Fort Worth TX laser practitioner sex assault trial

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Posted on Thu, Feb. 15, 2007
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Jury sequestered for night in sexual assault trial
By DOMINGO RAMIREZ JR.
Star-Telegram Staff Writer

FORT WORTH � A Tarrant County jury deliberated for about 7½ hours today without reaching a verdict in the felony trial of Jimmy Adams, who is accused of sexually assaulting several women at his North Richland Hills laser hair-removal center.

The jury of seven women and five men in Criminal District Court No. 1 were sequestered at 5:15 p.m. The jurors started deliberating about 9:50 a.m., worked through lunch and through the afternoon but were not able to reach a verdict. Deliberation is scheduled to resume at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow.

Adams, 59, the owner of the center, is on trial on a single count of sexual assault. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison.

Mark Daniel of Fort Worth, Adams’ attorney, told jurors in his closing arguments that the case had blatant inconsistencies.

“If you believe this had occurred, someone would have screamed. Someone would have stormed out of the room, but no one did,” Daniel said. “His wife was 15 to 20 feet away. How could it occur with her so close?”

But prosecutors called Adams a predator who lulled customers into trusting him.

“Do you actually believe if this did not happen that these women would testify?” Tarrant County Assistant District Attorney Page Simpson asked jurors. “These women did not want to be confrontational when it happened, but it’s taken a tremendous amount of courage to have testified.”

Simpson said the testimony of at least four customers showed that what Adams did was not an accident or a mistake.

The women told police that they were sexually assaulted as Adams performed laser hair removal on their bikini lines.

In some cases, after a cosmetic procedure, Adams offered to do a laser hair removal on a bikini line for free, according to court documents.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/local/16705854.htm

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Is there something in the water down there?

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In this case he was acquitted.

Friday, February 16, 2007 · Last updated 1:48 p.m. PT

Man acquitted of hair-removal fondling

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FORT WORTH, Texas – The owner of a cosmetic-procedure center was acquitted Friday of sexually assaulting a customer during laser hair removal on her bikini line.

Jimmy E. Adams, 59, could have gotten up to 20 years behind bars.

Adams’ lawyer told the jury that Adams’ wife was no more than 20 feet away during the alleged fondling.

Adams was charged just one count of sexual assault, but several other customers testified that they were fondled and sexually assaulted at the center. Adams also faces at least five lawsuits related to the allegations.

He went to a hospital after his acquittal because he may have aggravated a heart condition or had a minor stroke, his lawyer Mark G. Daniel said. He would not disclose Adams’ condition.

The center, which opened in 1999 in the Fort Worth suburb, was highly respected with 2,500 to 3,000 customers, Daniel said.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_BRF_Cosmetic_Owner_Fondling.html

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Does not really matter (well other than not getting sent to jail) - with that kind of bad press, he will not be likely to get any business any more. Once someone is accused of something, people remember the accusation, not the acquittal.

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March 9, 2007
FORT WORTH, Texas – A cosmetic-procedures center owner who recently was acquitted of sexually assaulting a client was found dead Friday morning from an apparent suicide.

Jimmy Earl Adams, 59, was discovered by his wife partially submerged in a filled bathtub in the couple’s home and was pronounced dead at 5:45 a.m., Fort Worth police said.

Homicide Sgt. J.D. Thornton said police are awaiting autopsy results. Adams sustained self-inflicted wounds, but evidence indicated he may have taken some drugs, Thornton told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for a story in Friday’s online edition.
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Adams, owner of Cosmetic Procedures Center in North Richland Hills, a Fort Worth suburb, was put on trial last month on charges that he assaulted a woman while performing laser hair removal on her bikini line in 2005. Four other women testified during the trial that Adams had sexually assaulted them.

In some cases, after a cosmetic procedure, Adams offered to do a laser hair removal on a bikini line for free, according to court documents.

Minutes after he was acquitted, Adams, who had battled heart problems for more than a year, was hospitalized for what he said was a heart attack.

Four other sexual assault-cases and five lawsuits – one filed by each accuser – still loomed ahead for Adams.

Tarrant County criminal records show that Adams was indicted in 1983 on a charge of indecency with a child. He was later sentenced to two years’ probation with deferred adjudication, records show.

In accordance with the law, the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office dismissed the charge in 1985 after Adams completed his probation.