The (Lack of) Integrity in the Courts
“That is why there is an investigation sir. Any time there is an allegation that the integrity of this judicial process has been compromised, especially with a juror I take it incredibly seriously, which is why I’ve turned it over to the Sheriff’s Department.” – Judge Jennifer Darow, presiding over the Darrell Brooks Christmas Parade Murder Trial.
Arkansas Court of Appeals District 2 Judges Mike Murphy and Bart Viden do not seem to have the same sensibility as Judge Darow.
I made the credible claim that at least two transcripts from proceedings that I was present for were purposefully falsified by the court reporter to benefit the opposition. It is important to note that after seven months of forcing me to litigate, I was dismissed with prejudice. But my rights were still seized from me and property that should have gone to my children after I passed was given to the man who maliciously prosecuted me.
I filed a motion to “settle the record” in the COA, and it was denied without reason given. The opposing party had not filed a response.
The Arkansas Supreme Court has now denied my petition for writ of mandate to play the recording of the hearings and correct the transcripts before my appellate brief on the case is due. (See the order below. I originally wrote this post before reading my emails and incorrectly said the Ark. Sup. Ct. did not rule as of today.) The opposing party did not file a brief in opposition. The Supreme Court justices did not give any reason for the denial.
The prosecutors in the Darrell Brooks trial were allowed to play the video of the harrowing assault. We were not told that a transcript is “the official record” of what happened that tragic day, and that we should trust the version typed out by a court reporter.
Why are layers of court personnel and the Sheriff in Searcy County Arkansas allowed to bury the evidence of their own wrongdoing? Why did the trial court judge, Susan Weaver, the appellate court judges, Mike Murphy and Bart Viden, and the Arkansas supreme court justices refuse to allow the recordings to be heard by the public?
There is no integrity in the Courts. At least not in this neck of the woods.
Welcome to Readers from Around the World
This morning, for us in the U.S., there were three readers in China who viewed this blog.
This is exciting for me.
My posts this past year have concentrated on a corrupt court staff in Searcy County, Arkansas. The same staff works in Faulkner County, Arkansas also. Neither county has a significant population.
Unfortunately, the corruption in these small and medium size towns in the United States is probably indicative of how courts around the country are run.
The travesty of justice that was done to me in Searcy County is before the Arkansas Court of Appeals now.
There is also a related petition for writ of mandate before the Arkansas Supreme Court asking to play the recordings of hearings while projecting the inaccurate transcripts made by the court reporter onto a screen.
It is mind boggling to me that the courts have spent over a year and untold taxpayer dollars to keep the recordings under wraps. Why would they hide the truth from the public?
Let’s ask the Chinese.
Judge Susan Weaver Oppresses Arkansans
“Now you know what it feels like to be Black.”
I was fighting corruption in the family law courts in California. My own parental rights were violated by a commissioner named Alan Friedenthal (deceased). Eventually, the Commission on Judicial Performance and State Supreme Court found Friedenthal appeared to have a bias against me. But his Draconian orders were never overturned.
An African American colleague made the statement quoted above to me.
I moved to Arkansas to try to escape the repression. Judge Susan Weaver has gone out of her way to deny my Constitutional right to due process in my adopted home. Escape is hopeless.
I find myself thinking of my ancestors from two and more generations back. They were Jews in what is now the Ukraine. They had their property taken with no just reason, and then were slaughtered. My Paternal Grandmother escaped to Poland, migrated to Germany before Hitler took power and then made it to the United States. Nine of her siblings did not escape.
Jewish people often say “forgive, but never forget.” Unfortunately, some of the less than honest judicial officers are of Jewish descent. They have forgotten.
When police, judges or the Furor rationalize their theft of property, liberty and life based on skin color or religion, they are scapegoating. When mean-spirited government employees use their power to do these same things because they can get away with it, they are being as oppressive as the Nazis and the Klan.
It is not some irrational hatred based on genetics that drives the current oppressors. They victimize anyone they can get away with victimizing. They do anything to grab power and line their pockets.
It is sick and disturbing.
Exposing Commissioner Alan Friedenthal, Attorney William Spiller, Commissioner Glenda Veasey and their ilk did not ingratiate me to the other judges in California. In fact, a Stanford-Hastings trained attorney who represented me on a matter advised me to never step foot in a courthouse in California again. He was right.
So far, Arkansas courts and attorneys do not seem any better.
More Errors In Orders Issued by Arkansas Judge Susan Weaver
I am writing an appellant’s brief in the Searcy County Arkansas case Pietrczak v. Me, 65-CV-21-20. I will post some of the highlights, as I work. This is installment two, from the section “Points of Appeal and Principal Authorities”. (The format does not translate, so the numbering is different than in the appellant’s brief.)
