Judges Who Are Dumb Enough to Make Unethical Comments On The Record
There are a few good attorneys. Steve Lehto seems to be one of them.
He discusses crazy court decisions and stories that would be funny if they were not so serious. Click here to watch a video about a judge who made sexist and disturbing comments from the bench and actually was disciplined (lightly).
One of the points Mr. Lehto makes is that the man is too dumb to be a judge if he doesn’t realize there will be a record of his inappropriate comments. I agree.
Now retired and deceased California Commissioner Alan Friedenthal did the same thing while presiding over my case. He said he read my blog and went through a list of what he disagreed about. He eventually was disciplined with a figurative slap on the wrist for what he did to me and many others. Fox News covered the story and featured me in a segment called “Lost in the System: Imbalanced Justice”.
Al should have gone to Arkansas Judge Susan Weaver for advice. When Suzy says things she does not want the public to hear or lets her favored attorneys cuss at old ladies in court, the judge has her old friend and colleague Court Reporter Jana Perry make an inaccurate transcript. Then Judge Weaver refuses to make the actual recording of the hearing available to the public.
The Arkansas Court of Appeals and the Judicial Disciplinary and Disability Commission are aware of my allegations and have not taken any action to correct the wayward judge thus far.
Maybe they figure that Susan Weaver is smart enough to cover-up her bad behavior, so she is smart enough to be a judge.
Why is it Taking the Arkansas Court of Appeals Justices and JDDC So Long to Rein in Judge Susan Weaver?
Time for me to vent.
Every day that goes by is another day that attorney William Zac White and his client have to spend or hide the assets they obtained from me by honest services fraud.
They lied in court and Judge Susan Weaver, knowing they were lying, granted them everything they asked for, literally. They used the excuse that the property they were transferring was held in a trust and the trust was not represented by a licensed attorney. But Judge Weaver gave my personal property that was not held in trust to her co-conspirators. I was forbidden from protesting in court under the pretext that I was going to be dismissed from the case with prejudice.
All this went down while COVID was still an issue.
Courts around the country are backing off the COVID protocols now. But during the kangaroo court hearing set up to transfer my property, most courts were making every effort to contain the disease, as reported by Eversheds Sutherland LLP on Lexocology. (Discussing Texas courts in their article.) “As of December 31, 2022, the Court had issued fifty-nine Emergency Orders allowing court participants to, among other things, appear for any hearing, deposition, or other proceeding remotely; consider as evidence sworn statements or testimony given remotely; and conduct court proceedings away from the court’s usual location with reasonable notice and access to the participants and the public.”
I had requested a stay of proceedings 12 days before the March 17, 2022 hearing. Judge Weaver denied the stay. She did not make an alternative ruling that would allow me to appear by Zoom. Because Judge Weaver and her close colleague Court Reporter Jana Perry fictionalized the prior hearing held by Zoom, it is likely they had a concern that I would have law enforcement in the room with me or impermissibly make my own recording. They intended to fictionalize the March hearing, as well. And they did.
My medical records submitted as an exhibit were supposed to be filed under seal. They were not. They were then included in the Clerk’s record for my appeal. Now the document was removed from the public docket of the circuit court case. If you are with a news reporting agency, a public service law firm or law enforcement, please email me and I will hook you up with a copy for verification purposes. I am attaching my motion below, in which I describe the results. I was not tried for perjury yet, despite Judge Weaver and Willy White’s apparent desire to incarcerate me, so my rendition is probably accurate.
Most importantly, my absolute lymphocyte count was low. Normal is 1,000 to 5,000 cells per microliter of blood. Mine was 700.
According to Dr. Richard Foxx, M.D. on Doctor’s Health Press: “These cells help prevent infections by bacteria and viruses and also fight off infections already present, and a low count of these cells also increases the chance of certain types of cancer developing, mostly types of leukemia, lymphoma, and Hodgkin’s lymphoma.” This was written in 2018, pre-COVID-19. I will hazard a guess that absolute lymphocytes in a healthy person fight off the COVID virus also.
