Tex Abuse

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Introduction

I was abused by the Texas system of “justice” for more than three years.

Starting in the spring of 2022, I was the defendant in three lawsuits and the plaintiff in two others. For most of that time, I represented myself in court. And it felt like I was continually being mistreated by a tag team of lawyers, judges, and other judicial officials.

Here’s just a sampling of the kinds of things I was subjected to over the course of a few years:

• A lawyer said I had exposed myself to my neighbor’s video camera. I had not done anything like that – but the lawyer later claimed that, even if he had fabricated that allegation, there was nothing I could do about it because he had included it in something he filed in a lawsuit.

• Another lawyer misstated information to a judge about the timing of a critical deadline. The judge then issued an unnecessarily hasty decision in favor of that lawyer. In an appeal to the Texas Supreme Court, I argued that the lawyer “either deliberately lied to the judge or failed to notify the court when he realized that the deadline he had supplied was inaccurate.”¹

• A judge on the Court of Appeals misstated a key point in a lawyer’s affidavit. This led directly to that same judge “commanding” me to pay nearly $100,000 in attorneys’ fees.

• Three judges ruled in favor of my opponents without providing even a single word of explanation. Several years later, I still don’t have the slightest idea why they ruled against me.

• Two other judges recused themselves, also without telling me why. Yet another judge insisted that she had been assigned to the case, but she did not respond to my repeated requests to provide even a shred of evidence to support that claim.

Throughout this frustrating and disconcerting process, my wife has urged me to write a book about the monstrous Texas system of “justice” that terrorized me for more than three years.

At first, I resisted. As a published author, I know how much time, effort, and energy it takes to write a book, and how thoroughly exhausting the process can be.

But then I thought: Why not create the book as a website and post it one chapter at a time, rather than embarking on the daunting process of sitting down and writing an entire book?

So that’s what I’m doing. And I hope you’ll follow along as I share my story with you.

And don’t forget to sign up for my mail list if you want to be notified when I add new chapters, so you won’t miss anything important. It’s the only way to be sure.

(Note that this website is a work in progress. I’m adding chapters as quickly as I can, but it’s going to take me a while to bring the website up to date. The good news is that will allow you to digest the story in small bites, rather than trying to gobble it down all at once. It’s a tasty story: Savor it!)

1. Petition for Review (Texas Supreme Court case #24-0274) ↩︎

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