Please be seated. JEROME: Hello,
your Honor. Hello. This is the case
of <i> Boston v. Murphy.</i> Thank you, Jerome.
Good day, everyone. AUDIENCE: Good day. THERESA: Good day,
your Honor. Mr. Boston, you have dragged
the defendant into court today because you say
you have undeniable proof that there is
no way possible that you are
the biological father of the defendant's
10-month-old son, Tristan, is that correct? JEREMY: Yes, your Honor. JUDGE LAKE: Ms. Murphy,
you say that you are tired of Mr. Boston's lies
and you want him to stop denying
that he's Tristan's father. You believe the DNA results will be your proof today,
is that correct? Yes, your Honor. JUDGE LAKE: Mr. Boston, what is your proof that you
are not Tristan's father? Your Honor, you have
to have sex to make a baby and I don't believe in,
you know, I don't remember
even doing that with her. THERESA: He's lying. JUDGE LAKE: You don't remember having sex with Ms. Murphy? JEREMY: All of a sudden
Why am I finding out that I was the dad? He was at my house
all the time, every day, every night in my bed. Stop it. JUDGE LAKE: It is
your assertion to this court
that you've never been in a sexual relationship
with Ms. Murphy? I mean, I'm not denying it
like that, but I'm just saying, like... JUDGE LAKE: Okay. So what are you saying? He's lying. He is lying, your Honor.
See? JUDGE LAKE: Did you
or did you not have a sexual relationship
with Ms. Murphy? I mean, I had, your Honor... THERESA: We did. ...But we had protection. THERESA: Plenty of times on different occasions. So I'm trying to figure out how this baby popped up. JUDGE LAKE: Okay, but now, you started off
the whole case lying. You said
you got to have sex... THERESA: Thank you. ...to have a baby. THERESA: Exactly. You're saying
you didn't have sex, but you did. Right. Now you're saying
you used protection? Yes, but... JUDGE LAKE: Okay.
Your credibility is shot. (LAUGHTER) So obviously,
you all were not boyfriend and girlfriend? JEREMY: Nope. Yes, we were. JEREMY: No, we was not. Oh, my goodness. THERESA: Yes, we were. JEREMY: No, we was not. So wait, now you... THERESA: Yes, we were. JEREMY: No, we was not. Yes, we were.
Yes, we were. JUDGE LAKE: So wait a minute.
So Mr. Boston, you say you weren't
in a committed relationship? Yes, we were. No. Yes, we were. She then turned
the friendship into
a whole marriage. OMG.
Like, for real, really? No, that ain't how it went. Ms. Murphy. THERESA: Yes, your Honor. So how long were you
in a sexual relationship? Four months. JEREMY: I wasn't even at her house
for four months. THERESA: He's lying. He's lying,
your Honor. She would call me and beg me over there
every other night. He's lying. He's lying. Like, he was at my house... JEREMY: Sometimes, I can't... ...every night,
spending the night, sleeping in the same bed. JEREMY: Sometimes
I came to stay alone, kicking it with them. You know,
having beverages. Stayed over time
when my mom was asleep, so I couldn't get
in her house. So yes, I did spend
a night over there and I slept on her floor
in her living room. It was an every... No, lying. You slept in my bed. Yes, I have. You slept in my bed. JUDGE LAKE: And so
wait a minute. You say you used protection
the whole time? JEREMY: Yeah. Every time? No. No. Lying. No, no, no. He's lying. He's lying, your Honor.
He's lying. Because it wasn't a lot
of times, your Honor. He's lying. It wasn't a lot of times. THERESA: He never used
protection. Never. But it only takes one time
to make a baby. THERESA: Exactly. JEREMY: Exactly. JUDGE LAKE: So why
would you lead
in this courtroom with a statement that says
you got to have sex to make a baby?
Yes, you do and you did. Yes, I did, your Honor,
I apologize about that. (LAUGHTER) JUDGE LAKE: Ms. Murphy,
how did it go? When I moved to Danville, I bumped into Mr. Boston. We exchanged numbers. After that, he started coming
over my house,
spending the night, and we had
sexual encounters plenty of times
on several occasions in my bedroom. And when I first found out
that I was pregnant, he was happy, he came over
to my house, he's like, "Oh, I found out
you was pregnant." And I was like, "Yes, I am.
