This is Couples Court With The Cutlers.
This is a case of Morris v. Moffett.
You all have been together for five years.
You're engaged.
But this wedding is on hold,
until you can find out whether your fiancee has been cheating.
JUDGE KEITH: But, please, tell me how you all met.
I met... I met her on Facebook.
I was looking through stuff and I had seen through her profile.
And I thought she was beautiful and I was like, "Damn.
"I gotta hit her up."
So, I inboxed her and ever since then we've been talking.
All right, so, meeting someone on Facebook is one thing,
and then when you get together in person
it could be a complete disaster.
What was it about her besides her beauty,
that you liked?
I like everything. I like her ambition,
I like the way she carries herself.
She just got... She's a smart girl.
But, she just makes bad decisions at times.
He appears to be kind of a understated, low-key person.
What was it about him that you liked?
His personality, we just click,
we get along, I mean, he's sexy.
And...
I mean, we just clicked instantly, like,
he thinks stuff and we'd be saying the same things together
just because we think alike.
Like Judge Cutler and me?
MOFFETT: Yeah.
You know, I'll be thinking something...
MOFFETT: We think alike.
I'll be thinking something, she'll say it.
JUDGE KEITH: You know, you think that.
For real.
Literally, we think alike.
JUDGE KEITH: Very good.
MOFFETT: And we are a very good couple.
I think it, you say it.
I can see what you thinking right now.
Okay, go with that Mr. Cutler.
JUDGE DANA: Go with that.
So, things were good at the beginning?
Yeah, everything.
MOFFETT: We were great.
I fell in love with him when I first saw him.
I literally got his name tattooed three months into our relationship.
JUDGE DANA: Oh, really?
I've got his name four times.
So, you have put his name on your body four times?
Yeah, I got his name tattooed on my ring finger.
JUDGE KEITH: You love him that much?
Yeah. I just had messed up a few times and we go through things
and he just don't believe me whatsoever
because of the things we had already went through.
Yeah, I was gonna get her name tattooed but I'm waiting till after...
MOFFETT: He did get a Ninja Turtle though for my son.
Yeah, we had a lot of stuff planned
for the marriage, but I canceled it all because
basically the issues we going through right now.
So, Mr. Morris, do you have her name tattooed on you?
No, not yet, Your Honor.
JUDGE KEITH: Are you wanting to have her name tattooed?
Yeah, I'll get it...
JUDGE KEITH: What are you waiting on?
When we get married.
JUDGE KEITH: You wanna find out
whether she's cheated or not before you take that step, right?
MORRIS: Yeah, waiting on the truth.
MOFFETT: We did wedding shopping, ring shopping, we had made all these arrangements
for our wedding, but he called it off
because he thinks I'm cheating and lying about everything.
JUDGE DANA: So, Mr. Morris, have you had an experience in the past
with her of cheating?
Yes, Your Honor.
What happened in that past incident?
It was me and a friend chillin' with Kendra and one of her home girls.
And, uh...
Kendra had stepped outside for a minute and her friend
told me that
Kendra had been cheating.
Which is a fake friend because
she told him that just so she can get with him.
I mean, I had already talked to him about it.
I had admitted to it.
JUDGE DANA: Okay, wait a minute. Let me ask you this.
What did you tell him? Have you cheated in the past.
I sat on some dude's lap, that's what it was.
I sat on a lap, that's what I did.
So, she told him that you were cheating on him
and what she was referring to was the fact you sat on a guy's lap?
Yeah.
Okay, are you buying that?
But, because we have had past problems
he thinks I did more than just sit on the lap.
MORRIS: But the thing is, her friend told me that
she had sex with him.
So...
And I did not. I did not.
And you believe that she did have sex with this particular gentleman.
MOFFETT: I did not.
JUDGE DANA: But I'm asking him, you believe that?
Yes, Your Honor.
MORRIS: And my heart
is shattered because I really love her.
