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By Phil Trexler
Beacon Journal staff writer
POSTED: 11:52 a.m. EDT, Oct 13, 2009
Chetania Davis was only defending herself when she snatched a fellow exotic dancer's stiletto heel and whacked the woman in the head, her attorney said today.
Davis, 22 and eight months pregnant, planned to use the defense at trial today in Summit County Common Pleas Court. She was charged with felonious assault for the April confrontation with a 52-year-old dancer at an Akron strip club. Davis had faced up to eight years in prison if convicted.
Instead, she took a prosecutor's offer and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge. Judge Alison McCarty suspended a six-month jail sentence and placed Davis on probation for one year.
Davis said she has given up dancing forever and is now focusing on medical assistant studies at the University of Akron.
Prosecutors say Davis assaulted fellow dancer Jo Nolan on April 17 near the basement dressing rooms of the Club 1245 nightclub on East Tallmadge Avenue.
Nolan was working her first day on the job.
Tom DiCaudo, Davis' defense attorney, said Nolan and a friend were in the dressing room stall for more than 15 minutes, keeping Davis and other dancers waiting.
Words were exchanged, and when Nolan emerged, she came at Davis wielding her shoe, DiCaudo said. Davis then took the shoe and struck Nolan, causing multiple lacerations that required seven staples to close.
Police originally said that the fight began because Davis was angry with the hiring of Nolan as a new dancer who could take away potential customers.
Nolan initially declined to file a police report. Medical personnel at Akron General Medical Center reported the injury.
''We feel we had a strong self-defense case,'' DiCaudo said. ''She came at my client with the stiletto and my client acted accordingly.''
The plea, DiCaudo said, was an opportunity for Davis to ''put all of this behind her.''
Nolan was not in court for the hearing. Assistant Prosecutor Norman Schroth did not dispute Davis' version, saying the case was ''kind of 'he said, she said.' ''
Schroth told McCarty that Nolan had agreed with the plea offer.
The judge also fined Davis $150 and ordered her to repay up to $500 of Nolan's unreimbursed medical expenses.
Davis left court and said she has decided to remain in college and no longer perform as a dancer.
''Never again,'' she said.
Phil Trexler can be reached at 330-996-3717 or ptrexler@thebeaconjournal.com.
Chetania Davis was only defending herself when she snatched a fellow exotic dancer's stiletto heel and whacked the woman in the head, her attorney said today.
Davis, 22 and eight months pregnant, planned to use the defense at trial today in Summit County Common Pleas Court. She was charged with felonious assault for the April confrontation with a 52-year-old dancer at an Akron strip club. Davis had faced up to eight years in prison if convicted.
Instead, she took a prosecutor's offer and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge. Judge Alison McCarty suspended a six-month jail sentence and placed Davis on probation for one year.
Davis said she has given up dancing forever and is now focusing on medical assistant studies at the University of Akron.
Prosecutors say Davis assaulted fellow dancer Jo Nolan on April 17 near the basement dressing rooms of the Club 1245 nightclub on East Tallmadge Avenue.
Nolan was working her first day on the job.
Tom DiCaudo, Davis' defense attorney, said Nolan and a friend were in the dressing room stall for more than 15 minutes, keeping Davis and other dancers waiting.
Words were exchanged, and when Nolan emerged, she came at Davis wielding her shoe, DiCaudo said. Davis then took the shoe and struck Nolan, causing multiple lacerations that required seven staples to close.
Police originally said that the fight began because Davis was angry with the hiring of Nolan as a new dancer who could take away potential customers.
Nolan initially declined to file a police report. Medical personnel at Akron General Medical Center reported the injury.
''We feel we had a strong self-defense case,'' DiCaudo said. ''She came at my client with the stiletto and my client acted accordingly.''
The plea, DiCaudo said, was an opportunity for Davis to ''put all of this behind her.''
Nolan was not in court for the hearing. Assistant Prosecutor Norman Schroth did not dispute Davis' version, saying the case was ''kind of 'he said, she said.' ''
Schroth told McCarty that Nolan had agreed with the plea offer.
The judge also fined Davis $150 and ordered her to repay up to $500 of Nolan's unreimbursed medical expenses.
