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Obstruction of Justice?

obstruction of justice (1854) Interference with the orderly administration of law and justice, as by giving false information to or withholding evidence from a police officer or prosecutor, or by harming or intimidating a witness or juror. • Obstruction of justice is a crime in most jurisdictions. — Also termed obstructing justiceobstructing public justice. See perverting the course of justice.

“The goal, — to proscribe every wilful act of corruption, intimidation or force which tends in any way to distort or impede the administration of law either civil or criminal — has been very largely attained, partly by aid of legislation. And any punishable misdeed of such a nature which is not recognized as a distinct crime, is usually called ‘obstruction of justice,’ or ‘obstructing justice,’ — a common-law misdemeanor.” Rollin M. Perkins & Ronald N. Boyce, Criminal Law 552 (3d ed. 1982).

OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, Black’s Law Dictionary (11th ed. 2019)

Does this apply when a court reporter, such as Jana Perry of the Circuit Courts in Arkansas, purposefully makes an inaccurate transcription of a hearing?

What if a judge, such as Susan Kaye Weaver, threatens to refer a person for prosecution of the crime of the unauthorized practice of law if that person argues or testifies on her own behalf, just because the testimony will also benefit another entity?

And what about if an attorney, such as William Zac White of Heber Springs is colluding with the judge and court reporter and threatens to report their victim to a sympathetic good ol’ boy sheriff on trumped up charges?

I prefer the term for Obstruction of Justice used in other countries.

Perverting the Course of Justice.

Animal Farm and Judge Susan Weaver of Arkansas

Remember when the pigs altered the bill of rights each night while the other animals slept?

Welcome to Searcy County Arkansas with its own Animal Farm ruled over by piggies like Susan Weaver.

I have complained to sheriff deputies in Searcy County, where Judge Weaver presides. I complained in Faulkner County, my home and another realm ruled over by Weaver.

Today, I complained to a sheriff in Hot Springs County, where one of Weaver’s cohorts resides.

I allege that Judge Weaver, Court Reporter Jana Perry and Attorney William White colluded to transfer a 40-acre property with a house to one of White’s clients and then in an allegedly fraudulent transfer to an irrevocable trust. Ms. Perry fictionalized the dialogue in two or three hearings.

I was in the hearings and had others present who agree that the transcripts do not give an accurate account of what was said.

The problem is, Judge Weaver and Jana Perry control the audio recordings, the best evidence of what happened, and neither one will let them be heard.

Back on the farm, all three sheriff deputies I spoke with said they cannot do anything about it.

The guy today went so far as to say that even if he heard a judge in Arkansas lie from the bench, he could not do anything about it.

The Court has free rein to alter the record in any way she wants.

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” – the Pigs via George Orwell

Attorney Faces Discipline Over Sexist Slur

Thank you to attorney Robin Shea of Constangy Brooks Smith and Prophete LLP for her post on Lexology.

She recounts how an attorney lost in a hearing and then, when leaving, turned to the two female opposing counsel and said: “See you next Tuesday. See you next Tuesday.”

The comment seemed innocuous enough. Unless a person was hip to the slang meaning of “see you next Tuesday.” If you are not sensitive, you can read the meaning here.

Spoiler alert: It is a four-letter word that starts with C-U.

The judge presiding at that hearing, after being alerted to the meaning of the sentence, issued this order.

He said, in part:

“An attorney is an ‘officer of the court’ who, by virtue of his or her professional position, undertakes certain ‘special duties … to avoid conduct that undermines the integrity of the adjudicative process.’ ” (F.T.C. v. Network Services Depot, Inc. (9th Cir. 2010) 617 F.3d 1127, 1143.) In other words,” ‘[l]t is vital to the integrity of our adversary legal process that attorneys strive to maintain the highest standards of ethics, civility, and professionalism in the practice of law.’ (People v. Chong (1999) 76 Cal.App.4th 232, 243, 90 Cal.Rptr.2d 198.) Indeed, unwarranted personal attacks on the character or motives of the opposing party, counsel, or witnesses are inappropriate and may constitute misconduct. (Id. at p. 245, 90 Cal.Rptr.2d 198; see also Stone v. Foster (1980) 106 Cal.App.3d 334, 355, 164 Cal.Rptr. 901.)” (In re S.C. (2006) 138 Cal.App.4th 396, 412.) “When, during the course of trial, an attorney violates his or her obligations as an officer of the court, the judge may control the proceedings and protect the integrity of the court and the judicial process by reprimanding the attorney.” (Chong, supra, 76 Cal.App.4th at 243-244.)”

The judge referred the unprofessional conduct to the State Bar for disciplinary action.

Too bad Arkansas Circuit Court Judge Susan Kaye Weaver does not defend women against similar conduct.

On March 17, 2022, during the hearing in which attorney William Z. White admitted a non-suit against me was in order, he leaned toward me and said “Bitch” loudly.

Court Reporter Jana Perry decided not to include that sexist slur in the transcript of the hearing.

Judge Weaver completely ignored the slur. She was too busy transferring property that should have belonged to me to Mr. White and his client.

Like: “We’re going to dismiss you, Bitch, so shut your mouth. You are not allowed to speak the truth on behalf of your trust.” Oh, and see you next Tuesday.

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.

Clerk and Court Reporter Give Fraudster More Time to Hide the Money

My former romantic and business partner admitted, through his attorney, to advertising on Craigslist for a blue-eyed blond less than half his age. This while we were living together, and he was spending my passive income as if it was his own.

The lecherous middle-aged man also wrote and signed a letter telling his dad, Walter Pietrczak of Malvern Arkansas that he was collecting thousands of dollars from me under the pretense that we were splitting the property we accumulated while together in half. He warned his dad to keep it a secret from me until I paid the full amount, and then have attorney William Zac White file a lawsuit that said I defrauded him and did not pay the mortgage.

Despite a judge, Susan Kay Weaver, colluding with Mr. White and the Court Reporter Jana Perry, I was able to get dismissed from the case as an individual.

But I was not allowed to represent a trust that held the property, because I am not a licensed attorney.

I could find no attorney brave enough to represent the trust. With the Court’s obvious animosity toward me, it would be professional suicide to be associated with me.

Judge Susan Weaver denied my motion to intervene on behalf of the trust.

The judge gagged me (figuratively), then held a kangaroo court and awarded the entire property and then some to my former partner, a felon and drug addict. She also approved a fraudulent transfer of the property into an irrevocable trust, making it that much harder for me to recover the property after appeal.

Judge Weaver signed an order that found me guilty of all kinds of things as an individual and seized my property interests without any opportunity to defend myself.

Step in the Searcy County Clerk, Debbie Loggins. Ms. Loggins recorded the judgment under my name as an individual. (She said she corrected that on Friday, July 15, after I discovered the error.)

I filed a notice of appeal and was waiting for the record to be produced by the clerk and court reporter. I had 90 days to get the record filed. That would be today, July 19, 2022.

While I waited, the Pietrczaks sold the property for almost $200K and transferred the money into the irrevocable trust. The buyer’s title insurance company will probably blame their mistake on Clerk Loggins.

The transcript was emailed to me at 9:56 P.M. on Sunday, July 17th.

The clerk realized I was allowed to pay electronically but chose to drive an hour and a half each way to pick up my check and drop off the record on Monday evening, July 18th.

The Court of Appeals received my filing in the wee hours of July 19th.

I had prepared a petition for writ of certiorari to compel the clerk and court reporter to do their jobs. It is not necessary to file that now. It wasn’t wasted effort, as it may be what convinced the two conniving government employees to do their jobs.

Since I put in the effort, I will post the petition here. Sorry about the formatting. A download of the properly formatted PDF is available at the bottom.