Regardless, I described symptoms of having COVID and had not been tested yet. (I tested the day or two before the hearing and tested negative, but Judge Weaver did not know that.) Judge Susan Kaye Weaver was willing to expose me, my two elderly court watching friends, court personnel, the Sheriff and three of his deputies, Mr. White and his chain-smoking client with bad lungs all to the virus. She knew she was not going to let me argue, object or present evidence during the hearing. The only reasons I can think of that she would require the hearing to be in person and have me show up were 1) so the team of sheriff deputies could throw me in jail for an invented contempt of court; and 2) to make it more difficult to have third parties hear the actual proceedings, making it easier to get away with the planned fictionalization.
The Justices at the Court of Appeals have all this information before them since I filed my appellate brief on November 23, 2022. There was no opposition filed. How long can it take to decide that Judge Weaver was not upholding her judicial oath to protect the Constitution and reverse her orders?
How Quickly We Forget: How Hitler Transferred Property and What Came Next
Americans love watching movies about the Nazis. The vast majority of us are rooting against the murderous thugs.
I am watching a series on Prime called “Hunters”. It stars Al Pacino as a Nazi Hunter. There is an FBI agent who suspects a rash of deaths are murders by a vigilante group determined to eradicate war criminals. I think she will eventually see the beauty in truth espoused by the self-appointed judge, jury and executioners.
Stylistically, Hunters has comic strip undertones.
Sadly, people, including some Jews, view the Holocaust through this animated lens.
The Jewish people have a mantra. “Forgive, but do not forget.”
Yet history is repeating itself right here in the land of the free.
I am the victim of a Hitleresque judicial officer named Susan Kaye Weaver.
She took my property, both real and personal, in a hearing in which I was forbidden to defend against the improper seizure.
The Arkansas judge used the excuse that the real property was held in trust. She said that if I spoke on behalf of the trust, I would be committing the unauthorized practice of law. She had the County Sheriff and three deputies on hand who could arrest me at her whim. She knew I am ill and ruled with a hardened heart. (I have an acute auto-immune disease and gave the Court copies of a recent blood test that would indicate that I should be resting at home; not driving 3.5 hours roundtrip to attend kangaroo court.)
This same judge, in the same case, made a sua sponte ruling to dismiss my countersuit against the fraudster who was suing me. But, in the hearing of March 17, 2022, I, the trustee and settlor of the trust that held the title to the real estate, was in the courtroom and Judge Weaver failed to question me as a witness. Judges are allowed to question witnesses. Judge Weaver questioned the fraudster. She did not ask any questions that would elicit the truth, but I know she knows she could have asked me as trustee what my side of the story was. She had already read my counterclaim and exhibits throughout the prior year of litigation. She did not want to see the truth.
She just wanted to give property that was mine or meant to be mine to attorney William Zac White’s client and to pay Mr. White.
She had the Gestapo standing by in case I protested.
You can read the court documents on Court Connect, case 65CV-21-20 and appeal CV-22-435. The transcript is posted below, but I warn you, Court Reporter Jana Perry made substantial falsifications to the transcript in order to support Judge Weaver and Attorney White’s agenda.
Is Arkansas a Good Place to Invest or Retire? NO!
Yes, Arkansas has natural beauty and cheap real estate prices compared to many states.
But judges like Susan Kaye Weaver in Faulkner County and Searcy County give permission to attorney William Zac White to take real estate and personal property from anyone who does not have enough money to hire a lawyer at $300 per hour.
My property and property rights were taken from me without just cause and without a trial.
Property held in a trust was also given to Mr. White’s client and presumably Mr. White.
I am not making this up. It is 100% true.
You can read the docket for Pietrczak v. Laura Lynn and Rural Revival Living Trust on Court Connect. (65CV-21-20)
I appealed the orders. My briefs were filed timely on November 23, 2022. Pietrczak and Attorney William Zac White failed to file an opposing brief. Why bother when the Court consistently finds in their favor without filing any meaningful brief? (CV-22-435)
This is not the first time Judge Susan Weaver transferred property rights without requiring the recipient to follow procedure. See matters involving Richard Gawenis and the Zelda Walls Living Trust, 71CV-20-119, 71PR-19-91 and CV-21-349.
There, the errant judge corrected herself on one lower court case, but not the other, only after the trust paid an attorney for representation. The correction was upheld on appeal.