- The Court dismissed the Appellant as an individual with prejudice on March 28, 2022 and failed to dismiss the unrepresented Common Defense Doctrine Defendant. In the Court’s judgement against the defaulting defendant, the Court specifically made adverse rulings against the appearing Appellant and seized her property rights without allowing her to defend herself. The Court created law of the case adverse to the appearing Appellant that harms her ability to prevail on her dismissed counterclaim when the order to dismiss it is reversed on appeal. The law of the case created is adverse to the appearing Appellant when she files a case for malicious prosecution. During the hearing of March 17, 2022 from which the adverse order arose, the appearing Appellant was restrained from making objections, cross examining the witness, presenting evidence and testifying. Arkansas has long recognized the common-defense doctrine, which provides that an answer that is timely filed by a co-defendant inures to the benefit of a defaulting co-defendant. *Sutter v. Payne, 337 Ark. 330, 989 S.W.2d 887 (1999)
- The Court tricked Appellant into making unilateral disclosures of the evidence she intended to use at trial, by having the Trial Court Administrator give Appellant specific instructions by telephone (and Zoom call) on how and when to file the exhibits before the August 4, 2021 hearing, knowing the Court intended to continue the trial. Appellee Plaintiff submitted no exhibits. This was a denial of due process.
- Ark. R. App. P. Civ. 26 to 37
- Defendant “Laura Lynn” was misnamed on the complaint. Appellee failed to correct the misnomer by motion for leave to amend despite the appearing Appellant’s incessant admonishments of her correct, legal name. Therefore, there should be no judgement, rulings or findings adverse to Laura Lynn Hammett.
- Ark. R. Civ. P. 4(b)
- Defendant “Rural Revival Living Trust” was misnamed on the complaint. Appellee failed to correct the misnomer despite the appearing Appellant’s incessant admonishments that a trust is not a proper party. Therefore, there can be no findings against Laura Lynn Hammett as Trustee of the Rural Revival Living Trust, the Common Defense Doctrine defendant of “Laura Lynn”.
- Ark. R. Civ. P. 4(b)
- Plaintiff “Micheal Pietrczak” was misnamed. The allegation in the Complaint is that the plaintiff is a person with power of attorney, Walter Pietrczak. Therefore, an award to Micheal Pietrczak is not appropriate.
- Matter of Hamilton Living Tr. Dated Sept. 22, 2003, 2019 Ark. App. 76, 571 S.W. 3d 53 (2019)
- Ark. R. Civ. P. 4(b)
- Walter Pietrczak lacked standing to bring the suit on Micheal Pietrczak’s behalf, because Micheal Pietrczak swore that he revoked the power of attorney before the suit was filed and specifically denied alleging all the facts alleged in the Complaint.
- McKibben v. Mullis, 79 Ark. App. 382, 90 S.W.3d 442 (2002)
- A.C.A. § 16-62-102
All kibbitzing is appreciated. Chime in on the comments if you know any caselaw that upholds or disagrees with my statements I made on my own behalf. (I am not an attorney, and my blog is not legal advice. This is a pro se document written on my own behalf.)
Arkansas Judge Violates Basic Due Process
For the next 30 days, I am writing an appellant’s brief in the Searcy County Arkansas case Pietrczak v. Me, 65-CV-21-20. I will post some of the highlights, as I work.
It is important to note that I reported Judge Susan Kaye Weaver to the Judicial Disciplinary and Disability Commission before the transcript of the first hearing was falsified. The JDDC declined to take action.
Federal Judge Billy Roy Wilson dismissed a case I filed regarding the falsification of the record. His order of dismissal was so deceptive, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed my appeal summarily, with no briefing allowed.
Perhaps if the courts hide facts from the public, the public will not become aware of the lack of integrity in the courts. Judges like Susan Weaver are given leave to unjustly transfer property from the elderly, often without summons served, to their favored attorneys’ clients with impunity.
Points of Appeal and Principal Authorities
1. The Court appeared to have a bias against the Appellant from before the first hearing and refused to recuse herself. All judicial officers who appear to have a bias must recuse themselves.
- United States Constitution Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment, Due Process Clause.
2. The Court participated in the falsification of the record in an attempt to legitimize legal errors and abuses of discretion. The transcripts are required to be verbatim records of what was said in court.
- United States Constitution Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment, Due Process Clause.
- Ark. R. App. P. Civ. 6
3. The Court refused to correct the record. This denied Appellant the most basic Constitutional right to due process.
- United States Constitution Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment, Due Process Clause.
