Justice for Sale: So Called Expert Witnesses
Many years ago I exposed an “expert” psychiatrist named Joseph Keenan who was appointed by many judges in Los Angeles to give a “neutral” evaluation of the parents in custody cases. One parent got suspicious when Dr. Keenan demanded she pay a second installment of many thousands of dollars for his fees, and he sent a “runner” to pick up the money. It felt like a drug deal to the woman.
She was especially perplexed because the father of her child was incarcerated. It did not seem like figuring out which parent should have custody would require someone to be a brain surgeon.
Turns out the appointed expert’s extracurricular activities included advertising for “b.b. sex with strangers”, meaning bare back, no condom, and holding “snow parties” in Palm Springs, snow meaning cocaine.
The story was told by the Los Angeles Times a couple months after I wrote about it and they spoke with me. It also made it to the Associated Press.
Sometimes experts are hired by one party to a lawsuit or another. For example, in the Johnny Depp – Amber Heard trial several experts testified.
One expert who had an office on Park Avenue in New York charged $500 per hour.
My advice to pro se litigants and attorneys alike is to investigate the opposing party experts’ credentials.
There is a man named Sanjay Adhia that holds himself out to be an “expert” in psychiatry who charges $700 per hour. He is a licensed medical doctor in Texas. He works nationwide.
I spoke with the Arkansas Medical Board’s regulatory representative named Julie. She said the Board voted long ago that it is acceptable for out of state doctors to review records in Arkansas cases, but it is not acceptable for the “expert” to make his own diagnosis.
In a report about an Arkansas case that should be kept confidential, Dr. Adhia made a “diagnosis”.
The Texas Medical Board (“TMB”) shows Dr. Adhia went to medical school in India. He gave the name of his school as “M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore University”. There are hundreds of colleges affiliated with Bangalore University, but M.S. Ramaiah and any permutation of that name are not included. See this list: https://eng.bangaloreuniversity.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/List-of-Collees-for-A.Y-21-22-with-UUCMS-Core-Subjectwise-16.05.2022.pdf
Wikipedia shows Ramaiah “is an autonomous institute and affiliated with the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Jayanagar, Bangalore.”
[Added 6/24/2022] The Medical Council of India (“MCI”) website shows that there was some affiliation between Ramaiah and Bangalore “previously”.
The MCI recognizes a degree in Medical-Psychiatry from Ramaiah “when degree granted on or after 2019, 1 to 2 (1) Seats Increased in Academic Year 2021-22.” Dr. Adhia claimed his degree was obtained in 2003.
A person who is less than honest is able to purchase a fraudulent “degree” from either university here. https://firstdegreeonline.com/india/
Dr. Sanjay Adhia said he graduated medical school in 2003, according to the records of the TMB. His first non-provisional license was issued in 2014. Did he do 11 years of residency and fellowships? This man was no Doogie Howser. He was about 39 years-old when he received his license.
So, even assuming Dr. Adhia went to a low ranked school in India, is this a man who should make diagnosis that can affect life and death? Literally.
And why would attorneys from Rose Law Firm and Troutman Pepper hire him for $700 per hour to make Defense Medical Exams, when they could hire Johnny Depp’s expert for less? Or a local expert for far less?
The answer to that will be explored in a coming post. Stay tuned.
Attorney William Zac White Running and Hiding
Who is the seediest attorney in Arkansas? My vote goes to William “Zac” White.
Judge Susan Weaver awarded a property that was held in trust to one of Mr. White’s clients, Mike Pietrczak, despite evidence presented that Mr. White knew his client was committing fraud on the trustee of the trust, me. Mr. White had a handwritten letter signed by his client that described the fraud. One of his helpers wrote a post it note that was in the same box of documents that said “ASK ZAC about Pietrczak’s letter”.
This was a default judgment because no attorney could be found to represent the trust and I was threatened with incarceration if I represented the trust. (I was denied a motion to intervene and had a heck of a time finding an attorney brave enough to go against Judge Weaver. Taking the case would be professional suicide.)