I left my home state to buy a house and retire in Arkansas. Now I am forced to go back to work, at 60, with a disease that causes fatigue and is triggered by stress.
How do I know Judge Weaver was wrong? I was present in the three hearings and read the official transcripts created by Court Reporter Jana Perry. Ms. Perry’s renditions were fictionalized. But Judge Weaver and Ms. Perry refuse to play the recordings of the hearings, the best evidence, for the public. Thus far the Court of Appeals justices have also refused to settle the record.
If you are considering moving your company or retiring to Arkansas, feel free to call me first. You will probably decide I am an intelligent and reasonable woman, and that I am not exaggerating about the corruption of the Arkansas judiciary. Your assets will not be safe in this state.
Laura Hammett (760) 966-6000
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.
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)
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.
Good Ol’ Boy Arkansas Sheriff Has Crooked Judge’s Back
Judge Susan Weaver in Searcy County Arkansas is making a habit of transferring assets from old womens’ trusts to her favored attorney’s clients (and therefore to her favored attorney).
She did this to me. I could not find an attorney in Arkansas willing to represent the trust. Literally, I was told “I will never win a case in front of Judge Weaver again, if I represent you or the trust.” [paraphrased, closely]
I get why Judge Susan Weaver and Attorney William Zac White would benefit from making these transfers.
But what is in it for Searcy County Sheriff Kenney Cassell? (Mr. Cassell sometimes uses “Kenny” so I’ll switch back and forth like him to help with SEO.)
The Sheriff had a recording of Mr. White’s client, Mike Pietrczak, calling the law while sloppy drunk. Mr. Pietrczak said something like: Come get this bitch. When the deputy asked what I did wrong, Pietrczak repeated that I was “a bitch”. When the deputy asked if I said anything threatening, Pietrczak said no.
Eventually I got on the phone. I was not drunk. In fact, I abstained from alcohol out of sympathy for my alcoholic boyfriend.
The deputy told me I should go stay in my office in Marshall, a 30-minute drive on a good day. This was not a good day. The roads were covered in snow and ice. The deputy told me the safest way to drive in these conditions, taking the dirt backroads. The deputy said that after Pietrczak ran out of booze and sobered up, he would call me apologetically and ask me to come home.
The deputy’s prophesy came true.
I made a Freedom of Information Act request for the recording. Sheriff Cassell’s crew had purged the tape.
Before the hearing of March 17, 2022 where Judge Weaver said she was transferring all the trust property to Mr. Pietrczak and attorney Zac White, Zac screamed at me in the courthouse. “Shut your mouth bitch!” Sheriff Cassell was in the room with me. Mr. White was in a different room. Judge Weaver was also in the small courthouse. Mr. White was not restrained by Sheriff Cassell or any of the three deputies who were there to protect…???
Later, in the courtroom during the hearing, with the full team of sheriffs present, Mr. William Z. White again called me “bitch”. He leaned toward me and spoke loud enough for two 70+ year-olds in the audience to hear.
Judge Weaver ignored the slur. So too, the big ape Cassell who masquerades as a good Christian man.
The Sheriff and Deputies stood there, watching the kangaroo court. They heard the judge shut me down any time I tried to object to impermissible evidence. Not that the judge overruled my objections. She demanded that I not object at all. She also said that if I testified, I would be practicing law unauthorized.
After this surreal and horrifying hearing ended, I pled with Sheriff Kenny Cassell to do something…anything in the pursuit of justice. I told him Pietrczak had lied on the stand. Perjury. I told him that the judge and attorney White had conspired with the court reporter in the past to fabricate what was said and not said in court. I spoke to Kenney Cassell directly and then to a young deputy at the station.
Nothing was done.
I know Kenny Cassell has a pleasant demeanor. He is a heck of a guy to go to a bar-b-que with. He will give you a firm handshake at church on Sunday.
But he is the man like that who watched as Nazis stole property from Jews and then sent the Jews off to concentration camps. Kenny Cassell is the man like that who looked at the captives beseeching him for help, gave a sympathetic pout and shrugged, palms up and shaking his helpless head.
Judge Weaver is evil. But those who stand by and let her get away with it are a special brand of puke.
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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