The whole record, in order

William Easton Horner

Timeline of all events

148 dated events in the record of William Easton Horner, from August 2020 onward, drawn from seven court dockets, four criminal cases and his own filings. Every entry is marked for what it is. Nothing here is characterised — the sequence is the argument.

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2020

The divorce opens · 12 events

20 Aug 2020Court order The Probate Court of Cuyahoga County orders him detained for mental illness — an Order of Detention (Mental Illness), case 2020MI22049, issued on his wife’s affidavit. It commands police to “apprehend said person forthwith and detain him at St. Vincent Charity Hospital” and is addressed to the director of that hospital’s psychiatric emergency room. He was living in a hotel at the time. It was issued under R.C. 5122.11 — the route that begins with an affidavit filed in the Probate Court, not an emergency pick-up — and it is a temporary order of detention. The order, at pp. 8–10 — filed by him as an exhibit to his own later lawsuit.
20 Aug 2020Record Westlake police take him into custody at his divorce lawyer’s office and drive him to St. Vincent Charity. Their call-for-service report — which he later obtained by public records request and filed himself — logs the call at 13:40 under call type PROBATE, officers out with him in the car park at 14:34, “subject is being cooperative” at 14:38, in custody at 14:42, and turned over to hospital staff at 15:17. The order was addressed to the North Olmsted police, where he was staying at a hotel, “and/or any other police officer”; Westlake took him because that is where his appointment was. The report, Exhibit C.
20 Aug 2020Allegation The affidavit behind that order states he was delusional, believed “he is a simulated person and that his real person is dead,” had been put on leave from work, was posting messages advocating violence against the police, and had made credible suicide threats with a firearm while having access to firearms. His wife’s sworn allegations, not findings.
20–25 Aug 2020Record William Easton Horner is held five days in the psychiatric unit at St. Vincent Charity. Because the order came through the Probate Court, R.C. 5122.141 gave him a hearing within five court days of being detained, and provides that failure to hold one “shall effect an immediate discharge.” His own hospital record — a Patient Visit Report he later filed into a public court docket himself — gives the admission date as 20 August 2020, the reason for the visit as “bipolar DD, mixed episode with psychotic features,” and the discharge disposition as “home, self care.” It was printed on 25 August. Its discharge-date field is blank, and no discharge date appears anywhere else in the record, so the length of the stay rests on the protection-order court’s later finding that he “spent 5 days in St. Vincent Psychiatric unit” — which is also the statutory limit. Her divorce complaint, filed four days in, records that he “remains as a patient at the hospital.” He would afterwards describe the episode as an unlawful imprisonment and build much of his later litigation on it — and in a 2023 discovery petition he gave the dates himself, as “Plaintiff’s incarceration in SVCMC from Aug. 20^th 2020 – Aug. 25^th 2020.” The hospital record, Exhibit E · his own petition.
24 Aug 2020Record Allison Horner files for divorce, DR-20-382383.
21 Sep 2020Record Service on him returned “not deliverable as addressed.”
9 Oct 2020Record Answer and counterclaim. He states there are “two (2) children born as issue of said marriage,” names them, and asks the court to award him child support. See the entry.
10 Oct 2020Record Recorded offence date for William Easton Horner’s charge of drug possession, brought in Rocky River Municipal Court. The police report in the case records officers seizing a clear plastic baggie of suspected mushrooms, about six grams, at the home of his estranged wife while he was there under a civil standby to collect belongings. She testified that the laboratory “confirmed” them as psychedelic mushrooms. He was later found guilty — on 23 April 2025, after the first case was dismissed and the same charge refiled. The report, at pp. 33–35 — filed by him as an exhibit to his own motion.
23 Oct 2020Court order Court orders a Family Evaluation Services forensic evaluation ($800) and an alcohol and drug assessment ($175).
2 Nov 2020Record Allison moves for temporary support.
24 Dec 2020Record Christmas Eve. He is charged with criminal damaging / endangering for actions at the home of his wife and children. He was not arrested that night — the case was not filed for four days. He was later found guilty on a reduced charge. The case in full.
28 Dec 2020Record The criminal damaging case is filed. A warrant issues the same day. It is not served for another four weeks. The case record.