IN THE ARKANSAS COURT OF APPEALS

RURAL REVIVAL LIVING                                                                                                  TRUST; AND LAURA LYNN HAMMETT                      APPELLANTS

v.                                         CASE No.  65CV-21-20                                                         

MICHEAL PIETRCZAK                                                  APPELLEE

PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO COMPLETE THE RECORD

     COMES NOW, on this 18th day of July, Laura Lynn Hammett, Appellant, pro se, and for this Petition for Writ of Certiorari to Complete the Record and in support thereof states, pursuant to cited authorities and facts attested to by affidavit filed concurrently:

  1. This motion is filed pursuant to Ark. Sup. Ct. R. 3-5(a). Rule 3-5(a) permits this Court to authorize its Clerk to issue a writ of certiorari to a circuit court clerk or court reporter to prepare the record on appeal.
  2.   Attached to this motion is a partial record. The partial record consists of certified copies of documents from the Searcy County Circuit Court Clerks file in the above-styled case. These certified documents requested on July 15, 2022 were “all orders in the case and the motion for extension of time filed June 17th, 2022”. The order of July 13, 2022 denying an extension of time to file the record was not included in the packet by the clerk and so an uncertified copy printed from the Court Connect site was included.
  3. That on April 20, 2022, Appellant timely filed a Notice of Appeal and Declaration of Record to Supreme Court of Arkansas with the Searcy County Circuit Court.
  4. The appellant, in compliance with Rule 6(b), has timely ordered the stenographically reported material from the court reporter and made any financial arrangements required for its preparation.
  5. The Record on Appeal shall be filed with the Clerk of the Arkansas Supreme Court and docketed therein within 90 days, July 19, 2022. (Ark. R. App. P. 5(a)
  6.  If the record will not be prepared timely, the appellant must give the other parties an opportunity to object to an extension either in writing or by hearing. (Ark. R. App. P. 5(b)(1)(C))
  7. If the motion is made in writing, the opposing party has 10 days plus weekends to respond. (Ark. R. Civ. P. 6)
  8. Therefore, in order to ensure time for an opposition and for the Court to decide a motion for extension of time, Appellant filed a motion on June 17, 2022 despite the hope and assurances that the Court Reporter and Clerk will complete their tasks timely.
  9. This order requested was to be contingent on the need for an extension of time for the court reporter to include the stenographically reported material in the record on appeal or for the circuit clerk to compile the record and would extend the time allowed until the complete record is compiled and Appellant notified of such plus three business days, but no more than seven months.
  10. Appellee did not oppose the motion. He made no response.
  11. The Trial Court denied the motion for extension of time on July 13, 2022 with no stated reasoning.
  12.  On June 7, 2022 Court Reporter Jana Perry replied to an email inquiry that the “electronic appeal record will be filed on July 15, 2022”. As of this writing on July 16, 2022, Appellant was not notified of a filing nor readiness of the transcript.
  13.   On June 8, 2022, Appellant spoke with Circuit Clerk Debbie Loggins. Ms. Loggins said the electronic appendix would be complete by July 5, 2022.
  14.    Appellant made several inquiries of the deputy clerks and was told Debbie Loggins would need to answer the inquiries. Having no communication from Debbie Loggins between June 8th and July 14, 2022, Appellant left a voice mail stating that she would be to the clerk’s office in Searcy County on the afternoon of July 15, 2022. She asked for all orders and the motion for extension of time to be certified and for a separate packet of all documents filed since October 7, 2021 certified.
  15.   On the afternoon of July 15, 2022, Appellant was at the clerk’s office. The requested documents were not ready. Deputy clerk Mary Beth prepared the orders and the one motion, apparently missing the order of July 13, 2022.
  16.    Appellant spoke with Clerk Debbie Loggins for well over twenty minutes. The Clerk told Appellant that the record would take only an hour to prepare, but Ms. Loggins was not going to prepare it until Saturday, July 16, 2022. The clerk said this is the first electronic record she has prepared. She said she had a woman doing them for $100 each, and was going to have her daughter do them from now on, but assured Appellant she would complete the record in this case herself. [The cost charged to me for the completed electronic record was over $3,000. Good money maker for the clerk’s office and good way to keep the middle class from access to the appellate court.]
  17.    Clerk Debbie Loggins told Appellant she would call her when the record is ready on Saturday. As of Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 12:15 P.M., Appellant received no call from the Clerk.
  18.    Appellant asked Clerk Loggins if she could pay while she was already in the office. The Clerk said Appellant had the choice of driving back from Conway to Marshall on the following Monday or leaving a “blank check”. Neither option makes Appellant comfortable, and thus she is filing this petition to be certain to be in strict compliance.
  19.  That for the foregoing reasons, counsel hereby requests that this Court grant the Writ of Certiorari to Complete the Record and order the record to be completed by the Court Reporter and Circuit Clerk within thirty (30) days.

