

00:18:29 How about the district attorneys that partied with y'all?

00:18:33 Did y'all pay for their good times, too?

00:18:35 Gee, no. They got their own budget.

00:18:37 They ain't gonna get none of ours.

00:18:38 If I was to tell you that some of your officers

00:18:40 paid for dances and drinks for the district attorneys,

00:18:42 would that surprise you?

00:18:43 Well, I could see a legitimate reason for that.

00:18:45 What legitimate reason?

00:18:46 They were conducting their own investigation,

00:18:48 and we kind of coincided our investigation,

00:18:51 and I think that they were fitting in, as it were.

00:18:54 Yes, sir, they were.

00:18:55 They look just like customers, I'll tell you that.

00:18:58 They're slick that way.

00:19:00 You know how lawyers can be.

00:19:02 Let me get this straight.

00:19:04 Y'all invite the district attorneys,

00:19:06 and y'all drink it up,

00:19:08 and you pay for dances over and over again,

00:19:11 and if you see a dancer's lewd, you write it down.

00:19:14 Yes, sir, we take notes on all lewd dances.

00:19:17 That's our job.

00:19:18 So if you get a dancer's lewd,

00:19:20 do you send her over to the district attorney

00:19:22 so they don't miss out?

00:19:23 We don't send her over, no, sir.

00:19:25 He might call her over, but we don't send her.

00:19:28 When did your officers put a last name on the charge

00:19:31 so the defendant could get out of jail?

00:19:33 I believe all 30 of them was out in 24 hours.

00:19:36 Well, what if I told you that many of the dancers

00:19:38 were held for three days?

00:19:40 Would that surprise you?

00:19:41 It'd surprise me a little, I guess.

00:19:43 Did my client stay in jail for three days

00:19:45 because your officers didn't know why they had her?

00:19:47 They could figure it out.

00:19:49 They might have had to claim the office,

00:19:50 but they could have figured it out.

00:19:52 I'm sorry.

00:19:53 They had to claim the office.

00:19:54 If you've ever seen these guys,

00:19:55 their organization is--

00:19:56 well, it's not their key point.

00:19:58 These guys, they're about the system that works,

00:20:01 and that's the American system, and that's justice,

00:20:03 and that's what we're doing here, son.

00:20:05 We're fighting for justice, all right?

00:20:07 So your officers are paid by city tax dollars, right?

00:20:10 Of course they're paid by tax dollars,

00:20:12 but the money that we use in clubs,

00:20:15 that's money we get from dope dealers.

00:20:17 I'm sorry?

00:20:18 That's not tax money.

00:20:19 That's nothing these people are paying

00:20:21 for us to go party on.

00:20:22 That's money that we get from dope-dealing scumbags,

00:20:27 and that's what we do.

00:20:28 We take that money, and we further investigate

00:20:31 other acts of immorality

00:20:34 and things that are not about decent Americans.

00:20:39 That's what we're about.

00:20:40 God forbid America wouldn't bring up our kids

00:20:42 without hoochie-coochie girls

00:20:44 or rubbing all over everybody,

00:20:45 but I'm telling you, we fight crime with money

00:20:48 stolen from--taken from dope dealers.

00:20:52 Are you saying that money seized from dope dealers

00:20:55 belongs to the vice department to do whatever they want?

00:20:58 The point is that it's not money from the public.

00:21:01 This isn't public money.

00:21:02 This is--well, you know, it's cash that we got, you know?

00:21:07 Couldn't that money be used to pay firemen

00:21:10 if the city council so voted?

00:21:11 Sure, the city council could vote to give it to firemen,

00:21:15 but, you know, how many fires they had last year?

00:21:19 There's no law that says that drug seizure money

00:21:23 has to be spent for your good times.

00:21:25 The city council can do whatever it is

00:21:27 that they want to do with the money,

00:21:29 including curing cancer, they decide.

00:21:32 You weren't even in Riggs and the Knights in question, were you?

00:21:36 Officer Chubb was there,

00:21:37 and he was in charge on those nights.

00:21:39 As to this particular woman right here,

00:21:41 do you know anything about her or her case specifically?

00:21:44 Not this--no, not this--no.

00:21:47 Lieutenant, did this girl right here, seated right here,

00:21:50 do anything to you that makes you want her convicted?

00:21:53 If she didn't do nothing wrong, then why did my men arrest her?

00:21:57 Did the defendant confront you inside Riggs Cabaret?

00:22:02 Well, she just sort of saddled up to me

00:22:04 and engaged me in conversation.

00:22:06 What did she say?

00:22:07 Oh, you know, just general conversation.

00:22:08 We talked about Harley motorcycles and her breasts.

00:22:11 Her breasts?

00:22:12 Yes, ma'am. I asked if they were real,

00:22:14 and she said if your dick was in between them, would it matter?

00:22:17 And then that's when she asked me if I could table dance.

00:22:21 Describe the dance.

00:22:22 Well, she took off her little black miniskirt

00:22:26 and her see-through type silk blouse.

00:22:30 Was she wearing anything up under that miniskirt?

00:22:32 Some white G-string type panties.

00:22:35 And what was she wearing above that G-string?

00:22:37 Just earrings.

00:22:39 When you looked at her from behind, what could you see?

00:22:43 Oh, no, no, you can hardly see nothing at all,

00:22:46 just the rear end.

00:22:48 Sergeant, if it wouldn't offend your standards of decency too much,

00:22:51 could you please step down and give the jury an indication

00:22:54 of how that dance took place?

00:22:56 You want me to get up there and do it?

00:22:58 If you don't mind.

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00:23:18 Well, the dance consisted of the duration of the record.

00:23:23 She danced, and she kind of pushed me back in my chair,

00:23:26 and then she spread open my legs,

00:23:28 and then she turned around and she sat down,

00:23:31 and she started, like, gyrating her buttocks on my genital areas there,

00:23:35 you know, things like that.

00:23:37 And in order to obtain her tip, you know,

00:23:39 she grabbed the side of her G-string and she pulled it over

00:23:42 and it slipped up into her vagina area,

00:23:47 and that's when I saw the tattoo.

00:23:49 I mean, I couldn't tell you what the tattoo was

00:23:51 because it's just a little bitty tattoo,

00:23:53 but it was definitely in that vagina area.

00:23:55 And when she exposed her neck and genitalia,

00:23:58 well, that's when she committed the crime of indecent exposure.

00:24:02 Thank you, officer. You can go back up to the witness stand.

00:24:05 Thank you.

00:24:08 Now, what did you think of that activity?

00:24:11 I thought it was pretty much a standard table dance.

00:24:13 Did you form an opinion as to why she danced in that particular way?

00:24:17 I believe that's how she makes a living.

00:24:19 Did you think she had any other purpose for dancing in that manner?

00:24:24 Yes, ma'am, to achieve a tip.

00:24:26 Do you think she had any purpose relating to how she wanted you to feel?

00:24:30 Objection! Leading.

00:24:32 Overruled.

00:24:34 In your opinion, why did the defendant dance in the manner you described?

00:24:39 Sexier ass and gratify me?

00:24:41 Objection, Your Honor.

00:24:43 She led the witness to say that in his own words

00:24:45 he said the dancer's intent was to achieve a tip.

00:24:47 Overruled.

00:24:50 When the defendant flashed her private parts, were you offended or alarmed?

00:24:55 Objection! Leading.

00:24:57 Sustained.

00:24:59 When the defendant flashed her private parts, how did you feel?

00:25:03 I felt offended and alarmed.

00:25:07 Pass the witness.

00:25:09 So you were offended and alarmed?

00:25:11 Yes, sir.

00:25:12 Based on what?

00:25:13 A glimpse of her genitals.

00:25:15 Sergeant, are you the mastermind behind a new investigative technique

00:25:18 in bust and massage parlors?

00:25:20 Yes, sir. See, we needed evidence.

00:25:22 So what we did is we rubbed invisible ink on her penises

00:25:25 so that if the masseuses started grabbing, we'd just kind of catch them blue-handed.

00:25:29 Blue-handed.

00:25:30 Of course, we can't just stop them right away

00:25:32 because we're going to make sure it's not like accidental contact.

00:25:35 How is there anyone to know that you didn't put the ink on your shoulders?

00:25:38 Still your word we have to trust.

00:25:40 Well, you've got to trust your law enforcement.

00:25:42 I mean, if you don't trust them, who you going to trust?

00:25:44 Sergeant, do you investigate bars where women work totally nude?

00:25:47 They're called nudie bars.

00:25:49 My point is, Sergeant, you've worked 20 years

00:25:51 busting nude dancers and prostitutes and porno bookstores and masseuses.

00:25:56 You expect this jury to believe that you're going to be offended by one little glimpse?

00:25:59 Just because you do something all the time doesn't mean you get used to it.

00:26:03 Sergeant, if I subpoenaed your magazine subscription,

00:26:07 would you still be able to say that you were offended by a glimpse in a naked body?

00:26:11 Yes, sir. I canceled them magazines.

00:26:15 How can you assure that you can accurately identify the person who danced for you?

00:26:19 You write her name down in the toilet so you don't forget.

