At trial, defendant contests indecent exposure charge

An Oconee jury is being asked to decide whether a man arrested on the charge of indecent exposure met the elements of willfulness and malicious on the day in question, June 7, 2021.  Testimony in South Carolina vs. Kristopher Lamar Jenkins started this afternoon in the county General Sessions courtroom.  During the testimony of the state’s first witness, sheriff’s officer Brandon O’Kelley, an 18-minute video recorded on O’Kelley’s body camera was played for the jury.  That video depicted a man found naked at the bottom of an embankment and guardrail on the Rocky Knoll Road, about one-half mile from SC 28, the Highlands Highway.