Jacque Jones' Shock Phone!

[Sammy Sofa]

https://deadspin.com/jacque-jones-found-liable-in-revenge-porn-lawsuit-1832915901

 

Former MLB outfielder and former Washington Nationals assistant hitting coach Jacque Jones was found liable last month in a San Diego civil court for distributing a private intimate photo without consent. The verdict stemmed from a lawsuit filed two years ago in which a woman going by Jane Doe said Jones sent a photo of her naked breasts to a mutual friend using Facebook messenger.

 

In August 2017, Jones and Doe got into an argument when Jones traveled to San Diego with the Nationals. Jones wanted to give Doe’s father a sweatshirt, but Doe didn’t go to the hotel where he had left it for her to pick up. They bickered over messages. Five days later, Doe said she gave two Nationals hats to “a mutual male friend,” Bryan Wolf, who then posted a photo of the hats on Facebook with the caption, “Got these Fresh Hats from the homegirl. Thank you [Jane Doe].” That led Jones to send Wolf multiple photos of items he got from Doe—clothes, shoes, facial products, and the photo of Doe’s naked breasts. He wrote to Wolfe, “Ask ya homegirl if she wants these back? I see your post and she’s on some bull horsefeathers.”

 

In the deposition during the lawsuit, Jones explained his justification for sending the photo. These questions, asked by Fitzpatrick, follow discussion of Facebook messages that showed Jones telling Doe he “wouldn’t do anything silly” with the photo.

 

Q: Okay. So what does — what does it mean that you’re not going to do anything silly with ‘em?

 

A.: I’m not going to do anything silly. Just — it doesn’t have a specific meaning.

 

Q: Does it — does it mean that you’re not going to share the photo with anyone

 

A: It doesn’t mean anything in particular.· It just means I’m not going to do anything silly with them.

 

Q: Did you think it would be okay to share this photo with anyone?

 

A: I think it’s — if — I think if you send things, you open yourself up for someone to intercept something, something to get out, so I mean, anything can happen with anything that you send, any photo you send to anyone at any time.

 

Q: Does that mean you think it’s okay for you to share this photo with anyone?

 

A: I think based on this photo — there’s no face in it. I don’t know whose it is. I mean, whether I shared it or not, I mean. My thinking is different than everyone else’s.

 

Jones also said he had gotten a new phone since he and Doe ended their contact, and that he regularly erased messages and photos from people as he received them. On top of that, he “cleared” his old phone before getting a new one. From the deposition:

 

Q: Now, when you erased the phone before you turned it in to AT&T, you knew there was a lawsuit against you accusing you of sending pictures, right?

 

A: Yes.

 

Q: Did you think that your phone would be important in that case — in this case?

 

A: No.

 

Q: Did you have any understanding that there would be relevant pictures on the phone that had to do with the lawsuit when — at the time you erased it?

 

A: No, I wasn’t thinking about that at the time.

 

Later in the deposition, Jones said the deletion happened before the lawsuit was “brought to my attention.” He also said information like contacts were transferred from his old phone to his old phone, just not messages he deleted.

 

Q: And you erased them after the lawsuit was brought to your attention?

 

A: I erased them before the lawsuit was brought to my attention.

 

Asked about the deletions, King said his client had a “habit and practice of deleting things. He didn’t really have any legal representation until about two weeks after he was notified, and I’m not even sure when exactly he was served.”

 

During the deposition, Jones offered his account of what happened with Doe. He said they had sex several times but were never in a “relationship,” and they did fight over text messages after she didn’t go that day to pick up a sweatshirt he had left for her father at the hotel. At one point, Jones said, Doe told him that she needed space and he wrote back: “Space from what?” Jones recalled telling her, “You go your way and I’ll go mine. Delete my numbers. I’ll delete yours,” and she responded by texting, “Typical nigga. You’re just like everybody else. I knew you’d do this. I went back and took all my likes off of pictures of you on Facebook. I didn’t want people to know that I even knew you.” Then Jones blocked her on social media.

 

A few days after the sweatshirt argument, Jones said, he saw Wolf’s Facebook post about the hats and sent Wolf a number of photos. He said he also included the picture of her breasts, and also a picture she sent of a woman wearing a tank top and shorts, without a face shown. As noted in the lawsuit, Jones wrote to Wolf, “Ask ya homegirl if she wants these back? I see your post and she’s on some bull horsefeathers. She’s loony and the type of chick that makes a nigga wanna stay single.” Here’s Jones explaining why he did that:

 

A: “She wanted to give away hats. Right? She wanted to be nice. Right? I wanted to be nice and say, ‘Hey, if you’re giving away all these hats, if it’s such a big deal, why don’t you give away all these other things that you sent me, including the facial products and the clothes and the shoes, all these other things.’”

 

Jones said he then blocked Doe’s number and her profiles on all social media, but received blocked calls, an email, and texts from unknown numbers talking about her—including one that said she died in a car crash. He also called Doe “stalker-ish” five times.

 

What a [expletive].

[Derwood]

“Jacque Jones Shows Off His Noodle Arm” would also have been acceptable

[PackLandVA]

NEW FLASH!!!!

 

Professional athlete (person) does something stupid.

[Bluescale]

NEW FLASH!!!!

 

Professional athlete (person) does something stupid.

 

 

It's not something stupid, it's something cruel. It's a violation of a person's privacy and body.

[JennieGarthAlgar]

NEW FLASH!!!!

 

Professional athlete (person) does something stupid.

 

 

It's not something stupid, it's something cruel. It's a violation of a person's privacy and body.

 

And all over a sweatshirt that wasn't picked up? The horsefeathers kind of middle school horsefeathers is that?