This is Couples Court With The Cutlers.
This is the case of Matthews vs. Payton.
You all have been dating for about two years.
Is that correct?
Yes, Your Honor.
And you all are from Cleveland, Ohio.
Yes, sir.
All right.
And, Ms. Matthews, why have you come to Couples Court today?
Well, Your Honor. I'm here today
to see if my boyfriend of two and a half years
is cheating with my sister.
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIM)
I'm sorry, with your sister?
My little sister, correction.
Mr. Payton, you're denying
that you have been intimate with her sister.
Yes.
Okay, you deny that?
Yes.
All right.
JUDGE DANA: Ms. Matthews, why do you believe
that he is involved with your sister?
He's a cheater, he's a liar.
I cheated one time, Your Honor.
JUDGE DANA: Okay.
But there's lies.
Stories that's not matching up.
A lot of things that's taking me to believe that
he's cheating with her.
She has no proof but she's constantly accusing me
of sleeping with her sister
or trying to hit on other girls or...
She's just very insecure.
Why do you think
that she thinks you've been with her sister?
She's crazy.
Her and her sister both are obsessed with me.
JUDGE DANA: When I hear obsessed,
I'm thinking somebody who's just,
"I gotta have him."
MATTHEWS: Yes.
PAYTON: Pretty much. Stalking my Facebook page.
She wants you?
Following me around town. Doing all types of stuff.
I use to go around the family all the time
when we first started dating. So, um...
I think it was Labor Day of last year
and I was over there.
Her sister's making passes at me.
She's asking me, "My sister really your type?"
Then she keep asking me stuff like this.
And right after that is when she started accusing me. So...
JUDGE DANA: So, did you rebuff? Did you tell her,
"I don't want you, I'm not interested in you."
Yeah, definitely, I played it off because
as a guy, I know when a woman is flirting with me.
So, if you find out your sister is in fact
involved with him...
Yes, Your Honor.
...what will happen?
There's a lot on the line.
He has to go. He live with me.
He has to go immediately.
JUDGE DANA: And what happens with you and your sister?
I mean...
I'm cutting her off, too. The relationship is over.
(APPLAUSE)
Okay.
So this is serious?
Very serious.
JUDGE KEITH: Now, Mr. Payton, you believe she's just being paranoid,
right?
Definitely.
Well, we know that the reason you are here,
is because you were a couple at one point
and you were happy.
Yes, at one point. Correct.
All right.
Can you tell me about the happy days,
so we could understand how you even got together?
So, um, last Sweetest Day,
he surprised me at my job with Edible Arrangement.
Pink roses, which is my favorite.
Teddy bears. Just a lot of things,
and we went on camping trips.
Like, the year before that, we had an excellent time.
Tell me about how you met her and what that looked like.
Um, we met through a mutual friend.
And our first date was like across the street to a park.
It was in the area.
We just kinda sat there and talked.
Got to know each other for a while.
I was going through some stuff at the moment.
So, she was there. She was there to comfort me.
Uh... We kinda just went from there.
The same park that he took the girl he cheated with me on.
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIM)
Yeah...
JUDGE DANA: So this is how you lost the trust
and now you...
This was two weeks
before us dating... We were talking for two weeks
when it happened with the other girl.
I was dating the other girl first.
And it was kind of ending, we were just having sex.
How did you find out about the other girl?
MATTHEWS: I heard him on the phone in the bathroom.
JUDGE DANA: Okay.
How our house is, is the hallway,
it's a bedroom, then there's the bathroom.
And he walked towards the kitchen.
I was in the kitchen.
So the bathroom is not even, what,
two steps away from the kitchen.
And so what do you do, you hear him talking?
Do you go over by the bathroom to listen?
Yes, yes.
Ears on, on my tippy toes. Yes.
And what was he saying? What did you hear him saying?
He was saying, "Baby, I miss you and...
"I'm just so sorry that...
That's a lie.
"We've been going through this."
Hold up.
And, "I just want us to work out."
"And I don't even wanna be here for real."
So this is sounding like the Usher song?
You know, I'm leaving the one I love
to be with you or whatever that song was.
Confessions. He was doing the confessions.