Judge Weaver should have dismissed the claim in August 2021, because Mr. White set the matter for trial before issuing a summons on the trust.
At the “trial”, to which no jurors were invited, Mr. White asked for a continuance and an extension of time to serve the trust the non-existent summons.
Mr. White said I was “running and hiding”. Court Reporter Jana Perry didn’t write that line in the transcript. She left out lots of other important stuff, too. And added in a few gems.
Of course I was not running and hiding. No summons was served on me as an individual, I found out about the case when I was doing research, and I answered, wrote a counter-claim and prepared for trial anyhow.
White, Weaver and Perry continued to work together as a team, apparently, until April 2022, when the trust property was given to Mr. White’s client. Of course, Mr. White and his helpers will be paid from the proceeds of sale. The property was sold for almost $200,000.
I have an interest in the property. I am the one Mr. White’s client defrauded. I am trustee and sole current beneficiary of the trust. My kids were supposed to inherit the property if I didn’t sell it sooner.
White said he was dismissing me from the case as an individual, then claimed I could not say anything in the default judgment hearing. I was not dismissed yet; I guess I was denied my most fundamental right in anticipation of when I’d be dismissed. When the order granting the property and then some was written, Judge Weaver said I did a bunch of stuff wrong as an individual and that I had no right to the property any longer. Jana Perry transcribed the hearing quite differently. They look like Brother Bear and Sister Bear in one of my favorite books, “Berenstain Bears and the Truth”. The story evolves as each adds their imaginations.
I filed a notice of appeal and sent a certified copy to Mr. White.
It was returned today as “REFUSED”. Who is running and hiding now, Willy?
Challenging Corrupt Practices: Applied Courage, Creativity and Energy
This Federal District Court judge says everything I would like to say about the corruption in our local politics in Searcy County, Van Buren and Faulkner County, Arkansas where Kleptocrats the likes of Judge Susan Weaver rule. Sheriff Kenney Cassell and Circuit Clerk Debbie Loggins know what is going on and look the other way.
The foundation of our nation is swept away by a wave of greed.
Judge Wolf is talking about third world countries and Russia, but the concepts apply equally in the United States of America.
Judge Susan Kaye Weaver Abuse of Discretion?
Often regular folk who can’t afford an attorney will try to represent him or herself in court. The fancy lawyer word for this is “pro se” or “pro per”.
Judges and lawyers don’t care for self-represented litigants much. My sister was an attorney and sometime judge pro tem (another fancy lawyer word meaning temporarily). She liked to call self-represented litigants “im pro per”. Very punny.
It seems like some attorneys and even judges treat pro se litigants unfairly. An educated guess for the motivation is that the ones with the law degrees think the self-represented won’t know the rules, making it easy to cheat. The elitists probably get away with this unethical conduct more often than not.
But our laws are based on fairness, and people generally know when they are being treated unjustly.
The problem is that most of the people who are not educated in law can’t express themselves in a way that is easy to understand.
Many pro se litigants have made comments on my blogs and articles. Often, they sound like rants.
In a case like one presided over by Judge Susan Weaver in Searcy County, Arkansas, in which I am the defendant and counterclaimant, there are many moving parts. It is not easy to give a concise synopsis that someone with a sixth-grade education can understand. (That is the way I was taught to write when I studied journalism at Colorado State University decades back.)
So, I will discuss just one bite size piece here.
Judge Weaver appears to have abused the discretion allowed to a judge because in similar situations she acted in a different way.
For example, in the case against me, Pietrczak, 65CV-21-20, I learned about the case on my own. No summons was served on me to that point. There was a second defendant, a trust, and no summons was issued on the trust. Of course with no summons issued, there could be no summons served.
On June 10, 2021, a few days after I came upon the internet case docket, I filed a motion for continuance. The docket said there would be a “final hearing” on August 4, 2021 and all parties would need to file their exhibits for the trial. It seemed obvious to me that we were not ready for trial.