00:26:21 You wrote her name down in the toilet?

00:26:23 Yeah, so you don't forget. But that dance is now permanent on my brain.

00:26:26 Can a jury see your notes?

00:26:27 No, sir.

00:26:28 Wait, you dispose of your notes?

00:26:29 More than likely.

00:26:30 The original notes, you just flush them away?

00:26:32 Once we copy them down the rest of the report, then we dispose of them.

00:26:35 Well, how does the jury know that you didn't copy wrong?

00:26:37 Because I'm a real good copier.

00:26:39 Well, how does the jury know that you didn't dispose of these notes to hide inconsistencies?

00:26:43 Because I didn't.

00:26:44 Because you say so.

00:26:46 That's right.

00:26:48 How much did you drink that night?

00:26:49 I don't know. All in all, total, let me think, maybe one drink.

00:26:53 One drink?

00:26:54 Yes, sir.

00:26:56 Did you buy any dances?

00:26:58 Oh, probably maybe two.

00:27:02 I see.

00:27:10 A person commits the crime of public lewdness if he knowingly engages in any of the following in a public place.

00:27:18 Sexual intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse, or sexual contact. Correct?

00:27:23 Yes, sir.

00:27:24 In this case, there was no sexual intercourse or deviate intercourse.

00:27:27 No, sir.

00:27:28 No exchange of bodily fluid?

00:27:30 No, sir.

00:27:31 Now, if a man at a bachelor party engages in the same dance that you described, would he catch a sexually transmitted disease?

00:27:36 No, sir. Of course not.

00:27:38 Would bachelors attending parties at private residences be as safe?

00:27:41 Objection, your honor. Irrelevant.

00:27:43 Sustained.

00:27:44 Is it your intention to force all bachelor parties into unsupervised private residences?

00:27:50 No, sir.

00:27:51 Now, the sexual contact in this case was between two people and one was a police officer.

00:27:56 Yes, sir. That's right. One was a police officer.

00:27:58 And anyone who witnessed that contact witnessed the act of public lewdness?

00:28:02 That's correct, sir.

00:28:03 Does the Houston Police Department want their officers to commit the crime of public lewdness in order to arrest women for public lewdness?

00:28:10 No, sir.

00:28:11 But that's what you did.

00:28:12 No, sir. I did not have sexual contact with her. Her naked buttocks had sexual contact with me.

00:28:17 Sergeant, are you defining sex like President Clinton?

00:28:19 No, sir. I'm saying what I had ain't sexual contact because I didn't intend to satisfy her sexual desire.

00:28:28 As far as Clinton, you know, do not lump me with that guy because as far as I'm concerned, they should have thrown him right the hell out of office.

00:28:35 So your clothed genitals rubbed against the dancer's buttocks?

00:28:41 No, sir. See, her naked buttocks rubbed against my clothed genitals.

00:28:46 My genitals were minding their own damn business. You know what I mean?

00:28:49 You need to get that right, counselor.

00:28:51 You're both involved in the same act.

00:28:54 If this woman could do three years in prison while you get paid to commit lewd acts all over the city...

00:28:59 That's my job, sir.

00:29:01 It's your job to commit crimes?

00:29:03 No, sir.

00:29:04 It's your job to commit crimes and suffer no consequences?

00:29:07 It's my job to bust these nasty little girls when they do lewd dances.

00:29:11 Let me ask you something slick. How would you like to be sitting there and have some woman rub her naked buttocks all over your genitals all day long?

00:29:19 How'd you like it? Huh?

00:29:21 Well, that's a good question.

00:29:24 In order to make an arrest in a prostitution case, do officers engage in sexual intercourse with the suspect?

00:29:38 We don't have sexual intercourse with prostitutes. We just solicit them.

00:29:40 Why couldn't you solicit a dancer for public lewdness?

00:29:43 Because it ain't enough to just talk about lewd conduct. You gotta go all the way and act lewd.

00:29:48 Why is the law passed to protect people when folks get carried away in an inappropriate place?

00:29:53 Covers lewd dances, too.

00:29:55 That's because you and your officers like it that way, not because of what the legislature intended.

00:30:00 I ain't the one what wrote this law.

00:30:02 No, but you enforce it.

00:30:04 But I have no idea what was the legislature's intent.

00:30:07 He has no idea. No idea.

00:30:11 Officer, if you partied in the park and you liquored up a bunch of young women and you bribed them with $7,000 to sit on your lap, could you make an arrest?

00:30:20 I ain't never done that, sir.

00:30:21 Do officers behave differently with women in topless clubs than they do with women at the park?

00:30:26 We treat ladies different than we treat strippers, if that's what you're asking.

00:30:29 Even for police, acceptable behavior in a strip joint is different from what's acceptable in other public places.

00:30:36 Context matters, doesn't it?

00:30:37 Of course it matters.

00:30:38 And Ricks isn't a public place like a park or a mall, is it?

00:30:41 It's restricted to people who are mature enough to deal with sexual matters like an adult.

00:30:46 It depends on the adults, don't it?

00:30:48 Officer, tell the jury your full name.

00:30:53 R.C. Tubb.

00:30:55 And what does the R.C. stand for?

00:30:57 Just R.C., like R.C. Cola.

00:31:00 My mama used to say when I wouldn't take my formula, she put about half a can of R.C. Cola in there and I drank it right down.

00:31:07 Um, Yannick, could I get some water?

00:31:13 Bailiff, move that glass of water, please.

00:31:30 Sorry about that.

00:31:34 Thank you.

00:31:36 Um, how long have you been with Vice?

00:31:39 Going on 13 years now.

00:31:41 That'd be 12 full, complete years.

00:31:43 Now, as a veteran Vice officer, what are your responsibilities?

00:31:46 Prostitution, hotel prostitution, street prostitution, escort prostitution, gay prostitution, adult bookstores,

00:31:53 porno, triple X videos, cock fighting, gambling, dog fighting, anything I can do with illegal Vice activity.

00:31:59 I'm your boy.

00:32:04 You have seen it all, haven't you, officer?

00:32:06 Yes, ma'am, I believe I have.

00:32:08 Could you give the jury an overview of your investigation?

00:32:10 Well, look at these places, kind of like baseball.

00:32:12 Your top shelf call girls, there's your major leagues.

00:32:14 These are topless joints, just like your farm system that feeds the majors.

00:32:17 That's how you start.

00:32:19 You get comfortable wiggling your butt in someone's face, next thing you know, you're taking off your G-string.

00:32:22 Next thing you know, you're sitting on the real thing.

00:32:26 You're getting paid.

00:32:29 You're getting paid big money, too.

00:32:31 You make it to the majors, and you get some serious dollars, see?

00:32:33 That's what these girls is after.

00:32:35 They're after the money.

00:32:37 They want free drinks, and they want money.

00:32:39 And so we're in there, giving up all our money, and they're drinking all our drinks.

00:32:43 I don't think it's right, to tell you the truth.

00:32:46 That's sort of why I got into it.

00:32:48 These girls get away with murder.

00:32:50 They waggle their little naked butts in your face, and they can do anything they want.

00:32:53 I don't put up with that.

00:32:56 So I put a stop to it.

00:32:58 I bring my boys in there, and we stop them.

00:33:00 Mm-hmm.

00:33:02 Now, during your 13 years as a veteran vice officer,

00:33:06 have you seen a relationship between topless dancing and prostitution?

00:33:10 Well, about the only thing different between these dancers and a street hooker is these girls here have got better teeth,

00:33:16 and they can dance a little.

00:33:19 Tell us about your assignment.

00:33:21 Well, a lot of these places need cleaning up.

00:33:23 There's all this filth in there, and these girls like this in here like to get naked.

00:33:28 We take care of girls like that, bring them over here into the justice system where they belong.

00:33:33 What was going on that night?

00:33:35 Folks drinking, talking, getting dances, generally having a good time.

00:33:38 Where were the dancers?

00:33:40 A better question would be where weren't they?

00:33:42 They was everywhere.

00:33:44 They was dancing on stage, dancing on tables and on chairs and on the runway.

00:33:47 There must have been 100 of them, swarming around.

00:33:49 Thick as flies.

00:33:51 Uh-huh. What else happened?

00:33:53 I was confronted by this girl in a garter belt and red stockings, Candy I think her name was.

00:33:57 She kept saying, "Buy me a drink, buy me a drink, stoles and vodka with lime."

00:34:02 She probably had three of those.

00:34:04 Were you also drinking?

00:34:06 I had a couple, three or four, maybe five.

00:34:10 Might have been six over the course of the whole night.

00:34:14 I mean, it wasn't like an hour or nothing.

00:34:16 It was two or three hours.

00:34:19 We had a few.

00:34:21 Anyway, so I got a case of the lube dance from this Candy.

00:34:24 She asked me would I like a dance from her friend, this girl right here, Savannah.

00:34:30 She confronted me in a flower-colored nightie.

00:34:33 What kind of a garment is that?

00:34:35 Just a regular one-piece, lingerie-type nightie, something like folks' wives might wear.

00:34:40 What did Savannah do then?