JUDGE DANA: He was doing Confessions. That works, too.
What else did he do to lose your trust?
He will leave, stay out for two nights,
three nights, I won't hear from him.
He won't answer the phone.
JUDGE DANA: Okay, is this true?
You go and stay away, two or three nights?
Yes.
Who were you staying with?
My mom or whoever.
It's just to get away from her.
She really gets under my skin.
To get away from me to cheat.
'Cause you can't cheat while you with me.
While you here.
This is what she does.
Every day, all day, she accuses me of cheating.
Every day, all day.
I'm gonna tell you what I did. And he doesn't even know.
JUDGE DANA: Okay.
He was asleep.
Now his phone has, you know, the fingerprint.
Right.
So he sleeps, so you know,
I put his fingerprint up to the phone.
(AUDIENCE LAUGH)
And...
I found butt pictures.
Naked pictures.
And other pictures, none of those was you?
No, it was not.
Okay, so he's asleep.
I wanna make sure I got this picture.
He sleep, you sleep.
All right.
(AUDIENCE LAUGH)
And you just slip his hand over and do this?
Yes.
Man, you sleeping for real.
He can sleep.
You couldn't move my body part and me not wake up.
His phone charges right next to him.
This is his body. This is his phone.
So it wasn't hard to put his finger over
and press it on the thing.
JUDGE DANA: That's impressive.
I'm blown away. I'm impressed.
(APPLAUSE)
JUDGE KEITH: Mr. Payton, did you have butt pictures in your phone?
No, I didn't, Your Honor.
Okay, now butt pictures are pretty much self-explanatory.
Now it's time to see what we mistake for something else.
Mind you, there were no undies on the butt.
She's delusional.
Okay.
Ms. Matthews, did you bring any evidence of this?
No, I did not... How?
She doesn't have any...
You don't have any of them with you?
No, I don't have pictures.
Okay, 'cause I was about to say
you weren't going to look at that, anyway.
I'm trying to get to the bottom, no pun intended, of this matter.
It is a court of law, I would have looked for you,
because I love you that way.
Okay.
NARRATOR: Coming up...
What specific proof do you have
that he is sleeping with your sister?
Like, he took her to the store, the store is, like,
three minutes from my house.
They were gone for two hours.
PAYTON: It was...
I say, "Where have you guys been?"
They went to go get a pair of black pants.
Your Honor...
I say, "Where are you?"
He say, "Oh, we stopped to get something to eat."
So I said, "Where's the food?"
"Where's the food?" There's no food.
There's no receipts.
Do you remember this particular trip
she was talking about?
Yes, I remember the trip.
It was late at night. It was, like, 11:30.
Her sister was walking alone.
I volunteered to walk with her.
We was gone for like 20 minutes.
That's it.
Your Honor...
You can tell the tension,
you can tell there's something wrong
when we're all in the room together.
I turn my head and they
(SMOOCHING) staring at each other, like, basically,
that's what they doing. It's just a lot.
JUDGE DANA: So as a woman, you are feeling that
there's stuff going on.
A woman's intuition is never wrong.
There is something in their body language which is
seen in a player.
They had to do, kiss, something.
It's just so crazy.
And another incident is when I was at work.
I called him, I say, "Dre, what are you doing?"
He said, "I'm at home
"getting dressed, I'm about to get ready for work."
I said, "Okay, well, you know, let me call Alysha,"
because she was getting ready to take the kids
to day care for me.
Alysha is your sister, right?
Yes, Your Honor.
So I call Alysha, I said, "Alysha...
What are you doing? What are the kids doing?
You getting them dressed?
And then I throw in, "So, where's Dre?"
"What he doing?" "Oh, Dre isn't here."
"He left about 45 minutes ago to head out for work."
Remind you, the phone calls were not even
three minutes apart.
So, she's at your house.
And he's at your house?
They're both at my house. Yeah.
And she's telling you he's gone.
Yes.
And there's no reason
for her to tell you that?
There's no reason.
Why are you telling me he's gone?
And he's saying, "I'm there dressing."
He's telling me,
"I'm getting dressed ready to go to work."
Mr. Payton, what was going on?
