Cafe Delicto: Virginia Man Convicted of Indecent Exposure For Appearing Naked Inside His Home While Making Coffee

We previously followed the case of Erick Williamson, 29, who was charged with indecent exposure when he was spotted by two women naked inside his house. He says that he was making coffee and they say he was exposing himself. Well, a Virginia jury has rejected his coffee-based defense and convicted Williamson.

The jury agreed with the women that Williamson intentionally stood in front of the window while they walked by his home. However, he was given a suspended sentence and no fine. He stated his intention to appeal. He notably did not argue that this was just how you make a Latte In Flagrante Delicto.

This still leaves on a caffeine-based defense in another case, here.

20 Responses to “Cafe Delicto: Virginia Man Convicted of Indecent Exposure For Appearing Naked Inside His Home While Making Coffee”


  1. 1 Flipkid 1, December 18, 2009 at 4:32 pm

    Hey, if you walk by my house and look in a window to catch me naked, you deserve to go blind…

  2. 2 Byron 1, December 18, 2009 at 4:51 pm

    I bet if he had cut his hair and shaved he would not have been convicted. Stereotype of the sex crazed hippie.

    If I looked into the window of a woman’s house and saw her naked at 5 am in the morning, I would be arrested.

  3. 3 Elaine M. 1, December 18, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    Byron–

    I agree with you on both points!

  4. 4 Buddha Is Laughing 1, December 18, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    I’m with you fellas.

    (For some reason I keep channelling Delmar O’Dell. Must be the Louisiana water.)

  5. 5 Byron 1, December 18, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    Elaine:

    you do? Hell must have frozen over :)

  6. 6 Elaine M. 1, December 18, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    Byron–

    Regarding the location you mentioned: I hear they’re having a helluva problem with climate change down there in the netherworld. The ladeez in Hades tell me the temperature is going into retrogradeez.

  7. 7 lottakatz 1, December 18, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    As I recall the original story as it unfolded the woman and her kid were cutting through his yard when they saw him and had they stayed on the sidewalk they would not have seen him. Virginia seems to be in dire need of one of those overnight purgatives.

  8. 8 Dredd 1, December 18, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    Come on, obviously he was beefed because he looks like Stephen Stills …

  9. 9 Anonymously Yours 1, December 18, 2009 at 10:14 pm

    Makes no sense at all. The conviction and all.

  10. 10 rafflaw 1, December 18, 2009 at 10:30 pm

    This guy bears a strong resemblence to the big guy in the Nerds movies! Shouldn’t this guy file a complaint for trespassing against these peeping toms?

  11. 11 Sally 1, December 18, 2009 at 10:49 pm

    I truly believe that if a father and son had come across a nude woman making coffee in her own kitchen, the father would have been labeled a pervert and been made to register as a sex offender.

  12. 12 Anonymously Yours 1, December 19, 2009 at 8:14 am

    Sally,

    I think you have got it. This guy would have been a pervert. Now, question how many women have had sex with the repairman? Waiting nude for when the show up to do the work that they are assigned?

    Are Cougars legal to have?

  13. 13 Elaine M. 1, December 19, 2009 at 8:23 am

    AY–

    You wrote; “Now, question how many women have had sex with the repairman? Waiting nude for when the show up to do the work that they are assigned?”

    Is that type of thing happening down there in Texas where you been livin’? If so, maybe you all should rename it the Lonely Mam?…State.

  14. 14 Chase 1, December 19, 2009 at 5:19 pm

    I was wondering how this one would turn out- thanks for the update!

    -Chase
    http://www.sexinpower.com

  15. 15 lottakatz 1, December 19, 2009 at 5:32 pm

    Anonymously Yours
    “…Now, question how many women have had sex with the repairman? Waiting nude for when the show up to do the work that they are assigned?”
    ————–

    None that I’ve ever known; they’re too busy holding down jobs and trying to make (economic) ends meet. Having to stay home and wait for a repairman is a chore, not an opportunity. If you’re jokin’, put a smiley behind it or some of us are going to think there’s something in the water down there.

  16. 16 Paul 1, December 20, 2009 at 3:57 pm

    When I first caught wind of this story I told my family how outraged I was that the obviously half-whit authorities in virgina would even waste the taxpayers money on this sort of tripe. I knew it would be tossed out and that would be the end of it. Now that I hear this ACTUALLY went to trial and the man was CONVICTED of being naked in his OWN HOME I am extremely OUTRAGED and am so glad I do not live in a backwoods redneck half-whit state like virginia. This so called “judge” and “prosecutor” don’t have enough brains between them to blow a bubble. They need to be relieved of the jobs taxpayers waste hard earned money on and maybe get jobs as paper boys or at the local laundry mat. Is this still America that I live in???. I am now forced to really wonder why I served this Country for 20 years in the Marines Force Recon to defend the rights os morons like these clowns who call themselves attorneys and judges. This really sickens and saddens me terribly.

  17. 17 Former Federal LEO 1, December 20, 2009 at 10:44 pm

    Paul,

    Fortunately, Mr. Williamson is appealing this verdict and perhaps his actions can result in this never occurring again in any jurisdiction. Outrageous verdicts like this must never stand uncontested.

  18. 18 Pete Moran 1, December 21, 2009 at 8:59 am

    You jest, surely; this will end up debunked on snopes.com just wait a little longer.


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