There was no summons issued on a joint defendant.
There was no summons served on me.
There was no opportunity for discovery.
Judge Weaver acted like she disagreed. She ignored my motion for continuance.
I contacted the Trial Court Administer, also a Weaver, Tammy Weaver. She said my motion was unacceptable.
Mid-July I filed a second motion for continuance. Judge Susan Weaver ignored that one also.
About July 28, 2021 I contacted the TCA again. She said the second motion was unacceptable. I was perplexed. I had basically copied a motion for continuance written by an attorney that was granted by a different judge.
So, I spent a weekend with a paid assistant and prepared 25 exhibits for trial. Then I filed the exhibits with Tammy Weaver and the court reporter, Jana Perry. I also filed the exhibits with the clerk for the docket, because I knew there was something fishy going on.
Plaintiff’s counsel, William Z. White of Heber Springs did not file any exhibits.
At the Zoom hearing on August 4, 2021, there was no jury assembled for voir dire.
Mr. White asked for a continuance and Judge Weaver granted it.
Basically, the Court caused me to tip my hand to the opposing party. When they saw that I would win, they decided to postpone the “game”.
Judges have a wide leeway to schedule trials and give continuances. It is called judicial discretion.
But, a judge’s rulings should not defy all logic. And there should be consistency.
There was another case involving Judge Weaver and attorney White, Joseph Miller v. FL Davis Center Inc, et al, 71CV-19-28. Willy White came into the case as a defense attorney late. He filed a motion for continuance, to give himself a chance to get up to speed. The hearing he wanted to continue was set for September 24, 2019.
Mr. White filed his motion on September 19, 2019.
Judge Weaver continued the hearing on September 24, 2019 by a text entry on the docket.
Judge Weaver signed a formal order to continue the hearing of September 24th on September 26th.
Here is a screen shot of the docket and a downloadable copy of the order. Notice that there were a lot of details on the order left blank.
Why, oh why, would Judge Weaver decide to grant a continuance to William Zack White’s client for a motion filed days before or on the day of a hearing, but not grant a continuance for a pro se litigant who was not served summons yet?
A. Judge Susan Weaver has no common sense.
B. Judge Susan Weaver is cognitively challenged.
C. Judge Susan Weaver is unethical.
D. All of the above.
Attorney Refuses to “Take Part” in Proceedings
“I am not taking part in the appeal process.”
So wrote attorney William “Zac” White of Heber Springs, Arkansas in an email sent to this writer, the court reporter and the Trial Court Administrator Tammy Weaver on June 7, 2022.
Here is a screen shot of the Court Connect docket taken today, but which is the same as it was two days ago.
See “WHITE, WILLIAM Z”. Right there on the row that says “PLAINTIFF/PETITIONER ATTORNEY”.
Duke, Dustin Alan was hired by me to represent the “Affiant” Rural Revival Living Trust. I have no clue why Searcy Clerk Debbie Loggins listed the trust as “Affiant” instead of “Defendant”.
There are so many errors in the record of this case that it is hard to believe they are all unintentional.
It is clear that William Z. White is the plaintiff’s attorney.
This is the entire text of the email:
“Ms. Lynn,
I have instructed you time and time again to not contact my office. The next time you do I am going to file a complaint with the Cleburne County Sheriff’s Office. You have wasted so many people’s time with your nonsense. I will be blocking this email address from you. I am not taking part in the appeal process. I also suggest you revisit your insanely mediocre and slanderous blog.”
Why is the Court, Judge Susan Weaver, allowing an attorney of record to demand that an opposing party, an appellant of the Judge’s bizarre orders, refrain from copying communications with the court personnel to the attorney of record?
There is also an element of humor, irony, in attorney White’s email. He and the Court agreed that I may only represent myself, not the trust, because I am not an attorney. But Mr. White is still a licensed attorney and he does not seem to know that “slander” is a “defamatory assertion expressed in a transitory form, esp. speech”, as per Black’s Law Dictionary (11th ed. 2019).