Davis left court and said she has decided to remain in college and no longer perform as a dancer.
''Never again,'' she said.
Phil Trexler can be reached at 330-996-3717 or ptrexler@thebeaconjournal.com.
Keep your daughters off the pole!
Im hoping no one would pay to see those stretch marks anyway! Stay in college!
52 year old stripper? Gag.
Swing your partner round and round, throw her in the toilet and flush her down...........It was bound to happen sooner or later.
Don't ever say "never", Shenaynay.
"Davis said she has given up dancing forever and is now focusing on medical assistant studies at the University of Akron."
Would that be the 1/1,000 times where the "working my way through college" line is legitimate?
Ohhh, honey, don't waste our tax dollars on getting a degree in medical assisting. There is no way in Hades an employer will give you a job working with patients if you have an assault conviction in your past.
Or they shouldn't, at the very least.
I bet this negative story generates more comments...more than the positive story about Dr. Smoot-Barton
YEAH - HAD THIS PERP FIGURED - LIKE EXACTLY
BOCEEFUS.....what do you mean don't waste tax payers dollars.....omg...let her go to school and get a job...or duh, she will really be using our tax dollars via welfare
chetana banana assault with stiletto? you cant write this stuff.lol
I don't see a problem with dancing (tap, modern, or burlesque), but I could lay a bet that she has already used, abused, and lap danced the system for many years $1 at a time.
It just sounded to me like she was throwing out empty "campaign promises" because this time Shaqaquanda got busted and made headlines.
Hey - one person's trash is another person's tre . . . er . . . trash.
Actually she was doing the community a favor by keeping a 52 year old from stripping. Instead of probation maybe they should give her a community service award or something.
Keep your daughters off the pole!
Disgusting violent thugette.
Why only a misdemeanor? How about some jail time here? For only being 22 she's wracked up an impressive record already:
DISORDERLY CONDUCT Akron
06 CRB 14319 D
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Akron
07 CRB 12260
POSSESS ALCOHOL BY MINOR Akron
08 CRB 12888
ILLEGAL SEX ORIENT ACTVTY
09 CRA 05945
FELONIOUS ASSAULT Akron
08 TRD 04698
SEAT BELT/PASSENGER Akron
08 TRD 11017
CHILD RESTRAINT Akron
08 TRD 16187
SUSPENDED DL
@tampat07 - Read what I wrote again, carefully this time. She will NOT get a job as a medical assistant with an assault conviction, even misdemeanor assault. And if Nicky G's sleuthing is correct, the felonious assault charge puts the nail in it completely.
She's better off getting a degree in something she'll actually get employed with after graduation. So, yes, she will end up on welfare, if she isn't on it already.
Your tax dollars at work. For those who don't.
She should HAVE to pay all of the other ladies out of pocket medical expenses and then some for her pain and suffering!!! Although i'm sure she has no money to do so!
@Boceefus: " So, yes, she will end up on welfare, if she isn't on it already.."
@tampat07: "...she will really be using our tax dollars via welfare..."
I'm bored so I sluethed a little more. If you look up the Felonious Assault charge, you will see in the dockets that Cheeto-onia filed a document in court for this case to say that she is "indigent" and clearly receiving public assistance.
So, she's ALREADY on welfare. Hmmm...did she report her stripper earnings to her case worker? Maybe we should be like the court and give her a break. After all, She is pregnant with her FOURTH child.
One dancer is pregnant and the other is 52 years old? What kind of strip joint is that place?
@Nicky - Thanks for the sleuthing. I was trying to give our little stripper the benefit of doubt that she wasn't already on welfare, but once again, I'm wrong. *sigh*
Who in the he-- want's to see a 8mo. prego dance? Blah!!!
(soundtrack - bad 70's p o r n o music - chakka ching ching - chakka ching ching)
Oooooooooooooooh . . . rub my belly - only two months to go and I be able to get on Maury's show and figger' out who my babies daddy is.
That's an extra $5 for the belly rub . . . anyone else for a belly dance?
SloppyClamBake
I thought that was typical of all strip clubs here in Crackron!
It was a misdaweiner...
All medical employers, hospitals & nursing homes do a back ground check on an individual before hiring ... She will never get hired as a medical assistant with an assault charge / record! It is state law ... And that is the truth!
