(3:18-cv00212)
RENO, NV The
complaint alleges Judge Frances Doherty and Judge David Clifton, both
of Reno, Nevada, have colluded and conspired to keep 79 yr. old Susan L.
Hillygus locked up and isolated against her pre-estate planning
documents and trust.
Judge
Frances Doherty is a family court judge with the Second Judicial
District Court of Washoe County, Nevada, who has a long history of
imposing abusive guardianships upon individuals and their family, even
against the family’s protests. The complaint alleges Doherty, a former
executive for Washoe Legal Services and past president and on the board
of director of the 501-c-3, continues to conspire with current and past
members (who are all lawyers) to keep elderly and vulnerable adults
locked up against the family’s wishes. The judge is still an active
participant of the organization whose mission is to provide pro bono
legal services to the indigent among the community. The complaint goes
on to state that the judge uses her associations within the organization
known as WLS to fill the court room with up to three to five court
appointed lawyers, whose job it is to ensure the frightened and anxious
senior is kept locked away, while the lawyers dismantle her estate. Mrs.
Susan Hillygus estate was worth close to one million dollars when the
court imposed itself upon the family and the family’s trust through an
alleged illegal and abusive guardianship close to five years ago.
Judge
David Clifton is a Justice Court Judge for the city of Reno. His
jurisdiction lies with residents of the city of Reno, Nevada. Mrs. Susan
Hillygus is a widow as her husband fell victim to the illegal
guardianship of Judge Frances Doherty and was dead less than two months
after the guardianship was imposed through neglect of his court
appointed guardian, the complaint alleges. After the passing of Herbert
E. Hillygus August of 2015 the judge set her sights on the family
residence of Susan Hillygus who lived outside the jurisdiction of the
Reno City limits and ordered the home sold and Mrs. Hillygus sent to a
locked facility (Stone Valley Alzheimer’s Center) even though she had
lived in the home for 45 years and was living and being cared for by her
son and daughter-n-law, each of whom are professionals with backgrounds
in the medical field.
The
son of Mrs. Hillygus, Roger, who was appointed as her trustee, appealed
the order to the Supreme Court of Nevada. On appeal Judge David Clifton
using perjured affidavits and testimony from local attorney and
associate of Judge Doherty, Todd Torvinen, allegedly illegally filed
eviction papers with his former high school class mate, Judge Clifton to
have the Roger locked out of the residence which has sat vacant now for
close to two years.
According
to the recently filed complaint in the US Federal District Court of
Northern Nevada, each of the Judges are being hit with multiple
violations of civil rights and federal statutes pertaining to the rights
of Mrs. Hillygus and her family. Judges are not above the law, and
their immunity can be challenged if they are involved in a criminal
conspiracy known as RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations
Act).
The
complaint is being forwarded to the US Attorney General’s Office and
the FBI for criminal charges and investigation, as some of the
violations committed against Mrs. Hillygus include theft of her assets
and are currently being investigated by the State of Nevada Department
of Business and Industry through the Division of Financial Institutions
and the Nevada Attorney General’s Office, Adam Laxalt, who is currently
running for Governor for the State of Nevada as a Republican candidate.
Source:
Press Release
2 comments:
I doubt it's the judges but rather the attorneys involved.
It takes the judge to let the attorneys get by with abusing and exploiting seniors.
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