00:34:42 Well, she stripped off that nightie and got down to her G-string, which was green in color,

00:34:47 and had a gold stripe running right down the middle.

00:34:50 How big was that G-string?

00:34:52 Probably about as big as your tongue, about that wide.

00:34:54 It exposed her whole butt, exposed cheeks.

00:34:57 Step down, officer, and show us how Savannah danced.

00:35:00 Well, the first thing I done was I sat down sort of like this.

00:35:08 I was just sitting there, you know, minding my own business.

00:35:10 And, well, of course, I did pay the $20 for the dance.

00:35:13 So she comes in and forces my legs apart like this, and kind of pulls me down into a slunking position.

00:35:19 So she steps on into me, and she's got her arms over her head, and she's just wiggling like this.

00:35:24 And her breasts is up here on my shoulders.

00:35:26 And the next thing I know, them breasts is in my crotchitals, and she's wiggling them in there.

00:35:30 Meanwhile, her vagina's in my little penis area, and she's rubbing up against Junior.

00:35:35 And the next thing I know, she's sitting right here in my lap, and she's back and forth, and she's up and down and round and round.

00:35:41 And it was kind of scary.

00:35:43 I mean, it's a good thing we have a lot of training here at Vice.

00:35:45 If I wasn't so experienced at being able to handle a naked girl in my lap, man, there would have been big problems.

00:35:51 I mean, I was face to face with her buttocks, so just right here.

00:35:55 And, I mean, you couldn't have stuck a piece of paper between my nose and her butt.

00:35:59 And I mean to tell you, it was awful.

00:36:02 I almost didn't want to look at it.

00:36:04 It was definitely pretty filthy what she was doing.

00:36:06 You can't have people walking the streets that'll do that.

00:36:08 It's disgusting.

00:36:09 She was filthy.

00:36:10 Plain and simple.

00:36:11 That girl right there is filthy.

00:36:12 What else did Savannah do?

00:36:13 The next thing I know, she's back up on her feet, and she bends over, and she starts wiggling her behind like this,

00:36:19 wiggling that butt in my face, you know, and she's reaching under with her finger.

00:36:23 And she starts giving her anus and vagina.

00:36:26 Pretty good going over.

00:36:27 And she's just kind of rubbing it around.

00:36:30 Doing some more arousal stuff, the way I look at it.

00:36:33 So anyway, first I was alarmed, and then, of course, I was offended.

00:36:39 To tell you the truth, some folks might like that sort of thing, but I don't go for it.

00:36:45 That's all right, officer.

00:36:46 I understand you don't enjoy it.

00:36:48 It's a court.

00:36:49 We need to see these things.

00:36:50 And I was face to face with all she owned, and not like we was on a date.

00:36:54 I mean, you ever have a girlfriend do something like that?

00:36:56 No way.

00:36:57 I mean, I only knew her a couple minutes, and she's doing that?

00:37:00 She belongs in jail.

00:37:02 We had to go have a few beers afterwards just to calm down from all that,

00:37:05 and just sort of get perspective.

00:37:07 Some of them boys probably had to go to counseling.

00:37:10 Thank you, officer.

00:37:11 You can go back to the witness stand.

00:37:14 When you say "on your lap," was she closer to your knee or to your groin?

00:37:19 You know what she was after.

00:37:21 She was after that little rooster in my breeches is what she was after.

00:37:24 Pass the witness.

00:37:29 The stance you described could not be seen by just anyone walking on the street.

00:37:35 No, sir.

00:37:36 It could only be seen by customers over 21 who pay to get inside a strip joint.

00:37:41 That's right.

00:37:42 Now, you testified that you couldn't see the thin portion of the G-string.

00:37:45 No, sir, I couldn't see it.

00:37:47 Did you look for it?

00:37:48 Well, if I'm going to do my job, I got to get in there and make sure it's in there.

00:37:51 Are you kidding me?

00:37:52 No, sir.

00:37:53 That's the truth.

00:37:54 What is the legal necessity of that?

00:37:55 Her anus has got to remain covered.

00:37:57 If it don't, that's indecent exposure.

00:37:59 But you didn't charge her for indecent exposure.

00:38:01 I could bust her every night of the week if I wanted to.

00:38:03 I was just giving her a break.

00:38:04 He was giving her a break.

00:38:07 Officer, were any of the 30 women you arrested in this raid charged with prostitution?

00:38:13 No.

00:38:14 Well, then why are you making stupid speeches linking dancers to prostitutes?

00:38:17 Well, I was referring to the scope of my experience, not this particular raid.

00:38:21 Did you solicit any of the dancers at Rick's to have sex with you?

00:38:23 We like to see how far they'll go.

00:38:25 They agreed to have sex with you for money, right?

00:38:27 Well, there's this one little brunette.

00:38:29 When I walked in, I could see her kind of eyeing me a little bit.

00:38:32 I mean, I didn't actually ask her to go to bed with me, but I think she would have.

00:38:38 If you were picnicking in the park, would it be public lewdness if your wife sat on your lap

00:38:44 and rubbed you the way you described in this dance?

00:38:47 Well, my wife don't sit on my lap no more.

00:38:50 She'd break my leg.

00:38:52 Would you have an obligation to stop your wife if there were families with children in the park?

00:38:56 I can never get my wife to a park.

00:38:58 She won't fit in a truck.

00:39:01 Is that right? Okay.

00:39:04 I could throw her in the back, I guess, if I took the camper off.

00:39:09 It's a hypothetical.

00:39:11 Oh, you just don't know my wife. That just wouldn't happen.

00:39:13 She had them kids and just bloomed up like a--

00:39:15 Well, you know what happens sometimes.

00:39:17 She packed on a few.

00:39:18 She's a 300-pound woman.

00:39:19 She's a good woman, though.

00:39:21 I'm not saying nothing bad about her.

00:39:23 If any woman sat on her husband's lap in a public park,

00:39:27 kids all around, and she rubbed her buttocks against the clothed genitals of her husband,

00:39:32 who would you arrest?

00:39:33 I don't work the parks.

00:39:35 If you did, who would you arrest?

00:39:38 Probably both.

00:39:39 Well, then, shouldn't you arrest yourself for public lewdness and ricks?

00:39:43 I did not intend to arouse nobody's sexual desire.

00:39:45 But you felt the contact, right?

00:39:47 I got a full set of crotch-toe nerves. I could feel every bit of it.

00:39:50 You would, too.

00:39:51 Some little thing like that rubbing up down on your rooster.

00:39:55 I'm telling you what.

00:39:57 I mean, there was a carnival going on in my britches before she was through.

00:40:00 And it was more than the clowns, too.

00:40:02 The tense was going up. Let's put it to you that way.

00:40:04 The tense was going up in my britches before she got done.

00:40:07 It liked to have been a mess in there.

00:40:09 If you were in a mall, and a woman performed oral sex on you,

00:40:13 as long as you had no intent to arouse her, she could be arrested and you could not?

00:40:17 That's not the same thing.

00:40:18 You committed the crime of public lewdness, didn't you?

00:40:20 No, sir.

00:40:21 Couldn't the prosecutor just as easily charge you?

00:40:23 No, sir.

00:40:24 Not me.

00:40:32 I was doing my job. That's what I was doing.

00:40:34 Is it more fun to rub against dancers than it is to arrest customers you observe violate the law?

00:40:40 You think we like women like that? Rubbing all over, sweating on us,

00:40:43 doing their little bump and grind in our laps and stuff?

00:40:45 It's hard work, man.

00:40:47 I barely get to see my wife and kids anymore.

00:40:49 I'm so busy chasing these nasty girls around.

00:40:51 So why not arrest dancers or customers you observe violate the law?

00:40:55 It's almost impossible to make a case like that,

00:40:57 because the dancer and the customer deny the contact,

00:41:00 so then you ain't got a case.

00:41:02 It's better to have the word of a police officer against the word of one of them strippers.

00:41:06 If you charge a dancer with contact with a customer,

00:41:09 are you afraid that the police and the district attorneys will miss out on all the good times at the taxpayer's expense?

00:41:14 There was no good times had that night.

00:41:16 You know how much filth is out there?

00:41:18 Nakedness, porno, you got adult bookstores, you got these perverts running everywhere.

00:41:23 We're doing the people's business.

00:41:25 We're the gatekeepers. It wasn't for us.

00:41:28 I mean, the place goes to hell in a handbasket real quick.

00:41:31 Because the first thing folks want to do is go the wrong way.

00:41:33 They want to go to the nasty side.

00:41:35 You know how folks are.

00:41:37 They like to sort of mix it up.

00:41:39 Down where it's dark and dirty.

00:41:41 We don't want them to go there. We're keeping them in the light.

00:41:43 Making them see the way to go, the right way.

00:41:45 If it wasn't for us, no telling where we'd be.

00:41:48 It's a simple question.

00:41:52 Why not charge dancers for contact with customers?

00:41:56 Well, if you do it that way, then you ain't got no complaining victims.

00:41:59 So the police volunteer to be victims?

00:42:01 Well, damn straight, we are the victims.

00:42:03 During your 13 years while the police played victims,

00:42:08 how many sex crimes were perpetrated against children and real victims?