The state even does a background check before you take your state testing! So ... She is sunk when it comes working in the medical field!
@ Oldgrump
I think "SloppyClamBake" was the name of that 70's p o r n o I was trying to think of . . . a strip joint consisting of pregnant teens, over 50 has beens, and limbless exotic dancers.
The owners of The Club must have saw the movie and the lightbulb lit in their heads. You know . . . why be like other strip joints that have attractive dancers - be different - set your own path - everyone likes a good train wreck.(HA!)
@Gerard: "...(soundtrack - bad 70's p o r n o music - chakka ching ching - chakka ching ching).."
I believe it goes 'brown chicken, brown cow...brown chicken brown cow...'
I would be shocked if any of these "entertainers" claimed their earnings. Unfortunately I am linked by marriage to a person who sounds identical to Chiquita. Including the pregnancy, and the baby who I have legal custody of and don't get a dime of help for. Just what the good citizens of Summit County need - another mouth to feed...
WOW!!!! Fifty two year old stealin 22 year olds' JOHNS???? I gotta see this MILF!!!!!!!!!
That's it Nicky G!
I think my version was a very bad treble induced MP3.
I like that Nicky G!!!
this stuff makes our town famous. cute strippers went where people dont pay in change.
Someone should throw a stiletto at her stomach and save us all!
I like her. . .She is nice. . . Pregnant women have a glow about them. . .
Stiletto rhymes with ghetto
this is why there is no hope for humanity...decent folks are being outbred....not only in USA but everywhere, people who can't feed themselves are having scores of children...while most people i know with decent jobs have 1-2 kids tops...
52 and 8 month pregnant, sweeeet, only in crakron, I hope she really does well in collige
you know how to tell if a dancer is gross?...........you throw her on a poll and see if she sticks.
So am I reading this correctly? Chatania is 8 mos. pregnant and has a year of supervised probation ahead of her.
Well then I guess inner city ethnic people are born on probation.
@Jeff: Ouch, that was rough. Truth hurts, I guess.
I thought I was the only one that says crakron. nice to see others with taste...I miss florida alot
Tampa Frank
Posted 04:28 PM, 10/13/2009 this is why there is no hope for humanity...decent folks are being outbred....not only in USA but everywhere, people who can't feed themselves are having scores of children...while most people i know with decent jobs have 1-2 kids tops...
Sounds like the movie Idiocracy, if you haven't seen it give it a try.
Can you imagine her coming in at your doctor's office and actually wanting to touch you for blood pressure or vitals? eewwwwwwwwwww. I agree with the notion decent people are being outbred. If she had waited a couple more months or a year, Obama would have paid the out of pocket medical costs and she wouldn't have to. It will all be FREE.
any publicity is good publicity? an 8 month pregnant girl nor a 52 year stripper would tempt me to enter i'm sure to be an otherwise fine establishment
Glad to see she just punched her ticket for a bigger pay day on the first of the month when she gets that "Check"
The baby daddy must be hard @ work, or otherwise would be there to support her. Or babysitting his other 3 other kids (same baby daddy for all right?).
Sardonicism aside, looking at her belly after reading the story makes me wonder if someday whatever is in there will mob the streets committing hate crimes against families and/or shoot our military members in the face.
@Gerard "You know . . . why be like other strip joints that have attractive dancers"
Are there any in Akron that have attractive dancers anymore?
serious, she would have to pay me, I'll do an Irish jig
High class conversation . . . . huh /
the felonious assualt was the one amended to a misdemeanor. a misdemeanor can be expunged after a year of being off probation.
did the felony CRA illegal sex act csae true bill?