2021

The filings begin, and the pace changes · 40 events

13 Jan 2021Record His own counsel moves to withdraw, citing the rule for a client who insists on something repugnant. From here he is pro se.
19 Jan 2021Record Not-guilty plea and motion to remove capias in the criminal damaging case.
22 Jan 2021Record Paternal grandparents move to intervene in the divorce, Mo. #438024.
25 Jan 2021Court order Motion to recall the warrant denied — he “must go in person to the RRPD and be processed (fingerprints).” Warrant served the same day; bond posted the next.
3 Feb 2021Record Arraignment on the criminal damaging charge. Not-guilty plea.
16 Feb 2021Record Motion for a Civ.R. 75(N)(2) hearing.
23 Feb 2021Record Motion, “update on mutual restraining order.”
25 Feb 2021Record Motion for a date of completion on ordered items.
1 Mar 2021Record Motion for an immediate status conference. Separately, the drug possession case is filed in Rocky River; warrant issued the same day.
3 Mar 2021Record Motion to hold the plaintiff in contempt.
5 Mar 2021Record Drug possession warrant served. Released on his own recognisance.
8 Mar 2021Record Request for the plaintiff to show cause.
9 Mar 2021Court finding Convicted — disorderly conduct / intoxication persisting, on a no-contest plea to a charge reduced from criminal damaging. Fine $150. Restitution ordered to Cathy Stark: $605.99 — his ex-wife’s mother, at the house the three of them shared. Probation ordered. See the case.
15 Mar 2021Record Four separate motions to hold the plaintiff in contempt, plus a countermotion — all filed the same day.
17 Mar 2021Record Not-guilty plea in the drug possession case.
19 Mar 2021Record William Easton Horner goes looking for the probate order. Westlake police answer his public records request the same morning, sending the call log at once and referring the order itself to the city law department. At the Probate Court he is told in person that the case was “expunged” and that “all records, including the Order, were destroyed as part of that process.” That is what the statute requires. Under R.C. 5122.141 a temporary detention that does not end in a court order ends in discharge and the expungement of “all record of the proceedings” — by either of the two routes such a case can take. He would treat the missing file as evidence of a cover-up.
23 Mar 2021Record Motion to subpoena the probate order and the plaintiff’s affidavit. To attack the order he attaches six exhibits: his own sworn affidavit, the Westlake public-records emails, the police call-for-service report, the department’s crisis-intervention general order, a state pamphlet on involuntary commitment — and his own medical record from St. Vincent Charity, which he thereby placed in a public court file himself. The motion, his affidavit and four of the exhibits.
24 Mar 2021Record Motion to strike the probate order “from evidence of defendant mental illness.”
Apr 2021His own words In a letter accompanying the financial affidavit the court had ordered him to file, he asks for paternity testing on both children before he will accept financial responsibility. He had pleaded the opposite six months earlier. See the entry.
1 Apr 2021His own words To the same evaluator, on being told access to his children depended on cooperating: “my children will not be ransomed against me… I do not negotiate with hostage takers.”
1–12 Apr 2021His own words Email exchange with the Director of the court’s Family Evaluation Services. She tells him she cannot conduct the evaluation without records. He does not sign the authorisations. “Under no circumstances will the Cleveland Clinic records be released.”
1 Jun 2021Court finding The magistrate records that no motion for paternity testing was ever filed, and that he “is presumed to be the natural father of the children by reason of the parties’ marriage.” He never files one.
9 Jun 2021Record In the drug case, his counsel moves to withdraw. Denied.
15 Jun 2021Record William Easton Horner moves to dismiss the drug case for “repeated violations of Sixth Amendment rights.”
25 Jun 2021Court order Divorce trial set for 18 November 2021.
29 Jun 2021Court order Drug case pretrial by Zoom. Motion to dismiss denied. Motion to withdraw denied.
9 Jul 2021Record William Easton Horner reports the judge to the FBI.
9 Aug 2021His own words William Easton Horner captions a filing “in civil disobedience” and rejects the trial order.
23 Aug 2021Record William Easton Horner reports two probate judges to the Supreme Court of Ohio, alleging the detention order was “at best improperly executed and at worst an outright forgery.” The grievance is dismissed for want of “substantial, credible evidence.” The two things he read as tampering — a different force executing the order, and the file being gone — are both provided for: the order itself says “and/or any other police officer,” and R.C. 5122.141 requires the expungement.
5 Oct 2021Record Affidavit of Kathy H. Horner filed in the divorce. He separately moves to remove his own drug-case counsel “for ethics violations and grossly inadequate defence.”
5–22 Oct 2021Record Grievances against his own lawyer, the police and the prosecutor — and his mother joins in. See His parents.
13 Oct 2021Court order The grandparents’ motion is denied — granting it would be against the children’s best interest, the court finding they “demonstrate a lack of understanding of Defendant’s diagnosed mental health condition.” Costs assessed against them. See His parents.
19 Oct 2021Court order Drug case bench trial date. His motion to remove counsel is granted.
20 Oct 2021Court order Capias issued — $2,500 / 10% bond, recorded as a no-show trial capias. It will stay outstanding for two years and four months.
1–2 Nov 2021Court order William Easton Horner moves to recall the capias and asserts his speedy-trial right. Denied.
18 Nov 2021Court finding Divorce trial. He does not appear. Decree entered; Allison Stark awarded sole custody. He is awarded no parental rights and no visitation.
30 Nov 2021His own words William Easton Horner files a written refusal of the in-person hearing in the drug case, by certified mail.
13 Dec 2021Record Motion for stay of judgment pending appeal.
13–28 Dec 2021Record Eight motions in sixteen days to add material to the trial record — captioned firearm, tax returns, his mental health, father visitation and Zoom time, his physical fitness, perjurious affidavit, perjurious testimony. One runs to 83 pages. See the entry.
21 Dec 2021His own words In the 83-page motion he describes himself as CTO of Millennial Realty & Investments and sets out the email engine he built — “ARIEA sent over 476K emails for the Firm.” The capability comes first.

