Disturbing rumors of ex-Louisiana mayor Misty Roberts having illicit relationships with teenage boys and stints in rehab had already dogged the disgraced chief earlier than she landed in court docket for bedding her son’s 16-year-old buddy, in keeping with surprising court docket data.
The small-town gossip was apparently damaging sufficient that Roberts’ legal professionals fought to ban it from her trial on intercourse crime prices, wherein she was swiftly discovered responsible Tuesday of getting intercourse along with her son’s 16-year-old finest buddy.
The movement sought to dam “any testimony regarding rumors or ideas of inappropriate conduct between Ms. Roberts and any members, gamers, or individuals in any other case related” with the native Beauregard County Excessive Faculty baseball group group from being admissible on the trial.
It wasn’t instantly clear if or how the decide had selected the protection’s requests in that movement, which additionally sought to ban any of the accused predator’s medical data – together with “any testimony regarding Ms. Roberts going to rehabilitation or looking for rehabilitation earlier than or after the time of the allegations.”
The 43-year-old mother-of-two was discovered responsible Tuesday on prices of of carnal data of a juvenile and indecent conduct with a juvenile about two years after she was caught raping the teenager boy at a booze-fueled pool celebration for her personal son’s birthday.
The then-mayor – clad for the event in an orange bikini – flirted brazenly with the teenager and posed for creepy photographs with him through the celebration, earlier than luring him to the house’s “bonus room,” stripping and having intercourse with the boy, in keeping with court docket docs and witness testimony.
Courtroom data say Roberts’ personal son and nephew allegedly snapped footage of the lewd scene – proof that her legal professionals additionally demanded be saved out of the courtroom, seemingly out of worry that it could fire up extra considerations in regards to the ex-leader’s behaviors.
“Any testimony regarding any declare or suggestion that any particular person(s) ‘lastly’ had proof of Ms. Roberts’ allegedly inappropriate conduct after acquiring video of the incident, thus suggesting the prevalence of prior inappropriate conduct” must be inadmissible, the movement states.
Among the many different subjects the protection sought to maintain out of trial included the accused predator’s former marriage to Duncan Clanton – to whom she reportedly despatched frantic and doubtlessly incriminating texts following the pool celebration, together with one which learn, “I f—ked up” – in addition to any particulars surrounding the couple’s divorce.
Clanton couldn’t be reached for remark.
New particulars obtained by The Submit from court docket docs additionally reveal that Roberts – who witnesses have testified was ingesting closely on the evening of the pool celebration – wished to cowardly blame the romp on being too boozed up.
Roberts “will introduce testimony and proof of her intoxicated/impaired situation (treatment/alcohol) (involuntary/voluntary) on the time of the alleged offenses and that, as such….she is exempt from felony duty on this case,” a protection movement filed on Could 9 states.
It’s unclear whether or not Roberts has ever claimed that she was involuntarily intoxicated on the evening in query, or if she had taken medication.
Roberts’ attorneys didn’t reply to requests for remark.