So you believe that she's cheating on you now
because of the past?
Yeah, I still think she's cheating.
Okay, Ms. Moffett, what are you here to prove?
I'm here to prove that I love him.
I wanna marry him.
I want our marriage to go, actually, to the wedding,
that we're not fighting every day because he thinks that I'm cheating on him
or I'm lying to him every day about something.
What did you lie about in the past?
It was about little petty stuff, money,
somebody talking to me in the store,
anything.
JUDGE DANA: You understand,
that once you tell a lie,
you start eroding.
MOFFETT: Yeah, and I get that.
Yeah, I get that. But I'm trying to prove to him that I'm not, like,
I've never... When I was younger,
I didn't plan my wedding, I didn't play with Barbie dolls.
I didn't see myself getting married
to somebody and taking their last name.
And that's what I want with him, forever.
This is what I see.
"I know I lied in the past,
"you should forget about that and trust me."
And what I'm saying to you is,
once you lie, even about the petty stuff,
it starts to creep in
to the point where folks don't believe you,
even when you're telling the truth.
And so, you can't expect somebody to just go from A to Z
just 'cause you're at a point,
that you wanna go forward
and have them believe you.
All right, Ms. Moffett, let me ask you
just point blank.
Have you cheated with anyone
while you've been with Mr. Morris?
Yes.
What happened?
MOFFETT: We had split up, I left.
Started drinking, cheated. That's what it was.
We had talked about it. We discussed everything
I tell him.
But he still don't think that I'm telling everything.
He thinks I'm leaving some things out.
'Cause we have had our problems
and I have cheated before.
But what he is talking about, I am not lying about.
I ain't lying no more to him about anything
because I'm trying to earn his trust back.
So, Mr. Morris, how did you find out that she had cheated?
I went through her phone.
JUDGE KEITH: So you had suspicions that she had been doing something?
MORRIS: Yes, Your Honor.
All right. So, when you went through her phone, what did you find?
Flirty-Flirty text messages,
pictures with dudes, all types of stuff.
'Cause at first when we first started off,
she had my trust.
I gave her 100% loyalty.
Like, I trusted her with everything.
Soon as incidents occurred, then she started losing my trust.
I believe, Kendra is still cheating and lying to me.
Do you have any evidence
to support that she is in fact cheating on you now?
MORRIS: Yes, Your Honor,
I had another dude send me topless pictures of her.
(AUDIENCE GASPING)
So, somebody sent you a topless picture of your fiancee?
Yes, Your Honor.
MOFFETT: It was a picture of me and...
JUDGE KEITH: What happened?
JUDGE DANA: Hold on. Hold on.
MORRIS: What happened was, uh...
We was in... We was staying in a hotel
and, uh, she got mad and left.
But I guess she ran into some dude in the hallway,
so she went up to his room,
and it was him and his boy...
Fifteen minutes after that
the dude texts my phone with the picture.
It was like, "You can keep her, because we already had her."
(AUDIENCE GASPING)
JUDGE KEITH: So when you got this picture, what did you think?
MORRIS: It made me believe that
what the dude text me about, her messing with both of 'em,
was true.
MOFFETT: That's what had happened
Okay.
Ms. Moffett, who were you...
We had gotten into an argument and I had left,
packed up my clothes, left him in the room
I was waiting outside for my sister to come.
And I ended up meeting somebody down there.
They wanted me to come up to the room.
So I came up to the room to wait.
JUDGE DANA: How do you go from
going upstairs to wait for my sister
to half nude taking a picture?
No, it was just a boob out literally.
That's what it was. It was a boob, one boob.
And I took the picture with him to make his friend jealous.
Hold on. Did you know these guys?
I had already known one of them while he was at work.
JUDGE KEITH: Okay, so, had you ever been intimate with either of those guys
in the past.
No. No.
How did you feel comfortable taking off your top
in front of guys you've never been intimate before,
so they could take your picture to send it to their friends
to make them jealous?
