Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: The Arkansas Judiciary is Slow to Stop Judge Susan Weaver
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Sorry for a couple late night typos. Most importantly, I did not notice that auto-correct changed the word “caricaturization”, which is not a word in the dictionary, but imparted my meaning, to “characterization”. My meaning was that Judge Weaver acts in a way that turns herself into a caricature of a Southern, small-town judge, like you meet in a John Grisham novel.
If I had it all to do over again, I would write: “Judge Susan Kaye Weaver caricatured herself by exaggerating her corruption more than a character in a John Grisham novel.”
New Year’s Resolution: Remove Judge Susan kaye Weaver from All Cases, Mine and Yours Alike
FREE Doc of the Day: Motion to Recuse the Dishonorable Susan Kaye Weaver.
Happy New Year to One and All.
Judge Susan Weaver Orders Continuance of Trial on Her Own Initiative to Benefit Big Bank
In yet another act of vexatiousness toward pro se litigants, Judge Susan Kaye Weaver of Faulkner County, Arkansas sua sponte decided to continue a trial against a big bank defendant. Judge Weaver claimed there was good cause to order the continuance; There was improper service of the complaint on the bank. The plaintiff said she served the summons and a subpoena at the same time, and she thinks that the defendant’s acknowledgment suffices.
It is the fact that Judge Weaver delayed a continuance for a pro se defendant on a separate case who wrote a motion for the continuance and two proposed orders because the defendant was not served at all, until the day of the trial and after the pro se defendant filed exhibits to be used at trial.
The errant judge appeared to be collecting discovery for the represented party. The attorney for that party, William Zac White failed to file exhibits before the scheduled trial.
Instead, he filed an opposition to the motion for continuance a couple days before trial, six weeks after the motion was filed. More bizarre, Zac White asked for a continuance verbally at the trial and it was granted by Judge Susan Weaver. The very same Susan Weaver who took it on herself to continue the trial against U.S. Bank for lack of proper service, refused to grant a continuance for an unserved pro se litigant and then granted a continuance for the represented party who failed to serve summons.
The pro se defendant was dismissed after about two years, but her property rights were still transferred by Judge Susan Weaver to Mr. White’s client, without allowing the pro se plaintiff an opportunity to speak in her own defense.
That case was briefed on appeal over a year ago, with no response from Pietrczak, and is still on the Arkansas Court of Appeals docket, undecided. 65-CV-21-20, Pietrczak v. Laura Lynn and Rural Revival Living Trust.
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Continuance granted in Betty Figueroa v. U.S. Bank, et al.
Continuance motion in Pietrczak.
As you can see, William Zac White is an embarrassment to the legal profession and Judge Susan Weaver should be removed from office.
Does Black’s Law Dictionary Define “Bitch”?
Don’t expect too much from this post.
I slept a whopping 5 hours last night. This federal judge in California, Linda Lopez, gave me more needless work and I know if I didn’t spend the entire morning writing, she would order me to pay another $60,000 or so in attorney fees to my adversaries who hired $450 per hour attorneys to take on a self-represented litigant.
Really, with the idiotic rulings issued by the likes of Judge Linda Lopez and her blond twin Judge Susan Kaye Weaver in Arkansas, a sleazy litigant could get away with hiring a bozo like William Zac White and still win.
Lopez and Weaver are flip sides of the same coin… A Democrat and a Republican hypocrite.
Both are evil, unethical, conniving. Both will steal from the poor to give to their friends. I haven’t looked it up, but figure that to be the definition in Black’s Law of —-
Oh, do you want to read the documents I wrote while in a zombie like state? Here they are, your FREE Docs of the Day.
I Can Stop Anytime. Really I Can.
Someone landed on a post I wrote in 2013. Out of curiosity, I read the post titled “Really, I Can Stop Any Time.”
What happened since then? Why am I writing here again?
There is so much corruption in our government. It comes from both sides. Look at Hunter Biden and William Asa Hutchinson the Third. Cocaine, gun charges, other infractions that would land the commoner’s son in jail, but Daddy is a mucky-muck, so the way-ward son not only walks, he gets to continue raking in big bucks with his law license.
