Michael Volpe Investigates Podcast the Impromptu: Episode 84 an Interview with Beverly Barber

Alabama Judge Javan Patton, from Twitter

Alabama attorney Beverly Barber is the latest guest on the podcast.

Beverly faces an impossible choice: either give up attorney/client privileged information or face indefinite jail time.

Part of a broad discovery request which requires Beverly to disclose attorney/client privileged information

That is the order that Judge Javan Patton has given her.

She’s involved in a civil case with a man named Danny Mitchell and his attorney, Charles Robinson, has made the request in lieu of a post judgment deposition.

One item states, “Produce any and all documentation that you have sent to District Attorneys, Federal Judges, Judicial Inquiry Commission, legislatures or any other elected official or person of authority, that refers, reflects or relates to this case, Charles E. Robinson Jr. or Judge Javan Patton.”

The deposition is supposed to be related to her finances and ability to pay a seven-figure judgment, but Robinson slipped this in.

I reached out to Robinson and Judge Patton. Here is Robinson’s response.

I am not going to respond given the ongoing litigation, but I invite you review the entire court file and start attending the hearings if any.

Beverly said the Alabama bar told her she could comment on the case, as long as she could back up her comments.

Even though this item has nothing to do with her finances, Judge Patton has required her to comply and is fining her $500 per day until she does. Furthermore, she has given her fourteen days to comply or be sent to jail until she does.

Part of an appeal filed by Beverly, in which she lays out how wrong this discovery request is.

Beverly told me that if she did comply that would compromise ongoing investigations and would disclose private correspondences with clients. All of that is supposed to be protected, but Judge Patton doesn’t care.

I have covered this kind of shenanigans before, when writing for The Industry Spread. When Igor Oystacher was accused of spoofing- a form of market manipulation- he got a judge to order the whistleblower, Ed Johnson, to give him all of the communications Ed had with authorities like the Commodities Futures Trading Commission.

A Chicago judge forced Edwin Johnson to disclose to Igor Oystacher details of his meeting with regulators and law enforcement.

That was the shocking revelation in a public document which has until now not seen the light of day.

In March 2016, Edwin Johnson provided interrogatories to Igor Oystacher to detail all his meetings with regulators, law enforcement and even the media.

You can find the order and the portions of the interrogatories here: Aug. 25, 2015 Order and interrogatories Page 32-33, interrogatories Page 46-47 (1)

Oystacher is the Chief Executive Officer of 3 Red Trading, and as an ongoing investigation by The Industry Spread has shown, he has engaged in widespread spoofing.

The sloppy handwritten order by Cook County Judge Margaret Brenna

It’s likely that Judge Patton has acted in a very corrupt manner in this case, and she wants to know what Beverly has told cops, politicians and others about her.

The whole affair started when Beverly did some legal work for Mr. Mitchell, which, she told me, he refused to pay for.

So, she filed a lis pendens. A lis pendens, which was filed on Mitchell’s property, is a notice that a lawsuit is coming.

This, Mitchell contended, caused him great harm. It caused the sale of a big piece of property to go south.

So, he sued.

The court case was a sham, Beverly told me.

Judge Patton disallowed her request for a jury trial, and instead, Judge Patton ruled from the bench.

Days before the trial, Beverly found the buyer who told her that the sale fell apart because the property failed an inspection, not because of her lis pendens.

He was willing to testify, Beverly told me, only he lived more than ten hours away. Beveryly asked for a continuance, but she was denied that continuance.

That was not the only witness Beverly had trouble calling to the stand. Another witness told the judge she was being threatened. Beverly asked to use their deposition, which Judge Patton also denied.

Part of a motion in which Beverly explains how this witness was threatened.

Judge Patton refused to allow Beverly to have pencil and paper during the trial, even though Mr. Robinson did have it. The judge even refused to allow Beverly to have a court reporter read back testimony.

In fact, Beverly said that Judge Patton didn’t allow any of her witnesses, and she even argues in a motion that her email was compromised. Here is part of the motion.

Beverly told me that she had a professional recover her missing emails after the trial ended. Those emails provided that the defense was notified that Ms. Mitchell would testify, but Judge Patton has upheld the judgment.

As such, Danny Mitchell got free legal services, and he turned that into a seven-figure judgment against the lawyer he refused to pay.

He did that because a corrupt judge ran a sham trial; now, that corrupt judge demands Beverly disclose all the people she has told of this corruption.