Arkansas Judge Susan Weaver Throws a Tantrum

Judge Susan Weaver gave a 40-acre property and house that was held in a trust to a man, even after seeing a handwritten note signed by the man that described how he was committing fraud on the trustee of that trust.

I am the trustee. I was also named in the lawsuit as an individual. Because I was 100% right and the fraudster was 100% wrong, he dropped the suit against me.

The judge and fraudster’s lawyer thought they found a clever loophole.

A trustee cannot defend herself in court, unless she is a licensed attorney.

I told Judge Weaver that I had a heck of a time finding an attorney who would represent the trust, due to the appearance of bias by the court. I literally had an attorney refuse $300 per hour to represent the trust because if he did, he would never win a case in front of Judge Weaver again.

Then, after Weaver found against the unrepresented trust by default, I found an attorney who would at least file a notice of appeal for the trust. His name is Dustin Duke. He is not quite Oskar Schindler, but he does seem to like to protect the underrepresented.

Anyhow, Mr. Duke got me through to the Court of Appeals. Then he wrote a motion to withdraw as counsel.

Neither fraudster’s attorney nor I filed an opposition. But Judge Weaver did not grant Mr. Duke’s motion.

He filed an amended motion to withdraw. Again, silence from the judge.

Then, I filed the record in the COA. I followed up with a tell all motion to settle the record that describes how Judge Susan Weaver and Court Reporter Jana Perry fictionalized hearings and then kept the audio of the hearings under wraps.

All of a sudden Judge Weaver decided to grant Dustin Duke’s motion to withdraw, which would leave the trust unrepresented again.

The problem for Suzy is that she does not know law.

I am not an attorney. This is not legal advice. But I think that it is illegal to smoke weed in Arkansas without a medical marijuana card and I think jurisdiction, the authority of a court to act, passes from the trial court to the appellate court when the record on appeal is filed.

I think Judge Weaver’s order was two days late and amounts to nothing more than a tantrum by a spoiled child who found out she is going to have to return the toy she stole from a kid on the playground.

The sad part is, judges usually can’t be held liable for making bad calls, even if they purposefully do the wrong thing. But they can be incarcerated. Doesn’t happen often, but we can hope.