2022

Four lawsuits, a protection order, a cyber-attack and an indictment · 29 events

11 Jan 2022Record Drug case hearing on his own request for clarification. “Capias remains. Defendant did not appear.”
14 Jan 2022Record Record transmitted to the Eighth District, CA No. 111085.
24 Jan – 11 Feb 2022Record William Easton Horner files an affidavit of disqualification against Judge Hagan.
7–14 Mar 2022Court order The Supreme Court of Ohio denies the disqualification. The case returns to the docket; the capias remains.
27 Apr 2022Record First lawsuit — against his former mother-in-law, CV-22-962585. Dismissed in July for failure to prosecute.
11 May 2022Record Three motions in the drug case: a third request for counsel; to hold the prosecutor in contempt for malicious prosecution; and to hold Patrolman DiMatteo in contempt for perjury.
12 May 2022Record Second lawsuit — against his ex-wife and her divorce attorney, CV-22-963377. Decided against him on summary judgment.
21 Jun 2022Record Hearing on his own two contempt motions. The prosecutor appears. The defendant fails to appear.
23 Jun 2022Record Third lawsuit — against his ex-wife and the Cleveland Clinic, her employer, CV-22-965121. Summary judgment against him. See the four suits.
July 2022Court finding The Eighth District affirms the divorce decree: he “voluntarily chose to not participate in many of the trial court proceedings, including court-ordered FES and the trial.”
Aug 2022Record Allison Stark petitions for a civil protection order, DV-22-391235.
26 Aug 2022His own words Brief in the second suit asserting the defendants “conspired with no less than two corrupted high ranking Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents to wage a more than two-year cyberterrorism campaign.”
1 Sep 2022His own words William Easton Horner authors an article describing a “whitehat ‘email bomb’ DOS attack on the Cuyahoga County Courthouse” to stop the protection-order hearing. This is the recorded offence date for the criminal case. The attack.
1 Sep 2022Court order Judge Jones, on her own motion, bars him from the courthouse, from contacting court staff outside proceedings, and orders all his hearings held by Zoom. He had been “emailing the Judge and county court personnel with his theories of the Court’s collusion with the Director of the FBI,” and “seems to be not of sound mind and a danger to the Court.”
20 Sep 2022Court finding Civil protection order granted — five years, to August 2027. The court finds he committed domestic violence, that the protected persons are in danger, and that her testimony is credible. See the order.
23 Sep 2022His own words To a city law department: “either produce the documents or I am going to use my superior cybersecurity skill and training, penetrate your firewalls, and tear the information out by force. I will then leave your servers in a melting heap of slag.” Copied to roughly forty city employees.
24 Sep 2022Record Recorded offence date for ten counts in Rocky River Municipal Court — five of telecommunications harassment and five of intimidation of an attorney, victim or witness. The day after the “melting heap of slag” email.
3–5 Oct 2022Record William Easton Horner attempts to subpoena the Director of the FBI, the Rocky River Police Department, the Cuyahoga County Probate Court and the Rocky River Law Director.
7 Oct 2022His own words Files “Respondent’s Invitation for This Court to Fuck Off” in the protection-order case, purporting to rescind all orders “under Minute Man Patriot Act protocol.”
12 Oct 2022Record Stark v. Horner filed, CV-22-969917 — seven counts, naming him plus LinkedIn, Bluehost, GoFundMe and YouTube.
20 Oct 2022His own words Countermotion threatening to “use his MinuteMan cybersecurity clearances to extract” Cleveland Clinic records “through the CONFIRMED zero-day cybersecurity weaknesses.”
1 Nov 2022Record The Cleveland Clinic petitions for a civil stalking protection order. The same day he files a countermotion describing himself as “an openly declared Minute Man intelligence asset duly activated directly by Director of the FBI, Christopher Wray.”
2 Nov 2022Record Indicted — retaliation, disrupting public services, telecommunications harassment, CR-22-675557.
3 Nov 2022Record Warrant on indictment issued; capias sent to the sheriff. He records the injunction hearing and publishes it.
8 Nov 2022Court order The Supreme Court of Ohio declines jurisdiction over the divorce appeal.
17 Nov 2022Record Fourth lawsuit — against his ex-wife and St. Vincent Charity, CV-22-971495.
17 Nov 2022His own words The same day, his answer in the defamation case: he has “turned down higher paying data science jobs to remain in a cash economy which can’t be raided by this Court”; the court “does not possess the technical capability to remove the writing”; and God has armed him with “the singular ability to tear open any digital machine on Earth.” He names seven people he will expose “if she does not let the children go” — among them the Director of the FBI and the judge who heard his divorce. See the entry.
2 Dec 2022His own words Files “Defendant’s Execution of 6th Amendment Rights” in the criminal case.
16 Dec 2022Record Plaintiffs move to order removal of his recording of the hearing.