My single vote does not count. There is not enough meaningful public disclosure to make an informed decision. I voted for Judge Susan Kaye Weaver in Arkansas and Donald Trump, who appointed Judge Lee P. Rudofsky to a lifetime federal position. (I voted Ben Carson in the 2016 primaries and would have been happy with Rand Paul, but the two candidates split their votes, so neither won.) Now that I’ve seen both judges working firsthand, I wish I could do a do over. (I don’t want to vote for Joe Biden, either, so I will probably “waste” my vote on the Libertarian presidential candidate or Cornel West if he runs as the “People’s Party” candidate in 2024.)
Hopefully my stories get picked up by the A.P., a big paper, or Fox News, like they did when I wrote about Alan Friedenthal (deceased) and Dr. Joseph Keenan.
I can’t imagine ending my blog now. I wrote my first book, “Balls of Crystal and Steel: What it Takes to Play Poker Without Losing Your Assets”. It was as easy as writing a blog post every day for three months. So, you can expect to see my blog spin-off a book or three about our courts.
In the meantime, I don’t plan on quitting, but am reposting the post I wrote when my ex-partner was on a downward spiral into the hell of addiction, and I had to run our business without him and win a lawsuit as a pro se litigant.
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My intention is to focus my energy and time on other pursuits.
But your comments were so kind, I am compelled to say a brief thank you.
Also, I received an inquiry about how to complain about an errant commissioner. I wrote a response and then realized it would be easy to add that response here. So here it goes:
One avenue is to file a complaint letter with the commissioner’s presiding judge. When your complaint is answered inadequately, file a complaint with the CJP.
You can also file a claim, as you found in the link [the link connects to a Japanese website now]. But judges have absolute immunity over issues where they have jurisdiction and the error was non-administrative. In practice, judges are given immunity for all wrongs they commit, the vast majority of the time.
My greatest success was trying them in the court of public opinion. Print the facts of your case. WordPress will give you a free website and is easy to use. Be careful to avoid saying anything defamatory. Stick to facts. Not opinions. Label suspicions as thus. Attribute statements. Cite cases or print transcripts. There is an absolute litigation privilege. Anything said in court [that is not sealed] can be reprinted with an indication of who said it and in what proceeding. For example, you would not write “Commissioner Friedenthal was biased and embroiled against me.” Instead you might write “Commissioner Friedenthal said on the record that he was reading my posts on CourthouseForum.” Then give a date of the hearing and the case number.
This is not legal advice. This is information I learned while studying journalism at Colorado State University.
Maybe the most important thing you can do is to meet other victims of court abuse. Choose your friends carefully. Ask to read their court documents. Use discernment.
It is uplifting when other people know you are speaking the truth. Jesus said “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” (Matthew 18:20) Thank you to my friends who gathered to do His will. God Bless.
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You can reach me at bohemian_books@yahoo.com.
The Lawyer and the Lazy Judge: How Susan Weaver Runs a Courtroom
I am not lazy. I am busy.
Today’s Doc of the Day is a link instead of a doc. Click here.
I wish I saw this article before I wrote my appellate brief for Micheal Pietrczak v. Laura Lynn, et al. Not that being right and having the best authorities helps in Arkansas. My litigation adversary represented by William Zac White of Heber Springs did not even bother to file an opposition brief and the COA has not made a ruling in the seven months since the appellee’s response was due.
The article discusses the difference between Federal court, where the judge writes the orders and judgments, and Arkansas courts, which allow the prevailing party to write the orders and judgment as a draft, and the judge usually just rubber stamps it.
Judge Susan Weaver takes it a step further. She will fail to rule on a motion if she does not like the only reasonable outcome, then use the excuse for her dereliction of duty that she is waiting on the litigant to draft the order.
But, if she wants to dismiss a counterclaim even though the counter defendant failed to file any response, she goes ahead and does that sua sponte, without giving a logical reason.
She did these things to me.
She also granted a written motion allowing Pietrczak an extension of time to serve a summons without giving me time to respond in writing and said the written order is the same as her oral order. It was not.