Mr. White probably meant “libelous”, though that assertion would be incorrect also. The truth is almost always a defense to libel, as illustrated by the recent tabloid case of Johhny Depp v. Amber Heard. (In that case the defendant and counter-defendant failed to show their defamatory statements were true.)
Another bit of irony…to prove my statements that Attorney White and Judge Weaver colluded with Court Reporter Jana Perry to create an inaccurate record of the proceedings, I would be given the opportunity to present the audio recording of the hearings in question. Playing those tapes for a jury would show that what I claim is the truth. That is why Judge Weaver keeps denying me access to the audio tapes. So, Mr. White cannot make good his threats to sue me for “slander”.
Unless of course Judge Weaver is his judge.
The Arkansas judge seems to allow Attorney White to pick and choose the rules he will follow and makes certain he gets “paid”.
How Judge Susan Weaver Kills the Economy
There is one thing all my exes agree on. I know how to make money.
I have the “Midas touch”. I am a “cash cow”. A “money magnet”.
My siblings could sell me into slavery, and I would probably end up advising kings.
I am also generous. To a fault, some say.
For example, when a fraudster named Micheal “Mike” Pietrczak marked me, he had $3.71 in his pocket, lived in free housing for dual diagnosed addicts and could not get a driver’s license until he paid off old fines to the State of Washington. I paid off his debts and capitalized an estate liquidation business he wanted to build.
I also worked long hours to help him build the business. When Mike Pietrczak went on continual drunken binges, my young son stepped into the drunkard’s position in the estate liquidation business and we held it together. All the while, I pursued a lawsuit that left Mike Pietrczak and me enough money to buy a 40 acre property in Searcy County Arkansas, two new trucks, two new ATVs and we could live off my passive income for the rest of our lives.
When it became apparent that Mike Pietrczak was not going to sober up, was advertising for hookers and he would probably kill or maim someone while drunk, I broke up with him. (He ended up causing his own paralysis by falling or jumping from a tree, soon after writing a suicide note and mentioning “a tree”, “a bottle of whiskey” and “a rope” in another rant.)
Mr. Pietrczak had started cleaning up an old schoolhouse in Witts Springs. (In his sober moments, he was a hardworking, lovely person.)
When the 45ish man decided to leave me to look for an 18- to 21-year-old, blue-eyed blond on Craigslist, I took over the renovation of the community building. I gave a grant of $45,000 to Community Voices to get the job done. Unlike Amber Heard, I did not “pledge” the money. I gave the money as an anonymous grant.
I am thinking about this today because I saw an advertisement on the Bargains Galore on 64 Facebook page. It is asking for volunteers to clean up a similar school building in Oklahoma.
That is exactly the kind of work I would be doing, if I wasn’t spending so much time trying to protect my remaining assets from a corrupt judicial officer named Susan Weaver and the attorneys she favors.
Judge Weaver already ordered the transfer of the Witts Springs property from a trust that I am trustee and beneficiary of to an irrevocable trust benefitting Mr. Pietrczak and to pay his attorney.
Judge Susan Weaver scared off any attorney who would represent the trust and forbid me from saying one word on behalf of the trust, under threat of incarceration for practicing law without a license.
I also have another lawsuit against a debt buyer named Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC who made incessant phone calls to me about a debt I did not incur. If I win that lawsuit, as I should, I will have potentially several million dollars to invest.
Susan Kaye Weaver makes me uncomfortable to invest that money here. There would need to be a loud message sent to other kleptocrats that they shouldn’t drive away talent and philanthropists by making unethical transfers of their property, first. Perhaps Ms. Weaver could be incarcerated for honest services fraud, or similar. I am not an attorney, but I think there is enough evidence of corrupt acts, such as colluding to alter the record of court proceedings, to prosecute the wayward judge.