Nothing, I was leaving out when I told her I was.
I don't... I think her sister was lying to her.
Do you deny having an affair with her sister?
Yes, I deny it.
All right, do you deny having an affair
with someone right now? Someone other than her sister?
Yes.
Okay, so you have not been involved
with anyone other than
Ms. Matthews?
Right.
I heard him while he was in the bathroom.
So you had to hear her on the phone with me.
So you heard the conversation.
Y'all both was just lying together, that's all.
So don't make it seem like you wasn't at home
when you really was.
And you just stuttered and say, "I was gone,"
but how was you gone
when you at the house? You wasn't gone, you was there.
In addition to this love suit,
you have a lawsuit, is that correct?
MATTHEWS: Yes, Your Honor.
All right. Could you tell me about that?
I actually bought him two back tires
and a battery for his car.
The car that he's off cheating in.
And I want my money back.
All right.
If I find out he's cheating,
everything that he has in my house is going up in flames.
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMS)
So, let me make sure I got this straight.
You bought him two tires and a battery for his car.
Yes.
Do you have any evidence of that?
I have the receipt.
All right.
Ron, would you get that for us, please?
Your Honor.
Thank you, ma'am.
Thank you.
Your Honor.
Thank you so much.
So you spent $322.50?
Mmm-hmm
Is that correct?
Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE KEITH: You don't think it's fair for him to ride around
in a car that you paid money for
while he was riding your sister?
Right. Hello! Okay.
Okay...
Mr. Payton, did she buy these things for you?
Yes, but it was with my credit card, so...
Can you look at the bottom?
Because where we live,
they make you sign when you show a credit card.
JUDGE DANA: Well, it says it was paid with check number 0151
Phenique Matthews.
Okay, who else is there?
Even if so,
I take her anywhere she needed to go.
Her and her kids. That's the least she can do.
Okay, so you believe the least she can do
is pay for the tires.
Pay for a battery because you drive her around.
But you live in my house, rent free...
We're gonna rule on this lawsuit in a moment.
But we're gonna go back to the love suit.
Yeah, we've gotta get to the bottom of this love suit.
We sure do.
Now, you claimed that he is sleeping with your sister.
You claim that you're not.
That I'm not.
The court has tracked down Ms. Matthews' sister.
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMS)
Okay...
Ron, would you please escort
Ms. Matthews' sister to the court room?
Let's go, Ron.
Please go up and have a seat right next to the judges.
(INAUDIBLE)
Hi.
Hello, how are you?
You are Ms. Alysha Simon, is that correct?
Yes, Your Honor.
All right.
And you are the sister of Ms. Phenique Matthews?
Yes.
All right.
Are you and your sister pretty close?
Absolutely. We've been close.
You love your sister?
Dearly.
JUDGE DANA: Do you think Mr. Payton is good for your sister?
No.
And why is that?
Well, there's been many incidents that I seen him
crossing lines in their relationship.
One time I was at a club,
which I seen him at.
Dancing on a girl, or with a girl.
She was grinding on him and everything.
Another incident had been an encounter with me.
I was outside at the end of the parking lot.
We're at the driveway.
And he came past and grabbed my butt.
I was out there for a smoke.
Your Honor, that's a lie.
I was out there for a smoke, seeing that we had kids
in the backyard playing.
So I did not want to be disrespectful to
any of my younger family members.
So, wait a minute. Let me make sure I heard you correctly.
You're at a family gathering at Labor Day.
Like a Labor Day picnic.
Absolutely.
And he comes by and grabs your butt?
Yes, Your Honor. Not just a soft,
you know, accidental grab, it was like
a full-blown intentional grab, Your Honor.
Like a squeeze?
Yes.
At that moment, what did you do?
I went straight to the back and told my sister,
tried to inform my sister.
You didn't knock him into the next week?
No, we had kids and it was around my family.
I was just all about respect for me, Your Honor.
Okay, so,
your sister says that you have been intimate
with Mr. Payton.
That's absolutely false.
So you have not had any...
No, never.
All right.
I have a question for you, Ms. Matthews.
Your sister says she told you on Labor Day.
I'm just now hearing this.
You have never heard this before
that he touched her on the butt?
