I had this story re-edited by 'Techsan' 11/05
The trial begins:
As the trial began emotions were high. I didn't want my family there. Not because of me but I didn't want them to hear what their mother had done, the sexual acts that made her a slut, the things she did with those men. It made me look like a wimp, a cuckold. I didn't want my family thinking of me this way.
I called Mary. When she answered the phone and said, "Hello," I paused. In fact she had to say it twice, "Hello, hello."
I said, "Mary, this is Dan."
She said, "Dan, oh, my God, how I miss you."
I said, "Mary, I'm calling about the trial. It begins tomorrow."
She said, "I know, Dan, we'll be there. What is it, Dan? What's the matter?"
I said, "Our family, our sons and our daughters. I don't want them there."
She said, "Dan, our children are all grown up now. They are adults or soon will be. This is a real world we live in and unfortunately we all make mistakes."
I said, "But, Mary, I don't want them to hear what you did."
She said, "It's too late for that, Dan."
I said, "What do you mean?"
She said, "Everyone we know is talking about it. I messed up big time, Dan. I just can't believe I did what I did. I can't change it, Dan, I wish it never happened but it did. I had all the kids over the other day, even Bud from college. I told them, Dan, I told them what an idiot I was and how it now is affecting our lives. I wanted them to hear it from me, Dan, not from a stranger in a court room. When I finished telling them, I could see the hate in their eyes. They didn't hate me, Dan but they did hate what I had done."
"Dan, we're a family, a very close tight knit family. We are all going to be there for you. They were there for me and now we are going to be there for you. We will make it through, Dan, we will make it through as a family.
I didn't know what to say. I know I was crying.
Mary then said, "Please forgive me, Dan, if it is at all possible."
I just said, "I don't know Mary, I don't know if I have forgiveness left in me anymore" and then hung up.
The prosecution had the police give a detailed report on what they found after the 911 call. I didn't know if it helped us or hurt us. They did say that I had said my wife was raped. But they also reported that my wife invited the men in. Not a real good start.
Ralph was the first to speak. He was an arrogant s.o.b. He stated how Mary encouraged him to be with her. He said she initiated the discussions with him and Jim, how she invited him over and how she wanted him so badly. All he did was build up his ego to the jury.
He wasn't coming across as a victim. He stated pretty much what everyone already knew. It's been in the papers for a couple of months now. On cross examination he was asked if he raped Mary.
He said, "Hell, no, she wanted me. I never raped any woman in my life. He was then asked at any point if she said "no" to him? He said he didn't recall her ever saying no. Then he was asked if she ever said "stop" and he said, "No woman ever asks me to stop once I get started."
He did say that they should throw the book at me for what I did to him, that he was doing me a favor and I jumped him behind his back and then beat him. He said I should be thrown in prison.
He was lucky that I didn't jump up and beat the shit out of him right there in the courthouse.
My family was taking it pretty well. I know it was rough on them. I felt good that they were holding their mother close. Even though she started it all, she didn't deserve to go through all this. Other than this situation, she would have to be considered a really good person and mother.
Then Jim took the stand. He told pretty much the same story as Ralph. He did say that white women just kind of want his black. . . and started to say cock but thought about it and said penis. He was asked if he raped Mary. He said, "Hell, no, we hardly even got started when that white pervert" (here he pointed to me) "came in and started busting things up. He got crazy, so I grabbed my pants and headed out of there. Then he came after me and shot me in the ass. I couldn't believe it. We are invited over there and then get shot and beat up. He said that man" (again referring to me) "needs to be put away where he can't hurt people. He's a crazy man, going around shooting people."
On cross examination Bob asked Jim, "At any time, did Mary say 'wait, Dan's not here yet'?"
Jim said, "She might have. I don't remember."
"At any time, did Mary say 'stop' or 'no'?"
Jim, being the idiot he is, said, "Women tell me that kind of stuff all the time. They don't mean it." The women on the jury didn't look very happy with Jim's testimony.
Then Bob asked a couple of great questions. He looked at Jim and asked, "Jim, are you married?
Jim looked around and said, "Kind of."
Bob asked, "What does 'kind of' mean?"
Jim said, "Me and my wife are separated."
Bob asked, "How long have you been separated?"
He said, "Two months."
Bob asked, "Is it because of this case?"
Jim said, "Yeah! She said if I ever cheated on her again she would divorce me."
"So, Jim, you've done this before?"
He said, "I can't help it if women want me."
"One more question, Jim, if this situation was reversed and you came home and found two men in your bedroom with your wife, what would you think?"
Jim said loudly, "My wife ain't no slut. She wouldn't do that."
Again Bob said, "Jim, you're under oath. You walk into your bedroom and two men have your wife pinned down. What would you do?"
Jim became enraged and said, "I'd kill the mother fuckers."
Then all hell broke loose. People all started talking, the judge kept banging his gavel and they had to calm Jim down. The judge kept yelling, "Order in the court, order in the court." The judge called a ten minute recess to calm things down.
After their testimony, Ralph and Jim left the courthouse.
After things calmed down and were looking a little better for Dan, they called June to the stand. She had talked to Mary and told her that she got a subpoena. She told Mary she didn't want to hurt her or Dan but had to tell the truth. Mary told June that this was a situation that she herself created and that they would get through it.
The prosecutor asked June if she was with Mary on Thursday, the day before the shooting.
She said, "I was."
"In your own words, what were the two of you doing?"
She said, "Mary wanted to surprise her husband for his 50th birthday by helping him fill a fantasy."