“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”.