Make the rules as you go! That's apparent in Warren County General District Court when the judge denies an elderly wheelchair bound man his rights! Being handicapped should not cost you your home!
It could happen to you!
If you like stories that have a shock factor you should really enjoy this one! It actually happened! I heard a knock at my side door on October 31, 2025 to inform me I was being evicted from my home and I even had a lease purchase agreement with the owner. He had decided to let his daughter move in the house because she lost her home due to financial mismanagement. So, I had five days to move. I live in a wheelchair and now facing eviction I never even knew was happening due to the lack of procedures in the Warren County Sheriff’s office. I immediately tried to contact the judge and of course, she was off for 5 days, imagine that? I prepared a letter to have someone drop off at the courthouse in my behalf. Well, that was a waste of time because she really didn’t care about an elderly handicapped man in a wheelchair! She did not care that the Sheriff’s Department, the Assistant D.A.’s office and the county clerks had totally screwed up the delivery process of the eviction notifications! A judge that over looks errors made by other government agencies, I would have never even considered this to be a possibility for anyone, much less myself. It did happen and will continue to happen if someone does not put a stop to a rogue judge making her own set of rules to apply to elderly physically handicapped wheelchair bound individuals. No regard whatsoever that my daily living situation is a physical burden on my body and now I have to move out in 5 days! View the entire story here:
Now it is apparent that the local Warren County Government has no regard for the civil rights that are guaranteed by our constitution and the American Disabilities Act. Beyond violating my civil rights, the judge added additional violations that the American Disabilities Act established! Now here I am, a 65-year-old disabled wheelchair bound person being thrown out on the street, a veteran who served this country most likely long before this judge was born! I served our country in the air force. This is what a judge preferred to ignore along with so many outrageous errors in the handling of court summons, notifications and warrants. Police officers have to ask for identification, why wouldn’t the court insist on identification validation when delivering anything from the court? Leaving the process to do its job? Well, the process did not work at all in this case. There were never any notices adhered to a door, never a notice received from the court in the mail box either! Not even a phone call inquiring as to why I neglected to appear to the second hearing. The judge seen me there in a wheelchair, she knew my age I would assume! However, the judge did not use any intuitive skills that most attorneys are very skilled utilizing when investigating a case brought before the court. The same skills when reviewing a historical narrative that was loaded with information that should have been considered before upholding a decision to evict me. Not one bit of empathy regarding a physically handicapped person who resided in the home for well over a decade and a total lack of empathy. What about reasonable accommodations and special considerations of the elderly and/or handicapped? Again, a wheelchair bound man.
I am a man that has persevered so many other obstacles in my life. A good foundation of retirement savings was sucked out of me when I broke my neck twenty-five years ago. Changing lifestyles from physical to only mental meant a desk job. I adjusted once I was back on my feet again, found a nice job. I really had hoped that situation would work out until I was ready to retire. It was a demanding position and I traveled quite a bit. However, I was able to minimalize the physical requirements of my work with coworkers. Then the economy fell apart and the company closed. There I was again; life changes I was not seeking but was a victim like so many others when the economic recession hit in 2008. There I was having to make another life changing decision at no fault of my own. So, I moved “home”, where I could have a network of family and friends that would not mind helping me out with the physically demanding parts of life in another place. The back issues continued to deteriorate along the way. I had eroded what little bit of savings I had saved so I decided it was best to accept the SSI because of my back and neck issues. I managed to purchase a nice new mobile home north of Front Royal. I remained there for 2 years when a family member was renting out a home they inherited and ask me to move closer to her. That’s how I wound up living in a very nice home just outside of Front Royal. I had hoped it to be my last place to reside. That was certainly the plan! When I agreed to a sign a lease purchase contract on the property. I had set myself up with a nice home and was able to rent rooms to lessen the strain on a fixed income, a very minimum income.
I am positive there are a lot of folks out there with serious issues to deal with as well, again, however, this matter involves the total wreck of an old crippled man’s life! My entire life, swept from me and now is in dumpster, full of my treasured memories. Gone because of the outrageous actions of a bungling judge who refused to uphold civil rights as well as follow legal protocol when rendering this eviction ruling. Now someone who does not belong in my house is now residing there.