I'm two months." Your Honor. Your Honor, I found out... He rubbed my belly
and everything. He was smiling
and everything. JEREMY: I found out that she was pregnant
in the process
of me being on... THERESA: No, no. ...over at a family member's house. THERESA: No. That family member came
in the house and told me, "Well, you know somebody
named Theresa?" At the time, I didn't know
her government name. The only thing I knew
was Bookie. THERESA: He's lying. He's lying, your Honor. JEREMY: I knew her by Bookie. He's lying. JEREMY: I never knew
Theresa Murphy. Wait a minute. THERESA: Oh, my god. JEREMY: Even
in Chicago, Bookie. You've been sleeping
with her for four months and don't know her name? Not even
her government name. JUDGE LAKE: You sound
about crazy, Mr. Boston. JEREMY: Bookie. THERESA: Thank you. (APPLAUSE) JUDGE LAKE: So you never knew
her name was Theresa? Her government... Never. Even in Chicago,
it was Bookie. (LAUGHTER) JUDGE LAKE: Okay. What happened
when you found out Bookie was pregnant? I say,
"Well, congratulations.
Tell her congratulations. "Who is the father?" So the lady, like,
"Uh, she's saying
"you the father's child." "Uh, yeah, so, uh,
how far along is she?" Two months. JEREMY: You know. I wasn't over your house
for long, you know,
for a little while. JUDGE LAKE: Oh,
you're saying... So there was a span of time that you didn't go
over there at all? JEREMY: Exactly. JUDGE LAKE: And you feel like when you found out
she was pregnant, when you calculated back,
it was during the time that you weren't around? Exactly. It's not true, when I found
that I was pregnant, I didn't tell him.
I didn't contact him. I was at home.
He came to my house and knocked on my door. He was with his friend
and he came in and I have my friends there
and he was like, "I heard you was pregnant." I'm like,
"Yes, I'm two months." He started smiling, putting his hands
on my belly. He started
rubbing on my belly. Now, during the time
that I was pregnant, he was coming over there,
but he had stopped when I was, like,
six months. He has stopped coming
over my house... Your Honor... THERESA: ...for some reason, I don't know why. JEREMY: No. I called her and talked
about the baby. No, he didn't. No, he didn't. She's like,
"Well, who told you?" I'm like, well,
"It's running around,
you know, "the whole of Danville." THERESA: No, he did not. JEREMY: So that's when
I called her to get it... Get, you know, get the facts
from her out of her own mouth. Okay, so when you
got those facts,
what did she say to you? JEREMY: She told me, yeah,
she was pregnant,
this, that and the third. You know, she wanted me
to come talk to her. Yeah, I did go over there
and talked to her
with my friend, you know. So I asked her,
uh, about this child. She looking at me, you know,
she looking all sad
in the face. Why? So I'm like, "Uh, so who's the father
of this child? What's going on?"
She like, "You." So yeah, at the point...
At the time, yes, I was a little tipsy,
you know what I'm saying? But in my head,
yeah, I got another child on the way, you know,
I'ma see how this work out. So after that little...
That little alcohol... He was drunk, but still,
that ain't no excuse. ...ran up off me, I then thought about it... JUDGE LAKE: So
when you sobered up, then you realized,
"Uh-oh, this may
not be my child"? Exactly. (LAUGHTER) JEREMY: Exactly. (MUSIC PLAYING) After I had the baby,
your Honor, he came to Chicago to see my baby. JEREMY: Yes, I did. JUDGE LAKE: So during
the pregnancy and birth, you all lived
in different states? THERESA: Yes,
I moved back to Chicago
with my mom. Actually, I have proof he came to Chicago
to see my son. JUDGE LAKE: I'd
like to see that. And I took a picture. He asked me to take
a picture of him and his son and put it on Facebook,
and that's what I did. JEREMY: No, I haven't. JUDGE LAKE: Thank you. JEREMY: No, no, I haven't. So what is this
a picture of? THERESA: Tristan
and Mr. Boston. JUDGE LAKE: Mr. Boston
and Tristan? THERESA: Yes. JUDGE LAKE: Mr. Boston, is this you
in this picture? JEREMY: Yes, it is. Were you holding
the baby just because or were you taking a picture
with your son? I wanted to see
what part of me is in this child,
but I have... I have... For, uh, so long,
I was, you know, I was patient
about the situation because maybe on down the line
as the child
get a little older, I will see some part of me
in this baby. I still don't see it. Okay. So what you did
is you came to town because you wanted
to see this baby because you needed to see
if it looked like you? JEREMY: Right, if it has
some kind of, you know, parts of me
or my family in him.
I don't see it. JUDGE LAKE: Some
family resemblance? Exactly. JUDGE LAKE: All right.