2023

Injunction, contempt, reindictment, vexatious litigator · 43 events

4 Jan 2023Court order Preliminary injunction on the defamation claim — expressly pending a full hearing, resting on likelihood of success. This is not yet a finding of defamation.
30 Jan – 27 Apr 2023Record One statement by his fiancée is filed in three cases under three different labels — amicus brief, discovery evidence, expert report.
1 Feb 2023Court order Motion to remove his recording denied: “Court proceedings are public proceedings. Plaintiff appeared before a camera without objection.”
2 Feb 2023Record Recorded as arrested in the criminal case.
15 Feb 2023Court order Summary judgment for Allison Stark in the third suit.
1 Mar 2023His own words William Easton Horner moves to attend the show-cause hearing by video, saying he expects to be “executed with his stolen weapon being planted on him” if pulled over, and that there is a “$1 million murder bounty” on his head — by which he means the two insurance policies on his life awarded to his ex-wife in the divorce. See the entry.
7 Mar 2023Record Five petitions for discovery in one day — against the FBI, the Probate Court, the Cleveland Clinic, the Rocky River police and city prosecutor, and St. Vincent Charity.
7 Mar 2023Court order Zoom request denied; the hearing requires in-person attendance. He had already told the court he would not attend if refused.
8 Mar 2023Court finding Held in contempt. Fined $250 and sentenced to 30 days, suspended to allow him to cure. See the finding.
10 Mar 2023Court order The five discovery petitions denied — Civ.R. 34 applies only to parties.
27 Mar 2023Record Plaintiffs file notice of his failure to cure the contempt.
27 Mar 2023His own words “Defendant’s Petition for Discovery by Brute Force Attack.” His own caption. It seeks orders “pursuant to each of the 84 Ohio Civil Rules” against six bodies at once: “There are a total of 504 motions, certainly one of them should unlock this courts pathetic shell game your Honor.” The same document purports to pay the $250 contempt fine with 25,000 pennies, because “$250 doesn’t cover half of the contempt Defendant has for the corruption this courthouse has allowed.” See the entry.
28 Mar 2023His own words Told a link to his own website will not open and that opposing counsel expect service by post, he refuses both and says he will put 2,688 pages into the court’s own docket instead — “Once they get it scanned in, I’m sure Jayne can work to get you access.” Jayne is the judge’s staff attorney. See the entry.
18 Apr 2023Record Reindicted — the original three counts plus two more, CR-23-680296-A.
25 Apr 2023His own words In sworn supplemental disclosures he claims damages in excess of $3.5 million, itemised to include “costs to go before the US Congress alongside Christopher Wray, FBI Director, to remove Defendant’s name from federal terrorist watch lists.” He also lists documents “provided to Defendant by Christopher Wray, FBI Director, in relations to Defendant’s Federal Minuteman investigation.” Sworn “under penalty of perjury.” See the entry.
27 Apr 2023Record William Easton Horner discloses his fiancée as a “treating expert witness” and files her report. She had treated no one.
27 Apr 2023Allegation Her statement says the Director of the FBI stole about $1 million from her bank account, sent an operative who was found dead in his truck and later identified alive on security footage by facial recognition, and had her car’s brakes and power steering fail together on a dark road. It says Jeff Bezos telephoned her and Amazon paid her $1.5 million. Her sworn claims. No court ever ruled on any of it. Every claim, quoted.
3 May 2023Court order Capias issued on the reindicted case, sent to the sheriff. His arraignment had been set for that day.
4 May 2023His own words Emails the court’s staff attorney and opposing counsel, subject line “Fwd: Little bitches,” copying the judge, signing “Attorney Pro Se” and writing “I’m emulating Jesus in this theatrical production.”