The article addresses this same unethical behavior. “Finally, when opposing counsel submits an order to the court, objections should be made quickly to any substance.”
I objected, but to no avail.
Court Reporter Jana Perry went along with the ploy and fictionalized what was said in the hearing. Then Judge Weaver, Attorney General Leslie Rutlege, the Court of Appeals and even federal district court judges, Billy Roy Wilson and Lee Rudofsky all made excuses why the public should not hear the recording that would not follow the transcript.
Hmmm?
How I Cope with a Corrupt Judge Like Lee Rudofsky, Susan Weaver or Alan Friedenthal (deceased)
You’d think that the passing of retired in disgrace California Commissioner Alan Friedenthal would end the need to “cope”.
The problem with corrupt judges is that they have power to destroy lives and cancel the culture for which the rest of us peasants voted.
Friedenthal forced me to cease all communications with my two sons. We were completely separated; the way people complain that children of allegedly illegal immigrants are torn from their mothers and fathers.
I was not forced to live in a cage, but there was the threat of incarceration if I disobeyed the misogynistic, reported abuser of women and children. Because he was appointed to the bench, he wielded that much power.
My now adult children had their childhoods ruined and struggle emotionally and financially. This is a constant reminder of the damage done by the evil judge.
Judge Susan Weaver of Arkansas merely transferred $200,000 of my property to the alcoholic with whom I spent six grueling years of my life. She ignored his handwritten signed note that gave step-by-step instructions on how his father and attorney William Zac White would defraud me of what they hoped to be three times their haul.
Living without property is easier than living without children. But I am 60 years old and live on a $630 per month pension. $200,000 would make a huge difference in my anticipation of the future.
Lee Rudofsky, on a trajectory to the Supreme Court if we don’t stop him, used the rules of procedure as a sword against me, while purposefully misinterpreting and misstating my testimony. He failed to warn me that the company he represented prior to judgeship, Walmart, issued credit cards in collaboration with a finance company and their bad debts were sold to the defendant in my case, debt collector Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC, for pennies on the dollar. It is likely both buyer and seller knew the portfolios were riddled with errors.
Rudofsky dismissed my case summarily, meaning without allowing it to go to a jury, and will probably make me pay the costs of the billion-dollar collectors.
On a grander scale, Rudofsky is paving the way for debt collectors to ignore the FDCPA completely and condoning their spoliation of evidence.
I have previously written about spiritual coping mechanisms I use. Yoga, meditation, prayer…these are all good.
Writing is also therapeutic. It is good to share experience with others. WordPress is a free or cheap forum.
I suggest you try sharing your experience concerning these and other bad judges. You can start by writing in the comments section below.
There are also government agencies to whom you can write complaints. In California they are called the Commission on Judicial Performance. Arkansas has the JDDC. “If your complaint is against a federal circuit judge, federal district judge, federal bankruptcy judge, or federal magistrate judge, you must file the complaint at the clerk’s office of the United States court of appeals for the regional circuit in which the judge serves.” (https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-conduct-disability/faqs-filing-judicial-conduct-or-disability-complaint#faq-Where-do-I-file-my-complaint?)
A conduct or ethics complaint is not a way to get bad decisions overturned. You will only be helping the next guy in line.
If you want to write a complaint about Judge Susan Weaver or Judge Lee P. Rudofsky, or any other judge, I am happy to proofread your complaint. I am not an attorney and not allowed to give legal advice. I am allowed to give encouragement, share my personal experience, and help you express yourself.
Contact me at bohemian_books@yahoo.com.
Found Guilty for Being Blue Collar?
This is a response I made to a comment left on the post titled “How I Cope with a Corrupt Judge Like Susan K. Weaver of Arkansas“.
To My Reader, I am slammed with work this week. Hopefully we can talk after that. You can give me a contact phone number at my email, bohemian_books@yahoo.com.
There is an often-used phrase, “he was arrested for driving while black”. I think our courts are more equal opportunity than that. I’d like to coin a corollary phrase. “He was found guilty for being blue color.”
