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Cell phone voyeurism case goes to trial
Jan 16, 2008 @ 03:15 AM
By GREG SMITH
Norwich Bulletin
Norwich, Conn. -
It was a 10-second sex video and not a picture worth a thousand words, State Prosecutor Vincent Dooley said at Tuesday’s voyeurism trial.

Dooley spoke to jurors in New London Superior Court, using the video as a visual aid, during closing arguments in the daylong trial of Russell Sheppard, 22, of Norwich. No verdict was reached, and jurors are expected to resume deliberation today.

The video depicts Sheppard having sex with his then-girlfriend, Nicole Crouse, as taken by a cell phone held by one of Sheppard’s friends, police said.

“He’s clearly smiling for the camera,” Dooley said of Sheppard. “It was all supposed to be a big joke.”

Crouse presumably was not amused when she discovered the video had been made and was being played at parties months after she broke up with Sheppard.

He refused to erase it, she said.

Sheppard denies he consented to have a friend, Joseph Peters, make the video.

Whether he knew he was being filmed is a key element in the state’s case.

“We know he wasn’t the one holding the cell phone,” Defense Attorney Richard Perry said.

Perry called the police investigation shoddy and said the state presented no evidence that shows Sheppard had planned the homemade adult video.

Crouse had no reasonable expectation of privacy, Perry said, since the sex act was done in a bedroom with a broken door. One of the state’s two witnesses had a relationship with Crouse, Perry said, leading him to question if Crouse’s claims were a “vindictive act.”

Peters, who owned the camera phone and who police said filmed the couple, did not testify at trial.

Crouse claims the video was taken sometime in December 2004 without her knowledge in an upstairs bedroom at Sheppard’s 203 Central Ave. home. She did not make a complaint until May 2005 — several months after the couple parted ways — after a friend told her he had watched the video at a party.

Dooley said the person operating the camera would have been in the room to get such close images. Norwich police later seized the videos as evidence.