- Ark. R. App. P. Civ. 6
4. The Court dismissed the Appellant with prejudice on March 28, 2022 and failed to dismiss the unrepresented Common Defense Doctrine Defendant. In the Court’s judgement against the defaulting defendant, the Court specifically made adverse rulings against the Appellant and seized Appellant’s property rights without allowing Appellant to defend herself. Arkansas has long recognized the common-defense doctrine, which provides that an answer that is timely filed by a co-defendant inures to the benefit of a defaulting co-defendant.
- Sutter v. Payne, 337 Ark. 330, 989 S.W.2d 887 (1999)
Courts Acting More Like Mobs
In one of those freakish moments when I don’t know what buttons I pressed on my phone, a Messenger chain from 2011 popped up.
This was between me and a man who was a litigant in California. He was Northern Cal, I was Southern. We never met in person. This was our last communication.
HIM: Do you still have a friendly contact at the CJP? If so, I would like her contact information. I want to file another complaint about Tulare County Superior Court.
ME: The more they [the court powers that be] figure I’ve been right since day one, the nastier they get with me. I used to talk to Charlene Drummer. Now everything needs to be in writing for me. That’s fine. No one can say “gee, we didn’t know that.”
HIM: That is precisely what is happening over here. It is easier to keep burying me than to acknowledge that I was telling the truth and therefore they acted more like a mob than a court.
Thanks to the little green men that live in my phone, or God, or whoever caused this random decade old message to appear. I feel like I just saw a billboard at the side of the interstate that said, “DON’T GIVE UP! The harder they push back, the more you know you are right.”
Evidence Judge Susan Weaver Does Not Want the Public to Hear
Judge Susan Weaver held a kangaroo court on March 17, 2022.
I was a named defendant, but Judge Weaver forbid me from making objections, testifying and cross examining the one witness, Micheal Pietrczak.
I Brought a box full of evidence to submit at the trial. I was not allowed to present any of it.
Here is one video that is a conversation between me and Mr. Pietrczak.
You may want to read the back story first.
Back Story:
I fell in love with a recovering alcoholic around Christmas 2009.
He claimed to love me and considered me his “wife”.
He was really committing fraud on me. I was a devout Christian, had assets worth about a million dollars and was 10 years older than Mike Pietrczak. He was living in a halfway house and was on probation after serving time for a felony conviction when we met.
After a year or two together, Pietrczak started drinking again. The day his probation was over, he started chain smoking weed. After years of hell, six years after we met, I broke up with Pietrczak. (I use his last name because I am married to a wonderful man now, and his name is also Mike.)
Using my capital and my brains, we accumulated assets of about $250,000. Plus, I still had my initial investment property, a share in an LLC that had increased in value to about $1.4M. I offered, and Pietrczak agreed to split the $250,000 50/50. We each had a car or truck and ATV in our name. But we had put our home in Witts Spring in Pietrczak’s name.
During the months leading up to my decision to breakup, Pietrczak agreed to gift the land and house to a trust. I was the beneficiary of the trust. We made a mortgage agreement between the trust and Pietrczak.
The mortgage agreement was void from the start for technical reasons. But I intended to make good on my promise to split the property with Pietrczak 50/50. If we broke up, one of us would keep the property and the other would get $75,000 or half the mortgage payment. Obviously Mr. Pietrczak could not come up with $75,000 in a lump sum, but anyone who could fog up a mirror could come up with $650 per month for a mortgage payment.
Our last days as a couple, Pietrczak got drunk and drove to Falling Water, a campsite. I drove separately. I wanted to see what he did on his drunken drive-abouts.
It was scary. It was dark and he was senseless. I was afraid for my life. I managed to convince him to let me leave.
The next morning, Pietrczak was on the property, but did not come into the house.
He had driven his truck too fast in 4WD and had to have it towed.
Without coming in to talk with me, he drove off on his ATV.
The next morning, at about 4 a.m., Pietrczak came into our cabin. He had blood dripping from his ear. His collar bone was jutting out, like it was broken. His foot was swollen.
I offered to call an ambulance. He said not to.
After falling asleep for a few hours, Pietrczak changed his mind about going to a hospital. He did not want to pay for the ambulance, so he asked me to drive him about an hour and forty-five minutes to Conway.
Of course, I complied. But I determined right then that I would not continue in this relationship unless Pietrczak agreed to go to a residential treatment program for his substance abuse.
Pietrczak was transferred to UAMS. It was that day that I learned that my partners in the LLC wanted to sell the shopping center it owned. I knew I would receive a big chunk of change after the sale.
I was willing to pay for Pietrczak to go to the program of his choice, anywhere in the world. But I was smart enough to not tell him that I was going to receive this substantial sum of money. His decision should be based on his desire to give up the wildlife he lived when high. Not on staying with moneybags.
Pietrczak decided against rehab.