It is difficult for me to decipher what you wrote in the comments. You obviously didn’t study journalism and join the college debate team. It is also obvious that you didn’t read the rules of civil procedure, or at least did not comprehend them, remember them at the appropriate moment and comply with them.
That does not mean you should lose custody of your children.
It is a flawed system that caters to big business and the moneyed elite.
My hope is that I can help open up our courts to the common person.
How I Cope with a Corrupt Judge Like Lee P. Rudofsky of The Federal District Court
My most popular post over the past year was “How I Cope with a Corrupt Judge Like Susan K. Weaver of Arkansas”.
One of my readers who is now a close friend led me to another mental health tool since I wrote that post. In lieu of the Doc of the Day, I am sharing a link to the website that teaches this coping device, “The Crappy Childhood Fairy“. The basic program is free.
This is a way to deal with fears and resentments by writing and meditation. (Meditation to me is akin to prayer.)
For example, I might write:
I feel resentment toward Judge Lee P. Rudofsky. I fear that he will continue to pretend to miscomprehend my arguments and testimony in order to write orders that look legitimate on their face. I fear the justices on the court of appeals will also justify showing partiality. I fear the work that is required to appeal will be a waste of time. I resent attorneys David Mitchell of Rose Law Firm, Jed Komisin and James Trefil of Troutman Pepper. I fear they will use Judge Rudofsky’s political and ideological bias to the advantage of their client, a debt collector that is notorious for using illegal or unethical litigation tactics. I fear they may force me into bankruptcy and ruin my outstanding credit. I fear that there is little justice to be had in this once great nation any longer.
Since no one will read the handwritten note before I douse it in water, wad it up and throw in the trash, I get a little more personal, too.
Next, I write my prayer to God. “I am now ready and humbly ask that you, God, remove these fears and resentments. I pray to know your will for me today, and to have the strength to carry it out.”
After the writing and symbolic release ritual, which could be burning the notes, but wetting them seems less dangerous, I sit on my yoga mat and meditate. I use the mantra “release”. Honestly, I suck at meditation. My mind always wanders back to the torment Judge Rudofsky and the Three Henchmen put me through and all the work I need to do to stop them. But, when I notice, I come back to the mantra. “Release.”
I’ve only used this technique for a week. My outlook is improving. I see that some of my fears are about losing the wonderful things I have in my life now. So, it makes sense to appreciate and enjoy those things now. And it helps me to look at the job God gave me as a gift rather than a burden. My all time most popular post was written the day the Commission on Judicial Performance made a “severe” public admonishment against Court Commissioner Alan Friedenthal, the liberal Democrat version of Judge Lee P. Rudofsky, based upon my complaint. I wouldn’t trade that victory for a million bucks. (It saved others from suffering the way my children and I did at the hand of the corrupt judge.)
I hope you gain as much from the practice as I have. If you want to share your experience privately, email bohemian_books@yahoo.com. Otherwise, feel free to comment below.
Judge Susan Weaver Gives Tacit Approval to Fraud on UAMS and Old Lady, Me
Judge Weaver received the Doc of the Day, my motion for Criminal Contempt against Attorney William Zac White and his client Mike Pietrczak, and ignored it. The accused fraudsters did not file an opposition.
Judge Weaver was completely silent as to the accusations. She finally dismissed the case against me, with prejudice, but still gave the property Pietrczak and I were fighting over to the accused fraudster. She approved a fraudulent transfer of the property to an irrevocable trust. She even wrote that she would help with the transfer.
The unethical judge never addressed the motion for contempt.
Judge Susan Kaye Weaver also lied in an order by saying she listened to an audio recording of a hearing and she insisted the recording was accurate, even though the transcription was grossly inaccurate. Weaver blocked me from having the recording played in public.
So far, the justices at the Arkansas Court of Appeals have given me no relief from any of the errant orders.
Judge Susan Kaye Weaver is the elected judge in three Arkansas counties, Searcy, Faulkner and Van Buren.
If she has the audacity to put her name on the ballot in 2024, vote her out.
Here is a copy of the filed motion for criminal contempt and a few exhibits, the fraud notes trio and a record of Mike Pietrczak’s felony conviction for misuse of a passport at the U.S. Mexico border.
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