So Ms. Murphy, he's saying
there's a whole gap of time... No. ...that he was not around when he believes
you conceived Tristan. Was there a gap of time? THERESA: He was around. No, he was around
all the time. You're lying. JUDGE LAKE: For that
four months you were sleeping with him
without protection consistently? Yes, yes, yes. JUDGE LAKE: Before
you got pregnant was he the only man
you were intimate with... JEREMY: No, no. ...at all? Let her answer. THERESA: No. JUDGE LAKE: No? Okay. So why are you convinced that Mr. Boston is the father? Because for the period of time when I found
that I was pregnant, the time adds up.
He was the only man that I was intimate with. No, I was not. THERESA: He was the only man
that I was with. We were together. You was intimate with other guys way before. THERESA: No, no. I was just intimate
with one person after him. Because there was
too many guys that
already knew out there was telling me her name. No. After him, I was only intimate
with one guy. Oh, how you know her? "How you know...
How you know her?"
Too many guys. Too many of them. JUDGE LAKE: Well,
the court has identified and located another man who says he was intimate
with you as well. JEREMY: Hmm.
Look at that there. JUDGE LAKE: That man,
Mr. Gregory, is here. JEREMY: A shame. JUDGE LAKE: Jerome,
can you please
escort Mr. Gregory... JEROME: Sure. JUDGE LAKE: ...into
the courtroom? Mr. Gregory, thank you
for joining us today. No problem. JUDGE LAKE: We've determined
that you in fact have had a relationship
with Ms. Murphy. TYRAN: A sexual relationship. JUDGE LAKE: Just
a sexual relationship? Take me back to the day
Ms. Murphy told you
she was pregnant. TYRAN: She text me on Facebook
and told me she was pregnant. I never talked
to her again, like, deleted everything, so... THERESA: He blocked me. I blocked her,
so I basically
just blocked her and everything. JUDGE LAKE: You got
a message on Facebook that she was
potentially pregnant by you
and you deleted her? Blocked it. THERESA: He blocked me. He actually blocked me,
your Honor, because he had
went back home to his girlfriend
and he thought that I was gonna break up
a happy home, which it wasn't
nothing like that, because I don't wanna break up
no happy home.
This is about my son. JUDGE LAKE: But you just
testified in court
just a minute ago that when
you calculated up the time during the four-month span,
it was only Mr. Boston. THERESA: It added up... It added up to Mr. Boston. JUDGE LAKE: So why are we
telling Mr. Gregory? THERESA: Because I had in my head
that he could've been
my baby's daddy. JUDGE LAKE: Okay.
You're sleeping with him and you were
sleeping with him, you don't know which one
is your child's father? Were you sleeping
with somebody else, too? THERESA: No. Anybody? No. JUDGE LAKE: Think about it. (LAUGHTER) I don't have
to think about it. JUDGE LAKE: Ms. Murphy,
you brought a witness. I wanna hear from her.
Ma'am, please stand. State your name
for the court, ma'am. My name, Quiana Wynne. And what is your relationship
to Ms. Murphy? I'm her best friend. JUDGE LAKE: You're
her best friend? Yes. JUDGE LAKE: All right. Who do you believe
is Tristan's
biological father? Mr. Boston. (SCOFFS) JUDGE LAKE: And why is that? I... Your Honor, I stayed with...
I was living with Theresa
the whole time. So when he was saying
he wasn't really coming
over there that much... QUIANA: He was. THERESA: Right, he was. JUDGE LAKE: ...And he was
sleeping on the floor. He wasn't sleeping
on no floor. He was sleeping in my bed. Was Mr. Boston the only man
coming over there within
that four month period? When she was seeing...
When she was seeing him,
he was the only man. They broke up. QUIANA: They weren't talking
for, like, I'd say, like, two weeks,
that's when she started messing
with Mr. Gregory. JUDGE LAKE: Okay.
So that's the period of time that you're talking about
that you weren't around. Okay.
That lends credibility to your testimony,
then you say she started talking
to Mr. Gregory? QUIANA: Right. JUDGE LAKE: All right. Ma'am, thank you
for your testimony. You may be seated.
So Ms. Murphy, Tristan is now
10 months old. Has Mr. Boston contributed, helped support the child? THERESA: No. Ain't nobody did anything
for my baby. Since my son had been born, I've been doing everything
for my baby. I am a 24/7 mother, but my baby deserves to know
who his father is. JUDGE LAKE: Is there
a name listed as father
on his birth certificate? Um, no. I put Mr. Boston on child support. You did what?