00:42:11 Don, I object to this.

00:42:12 You object?

00:42:13 Am I on trial here or is it her?

00:42:14 You can't object.

00:42:15 Couldn't you protect the public better by investigating sex offenders who prey on children?

00:42:19 I gotta object again.

00:42:20 Objection, Officer Tubbs is not on trial.

00:42:22 Is the police department on trial?

00:42:24 I thought it was that little slut was on trial, not me.

00:42:26 You want to bring some charges on me, come on, brother.

00:42:28 We'll have us a new trial.

00:42:30 But this one here is about her.

00:42:32 So you have no question in your mind

00:42:35 that this little girl right here victimized you with that terrible dance?

00:42:39 No question in my mind.

00:42:40 That one right there was the one who done everything.

00:42:42 That you and your partner spent $811 of taxpayer money on topless dancers and drinks?

00:42:48 Y'all don't get it. I'm doing police work.

00:42:50 So while I'm doing police work, the city or the state or somebody should pay for it, not me.

00:42:55 So you said you had what, five, six drinks, maybe more?

00:42:58 Could have been more.

00:42:59 Could have been eight, ten?

00:43:01 I don't think that many.

00:43:02 It could have though, couldn't it?

00:43:03 No, I don't think that many.

00:43:05 And this is over a period of what, two hours?

00:43:07 Probably two and a half, but it seemed like a lot longer.

00:43:10 Two and a half hours and seven drinks and you have no question in your mind?

00:43:15 None at all. I can hold my liquor.

00:43:17 No drinking on the job. Does that ring any bells?

00:43:20 I order drinks to lull them girls into a false sense of security.

00:43:23 It's like setting a little trap for them.

00:43:25 And they do their dirty little business, and boom, I just bring that trap on them.

00:43:29 These girls, they may be nasty, but they ain't stupid.

00:43:34 I've had enough of him for now, Judge.

00:43:39 Officer, what effect did the alcohol have on your perception?

00:43:42 None at all.

00:43:44 Alcohol don't affect me.

00:43:47 You got to remember them girls come and drink out of your drink,

00:43:50 you're not going to drink after them because you got to remember where they put them fingers.

00:43:55 And besides, this was a major investigation of which I was in charge,

00:43:58 and I wasn't going to let nothing get in the way of me doing my job

00:44:03 as we was there on police business, doing our police work,

00:44:05 and we was not there on no pleasure trip.

00:44:08 Did other people consume the alcohol you purchased that night?

00:44:11 This one here, she probably drank two or three of my drinks at least.

00:44:15 Got her sticky fingers all over my glass, and I didn't like that much.

00:44:19 No further questions.

00:44:21 Now you testified you bought three drinks for a dancer named Candy, is that right?

00:44:26 Stolies and vodka with lime.

00:44:28 Well, stolies is vodka, isn't it, Officer?

00:44:30 It is.

00:44:31 Well, I ain't no cocktail waitress.

00:44:34 So you ordered vodka with vodka and lime for Candy.

00:44:39 So?

00:44:40 That's three doubles you're talking about.

00:44:42 She's the one who ordered them, not me.

00:44:44 What's the legal age to drink alcohol in Texas?

00:44:47 21.

00:44:48 What did you put in your warrant for Candy's age?

00:44:51 18 to 21.

00:44:53 Is it the department's policy to liquor up young women to get them to commit crime?

00:44:59 We did not liquor up no women, and if they committed crimes, that was their decision.

00:45:03 Did you tell the jury about the prosecutors that were drinking with y'all?

00:45:07 There were no prosecutors drinking with us.

00:45:09 You sure about that?

00:45:10 They was at another table.

00:45:13 Everyone at your table were officers?

00:45:15 Two were civilians, Red Duffy and Spooky Harlow.

00:45:18 Red and Spooky, they friends of yours?

00:45:20 Yes, sir. We go way back, especially Spooky and me.

00:45:23 He taught me everything there is to know about criminality.

00:45:26 So, y'all showed Spooky and Red how y'all party on a taxpayer's dime.

00:45:34 I have. I deployed them as decoys to confuse them girls.

00:45:37 Decoy?

00:45:38 Besides, Red's thinking about signing up.

00:45:40 Thinks it might be a pretty good job to have.

00:45:42 I was just showing him what kind of police work we do.

00:45:45 To tell you the truth, I think he's pretty good at it.

00:45:47 I give him an A+.

00:45:49 Judge, I want this witness subject to recall.

00:45:54 [rooster crowing]

00:45:56 I'm a Houston police officer. I work vice division.

00:46:03 What type of a club is Ricks?

00:46:05 Ricks is primarily a topless club.

00:46:07 They serve food. They got TVs.

00:46:10 You can watch a game at Ricks. Most people don't.

00:46:13 You'd have to be a real Astros fanatic to watch a game at Ricks.

00:46:17 What happens once you enter?

00:46:19 R.C. had this girl he was talking to.

00:46:22 I had a girl I was talking to.

00:46:24 Another female came over and sat in my lap.

00:46:27 We talked for quite some time.

00:46:29 Were the people with you drinking that night?

00:46:31 The girls and Officer Tubbs?

00:46:33 Officer Tubbs was. I can't say about the girls.

00:46:36 Are the girls concerned whether or not you're drinking?

00:46:39 Girls don't care about the drinks.

00:46:41 See, they don't make money on the drinks.

00:46:43 The club makes all the money you spend on drinks.

00:46:46 Pass the witness.

00:46:48 Officer Duke, in your raid on Ricks,

00:46:55 was anyone arrested for prostitution?

00:46:57 Well, them girls make a might lot of money dancing,

00:47:00 so they don't need to turn tricks.

00:47:02 We'd have to offer them a couple thousand dollars,

00:47:04 get them even to consider prostitution.

00:47:06 Was anybody arrested for drug possession?

00:47:09 No, sir, you don't see that type of activity in your upscale clubs.

00:47:13 See, they spend a lot of money on decor and such,

00:47:16 and the club owners, they just don't want to take a chance

00:47:19 on getting that club shut down just 'cause some girl brung in drugs.

00:47:23 Now, owners have a substantial investment,

00:47:26 so they police their own employees.

00:47:28 I'd say that's fair enough.

00:47:30 How much alcohol did you have on August 2nd?

00:47:33 Oh, probably five or six drinks.

00:47:38 Could have been more.

00:47:40 Could have been.

00:47:41 Did you drink your drinks?

00:47:43 Yeah.

00:47:44 Officer Tubbs drank his drinks?

00:47:46 I assume so.

00:47:47 Well, I mean, he didn't let anybody else drink 'em for him, did he?

00:47:51 Well, watching the blue moon and woman take a sip,

00:47:54 but they don't like mine.

00:47:56 Well, now, Officer Duke, tell me, why is that?

00:48:02 Well, I drank a thing called a Texas Boilermaker.

00:48:05 That's where you drop a shot of tequila down in a mug of beer,

00:48:09 and then you chug that thing until a shot glass hits your nose.

00:48:12 Now, that's a hardcore drink.

00:48:14 Women don't like that.

00:48:16 I don't imagine they would.

00:48:17 You haven't been recognized as a police officer?

00:48:19 Truck driver, derelict, bum, you name it.

00:48:22 Never as a police officer.

00:48:24 Well, I sure do admire you on your disguise.

00:48:28 Now, let me ask you, was Savannah Logan there that night?

00:48:37 You know, I really can't be sure.

00:48:41 Well, certainly, if you have a girl sitting in your lap

00:48:44 and you got your arm around the other girl,

00:48:46 you're not very interested in what the other officers are doing.

00:48:49 My hands were pretty full.

00:48:51 You said you had this one girl on your lap, and you talked for a while.

00:48:55 Do you remember what you were talking about?

00:48:58 We were just talking, talking about my love life.

00:49:03 See, I've been divorced for quite some time,

00:49:06 and quite honestly, I just don't do all that well with women.

00:49:10 It's pretty hard out there.

00:49:12 And then being a police officer, the salary I make,

00:49:15 I just can't impress women too much.

00:49:18 Well, did you arrest the girl that was sitting on your lap?

00:49:21 Did I arrest her?

00:49:24 No, I would never arrest her.

00:49:26 She was a nice girl.

00:49:29 She was a nice girl.

00:49:32 A very nice girl.

00:49:35 [music]

00:49:37 Nothing further.

00:49:43 Any more questions for your witness, Miss Holmes?

00:49:45 Well, why don't you call your next witness?

00:49:47 State restaurant.

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00:50:28 Why don't you do that little dance you did for us with that other chick?

00:50:31 I really like that.

00:50:32 Yeah, I was hot.

00:50:33 I like that skirt. I see it.

00:50:34 Where's your old sissy boyfriend, huh?

00:50:36 We might have to spank him.

00:50:38 Watch your mouth, fellas.

00:50:39 We wouldn't want to insult anybody unduly.

00:50:42 She's got enough trouble with morals and dignity and decency

00:50:47 in the state of Texas.

00:50:49 You're going to have something for us right here, why don't you?

00:50:51 Right now, real close.

00:50:53 Give me the big old baton.