As the snow flies
On a cold and gray Akron mornin'
A poor little baby child is born
In the ghetto
And his Stripper mama cries
'cause if there's one thing that the stripper don't need
it's another hungry mouth to feed
In the ghetto
People, don't you understand
the child needs a helping hand
or he'll grow to be an angry young man some day
Take a look at you and me,
are we too blind to see,
do we simply turn our heads
and look the other way
Well the world turns
and a hungry little boy with a runny nose
plays in the street as the cold wind blows
In the ghetto
And his hunger burns
so he starts to roam the streets at night
and he learns how to steal
and he learns how to fight
In the ghetto
Then one night in desperation
a young man breaks away
He buys a gun, steals a car,
tries to run, but he don't get far
And his Stripper mama cries
As a crowd gathers 'round an angry young man
face down on the street with a gun in his hand
In the ghetto
As her young man dies,
on a cold and gray Akron mornin',
another little baby child is born
In the ghetto
I started feeling bad for Granny until I saw this:
97 CRB 12077 NOLAN JO Defendant 10/30/1997 SOLICITING/PREVIOUSLY Akron
DoB: 02/18/1957
06 CRB 08118 NOLAN JO Defendant 7/4/2006 SOLICITING Akron
DoB: 02/18/1957
09 CRB 09254 NOLAN JO Defendant 7/31/2009 SOLICITING Akron
DoB: 02/18/1957
09 CRB 10657 NOLAN JO Defendant 8/29/2009 LOITERING/SOLICITING Akron
DoB: 02/18/1957
03 TRD 11916 NOLAN JO Defendant 5/14/2003 SPEED Akron
DoB: 02/18/1957
04 TRD 17596 NOLAN JO Defendant 9/1/2004 SUSPENDED DL Akron
DoB: 02/18/1957
04 TRD 17596 NOLAN JO Defendant 9/1/2004 TRAVEL/OPPOSITE DIRECTION Akron
DoB: 02/18/1957
08 TRD 18830 NOLAN JO Defendant 10/30/2008 WRONGFUL ENTRUSTMENT Akron
DoB: 02/18/1957
CRA0402676A NOLAN JO --- 9/23/2004 THEFT Barberton Municipal
DoB: 02/18/1957
CRA0402676B NOLAN JO --- 9/23/2004 THEFT Barberton Municipal
DoB: 02/18/1957
2004TRD01012 NOLAN JO DEFENDANT 1/26/2004 FTC/FULL TIME ATT./WEAVING STOW
DoB: 2/18/1957
2004TRD05748 NOLAN JO DEFENDANT 4/29/2004 DISPLAY OF DRIVER'S LICENSE STOW
DoB: 2/18/1957
CR2004093339A NOLAN JO ELLEN DEFENDANT 9/28/2004 SUMMIT COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS - CRIMINAL
DoB: 2/18/1957
AK47: You make an excellent point - NONE of this is the baby's fault. I pray that someone takes him/her in and takes good care of him/her. Just because the mother is a waste of oxygen doesn't mean the baby has to be. While I wasn't sure at first if your song was meant to be funny or not, it brings a tear to my eye. The poor baby doesn't have much chance, does it.
2 cents, you're definitely on the ball. I only trust you're as cute as your avatar, and not actually Old Man Grump under another nom de plume. (Yecch)
Seriously, as some of you have alluded, what a sad state of affairs in our modern world when women drop to such low degree at any age and in any condition for a buck.
And the men who take advantage of it for profit.
Hey 2cents, are you stupid or are you just practicing? I did not see one violent charge, not to mention that she is not the one being charged. That means that their record is of no consequence. ShaNayNay is already using this baby like she did the others to get free food and anything else, including get out of jail free. I know this chic and she is not a hater'. AhaNayNay attacked unprovoked and got away with it. Next she will be getting away with murder. I can't believe she got one year probation.
Some people pay good money to get whacked with a stiletto.
Hey Cannoli Eater - I am neither stupid, nor practicing. Nolan came at Davis first. Davis took the shoe and struck Nolan. Even the prosecutor didn't dispute the version Davis had. The point I was making is that Nolan isn't some poor helpless victim in this entire mess. She is probably more informed of our legal system than some of the folks out there actually practing.
@TruthPatrol - I assure you I am not Old Man Grump! I have been wondering if all is well with him.
What a sad story. Trash is trash, and it does not depend on the age of the person. Both losers should find jobs elsewhere.
She's pretty!
@2cents: "Even the prosecutor didn't dispute the version Davis had..."
Where do you see this at? I only see where Davis' attorney stated Nolan came after Davis. How else is their claim of self defense going to work?? The assitant prosecutor said the case was "kind of 'he said, she said," which does not exactly mean that the proscecution supports Davis' version of events. I'm just saying...