Instead, he tried to convince me to pay him $75,000 for my half of the Witts Springs property. Many years later I obtained a letter Pietrczak handwrote and signed. He told his father that he was going to commit suicide. Another cryptic note I obtained, Pietrczak referred to suicide, whiskey, a rope and a tree.
His dad was instructed to collect the $75,000 from me, and then to have an attorney named William Zac White file a suit for many times that against me.
Pietrczak did not commit suicide successfully. He did “fall” from a tall tree at his dad’s house and was left a paraplegic.
The Pietrczak’s and Mr. White went forward with their attempt to take hundreds of thousands of dollars from me through a lawsuit.
Judge Susan Kaye Weaver, Searcy County Circuit Court, Arkansas awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars, basically a blank check, to Pietrczak and attorney William Zac White. I was eventually dismissed from the case, after Judge Weaver tortured me for almost a year. But she did not dismiss the unrepresented trust that held the rest of the assets I intended to retire on.
I lost a shitload of money in the stock market COVID-crash in March 2020. I had diversified by holding onto some real estate, but I did not move the real estate in the trust into my own name. I was afraid that if I did, Judge Weaver would call it a fraudulent transfer and have me tried for that crime.
Judge Susan Weaver would not allow me to play this tape in court. She would not allow me to say anything during the “trial” where she determined that I wrote and filed a bunch of documents that she determined were “void ab initio” and that I had no right to the Witts Spring home that was originally purchased with my money.
If you know any voters or politicians in Arkansas, send a link to them. Susan Kaye Weaver should be incarcerated. She should not be given the opportunity to tranfer ownership of property from unrepresented old people’s trusts.
Thank you.
Evidence Excluded by Judge Susan Kaye Weaver
Arkansas judge Susan Weaver did not want evidence of an alleged fraud by attorney William Zac White and his clients to be presented in court.
This video was the first of two made back-to-back. A second, longer video is being uploaded to YouTube today.
Come back later to see the heart-to-heart conversation between me and the man who defrauded me out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. It is a conversation Judge Susan Weaver does not want you to hear.
But then, Judge Weaver does not want the public to hear any of the hearings in the case filed against me by the alcoholic, drug abusing man who defrauded me with the help of Judge Susan Weaver and Attorney William Zac White.
Judge Susan Weaver Gives Fraudster Bonus
I gave a copy of this letter handwritten and signed by “Mike” Pietrczak, that describes how he intended to collect over $75,000 from me and then have attorney William White sue me for many times the amount.
I brought a video tape to play in the hearing of March 17, 2022, in which Pietrczak tells me we will be even once I pay him $75,000. Judge Weaver did not allow me to say a word about the truth. I am not exaggerating. The Arkansas judge threatened that I would be committing a crime if I gave any testimony that would show Mike Pietrczak, his dad Walter and attorney White were committing a fraud.
Here is the recording.
A Higher Law 
Attorney Violates Judge’s Admonishment 43 Minutes After It Is Issued
Of course, Judge Susan Weaver of Searcy County Arkansas accepted the impermissible filing. She and Attorney William Zac White seem to enjoy a special relationship.
Judge Weaver filed the letter admonishing both parties to cease copying emails to the court at 4:25 PM on August 20, 2021. The letter was dated August 19, 2021. The childish duo apparently does not realize there is a time and date stamp on filings.
Attorney White filed a bizarre letter to the Court, attaching yet another interparty email immediately after. The clerk or judge needs to approve all filings before they are posted on the electronic system. Mr. White’s filing was approved and posted at 5:08 PM, 43 minutes after the judge’s letter was posted.
Notice that Mr. White’s letter was approved and posted after business hours. Now, that is service!
Here are the letters.
Judge Susan Weaver said not a word about her pet attorney’s missive.
Since Judge Weaver allows male attorneys to call 60-year-old female self-represented defendants “bitch” in open court, why would she be bothered by this unprofessional conduct? “Ms. Hammett is one of the most unpleasant opposing counsels or parties I have had the misfortune of dealing with in 14 years of practicing law.” That is appropriate to write in a letter and file in a court file. NOT.
Then there was the exhibit attached. Judge Weaver had just finished striking every exhibit filed by Ms. Hammett (me), including exhibits to a counterclaim and motions. But Weaver let the exhibit of Mr. White’s response email stand for eternity. She must find it appropriate for Mr. White to write: “I’ll be practicing law long after you have crawled back under the rock you came from.”
I am still hopeful that Zac White will lose his law license. I am hopeful that the voters will remove Judge Weaver from office in 2024. It is likely though that whoever it is that has had her back this far will pull strings, call in favors and do whatever it takes to have the election results overturned.
All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others. – George Orwell
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