I didn't get no letter. THERESA: I have proof that I put... JUDGE LAKE: Let me see that,
Jerome. Mr. Boston
on child support. JUDGE LAKE: Why would you
arbitrarily choose Mr. Boston and put him on child support when you knew Mr. Gregory could also potentially
be a father? At the time
when I conceived, I didn't talk
to neither one of them, but I had
Mr. Boston information
as far as his birthday, his social security number,
and everything. I'ma tell y'all something.
Y'all gonna learn
something today. Y'all gonna learn something
in this courtroom today. Running around here
having sex like it's a sport and then when somebody
asked her to name a father, she just named
one that she got
the most information on. Thank you.
Thank you, your Honor. (APPLAUSE) JUDGE LAKE: And I... JEREMY: Thank you. ...am holding
paperwork right now that has been submitted to put you on the hook
for child support for a child
that you don't know is yours, you don't if it's yours... JEREMY: We don't. ...and you don't know
if it's either one of theirs. So the stakes are high today. I just want my baby
to have his daddy in his life.
I don't need... I don't need nobody
to do anything for him. JUDGE LAKE: So why file
the papers and put his name? Uh, I want you to tell me
what's going in your mind. Okay. He was supposed
to come to Chicago when I...
Before I delivered Tristan. JUDGE LAKE: And he
didn't come? THERESA: He didn't come. So when I received
my child support papers, that's what I did.
I filled them out, put his information on there. JUDGE LAKE: You paid him back and said,
"Okay, you ain't gonna show, I'ma sign your name up
on these papers..." THERESA: Exactly. "...and you're
gonna have to cut this check."
You're being petty and trying to pay him back
for not showing up for the birth
and not supporting you, "So I'm gonna put you
on child support." Now... You're gonna have the state chasing down a man. He ain't got no money. So now, what's Tristan
gonna have? He got me. JUDGE LAKE: And we... Right. That's the whole point. He got you. That's your baby. You're responsible
if you know you slept
with more than one man during the window
of conception.
It is your responsibility to figure out
who that child's father is, and before you wrote
somebody arbitrarily into child support
without knowing he's the father
to just figure out that issue. You know both
of these men could be
that child's father. And men, you're not
off the hook, so don't think
just because I am empowering this young woman to understand
what she should've done, you all are not off the hook because I don't like
how you all over here scowling at her when both of you laid down
with her willingly. (APPLAUSE) JUDGE LAKE: So before
you get so disgusted, you be disgusted
with yourselves. Oh, I'm not disgusted at all. JUDGE LAKE: You're
not disgusted? I'm not. Because every time
you look over
in that direction, you got that look like, "Oh, my goodness." TYRAN: Because I want
the DNA test. If the baby's mine,
the baby's mine. That's how it is. JUDGE LAKE: So if
the baby's yours, what are you gonna do? Be a father. JUDGE LAKE: You got a job? Yeah, I got two jobs. Excellent.
I hope this child is yours. (APPLAUSE) Results, please. (MUSIC PLAYING) I hope this child is yours. These results were prepared
by DNA Diagnostics and they read as follows. In the case of<i>
Boston v. Murphy,</i> when it comes
to 10-month-old
Tristan Murphy, it has been determined
by this court, Mr. Gregory, you... Are not his father. The next results
read as follows. In the case of<i>
Boston v. Murphy,</i> when it comes
to 10-month-old
Tristan Murphy, it has been determined
by this court, Mr. Boston, you... Are not the father. (CROWD CHATTER) JUDGE LAKE: Ms. Murphy, do you know
who this child's father is? Thank you for the truth, because you can't get anywhere
until you tell the truth. As you come of age and get older, you're gonna learn
that sometimes, you just got to put
your big girl panties on and you got to tell the truth. And I mean this respectfully, you know how to take them off. Now, you got to put them on, because we got a little boy
that's 10 months old and we have no clue
who his biological father is. JUDGE LAKE: Mr. Boston,
you are going to have to make sure that paperwork does not attach itself to you because someone arbitrarily gave your name. You owe him an apology. (SNIFFLES) Sorry. THERESA: It just
hurts so bad. JUDGE LAKE: I can tell
you're hurting. No young woman
walking around this world with purpose in her life, self esteem, lays down
with all these different men with no protection. Baby, I could tell
you were hurting back then, but part
of your healing process is gonna be taking control of this situation
as best as you can, do you understand? Yes. I wish you
the very best of luck. Court is adjourned. (STRIKES MALLET)