WHEREFORE, Petitioner Hammett requests that this Court authorize its Clerk to issue a writ of certiorari to the Searcy County Circuit Court Clerk directing the clerk to complete preparation of the record on appeal in this case; and to the Court Reporter directing her to complete the transcripts.

Respectfully submitted,               ______________________________

                                           NOT SUBMITTED – MOOT

What Kind of Court Do We Want? Not A Court Run by Susan Weaver and Debbie Loggins

I voted for Judge Susan Weaver and Circuit Court Clerk Debbie Loggins of Searcy County Arkansas.

I am sorry for my vote.

Judge Weaver is tied for most evil judge I have come across. I have seen a lot of bad calls that had tragic effects on children’s lives. But most of these were made by California judges who identified as Democrats and Liberals. Judge Weaver has posted “praise Jesus” on the internet and represents herself as all country and apple pie. I escaped California and married a Christian populist and am offended and embarrassed by the hypocrisy of Susan Weaver.

I am not an attorney and this is not legal advice. I am telling you my experience and paraphrasing court rules with a citation to the rule for you to look up. You are allowed to interpret the law for yourself.

I filed a timely notice of appeal of all orders written by Judge Susan Weaver in a quiet title case filed against me by a former romantic and business partner. Merely scratching the surface of the errors made by Judge Weaver, she gave a property worth at least $199,000 from a trust that I was sole beneficiary of to my former boyfriend. This despite seeing a letter written by the ex-boyfriend, an ex-con describing his plan to defraud me of $80,000 and then sue me for much more.

The courts in Arkansas require the record for appeal to be filed within 90 days of the original notice of appeal. The responsibility for getting this done is on the appellant. So, if it looks like the clerk or court reporter will not do their jobs timely, the appellant must file a motion for extension of time and follow the rules strictly. If the Circuit Court denies the motion for extension, as did Judge Weaver for me, the appellant must file a Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the Court of Appeals. The appellant can file a Petition for Writ of Mandate to compel the clerk and court reporter to do their jobs, but I think that the COA gives the mandate automatically, if they grant the Cert for extension of time. (Rules of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Rule 3-5)

Ironically, one order I am appealing is the granting of a motion for extension of time to serve summons that did not allow for me to respond in writing and that was an abuse of discretion, as the Plaintiff did not issue a summons before claiming that I was dodging service.

Circuit Clerk Debbie Loggins and Court Reporter Jana Perry both promised me they would have the record ready in time. But the record is due in less than a week and so I must write, serve and file my petition for writ of cert, which takes an amateur like myself several days. It also entails five hours of driving and the cost of getting certified copies of documents from Debbie Loggins.

It is a Catch-22 that may require me to file a petition for writ of mandate to compel Ms. Loggins to prepare the certified copies of orders that are needed for my Petition for Writ of Cert.

Why is the Clerk of the Court, the Court reporter and the Judge, Susan Kaye Weaver, making it so difficult to appeal Judge Weaver’s orders?

Whatever the reason, please do not vote for Susan Weaver or Debbie Loggins for any position in the future. They are incompetent, unethical or both.

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.

 

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?