00:50:55 [shouting]

00:50:58 You're not supposed to talk to them.

00:51:03 [music]

00:51:05 How are you employed?

00:51:16 I'm the night manager at Rick's Cabaret.

00:51:18 What is Savannah Logan's stage name?

00:51:20 Scout.

00:51:21 Scout. Now, is she a good worker?

00:51:23 Yes, she's very popular.

00:51:25 And what is Savannah King's stage name?

00:51:27 Savannah.

00:51:28 Savannah. Do you keep up with who works at Rick's?

00:51:31 Yes. To enter the club, each dancer swipes her card into our computer.

00:51:36 This is the swipe list for the night Officer Tubbs accused Savannah Logan of giving him a lewd dance.

00:51:43 Did my client work that night?

00:51:45 No, she did not.

00:51:47 Did Savannah King?

00:51:48 Yes, she did.

00:51:49 When the Tubbs party was in the VIP room, was there anything unusual?

00:51:56 Officer Tubbs stood up on a table and tucked a dollar bill behind his belt buckle.

00:52:03 Then he yelled, "Hey, boss lady, all you can eat under a dollar."

00:52:07 I don't think he threw up in the parking lot, but he was obviously impaired.

00:52:13 Did he drive home that night?

00:52:15 Objection! Irrelevant!

00:52:17 Sustained.

00:52:18 Miss King, tell us about your drinks.

00:52:20 In the main room, you get one shot of alcohol per drink.

00:52:24 And in the VIP room, you get a shot and a half.

00:52:27 If Tubbs had seven mixed drinks, how many shots would that be?

00:52:32 Ten and a half shots.

00:52:34 There's been testimony here that Officer Tubbs is immune to alcohol.

00:52:40 Well, I hope he doesn't act like that all the time.

00:52:42 Could Officer Tubbs identify the dancer that danced for him that night?

00:52:48 In my opinion, Officer Tubbs could not identify his own mother.

00:52:55 I was honorably discharged from the Marines after Desert Storm.

00:52:57 Now I work as a carpenter.

00:52:59 What is your relationship with the defendant?

00:53:01 She's my girlfriend.

00:53:02 Was she in Houston on August 2nd?

00:53:05 No. She was with me at her mother's house in Portland, Oregon.

00:53:09 Well, why were you and Savannah in Portland?

00:53:12 To install a furnace and build a wheelchair ramp for her mother.

00:53:15 Savannah's mom has degenerative arthritis, and she needs a wheelchair to get around.

00:53:19 Pass the witness.

00:53:23 Are you familiar with the two officers who testified earlier?

00:53:27 Officer Tubbs and Sergeant Hunt?

00:53:28 I've seen them acting up in the hallway.

00:53:30 You've been making yourself known to them in the hallway, haven't you?

00:53:33 I'd say they've been making themselves known to everybody.

00:53:36 In fact, when I went out to tell the witnesses that we were taking a break, you came up and you listened in, didn't you?

00:53:40 You held your meeting where I was standing.

00:53:42 I told you to move.

00:53:44 I can stand in a public building. It's still a free country, isn't it?

00:53:46 Did you have words with one of the officers?

00:53:48 Tubbs called Savannah a whore.

00:53:50 Were you going to fight with Officer Tubbs?

00:53:52 I think he prefers to rough up ladies.

00:53:55 In fact, I think he gets off on his power to bully women.

00:54:00 Now, Miss Savannah Logan...

00:54:18 Savannah, the day Officer Tubbs testified that you danced for him, where were you?

00:54:23 Portland, Oregon.

00:54:24 What were you doing in Oregon while Officer Tubbs was boozing it up at Rick's?

00:54:30 I was helping my boyfriend set forms for my mom's wheelchair ramp.

00:54:34 And we poured concrete the next day.

00:54:37 Can you identify that for me?

00:54:39 Yeah, it's my receipt from Pete's Concrete.

00:54:41 Is that your signature?

00:54:43 Yes. And you can even see the concrete smudges on it.

00:54:46 Your Honor, I'd like to introduce this into evidence.

00:54:49 Objection! Hearsay!

00:54:52 Take the jury out.

00:54:58 She has these receipts right here.

00:55:00 Plus she has airline tickets and a boarding pass.

00:55:03 It's her alibi. Nothing's more relevant.

00:55:05 Your Honor, none of these items fit any exemption to the hearsay rule.

00:55:09 They're nothing more than bits of paper that have confused the jury.

00:55:11 Excuse me, excuse me. Miss Logan was in Portland.

00:55:15 The state says she's in Houston. It's probative.

00:55:18 If I tell the jury they can't believe that she used a ticket on August 8th because it was signed on August 8th, how is it probative?

00:55:24 Well, the jury expects a person who flew to Portland to have a plane ticket.

00:55:28 You know damn well that the prosecutor would say, "What, you flew to Portland? Where's the ticket if she didn't have one?"

00:55:33 Now, Miss Logan didn't know that when she was in Portland pouring concrete,

00:55:37 that Officer Tubbs was accusing her here in Houston.

00:55:40 Your Honor, it is absolutely impossible to know whether or not she typed that ticket out herself.

00:55:44 Yes, well, I have read all the rules and I find no justification for admitting the receipts or the tickets.

00:55:50 I find it all--

00:55:51 Thank you, Your Honor.

00:55:52 Are you kidding me?

00:55:53 Excuse me, Judge. You're telling me that you don't think that this documentation helps the jury

00:55:56 determine whether or not our client is guilty or innocent?

00:55:58 I think they confuse the jury.

00:56:00 How?

00:56:01 Are we going to have time to authenticate the material?

00:56:03 You already declared ready.

00:56:04 Did you know about this stuff?

00:56:05 A dozen signed visa receipts and five personal checks, all processed through banks in Portland.

00:56:10 Could have forged that stuff.

00:56:11 How could she have gotten companies and banks to process this stuff after the fact?

00:56:14 Did you look at the ticket? Does it look like forgery?

00:56:17 Why are you accepting bits of paper over the words of police officers?

00:56:21 If it was forged, why didn't she forge them to cover her August 10th charge?

00:56:24 It's not my fault that Barnett didn't do his job.

00:56:26 He did not bring witnesses to authenticate the items.

00:56:29 Drop the charge by Tubbs on August 2nd.

00:56:31 The judge is not letting it in. They have not laid the proper predicate.

00:56:35 This is not the right person.

00:56:36 I cannot stand in front of this jury and argue the case if you drop that charge.

00:56:40 I will look stupid. I will look like a fool.

00:56:43 And what is it going to do to my record?

00:56:45 It's going to make my record look really bad.

00:56:47 This is not the right person.

00:56:49 You know what to do.

00:56:50 Those cops are making you look so stupid.

00:56:53 I'm telling you right now.

00:56:55 This is more important than you feeding your face.

00:56:58 I ordered a BLT on white toast.

00:57:00 She's taunting me. She is taunting us.

00:57:02 And I am not going to let her get away with it.

00:57:04 Now let's just say that she wasn't there that night.

00:57:06 She has been there every other night, sitting on people's laps, wiggling around.

00:57:10 She makes every other woman in the world look bad because of what she does.

00:57:14 I have got to face those police officers every day.

00:57:17 I depend on them for my cases.

00:57:19 And we are talking about police officers and a stripper.

00:57:22 Police officers and a stripper.

00:57:25 All right. All right.

00:57:27 Go ahead.

00:57:30 [Music]

00:57:58 Savannah, what took place when the police raided Ricks?

00:58:02 They came in wearing masks and their guns were drawn.

00:58:05 And they were cussing and shoving all the girls.

00:58:08 And they pushed several of us up against the wall.

00:58:11 And they took one of my girlfriends and they pinned her and he shoved his hand right up her skirt.

00:58:17 Many of them had been drinking in the club prior to the raid.

00:58:20 So they just reeked of alcohol.

00:58:22 But that didn't stop them from sticking their pistols in our faces.

00:58:26 And what happened next?

00:58:29 Well, they lined us up in the VIP room and several men in masks came in with a list of dancers they had charges against.

00:58:38 And after they identified all the girls, they loaded them up onto a bus and they took them to jail.

00:58:43 And the rest of us, they let go. They let me go.

00:58:47 Now, where did you go from there?

00:58:48 I went back through the main room to go to my locker.

00:58:51 And what happened?

00:58:54 A man in a black ski mask told me to give my name to the officer with the list.

00:58:59 And that officer said, "Her name is not on the list."

00:59:03 And the masked man said, "Well, just take her down anyway."

00:59:06 Savannah, I want you to tell this jury how long you were in jail before they charged you.

00:59:14 Three days.

00:59:15 Three days!

00:59:17 Now, how tall were you on August 10th?

00:59:20 Same as now, 5 feet 9 inches.

00:59:22 And how much did you weigh?

00:59:23 Same as now, 130 pounds.

00:59:25 Have you ever been a blonde?

00:59:27 No. And you can see in the arrest photos that I am not blonde.

00:59:30 Do you have a tattoo?

00:59:32 I do not.

00:59:33 Have you ever had a tattoo?

00:59:34 Never, no.