Because I thought, uh...
I used to, like, get mad,
go do something for revenge. That's what it was.
Let me just say this to you,
you are a beautiful young woman.
You have a young man who loves you.
Who wants to respect you.
And you doing things like that
doesn't put you in a position to be respected.
JUDGE DANA: So, don't do that. Look at him.
That hurt him. If you belong to him, belong to him.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
Tell her how you felt
when you received a topless picture from her
that you didn't take.
You know I was hurt, right?
MOFFETT: Yeah.
You know, that messed me up.
You know what I'm saying, even though I still forgave you on that.
I still think, something went on.
I haven't been lying. I'm not cheating on him.
JUDGE KEITH: So, Mr. Morris, you've got this topless photo.
Uh, do you have any other reason
to believe that your fiancee has cheated on you?
Or is cheating on you, now?
Yes, Your Honor.
What other evidence do you have?
MORRIS: She said she was sitting in the mall parking lot to get her head clear.
I went up there
just to see if she was sitting up there
and I didn't see her car nowhere, so I had texted her.
I was like, "You're not at the mall.
She was like, "Yes, I am." I was like,
"Send me a picture right there by the entrance,
"just to prove that you're at the mall."
So, you wanted her to take a selfie?
MORRIS: Yeah.
So, I see her pull up. She pulled up, got out the car.
Go walk there by the entrance to take a picture.
So, I start walking over there 'cause I'm about to, like,
talk to her, like, "Oh, you just pulling up."
And, uh, as I was walking over there,
her ex-boyfriend got out the car.
So...
So he was...
So, me and him had got into it a little bit,
and he was trying to fight.
But long story short, that's what happened.
We had gotten into a fight like we always do.
Arguing about me lying because
he don't believe me about nothing.
Did you go to the mall...
I was at the mall and I left. It was like, 10:00 at night.
I had left and he wanted me to say I was there.
So I did go back to take a picture because I wasn't lying about being there.
JUDGE KEITH: All right, so your story is,
when you were texting your fiance about your whereabouts
instead of telling him, "Well, I left,"
you and your ex-boyfriend drove back to the mall
so you could try to take a picture.
My ex didn't know what I was doing. No.
Because we had gotten into an argument and I went and hung out with my ex.
JUDGE DANA: Okay, were you at the mall with your ex?
Yeah.
You and the ex left?
Yeah.
Okay, you do understand the reason he was concerned
wasn't about the place.
It was who you were with.
MOFFETT: Yeah, I know.
But he don't believe me about nothing. I wasn't lying.
JUDGE KEITH: Why should he?
You're missing the point. The point is
whether you're at the mall, at the grocery store...
Okay, that's what I'm saying, I've lied about a lot of things.
That's why he don't believe me now about nothing.
And I get that.
JUDGE DANA: Okay.
But, I'm not lying about it.
JUDGE DANA: Okay, here's the thing,
and I want you to listen and not interrupt.
Okay? All right.
Follow the train.
He is concerned that you are with other men.
Whether you at the mall, the beauty shop, your mama's,
Auntie Suzie's, wherever.
It's not where you are, it's who you with.
And why didn't you tell him you were with your ex?
Because I knew it was gonna be a big fight.
Because...
I knew it was gonna be a big fight.
JUDGE DANA: There it is.
There it is.
Okay, I did. Every time we'd fight I would leave and go hang out.
That's what I would do.
JUDGE KEITH: With an ex?
With, uh... Yeah, with an ex. With my ex.
I'm glad you don't hang out with your exes when we fight,
let me just say that.
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING AND APPLAUDING)
Right.
Back at you.
Every time you fight, you go hang out with an ex, no. Uh-uh.
That wouldn't work for me.
JUDGE DANA: You don't go to the arms
or the shoulder of another man.
Or any other body part.
Or any... Well, yeah.
Or any other body part...
Make that part clear, any other body part...
