Update: Tuesday, 1:10 p.m. -- Wayne County Circuit Judge Wade "No Shame in My Game" McCree took the witness stand in his own defense Tuesday and talked about how he lusted for the woman he had an extra-marital affair with.
He said the woman, Geniene La'Shay Mott, who had a case before him, "surprised me and thrilled me" with her overtures, according to Oralandar Brand-Williams of The Detroit News.
"I lusted after that woman," he said. "I'm in my middle 50s and she's a double dozen years my junior."
But he said she wasn't always easy to deal with.
"Miss Mott is passionate," he said. "She would be at the apex of euphoria and the abyss of homicidal anger."
(Watch Live via the Detroit Free Press)
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Monday's Testimony
Colorful testimony was heard on the first day of a Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission hearing into misconduct allegations against suspended Wayne County Circuit Judge Wade McCree, Elisha Anderson reports in the Free Press.
Witnesses Monday included Wayne County's prosecutor and a detective who looked into a claim by McCree that a former mistress, Geniene La’Shay Mott, was stalking him. She also testified before a retired Jackson County circuit judge Charles Nelson, who's hearing the case for the commission.
Wade McCree, suspended Wayne County Circuit Court judgeMcCree started a relationship with Mott, a complaining witness in a child support case before him, after she appeared in his courtroom in May 2012, according to testimony.
McCree later contacted Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy and told her he had been a “bad boy,” was involved in a relationship outside his marriage that had ended and that the woman claimed to be pregnant and stalking him, Worthy testified. . . .
Detective Timothy Matouk, with the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, talked to McCree in November and said he used the phrase “Wade got played” when discussing his situation.
McCree told Matouk that Mott wanted him to give her $10,000 in cash to make their problem go away, he said. . . .
McCree doubted he was the father and made a comment about being the “king of latex.” No charges were filed in connection with the [stalking] allegations.
In her appearance on the witness stand, according to Anderson, Mott said she discussed the case with McCree, had sex with him “several times” in judge’s chambers, moved into his late mother’s house and went with him to University of Michigan football games and to church. She also said he gave her $5,000 for a down payment for a Detroit home..
McCree is expected to testify Tuesday.