00:59:35 Did you ever dance for Sergeant Hunt or Officer Tubbs?

00:59:40 No. This trial is the first time I've ever seen Sergeant Hunt or Officer Tubbs.

00:59:45 Thank you, Savannah.

00:59:47 No further questions, Your Honor.

00:59:49 Ms. Logan, tell the jury how much of your body a G-string covers.

00:59:59 It's like a thong bikini.

01:00:01 Would a person looking at you from behind be able to see that G-string?

01:00:06 Oh, yes.

01:00:07 How much?

01:00:08 About as much as the thong supermodels wear in Sports Illustrated.

01:00:11 When you dance topless for a patron, and I don't believe the supermodels do that,

01:00:16 are they being sexually aroused and gratified?

01:00:18 No, more like sexually frustrated.

01:00:20 They're not being aroused and gratified?

01:00:23 Well, if gratified means grateful, yes, I do think they're grateful.

01:00:26 Now, why do they pay you to dance?

01:00:28 I don't know. I guess it's better than watching football.

01:00:31 Not because they're being aroused and gratified.

01:00:34 Was your husband aroused or gratified at his bachelor party?

01:00:39 I am not required to answer your questions. You are required to answer mine.

01:00:43 Now, the question is, if they're not being aroused and gratified, why do they go see you dance?

01:00:47 Well, one of my customers received a patent on a drug he developed, and he came in to celebrate.

01:00:52 Oh, a scientist comes in to celebrate. That means, "Boop, there go my clothes."

01:00:56 But he developed a cure for a disease, and if he can do that, I guess he can figure out where to celebrate.

01:01:02 Is Ricks a sexually oriented business?

01:01:05 Well, we take our clothes off, but it's not like you're implying.

01:01:07 Oh, well, do tell. Straighten me out. What is it like?

01:01:11 It's like Disneyland for grown men.

01:01:14 [laughs] Ricks is like Disneyland!

01:01:18 Guys like to watch pretty women take their clothes off.

01:01:22 All right? They can't help it. That's how evolution wired 'em.

01:01:26 Okay, so now, according to you, the highest form of life on the planet evolved from apes,

01:01:32 so that they could watch you take your clothes off.

01:01:34 You can't change it, Miss Holmes. Guys are gonna act like guys.

01:01:38 Haven't you ever watched any of the old cowboy movies?

01:01:41 Cowboys come charging in, you know, to the town to have a good time, whooping it up,

01:01:45 going in to see the girls dance. They're all pumped up, and they just want to have a good time.

01:01:50 We listen to their dirty jokes, talk naughty to 'em, we don't nag 'em,

01:01:54 and we don't scream sexual harassment. It's all fun.

01:01:58 When you're talking dirty to these men who like to escape, what do you say your name is?

01:02:06 I say Scout.

01:02:07 Saying your name is Scout, that wouldn't be the truth, would it?

01:02:09 Well, it's true at Rick's.

01:02:11 No, the truth is, is that you don't want the kind of men who visit topless clubs to know much about you, now do you?

01:02:16 Look, when you go to Disneyland, you don't want the guy in the Mickey Mouse suit

01:02:19 telling your kids about his dysfunctional family, right?

01:02:22 You want him to do a good job at being Mickey Mouse.

01:02:25 I try to do a good job at being Scout. I mean, I'm a party girl who talks naughty to the boys.

01:02:30 So you are the amusement park ride that the men pay to look up and down?

01:02:34 Having people watch, it's my job. It's not who I am, okay?

01:02:40 I mean, it's my job, I'm good at it, and I think the world needs people like me to do what I do.

01:02:47 I'm sorry. I just got you confused with Mother Teresa.

01:02:50 I don't understand what the problem is.

01:02:52 The problem, young lady, is when you send the men out into the street with the testosterone bursting out of their ears.

01:02:58 I don't know about you, but the women I know, we all like our men with a little testosterone.

01:03:03 What? Innocent little girl, a young woman gets attacked because of what you do.

01:03:07 The only men I ever met at Rick's who acted like thugs were vice cops.

01:03:12 You don't know what your customers do when they leave that nightclub.

01:03:15 You don't know how many women don't get hassled because men come visit us.

01:03:19 You don't know how many do.

01:03:27 Sergeant, is there any question in your mind that the person who victimized you with that terrible dance is this young lady?

01:03:36 No, sir, no question at all.

01:03:38 Well, now, you know, you're an awful big fella. Do you ever play any sports?

01:03:42 Played a little ball in junior college.

01:03:44 Now, what kind of ball was that?

01:03:46 I looked like a basketball player.

01:03:49 What?

01:03:50 Football.

01:03:51 Did you expect this jury to believe that this tiny little woman victimized you?

01:03:58 Well, I guess she did.

01:04:00 Okay. According to this, you wrote that the suspect had blonde hair.

01:04:05 Now, have my clients had blonde?

01:04:08 No, sir, she might have dyed it.

01:04:11 Did y'all make photos of every person you arrested at Rick's that night?

01:04:15 Yes, sir, we like to have a photo of all the girls in case they become victims of a homicide.

01:04:20 Have dancers ever been victims of homicide?

01:04:23 Yeah, one of them got herself killed. She was in a carjacking. She stopped and got gasoline. That was a couple years ago.

01:04:30 Well, was that case ever solved?

01:04:32 Not to the best of my knowledge.

01:04:33 Instead of going out and finding out who killed this young woman, you people are at nightclubs arresting 30 women for lewd dancing.

01:04:44 Objection! An unsolved murder has no bearing on the guilt or innocence of this defendant.

01:04:49 Police policy has a bearing on the public's safety.

01:04:53 The police set their own policies, not the public and not this jury.

01:04:57 Sustained.

01:04:59 Oh, God.

01:05:01 Now, I'd advise you to take these photos of Savannah Logan and Savannah King when they were arrested. If you could check that, please.

01:05:09 Yes, sir.

01:05:10 Now, according to that photo of the defendant, what is her stage name?

01:05:14 Stage name, Scout.

01:05:15 Which one has blonde hair?

01:05:19 Savannah King.

01:05:20 Which one has a stage name, Savannah?

01:05:23 Savannah King.

01:05:24 Isn't that a fact that Savannah King is the girl who danced for you and she is the one with the tattoo?

01:05:30 No, sir. That's the girl with the tattoo right there.

01:05:33 I think we can clear this up by having the female bailiff check to see whether or not Miss Logan has a tattoo.

01:05:43 Objection, irrelevant!

01:05:45 Why is everything that disproves this woman's case irrelevant?

01:05:50 The bailiff already has a job. Why don't you get your own witness?

01:05:54 All right, officer, would you agree with me that if this woman doesn't have a tattoo, that this is the wrong Savannah?

01:06:01 No, sir. I would not agree with you on that, sir.

01:06:03 You swore under oath that the woman had a tattoo. Either she's got a tattoo or she don't.

01:06:09 I didn't use the tattoo as my total criteria.

01:06:12 When you identified my client, did you take precautions to see you got the right person or you were just using your memory?

01:06:22 I used my memory based on my recollection.

01:06:25 Did you have a female officer look at Savannah Logan and Savannah King to see which one had the tattoo?

01:06:34 No, sir.

01:06:35 You file serious criminal charges and you don't try to avoid charging innocent people.

01:06:42 I didn't say that, sir.

01:06:43 To make a positive identification, would it have been better to check the person to see if they had a tattoo?

01:06:51 I told you I didn't use that tattoo as my total criteria for my criteria.

01:06:56 Now, if Savannah King matched all seven items of your description and my client matched none, who would you arrest?

01:07:05 I'd arrest that girl right there.

01:07:07 You know, officer, you're zero for seven.

01:07:10 I'm not real good at ladies' height and their weight.

01:07:16 If you're not good on height and weight, color of hair and tattoos, why should the jury believe you have the right person?

01:07:24 Because she done the dance that gave me a mental picture in my head.

01:07:28 Were you asked to do a rather unusual thing?

01:07:36 Yes, sir. I was asked to go into the restroom and look at her privates.

01:07:41 Were you asked to look at Ms. Logan's body to see if she had a tattoo anywhere, even her privates?

01:07:49 Yes, sir.

01:07:50 Did you see any tattoo whatsoever?

01:07:53 No, sir. No tattoo.

01:07:55 Thank you, Lynette. Your witness.

01:07:58 Are you being compensated to be here?

01:08:02 No, ma'am. I was already out in the hallway.

01:08:05 What were you doing in the hallway of a criminal courts building?

01:08:07 To see a judge in another courtroom.

01:08:09 Why were you seeing a criminal courts judge?

01:08:13 For a restraining order against my husband. He beat me.

01:08:21 I'm sorry to hear that.

01:08:23 This defendant, she didn't have any problem whatsoever stripping her clothes off for a total stranger, did she?

01:08:29 No, ma'am.

01:08:30 Have you ever seen her perform as a topless dancer?

01:08:34 No, ma'am.

01:08:35 In fact, you don't know anything about this case, do you?

01:08:38 No, ma'am.

01:08:39 Thank you.

01:08:40 Thank you, ma'am.