It is a shame. I am now married to a wonderful man who grew up in Arkansas. I love the natural beauty and most of the people in this state. But it only takes one witch with a poison apple and a broomstick to drive me away.
How many others who control assets will stay out of Arkansas to protect themselves from subjection to jurisdiction on cases presided over by Judge Susan Kaye Weaver and her ilk?
Another Random Opinion on the Amber Heard Jury Verdict
Amber Heard is a working actress.
Did her attorney tell her to act like a stuck-up bitch? Or did they tell her to act likable, and she has no talent?
I agree with the jury.
When my former spouse punched me in the ribs about 25 years ago, I went to the doctor, because it was hard to breathe. The incident was documented.
I have a vague memory of seeing another woman in the next area over and the nurse warning me that this is what it looks like when abuse escalates. The woman looked like she survived a prize fight. It was frightening.
After I left my abuser, he shoved me into a car door while dropping the kids off. I took pictures of that too. I heard from a former brother-in-law that my ex had a girlfriend who was a 911 operator who made the police file of the second incident disappear.
Even with my documentation, there were never criminal charges filed against the alleged perpetrator.
There were eventually criminal charges filed against the same man for alleged child abuse when he punched my son in the face. He was found not guilty after a jury trial (from which I was excluded).
It is hard enough to obtain justice for domestic violence.
We don’t need “spokeswomen” like Amber Heard calling into question whether legitimate complaints are legitimate. Crying wolf does more harm than good.
How I Cope with A Corrupt Judge like Susan Weaver of Arkansas
This is not legal advice. I am not an attorney.
This is not a replacement for seeking mental health services from a professional. I have not studied psychotherapy nor a related field formally.
This is just one friend speaking to another about how she copes with corrupt judges.
It is a corrupt system.
Not every judge is corrupt though. When there is an honest judge presiding, our legal system is a thing of beauty.
When there is an unethical judge, it is a nightmare.
This is what I do when I find myself living the nightmare.
I tell myself, “I will do what I can do.”
If you find yourself in front of a judge like Susan Weaver, I know you are frustrated.
I know you are afraid.
Give yourself permission to feel your feelings.
Expect miracles. Let go and breathe.
Take each next right step. Do what you can do.
I use yoga in the morning to find calm and try to take that calm with me into the day.
Sometimes circumstances are out of control. For example, Judge Weaver dismissed me as a defendant from a case on the merits, but then transferred a $199,000 property that was in a trust that I was trustee and beneficiary of to a man who put his plan to defraud me of $75,000 in writing. Oh, his attorney will probably get a huge portion of that and who knows, some may find its way into Judge Weaver’s pocket. I am just speculating. But no one is as dumb as Judge Weaver appears to be from her decisions. The injustice she metes out must be purposeful. (Judge Weaver was adamant that I make no argument or provide evidence that would benefit the trust. She threatened me with incarceration if I represented the trust.)
Breathe.
Speak to a therapist. If you don’t have good insurance, there is a free 12-step program called CoDA that is full of people who are learning to set boundaries. Church pastors and their wives are usually helpful to speak with as well.
For me, it is empowering to write about the problem.
I had a corrupt commissioner presiding on a custody case in California. When I wrote about my experience, bunches of other parents contacted me with similar stories. Eventually the bad judicial officer left the bench. He died two years later at the age of 64.
There are people who are employed on the taxpayer’s payroll who are supposed to protect us from unethical judges. In Arkansas, they are with the JDDC (Judicial Disciplinary and Disability Commission).
Usually, these commissions are a big waste of money, a paper tiger.
The JDDC tried to discipline Judge Susan Weaver when she first took office in the Circuit Courts. But Judge Weaver beat them at the appellate court.
Yes, it is frustrating when you are forced to take on people who have power and control, who seem untouchable. You may feel like you cannot possibly win.
But allowing hypocrites to take your property, liberty and maybe even life without putting up a fight is a certain loss.
There is peace in pursuing justice to its end.
Namaste and Shalom.
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