Any other body part,
when you're falling out with your boyfriend, or your fiancee, or your husband.
That's not how you resolve it.
Now, I understand about clearing your head.
But you can't clear your head if somebody's dumping something in it.
And I'm sure your ex-boyfriend was doing just that.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
JUDGE KEITH: All right, Mr. Morris,
MORRIS: Yes, Your Honor.
You believe she is cheating.
She has a history of not telling you the truth.
You know, you got an engagement,
you wanna marry this woman, but you are concerned.
MORRIS: Yes, Your Honor.
If you find out she's cheating you don't wanna go through with it.
No, it's over.
JUDGE KEITH: All right.
JUDGE KEITH: Well, to get to the bottom of this,
the court has ordered Ms. Moffett
to submit to a polygraph examination,
and we have the results.
Ron, would you please escort certified polygraph examiner Michael Williams
into the courtroom.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
WILLIAMS: How are you doing?
JUDGE KEITH: How are you? Good to see you today.
JUDGE DANA: Doing good.
WILLIAMS: Thank you.
JUDGE KEITH: Before we get the results,
Ms. Moffett, is there anything you wanna say?
I do love you and you'll see with these results.
You know, Ms. Moffett, we say, regularly,
that this is your opportunity.
This is the moment that you have to come clean.
You know what's happened, we don't know what's happened.
You're the only two people in the room that know what happened
when you took that polygraph.
JUDGE DANA: And so, if there's something that's not good,
this is your opportunity to tell your story
instead of letting Mr. Williams tell your story.
Okay, I don't have nothing to say.
JUDGE DANA: Okay, let's do this.
So, Mr. Williams.
Yes, Your Honor.
You asked Ms. Moffett,
"On the night the semi-nude photo was taken of you,
"did you have physical, sexual contact
"with any man other than Mr. Morris?"
What was her response?
Your Honor, she said no.
What did the lie detector determine?
The lie detector determined
that she was being truthful.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
Mr. Morris, does that give you some sense of relief?
MORRIS: Yes, Your Honor.
MOFFETT: I told you.
For three years now.
MORRIS: Well, we still got some more.
Yeah, you're right. We do.
All right, we do have another question.
Yeah, you're right. We do.
Mr. Williams, you asked Ms. Moffett,
Since the start of your relationship with Mr. Morris in 2012,
have you had sexual intercourse with any other man?
What was her response to that question?
She said yes.
That was an admission.
JUDGE KEITH: Ms. Moffett,
you admitted to having sex with another man since your relationship with
Mr. Morris?
Yeah. Yeah.
Earlier in court, you mentioned that you had cheated before.
No, he knows about everything. I've told him.
So there's no other cheating
that's going on that he doesn't already know about?
No. He don't believe me, so yeah, he don't think... He thinks I'm lying.
JUDGE KEITH: But Ms. Moffett, can you blame him?
MOFFETT: No, I can't, but...
Can you blame him?
MOFFETT: No.
Well. that's why it's important to talk to Mr. Morris.
Mr. Morris, you had your questions answered.
My question to you is,
where is your relationship going from here?
Hopefully, we could work it out and get married.
That's where I want our relationship to go.
JUDGE DANA: All right, that's good.
Tell her what you hope tomorrow looks like between the two of you.
I hope tomorrow looks as beautiful as you.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
Ms. Moffett, the fact that he still wants to marry you,
actually, it's a little amazing to me.
But, if he is willing to go forward with you,
you gotta treat him like he deserves to be treated.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
You've gotta give him a reason to trust you.,
and give him a reason to step out on faith
to let go of the past.
JUDGE DANA: It's not gonna be easy, but I can tell you, it's worth it.
It's absolutely worth it.
We have counseling resources available for you
to help you as you move forward through the rest of your engagement,
and through your marriage.
Please take advantage of those resources.
And we want you to have a strong relationship.
As we say in this court,
do not cheat yourself out of a chance
for a great relationship.
Court is adjourned.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
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