9 May 2023His own words William Easton Horner emails counsel for St. Vincent Charity that he is “a duly sword federal minuteman intelligence officer activated by Christopher Wray of the FBI” and, if discovery is not forthcoming, “fully authorized to crack the digital security of SVCMC.” He points the lawyer at the Cleveland Clinic’s counsel to hear “what happens to those who test these minuteman credentials,” then writes “Not making a threat.” Nine months after pleading guilty to attacking the courthouse email system. See the entry.
12 May 2023Record Motion for the plaintiff to show cause “…AGAIN” — his fifth. Denied. Attached is the “Little bitches” email chain between his own address and “Top dog <tdcommand1@gmail.com>” — the account his fiancée’s statement identifies as an alias of the Director of the FBI. See the entry.
18 May 2023His own words William Easton Horner emails counsel in two cases — and the judge’s staff attorney — that his material is on “YouTube under the channel Easton Horner 1-19.” His own count of nineteen channels, in writing, the day before the summary judgment motion was filed. See the entry.
18 May 2023Allegation Counsel swears his eighteenth YouTube channel was removed and a nineteenth created almost immediately. Counsel’s sworn affidavit, not a court finding — but his own email of the same day gives the same number.
19 May 2023Record Plaintiffs move for summary judgment and sanctions — 101 pages.
16 Jun 2023His own words Combined motion of 95 pages containing thirteen full transcripts of his own videos, with titles and URLs.
31 Jul & 4 Aug 2023His own words Two filings titled “Supplemental Disclosures and Documentation of Tampering by the Court Clerk.”
1–2 Aug 2023Court order In the drug case he requests a Zoom hearing. Denied — all parties to appear in person.
2 Aug 2023Court finding Declared a VEXATIOUS LITIGATOR under R.C. 2323.52 — pleadings “duplicative, frivolous, abusive, and lacking legal grounds”; he “resorts to threats and harassment of the litigants and courts.” The same opinion finds him liable for defamation. See the declaration.
2 Aug 2023Court order Permanent injunction the same day — he is ordered to remove all content asserting they committed crimes, the sites named by URL. “Each day of publication and each site of publication constitute a separate violation.”
4 Aug 2023Record Two days after being declared vexatious, he files a petition for discovery in the fourth suit — without seeking leave. See what followed.
21 Aug 2023Court order Ordered to stop emailing the court’s staff attorney — the emails “serve no legitimate purpose.”
22 Aug 2023Record Drug case hearing on his own motion. “Defendant notified by mail and email. Defendant failed to appear. Capias remains.”
23 Aug 2023Record Service on him returned “not deliverable as addressed.”
7 Sep 2023His own words Files “Defendant’s Request for Remote Trial for Personal Safty [sic] Reasons… and Civil Disobedience in Peaceful Protest.”
14 Sep 2023Record Service on him returned “REFUSED.”
21 Sep 2023Record Taken into custody in Tennessee on a capias from Cuyahoga County; released on bond pending an extradition hearing.
22 Sep 2023Record The first indictment is dismissed without prejudice because he has been reindicted. The capias on that case is not recalled.
13 Oct 2023Court order Remote trial denied: “Defendant’s alleged threats to his safety are no greater in the courthouse than they are in the uncontrolled outside world.”
18–20 Oct 2023Court order A third Zoom request; denied — “The basis for his request has been demonstrated to be unsupportable.”
25 Oct 2023Court finding Trial. He does not appear. The court finds he “asked this Court to assist him in remaining a fugitive from justice and to allow him to evade arrest.” Four witnesses testify; the case is submitted.
8 Nov 2023Record Extradition hearing scheduled. Governor Mike DeWine issues the Governor’s Warrant under R.C. 2963.20.
20 Nov 2023Court order William Easton Horner’s appeal is dismissed.
30 Dec 2023Record He marries Cristy Elaine Miller, Hamblen County, Tennessee.

