Compel Discovery Hearing:
(1) I've emailed and spoke to my lawyer and explain multiple times all dozen unanswered discovery requests and it's relevancy. She would send detailed itemized bills confirming she understood and her hourly rate.
(2) After 9 months, she does compel discovery but does not invite me to court, stating, "I am not calling you to the stand and there is limited room". After the hearing she would say, "The Judge will go through her [wife] immigration file and decide what to release". Less than half of our discovery would be in her immigration file and the judge doesn't know the merits of the case to decide what to release. Something is not adding up, so I bought the transcript.
(3) My lawyer NEVER told the judge my wife has not answered discovery for the past year and my lawyer NEVER mentioned a single one of our dozen unanswered discovery requests. Instead, my lawyer asked to see the wife's Asylum application: "I want to see if she claimed if she was divorced on her Asylum". I already told my lawyer multiple times, my wife's Asylum is fraudulent and this divorce certificate is part of the fraud.
(4) The judge is confused, suspicious and in the middle of dismissing it as irrelevant, when the opponent lawyer said this is part of discovery (It wasn't: I never asked for her Asylum application), said I am entitled to it, but since it as sensitive info, he will release it to the judge and the judge can decide if she claimed she was divorced.
(Obviously hindsight, but both attorneys had this scripted. Neither was going to the tell the judge about the unanswered discovery. My lawyer would ask for the Asylum, opponent lawyer would say it's sensitive. Both lawyers wanted the immigration file sent to the judge and to get the the judge to make a verdict on her filing status on her fraud Asylum).
Suspicious Behavior:
(1) I asked my lawyer why she didn't mention a single unanswered discovery request and she told me, "I thought I did." I told her I bought the transcript, then she said "we'll do those later".
(2) I sent multiple emails and voice mails telling her to do our compel discovery and the judge doesn't know the merits of the case to decide what to release. She ignored me for weeks, eventually telling me, "Let's see what the judge releases, if you don't get what you need, then I can do another compel discovery. I'd be wasting your money doing one now."
(3) The Court clerk sent the immigration records to my lawyer and scolded her: "You find what is relevant, that's not the judge's job". My attorney didn't tell me, instead calls my son at his clinic to ask him: "Do you know if your dad still wants to do bigamy?" and "we were waiting for immigration records and they took a while, I was seeing if your dad had a change of heart" (What the hell?)
(4) I asked my lawyer for the records but she refused claiming court order was for the judge only. Later, in a meeting, her paralegal told me my lawyer went through the entire immigration file. My lawyer immediately kicked the paralegal out of the room and told me "I only checked to see if all pages were downloaded correctly" and told me she sent the records to the opponent lawyer. I asked why would you do that, she never answered and I can tell she regretted telling me that.
(Obviously hindsight, but both lawyers went through the immigration file, confirmed it claimed her to be divorced, now it's time to go behind my back and ask the judge for a in camera verdict about it.)
Attorney Only Status Conference:
(1) My lawyer does an attorney only status conference, so I can't attend nor is there any transcript I can buy.
(2) My attorney tells me she will ask the judge to go through the immigration records to find our discovery documents. After the hearing she told me: "I sent the judge a list of the documents we needed, and the judge will release it by next week". Based on the judge's verdict below, this was a complete lie and never did that.
Verdict and Motion to Reconsider+Recluse:
(1) Instead of releasing documents, the judge hands out a verdict claiming I asked for one: "Husband asked the Court to go through wife's immigration file and determine if she was previously divorced. Wife's claim of being divorced is sustained by numerous applications in her immigration file."
-I asked my attorney if she said this. She denied it and said the judge doesn't know what she is doing and said we need to do a motion to reconsider, but refused to actually put this in it.
-At the motion to compel hearing, my lawyer asked to see the immigration file to see if she was divorced, now at the status conference my lawyer asked the judge to make a verdict out of it. The judge wouldn't just make this up.
(2) Case was decided on a fraud verification: "Wife has previously gained an attestation of her divorce certificate, and this Court assumes the verification to be genuine."
-Instead of answering my discovery, wife got her divorce certificate attested by the Consulate, never sent it to me, knowing I know the Consulate doesn't verify documents. Instead, she sneaked it into court an hour before our compel discovery claiming "I thought I sent it in earlier, but I was mistaken" and presented it as an exhibit.
-The Judge read the stamped attested document in Court: "The Consulate of Bangladesh in New York is hereby attesting to the signature only. The Consulate has NOT verified the contents of this document and the Consulate assumes no responsibility nor liability for the contents within". And the judge dismisses it herself "this is just a notary stamp, it's not verified".
-Despite being proven unverified at the compel hearing, now at the status conference the opponent lawyer kept lying and claiming it was verified by the Consulate. I asked my lawyer if she told the judge it wasn't verified, and she said "Yeah, the judge already knows that". Obviously, my lawyer didn't say anything. The judge doesn't remember what happened at the compel discovery a year ago, and the judge just assumed since my lawyer hasn't said anything, that she agrees it was verified.
-I asked my lawyer to put it wasn't verified in our motion to reconsider, but she refused, "we only need to tell the judge she can't make in camera verdicts"
(3) In one sentence the judge denies both motions for "failed to produce a reason not previously considered by the Court."
Supreme Court:
(1) Seeing I am not giving up, my lawyer says the judge is wrong and we need to appeal it to our state Supreme Court. I told her only if she puts our evidence. She ignores me and goes on an 80+ page rant about in camera verdicts, no evidence, nothing even mentioning anything about my case.
(2) I email her at 10PM on Sunday and tell her "I knew what you were doing the entire time", and I don't say anything else.
(3) Within a minute she blocks her number and calls me, "Doc, doc, you didn't let me finish, that is just a first draft, read the file name, it says first draft, I was about to add all of our evidence right now". She keeps me on the phone for an hour and makes some changes. She never mentions the immigration/Asylum is fraudulent and that we can't use martial filing status on those, she never mentions any of our unanswered discovery like birth certificate or passport. But, she does mention the Consulate does not verify documents, that we never asked the judge to for a in camera verdict, and that we had expert witnesses who were going to come to trial and say this divorce certificate is fake. I wasn't happy with the appeal, but it was the only thing I was half way satisfied with.
(4) Oppoenent lawyer* responds and says time locked. My lawyer tells me he's wrong. *Opponent lawyer would pass away shortely after.
(5) Eventually, a three judge panel from the Supreme Court denies it from being time locked and says deadline was five months ago. My attorney, both other attornies at her firm, and a paralegal worked on the appeal, and not one of you know how to read a deadline? My attorney would say, "The Supreme Court is wrong" and "the bad news is you can't respond to the appeal, the good news is once you proceed with your divorce and division of assets, you can appeal it again". She was fired on the spot.
