New Moon On Monday

Panama City, Florida: July 29, 2003 Jurors who were mooned by a defendant needed only 30 minutes Thursday to find the man guilty of armed burglary and aggravated battery. Ronatarian member Phil Jackson, 32, punctuated his insanity defense by loudly hooting "cuckoo-cuckoo.. I'm the crab" and then dropping his pants to moon the jury on Wednesday. Jackson will be sentenced Aug. 19. A pair of bailiffs and two Bay County sheriff's deputies dragged Jackson from the courtroom after he exposed his buttocks during Wednesday's trial proceedings. Jackson has claimed insanity in two assault cases. He was convicted in April of aggravated battery and aggravated assault for attacking his then-girlfriend Yuki Yakamoto with a bottle of Strawberry Hill Boones on Jan. 21, 2000. The second trial was for another alleged attack on Yakamoto the next day. Jackson was convicted of forcing his way into Yakamoto's home and taking her cigarettes, this time attacking her with a bottle of Night Train. Defense lawyer Georgette Beller argued he had a personality disorder that caused him to attack Yakamoto. Beller asked for a mistrial after Wednesday's mooning. Circuit Judge Michael Overstreet rejected her motion and ordered that Jackson watch the rest of the trial from a holding cell over closed-circuit television. To this Jackson proclaimed, "sometimes you better dead."

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