2024

Judgment, and conviction · 18 events

31 Jan 2024Allegation Re-incarcerated; held over 30 days in Hamblen County Jail. His own pleading in the federal case.
7 Feb 2024Record Capias recalled. “Case was dismissed 9/22/23, but capias was not recalled at that time.” A separate, valid capias on the reindicted case had been live since 3 May 2023.
16 Feb 2024Record In custody in Cuyahoga County; booking recorded.
22 Feb 2024Record Arraigned on the reindictment. Not guilty. Bond $25,000, GPS home detention, no contact with the victims. The same day, the Rocky River capias is recalled after two years and four months.
26 Feb 2024Court finding FINDINGS OF FACT. William Easton Horner is held liable for defamation, false light and intentional infliction of emotional distress. $907,002.13 — $507,002.13 to his ex-wife, $400,000 to her mother. The court finds he published false statements accusing them of criminal conduct and posted “in excess of 20 hours of video.” See the finding.
6 Mar 2024Record First of eleven pretrials in the criminal case, running to December.
20 Mar 2024Record Attorney fee hearing held. He does not appear.
16 Jul 2024Court order Attorneys’ fees awarded: $157,232.62.
2 Aug 2024Record Judge Tonya R. Jones voluntarily recuses from the divorce case “to preclude any appearance of impropriety or conflict of interest.”
26 Aug 2024Court order The first Rocky River drug case is dismissed on the prosecutor’s own motion.
7 Oct 2024Record Court costs assessed against LinkedIn, YouTube, GoFundMe, Bluehost and him.
25 Oct 2024Record Ten counts filed in Rocky River — telecommunications harassment and intimidation. Warrant issued the same day.
6 Nov 2024Record The dismissed drug charge is refiled, same offence date, same officer, ten weeks after the dismissal. Warrant issued the same day.
12 Dec 2024Court finding GUILTY PLEA AND SENTENCE. William Easton Horner pleads guilty in the felony case. Five years community control, 60 days jail, $12,000 fine, restitution, no contact with the victims, monthly psychological counselling, 17 months’ prison suspended. See the conviction.
12 Dec 2024Record The same day, warrants served on both Rocky River cases. “Defendant in custody.”
14 Dec 2024Court order The fourth lawsuit is dismissed because, as a declared vexatious litigator, he had no leave to continue it. Costs to him.
17 Dec 2024Record Permitted to return to Tennessee under Interstate Compact supervision. Court costs $12,984.35.
18 Dec 2024Court finding Judge McGinty on restitution: the firm “was most definitely harmed by the defendant’s revenge crimes… caused by the defendant’s purposeful email attack… after the domestic relations court had been electronically assaulted.”

2025–2026

Enforcement, and it is still running · 6 events

23 Apr 2025Court finding William Easton Horner is convicted on all ten counts — five of telecommunications harassment, five of intimidation of an attorney, victim or witness. Nothing reduced, nothing dismissed. Convicted the same day on the refiled drug charge. Active probation on both.
30 Apr 2025Record Judgment lien filed on the $157,232 fee award, 8% interest.
5 May 2025Record Judgment lien on the $907,002.13 judgment, and a certificate of judgment issued to Hamblen County Circuit Court, Tennessee — the judgment follows him across state lines.
26 Sep 2025Court order Every pending motion to dismiss granted in his federal suit against 13 defendants on 15 counts — judicial and quasi-judicial immunity for the judges and the Governor, no personal jurisdiction over Cuyahoga County.
22 Jul 2026Record Most recent recorded payment on the criminal account.
Through 2026Record Monthly payments of $78.75 recorded on the ten-count case through July 2026. On the refiled drug case, $603.00 remains wholly unpaid.

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About this timeline

Where it comes from

Compiled from the dockets and filings of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas — Domestic Relations and General Divisions — the Rocky River Municipal Court, the Eighth District Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court of Ohio, and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Every entry is traceable to a document.

Where a date is genuinely unresolved in the record, it is given as a month rather than guessed at. Where a count comes from a sworn affidavit rather than a court’s own finding, it is marked as an allegation and attributed. Where the court’s docket uses a clerical convention that reads like an event but is not one, it has been left out.

The detail behind each entry, with the documents, is on the other pages of this site.