01282009 - Ex's DV Criminal Case - Warrant - Failure to appear [Jan. 07, 2009]

Judge Thode was attempting to hold my ex accountable for his threat to kill me.


Meanwhile, Magistrate Johnson had just issued  a court order that would put me out on the street and give my ex possession of the marital home:

Amended Provisional Order - January 13, 2009

01232009 - Porter County Prosecutor's Office - Responded to Attorney Jeffrey Shaw's request for information on Ex's criminal case = Attorney Shaw on war path

01232009 - Ex's DV Criminal Case - Email #3 from Attorney Jeffrey Shaw requesting information for case

Attorney Jeffrey Shaw was taking advantage of his right to contact me directly, as I was representing myself in the divorce case at this point. 

However, in this email he is misusing that privilege to request information for the pending criminal case  against my ex. 

Instead of replying to my email regarding my ex's failure to abide by the divorce maintenance court order, Attorney Shaw began asking questions about a previous Michigan criminal case, in which I was a witness for the State.

Attorney Shaw knew that he did not have the right to contact a crime victim directly, as he did in this case. Thus, I forwarded Attorney Shaw's emails to the Porter County Prosecutor's office and to Magistrate James Johnson [who was handling the divorce case].

In response to me turning Shaw's improper emails over to the prosecutor's office, Shaw sent me this email claiming I had lied to the prosecutor's office. Shaw also demanded in this email that I turn over information to him regarding my ex's criminal case. 

I also forwarded this email to the Porter County Prosecutor's Office:

 

01132009 - Ex's DV Criminal Case - Email #2 from Attorney Jeffrey Shaw requesting information for case

Attorney Jeffrey Shaw was taking advantage of his right to contact me directly, as I was representing myself in the divorce case at this point. 

However, in this email he is misusing that privilege to request information for the pending criminal case  against my ex. 

Instead of replying to my email regarding my ex's failure to abide by the divorce maintenance court order, Attorney Shaw began asking questions about a previous Michigan criminal case, in which I was a witness for the State.

Attorney Shaw knew that he did not have the right to contact a crime victim directly, as he did in this case. Thus, I forwarded Attorney Shaw's emails to the Porter County Prosecutor's office.

01132009 - Ex's DV Criminal Case - Email #1 from Attorney Jeffrey Shaw requesting information for case

Attorney Jeffrey Shaw was taking advantage of his right to contact me directly, as I was representing myself in the divorce case at this point. 

However, in this email he is misusing that privilege to request information for the pending criminal case  against my ex. 

Instead of replying to my email regarding my ex's failure to abide by the divorce maintenance court order, Attorney Shaw began asking questions about a previous Michigan criminal case, in which I was a witness for the State.

Attorney Shaw knew that he did not have the right to contact a crime victim directly, as he did in this case. Thus, I forwarded Attorney Shaw's emails to the Porter County Prosecutor's office.

01132009 - Amended Provisional Order - Magistrate James Johnson -- Porter County Indiana -- Cause No. 64D01-0708-DR-7804

In this order, Johnson was removing me from the marital home and turning it over to my ex-husband - although I had a protective order against my ex, which was valid until the final property settlement order / distribution. The protective order allowed me to reside in the marital until distribution of the property settlement. Additionally, my ex was currently facing criminal charges for violating the PPO / threatening to kill me. This order more or less was: get rid of the victim, get rid of the criminal charges.


In this order - which overrode the PPO -  I was given only $3,000 to relocate. My ex was court ordered to pay me $400 a week in maintenance, but Johnson did not do a wage garnishment. My ex did not pay me maintenance between January 2009 and October 2010. Johnson repeatedly refused to hold my ex in contempt of this order - which was also a violation of the PPO.

Johnson did not freeze any of the marital assets, which were solely in my ex's name. There would be nothing preventing my ex from selling the marital home from under me or putting marital assets in one of his family member's names.

In Paragraph #5, Johnson penalized me the $10,000 I used to pay household bills and expenses that my ex was in contempt of.  The receipts for those bills were in the contempt filings. Attorney Shaw also had copies of all the bills I had paid. Johnson refused to hear my contempt filings at the November 24th hearing.

In Paragraph #7, Johnson extended the timeline again for Attorney Shaw and my ex to produce financial declaration forms in complaince with Rule 2100, instead of holding them in contempt of the September order.  Attorney Shaw and my ex would also ignore this order. They did not produce my ex's financial declaration forms until May 4th. 

The paperwork that Johnson referred to in paragraph #8 were complaints that I filed with Judge Bradford, regarding Johnson's mishandling of my case [failure to protect; etc.]

I showed Attorney John Rhame this court order. He could not understand the rationale behind Johnson's ruling. Rhame represented me after this ruling. I did not move out of the marital home. However, Attorney Shaw would attempt to use every hearing thereafter to have Johnson throw me out on the street.

At the time that Magistrate Johnson was bending over backwards to appease Attorney Shaw and my ex, there was yet another arrest warrant out for my ex for his failure to appear at a January 7th hearing in the criminal case for his threat to kill me.

01072009 - Ex's DV Criminal Case - Ex failed to show for criminal hearing - Bench warrant issued