01:08:46 Having done this for 13 years and being an expert in this field,

01:08:51 you can give an accurate estimate of a dancer's height and weight?

01:08:55 I ain't no expert. I can just guess like anybody else.

01:08:57 Really? In 13 years, you've made thousands of cases against dancers, and you're not an expert in that field?

01:09:03 No, sir. I'm not an expert.

01:09:04 13 years busting women, and you can only guess like anyone else?

01:09:07 That's right.

01:09:08 Read the description of the suspect in your warrant report.

01:09:12 Uh, 5'4", straight blonde hair, 100 pounds, green G-string, flower-colored nightie, stage name Savannah.

01:09:21 After 13 years of arresting thousands of women,

01:09:24 the best description you can give is some wild guess on height and weight and the color of a G-string?

01:09:28 Well, and hair color and length.

01:09:30 Did you write down any identifying marks or scars or birthmarks?

01:09:33 No, sir.

01:09:34 Was the woman naked from the waist up?

01:09:36 She sure was. Not a stitch.

01:09:37 And you couldn't pick out a single birthmark or freckle to show this jury that you have the right woman?

01:09:41 I didn't see no birthmark.

01:09:43 Did you look for any?

01:09:44 Not exactly.

01:09:45 That's the best you can do after 13 years. Huh?

01:09:49 Well, that's the way we've always done it.

01:09:51 Is there a difference between 5'4" and 5'9"?

01:09:57 Uh, that'd be, um...

01:09:59 Well, that'd be 5".

01:10:03 But that depends on if she's got on high heels or if she's flat-footed.

01:10:06 You know, she can be taller, shorter.

01:10:08 Would you stand up, please, Mr. Holmes?

01:10:10 [clears throat]

01:10:12 Would it surprise you to find out that my client is 5'9" and 130 pounds?

01:10:19 Not really, 'cause, uh, it was just a guesstimate of mine. I had no idea being specific.

01:10:22 You had no idea being specific?

01:10:24 No, sir.

01:10:25 Do you want the jury to convict this woman on some nonspecific guesstimate?

01:10:29 Just only evidence.

01:10:30 Is it your guesstimate that this woman danced for you?

01:10:32 No, sir. She did dance for me.

01:10:34 I seen more of her than I needed to see.

01:10:36 You can sit down, Mr. Holmes.

01:10:39 Did you arrest Savannah King?

01:10:41 I sure did.

01:10:42 You have an arrest photo of Savannah King?

01:10:44 Yeah, I got it right here.

01:10:45 I object to relevance. Savannah Logan is on trial today, not Savannah King.

01:10:49 Overruled.

01:10:51 Now, according to this, uh, arrest photo, what is Miss King's stage name?

01:10:57 Savannah.

01:10:58 Savannah. And how does the police information card describe Savannah King?

01:11:02 I didn't write this card. This card's filled out by the stripper herself.

01:11:05 No telling what she'll put on there.

01:11:07 Okay, you didn't write it, but Savannah King and the cashier say that the woman who dances as Savannah is Savannah King.

01:11:15 Well, now, that's according to them. They could be lying. They probably are lying.

01:11:19 Tell the jury how you describe Savannah King in your warrant report.

01:11:22 I don't remember much about Savannah King except what she looked like.

01:11:24 Was she 5'4"?

01:11:26 She was over 5' and, uh, she was less than 6'.

01:11:31 According to your arrest warrant, is Savannah King 5'4", 100 pounds, with blonde hair?

01:11:37 Yeah, I guess it said that.

01:11:39 You guessed. That's exactly what you put down.

01:11:41 But I wasn't being, you know, specific.

01:11:43 Read your warrant report there.

01:11:45 5'4", 100 pounds, blonde hair, green G-string, flower nightie.

01:11:49 Well, isn't that a coincidence? That Savannah King fits exactly to the description in this case.

01:11:54 So what?

01:11:56 So?

01:11:57 What's your point, counselor?

01:11:59 Take a look at these, uh, arrest photos.

01:12:04 Objection! Miss King's photo is not relevant because it is not a photograph of a person who is on trial here today.

01:12:11 Overruled. Show him the picture.

01:12:13 Which one is the blonde here, Savannah? King or the defendant?

01:12:17 Both of them's blonde.

01:12:24 Both?

01:12:25 Yeah.

01:12:26 Are you kidding me? You call that blonde?

01:12:29 That's kind of a dark blonde with the dark, bleachy blonde streaks in it.

01:12:33 What's the jury to believe, officer? You? Or their own eyes?

01:12:39 Well, I guess they can believe whatever they want to.

01:12:43 I didn't go to beauty school, but I know there's a different kind of blonde.

01:12:47 There's your medium, you got your light, and you got your dark.

01:12:49 That in there has some dark blonde hair.

01:12:51 How many charges did vice file on Miss King?

01:12:53 I believe we filed six on her.

01:12:55 Did you arrest Miss Logan for three crimes she didn't commit to avoid stacking nine charges on Miss King?

01:13:00 No, sir.

01:13:01 So did you just like Miss King's dances so much you just kept on buying?

01:13:04 No, sir.

01:13:05 Did you frame Miss Logan on three of Miss King's charges to make your bust look bigger than it was?

01:13:11 No, sir.

01:13:12 Did you pin three charges on Miss Logan to justify your $7,000 party?

01:13:16 What are you talking about party? There was no party.

01:13:18 We just been doing our police work, period.

01:13:21 We was getting some of these naughty ones off the street.

01:13:24 I want nothing further with this witness.

01:13:26 He was making our society safe again.

01:13:28 R.C., look at this.

01:13:35 Damn.

01:13:40 Spooky.

01:13:42 Spooky.

01:13:43 What in the hell you doing here, boy?

01:13:47 R.C., I have been called to testify, and I should not be talking to you.

01:13:52 Get in the bathroom.

01:13:54 I don't have to go to the bathroom.

01:13:56 Would you please just get in the bathroom. We'll talk about it in there.

01:13:59 Yes, daddy.

01:14:01 Now, damn it, Spooky, you got to play ball, son.

01:14:04 What the hell are you talking about, R.C.?

01:14:06 You got to tell them that that little stripper tried to arouse and gratify me.

01:14:10 That ain't nothing to complain about, boy.

01:14:12 I'm not playing, Spooky. My ass is on the line.

01:14:14 R.C., you got me so liquored up that night that I haven't been able to remember a damn thing since.

01:14:20 You better watch what you say, 'cause that Barnett is slicker than owl shit.

01:14:23 And they got this other fella, this little Effley Bailey wannabe.

01:14:26 Damn strippers these days have so much money they can afford their own dream team.

01:14:29 You're nervous as a prom queen, boy.

01:14:31 Used to be you could just intimidate them into playing guilty.

01:14:33 Oh, R.C., don't get your brains in a wad.

01:14:36 I got three words for you, Spooky.

01:14:38 Yes, no, and I don't recall.

01:14:42 You know what you are, R.C.? You're a pussy.

01:14:45 You screw this up, the free drinks is over.

01:14:48 Not convicted, a stripper never stopped a party before.

01:14:51 Will you just point to that hot, nasty little bitch?

01:14:53 Who?

01:14:54 The hot, nasty one, goddammit. You can't miss her, 'cause there ain't nobody in there but her.

01:14:57 Oh, yeah, man.

01:15:00 Crazy. Everybody's got something against being naked.

01:15:04 Since when did being naked become so troublesome?

01:15:08 Hell, I'm naked without my clothes.

01:15:11 If we didn't have clothes, we'd all be naked.

01:15:15 In that right part.

01:15:18 Mr. Harlow, did you accompany Officer Tubbs on the vice investigation of Ricks?

01:15:24 Was that a Friday, sir?

01:15:27 I bowl on Wednesdays, and, uh,

01:15:30 if it was a Friday, I might have been there.

01:15:33 Were you with Officer Tubbs?

01:15:36 Oh, yes, sir, I was with old R.C.

01:15:39 Excuse me, I mean Officer Tubbs.

01:15:41 You see, sir, I have a tremendous interest in vice activities.

01:15:47 Were you drinking with Officer Tubbs?

01:15:50 Hell, yes. I wasn't going to a bar without drinking.

01:15:53 You can keep your perrier, 'cause I wouldn't wash my butt with it.

01:15:58 Okay, Mr. Harlow. Well, how many drinks did you have?

01:16:02 Oh, I don't know. I had a few.

01:16:07 Quite a few.

01:16:08 How much is "quite a few"?

01:16:10 Oh, goodness, I really couldn't tell you. You see, I lost my pencil.

01:16:14 Now, if I'd had my pencil when I went home,

01:16:17 I could have made a note, you know, just before I went to sleep.

01:16:21 But then most of the time I forget that I even have a journal.

01:16:24 How much money do you think you spent drinking that night?

01:16:28 Oh, I don't really know yet. You know what, I was just throwing the money in the pot,

01:16:32 throwing everything I had.

01:16:34 Well, how much was it?

01:16:35 About 20 bucks.

01:16:37 Did you see any person other than Officer Tubbs drinking his drink?

01:16:43 Oh, you got to be kidding. Nope.

01:16:46 A grizzly bear couldn't separate him from his bottle.