@Nick G - it is lower in the article....
Nolan was not in court for the hearing. Assistant Prosecutor Norman Schroth did not dispute Davis' version, saying the case was ''kind of 'he said, she said.' ''
@2cents:
Uhhhh, yeah. That's what I just said. Are you familiar with the meaning of the phrase "he said, she said"?? Google it. It doesn't mean the court agrees with or supports Davis, which is what you implied.
However, your responses are increasingly supporting Canoli Eater's statements about you.
She's Hott!
52 And still stripping lawd.
@ the_original_Jason
Sometimes people do alternative things to get through college. I knew a dude who sold "smokes" for college tuition. The day he paid off his final college classes, he ceased his operations.
I'm coming back to Akron - Dayton doesn't have ANY strippers.
this just in from the AP wire: ODrama has won the Oscar for best supporting actor.
We need legislation against stiletto heels in strip clubs.
I figured Obama would hire here as she knows why we have unemployment and had the guts to do something about it! To many people not enough jobs.
FROM CANOLIEATERS WIFE, THANKS NICKY G, WE BOTH KNOW THE DEFENDANT AND I HAVE SEEN HER HELP PEOPLE READ BUS SCHEDULES BECAUSE THEY WERE LOST, GAVE RIDES WHEN NEEDED BECAUSE THEY WERE STRANDED, AND NEVER HEARD HER SAY A BAD WORK AGAINST ANYONE MUCH LESS START PHYSICALLY FIGHTING WITH SOMEONE. LIKE SHE SAID SHE WAS TRYING TO MAKE A LITTLE MONEY, AND GOT SHOT DOWN BEFORE SHE EVEN GOT TO THE FLOOR.
Love Stinks: She sounds like a really good person.
What the he!! is a "chetania"?!
dinnrbellmel: Undoubtedly. I think the Nobel Peace Prize is in order.
It's nice to c that everyone can c the downfall of society in all this its about time. I 4 1 believe it's about time for our society to end I'm so glad that we have hippocrites like you all leading the way. Would one of u paragons of virtue PLEASE TELL US SCUMBAGS where all these wonderful jobs are that pay enough to support family and be comfortable. All of u that have jobs of course have all the answers. As far as the medical profession I personally know one alcholic pain killer addicted doctor working in the Akron area along with many Rn's who share his habbits along with sexual habbits that make the 52 yr old look like a virgin. Yes people RN's who literally have a party when they have sex and non of these people r inner city.My point being is that some people do these things to support there families and its not just men who exploit women. In the existants of man no one has ever gotten rid of the sex business not even in islam, women to this day tempt fate in muslim countries to practice prostitution. Which mean death for them in most cases.
who was the victim here? chg both with disorderly conduct and drop it. what a joke.
WOW I'D TIP HER REAL GOOD,,,DON'T STOP NOW HONEY,,,LET ME GET MY DANCE....
this story never gets old to me. Love it.
For all you haters,stop haten on me,and who ever leaven comments about my kids i bet you won't say it to me.haha ya'll mad causes i have every thing a want and ya'll ain't got the body to dance.so thanks for thinkin about me,now i said what i wanted let me finish shine n.lol lol lol lol lol hahahahahahahahahahahah.haters
love the one and only chetania davis
haters
I watched that new video posted by Pure Speculation, one scene of Nolans' arm showed massive needle bruises...The TRUTH!!! All I want is the TRUTH!!!
@beauty,,,,tell em girl, i'm with ya they are just haters...and dam......n you sexy.....
WOW!older women make better uh!to much drama. to all. you must have to much down time.
i must have the balloon flu like Falcon the balloon boy
barfing profusely
cheta (the same person as gary) says...
"and ya'll ain't got the body to dance"
@billybob....DO YOU GUYS KNOW IF ITS A BOY OR GIRL,,,AND WHAT ARE YOU GUYS GONNA NAME HIM/HER.....
Che-tongue-ya = ghetto trash
@spec good one!
Where is the video from Pure Spec????
(Love the avatars, BTW!)
From you Youtube/Fox 8 News. Thanks, I like yours too =)
".....haten on me." "leaven comments." ".....ya'll mad causes I have every thing."
Beauty, looks like you've had every thing IN you.