Or about the club.
Neither one of these.
JUDGE KEITH: Mr. Payton, were you at the club?
Yes.
Was there a woman dancing with you?
No.
Were you dancing at the club?
No, I don't dance.
I sit at the bar with my friends.
He don't look like a dancer.
I gotta be honest with you.
In order to get to the bottom of this,
the court has engaged in the services
of licensed private investigator, Todd Redding.
Ron, would you please escort
Mr. Redding into the court room?
RON: Yes, sir.
(APPLAUSE)
JUDGE KEITH: Mr. Redding, how are you today?
TODD: I'm fine, Judges, how are you?
Doing good, doing good.
Thank you.
Mr. Redding, what type of
investigative tools do you use
to catch cheating spouses?
I use a number of tools.
GPS vehicle tracking, polygraph examination.
Cell phone forensics and surveillance, of course.
Well, in today's case,
Ms. Matthews is accusing her boyfriend
of sleeping with her sister.
You had Mr. Payton meet
with a certified polygraph examiner.
Correct?
Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE DANA: Are you all ready for the results?
Yes.
I am.
JUDGE KEITH: All right, Mr. Payton was asked
if he ever had sexual intercourse
with his girlfriend's sister, Alysha.
What was his response to that question?
TODD: His response was, "No."
What did the polygraph show?
There was not a significant response to the question,
which indicates there was no deception.
ALYSHA: Told you.
Mr. Payton, how are you feeling?
Pretty good. I already knew it.
Ms. Matthews?
Just keep them coming, come on.
All right.
Keep them coming.
Mr. Payton was asked if he ever had sexual contact
with his girlfriend's sister, Alysha.
Is that correct?
That's correct, Your Honor.
What was his response?
His response again was, "No."
What did the polygraph reveal?
There is not a significant response to the question,
which is an indication that there was no deception.
I told you.
So, to be clear, it showed that he was telling the truth.
That's correct, Your Honor.
JUDGE KEITH: I have one more question.
Mr. Payton was asked if he ever made sexual advances
to his girlfriend's sister, Alysha.
What was his response to that question?
TODD: Once again, his response was, "No."
JUDGE KEITH: What did the polygraph show?
The lie detector examination
determined that he was being truthful.
(APPLAUSE)
I told you.
JUDGE KEITH: Ms. Matthews, you came to court to get some answers.
You've gotten those answers.
Yes.
How do you feel?
It's a monkey off my back.
But what can you expect with a man who
always cheated in the past?
You should feel stupid.
I don't feel stupid.
I don't feel stupid.
You should.
'Cause at the end of the day you're still the cheater.
'Cause you cheated in the past.
JUDGE DANA: All right, hold up.
JUDGE KEITH: Here's the thing.
You said he's a cheater, he's cheated in the past.
You use a key phrase in what you said.
In the past.
You need to leave it in the past.
JUDGE DANA: Do you love him?
Yes, of course.
Okay, then you need to stop acting like a crazy lady
and trailing him around.
(APPLAUSE)
Ms. Matthews, you came with a suit.
For the tires and the battery.
I'm gonna give you an opportunity
to dismiss your suit.
Are you willing to do that before we rule?
Yes, Your Honor.
All right.
(GAVEL BANGS)
As much as we enjoyed helping you solving your problems,
resolve your differences,
we don't want to see you back here at Couples Court.
This is over. Soon as I get home,
I'm packing my stuff. I don't ever wanna talk to her again.
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIM)
It's over.
She is constantly accusing me of sleeping with her sister.
I'm all the way done.
No. No.
He don't have nowhere to go.
Mr. Payton, is that really
what you want, you wanna be done?
Yes.
Well, we have resources with this court
to help you move forward together or separately.
So you can do it in a positive way.
We always say in this court,
do not cheat yourself out of an opportunity
to have a happy life and happy relationships.
This court is adjourned.
I'm packing my stuff. I don't ever wanna talk to her again.
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIM)
It's over.
She is constantly accusing me of sleeping with her sister.
I'm all the way done.
No. No.
He don't have nowhere to go.
Mr. Payton, is that really
what you want, you wanna be done?
Yes.
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