01:16:50 You take a drink of his drink, you might lose an arm.

01:16:54 Thank you, Mr. Harlow.

01:16:56 Oh, shit.

01:16:58 Don't ask him nothing. He's an idiot.

01:17:02 That's indecent exposure.

01:17:04 Mr. Harlow, did a dancer accost you inside Rick's?

01:17:07 Accost me?

01:17:08 Confront you, walk up and talk to you.

01:17:10 Well, she said, "Hey, good-looking, would you like a dance?"

01:17:13 That's what she said to me.

01:17:14 Well, did you receive a dance?

01:17:16 Yes, ma'am, more than one.

01:17:17 Describe what she was wearing.

01:17:19 She had on one of those skimpy little nighties, you know,

01:17:22 but then she stripped that off, and she wasn't wearing barely anything

01:17:27 except that little G-string.

01:17:29 Describe it.

01:17:31 The string goes up your butt.

01:17:33 I'll tell you, ma'am, it was--it was nice.

01:17:38 Where did her buttocks make contact?

01:17:40 Oh, oh, over at Rick's place.

01:17:44 Could you feel that contact?

01:17:46 Boy, I sure could.

01:17:48 And as a matter of fact, I can feel it right now.

01:17:51 Oh!

01:17:52 Oh, boy.

01:17:54 Mama.

01:17:55 Did you pay for that dance?

01:17:57 20 bucks hard cash, and it was worth every damn penny.

01:18:00 About how much did she weigh?

01:18:02 Not too much, not too little.

01:18:05 It was just right.

01:18:08 And then she had this little crease in her butt, and it fit right on my knee.

01:18:11 Could you guesstimate her weight?

01:18:13 Oh, I don't know.

01:18:14 I guess it would be a hundred-something, just about like you.

01:18:20 Did the dancer make inappropriate contact with you?

01:18:23 Oh, ma'am, certainly it wasn't inappropriate to me.

01:18:27 Well, now I might have got a little frisky, but it wasn't like she wasn't being paid.

01:18:38 Hey!

01:18:40 Which one of you smartasses done that?

01:18:42 What are you going to do about it?

01:18:44 Arrest us for assault with a deadly weapon?

01:18:46 Did you point to the person who danced for you?

01:19:04 It was none of them.

01:19:07 None of them sat on my lap.

01:19:10 They innocent.

01:19:11 Totally.

01:19:12 Step down, Mr. Harlow.

01:19:13 You're through.

01:19:14 It ain't that one with the badge over there.

01:19:16 That is all, Mr. Harlow.

01:19:17 I am through with you.

01:19:19 If you would get the guilty party to come up and sit on my knee with that crease in her butt, I'd know who it was.

01:19:24 If you say one more word, I will have you removed from this courtroom.

01:19:28 Your Honor, I want him charged with contempt if he says one more word.

01:19:31 All I know is I did it, and I like it, and I'm going to do it again.

01:19:36 Is that against the law?

01:19:37 Yes, it is.

01:19:38 Why don't you leave them poor girls alone, woman?

01:19:43 She's not her damn friend.

01:19:44 She ain't my friend.

01:19:45 She damn sure is.

01:19:49 The prosecutor's case boils down to she's no good.

01:19:55 She's a stripper.

01:19:56 The prosecutor figures that if she persuades you dancers are no good, you'll convict.

01:20:03 Now, I've been around long enough to remember prosecutors who use the same tactic to convict minorities.

01:20:11 If you want to convict on lifestyle, ask yourself this.

01:20:16 What did Savannah buy with her money?

01:20:19 She built her mother a wheelchair around.

01:20:24 I used to think that the officers mistakenly identified my client.

01:20:30 Oh, but not anymore.

01:20:33 There have been too many mistakes.

01:20:38 They frame this girl for their $7,000 party.

01:20:44 Think about that.

01:20:46 Now, the evidence proves that cops like to have beautiful young women sitting on their laps.

01:20:53 Now, Sergeant Hunt charged a topless dancer with indecent exposure.

01:20:57 These officers dragged that law inside a topless club to give themselves an excuse to spend their working hours inside topless bars.

01:21:06 The law was enacted to protect girls from flashers who hang around schoolyards.

01:21:14 It wasn't designed to protect adult men inside topless bars.

01:21:19 Now, had a man exposed himself to a little girl coming out of Sunday school, we'd expect the victim to be offended.

01:21:24 But you cannot be offended by an act of exposure if you pay the flasher to flash you.

01:21:30 Have you ever heard of a teenage girl who paid the pervert to flash her?

01:21:33 Filing indecent exposure charges against topless dancers boggles the mind.

01:21:39 These officers want the taxpayers to fund their jollies, so they invented a crime.

01:21:45 Do you realize what it would take for a citizen to be a victim in this case?

01:21:48 You would have to accidentally go to a topless club.

01:21:53 You'd have to accidentally show your ID.

01:21:56 You'd have to accidentally pay the cover charge.

01:21:59 Then you would have to ask a topless dancer to dance for you.

01:22:03 And if she brushed against you, you'd have to sit there and take it.

01:22:07 You couldn't say, "Please don't touch me."

01:22:09 You couldn't push the dancer away.

01:22:11 Your victimization would have to paralyze your body and your vocal cords.

01:22:15 Are we all babies?

01:22:17 Are we all infants?

01:22:19 Do we actually need the government to protect us from that?

01:22:22 What rapist, what mugger, what armed robber, what car thief doesn't get caught?

01:22:28 Because the police are protecting us from that.

01:22:31 We don't need sex police to monitor our morals.

01:22:34 We don't need sex police to monitor our private lives.

01:22:38 We don't need sex police.

01:22:42 The first job of a bureaucracy is to protect itself.

01:22:46 Raiding topless clubs is a welfare program for vice cops,

01:22:51 built on the backs of women who are routinely locked up

01:22:54 to make sure that these bureaucrats are employed.

01:22:57 They imprison women to ensure they have jobs.

01:23:02 What kind of morally bankrupt man locks women in jail

01:23:08 and lies under oath to cover a party?

01:23:12 When officers perjure themselves to cover a party,

01:23:16 is there anything they won't lie about?

01:23:19 Who scares you more, Savannah Logan or Officer Tubbs?

01:23:26 You've seen what the TV news didn't show,

01:23:30 when those men in black ski masks pulled their guns and hauled 30 women to jail.

01:23:35 You've seen the truth behind the wizard's curtain.

01:23:38 And you've seen that the real lewd conduct was on the part of the police.

01:23:50 Savannah Logan chose to do two lewd dances.

01:23:55 And I for one and the state of Texas for two are not willing to say,

01:24:00 "Oh, that's okay. She only danced lewd in a topless bar."

01:24:04 If you tell this girl that she can dance lewd in a topless bar,

01:24:08 where is she going to do it next?

01:24:11 City Hall? The Astrodome? Your front yard?

01:24:18 Savannah Logan rubbed her buttocks against the cloven genitals of two police officers.

01:24:24 She sat on their laps and she wiggled around.

01:24:28 And what's her defense?

01:24:30 Well, she couldn't come up with one good one, so she came up with three little ones.

01:24:34 There's the, "I was in Oregon helping my Paul Cripple mama."

01:24:39 Well, where is mama? Why didn't she bring mama to testify?

01:24:43 Then there's the, "Blame it on Savannah King."

01:24:48 It's outrageous that she would blame a woman who's not even on trial in this courtroom.

01:24:53 Then there's the, "I ain't got no tattoo defense."

01:24:59 So what?

01:25:01 Now, I'm going to tell you what makes sense.

01:25:03 She got a washable tattoo, one of those things that you lick and you stick.

01:25:07 But I guess it wasn't enough for her to say that she didn't have a tattoo.

01:25:10 No, she had to drag some poor woman out of the hallway and parade her vagina yet again.

01:25:15 And what difference does it make?

01:25:17 The officers know it was her because they spent quite a bit of time with her buttocks on their laps.

01:25:24 And why did they have her buttocks on their laps?

01:25:29 Because that is the job of the Houston Police Department,

01:25:33 making sure that every corner of this city is safe.

01:25:36 They're out there working hard for you.

01:25:41 [shouting]

01:25:48 Six hours to deliberate? That can't be good.

01:25:52 If we lose, Marnette says we have grounds for appeal.

01:25:55 An appeal? How are we going to afford that?

01:25:57 We've already spent $15,000 on this trial.

01:26:00 [shouting]

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01:26:10 Please rise.

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01:26:19 Has the jury reached a verdict?

01:26:22 We have, Your Honor.

01:26:24 Please publish your verdict.

01:26:27 We the jury, in the above entitled action, find the defendant, Savannah Logan, not guilty.

01:26:33 [shouting]

01:26:35 [laughter]

01:26:41 Congratulations.

01:26:42 Thank you.

01:26:43 Congratulations, counsel.

01:26:44 Can I thank the jury?

01:26:45 Oh, sure.

01:26:47 Congratulations.

01:26:48 I'm so sorry they put you through all of this.

01:26:50 Thank you for finding me innocent.

01:26:52 Not guilty does not mean innocent.

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