Where is the justice? There were no non-payments in this eviction. This was a 30-day eviction notice because a 75-year-old spoiled brat decided to change his mind almost 10 years later because his daughter is just as spoiled as he, if not more. He and her have also violated my civil rights in the same regard as the judge. Issuing a 30-day notice to someone that lived in the home for over a decade? That alone is preposterous in todays housing market! No regard for the lack of physical abilities to move to another residence. Arranging a moving company alone would require time. I did what I was ask to do of the court when I received notifications, I showed up to court for hearings that were cancelled. No notice of cancellation until I had gone to the physical trouble and expense of getting to the courthouse. Summons being merely thrown on the property and not attached or even given to a resident of the home? This is not justice for anyone placed in the same situation much less an elderly man who is in a wheelchair? I am under the care of a pain management clinic; I have had an electronic stimulator placed in my back because of spasms! I have to take approximately 20 meds a day just to function somewhat in my daily life! I am not someone that uses a wheelchair for any special effects.
Shame on Warren County General District Court! Shame on the Warren County Sheriff’s Department for not requiring critical identification procedures when serving these life changing documents! Where is the justice?
In today’s society we are so fortunate to have cell phones! We have email accounts! These are in addition to the traditional postal service! There is also certified registered receipt mail! Yet, servers and processers hired by the sheriff’s department are not required to use these very acceptable methods of contact in additional to a face-to-face service of these documents from the courts? Where is the practical policies and procedure manuals? Are there not requirements for identification protocol? But yet you need your identification for so many other things in today’s society. Before you can do anything! DMV, voter registration, change of address at the post office or how about the commissioner’s office, do you not need an identification to access your personal information? But yet identification protocol is non-existent in the Warren County Government courts summons requirements for an eviction notification of any type?
And then Warren County Government would rather the county clerk’s office provide public court records in the form of physically printing out the entire file and then request someone physically pick up the stack(s) of paper, some significant cost factors to consider in paper and time the clerk would spend gathering these files to print. What about just merely clicking add file to an email account of the recipient of the files? Very simple to do and a lot quicker!
What is wrong here with the Warren County Government? The district attorney’s office is not connected to the court system, neither is the judge able to access the names, warrants, pending charges about anyone who potentially would be involved in two separate cases, however, one big situation involving both parties? Investigative skills should dictate these simple factors so law enforcement and government officials can see information contained in a database with simple name search capabilities, event search i.e., A&B, prime example. Something of that nature with simple intuitive investigation skill set would have certainly saved me an abundance of my time! The D.A.’s office sends out summons for court to the same server processers that do not care if you actually receive the numerous summons’ you receive for one incident. The abundance of changes that you are never notified of as well. When these types of documents are merely tossed around like trash on your property somewhere how can you keep up with it? When the Asst. D.A. calls you to inform you of a court date you never knew existed until he coincidentally called regarding another change due to the upcoming weather predictions for the very next day! Then he proceeded to inform me that the entire computer system in the district attorney’s office collapsed and they were all working manually. No email, no files, absolutely no way to access anything. Not even the email I had sent him over a week prior in regards to the entire matter being held over until the first of the new year. This A&B matter was in direct relation to the eviction matter. Well, what a coincidence. One that the Warren County District Court judge totally ignored when faced with the facts! The reason for a no show at her eviction hearing! Because I was never in receipt of any eviction hearings! I was only finding summons’ from the district attorney’s office in my driveway and one was folded and stuffed in a door handle to a door that was never used because the old crippled man in the wheelchair could not pull it open! I received the one and only summons secured “in” the door handle when it was noticed by a roommate on his way to the side door, the door the driveway led you straight to when you pulled up to the home!
The time for change has come and it has to start now! Rights of elderly and handicapped need to the first consideration when the initial document is prepared in the computer system of the court and district attorney’s office. The fact that a person is in this particular situation certainly should tell why I cannot run to a door and pull it open, especially if there was never a knock! Why would a wheelchair bound man go out to the front of the house to see if there was something tossed down in between the doors? Why should I have to chase court documents period? Isn’t that the responsibility of the court? Maybe we need specific entitlements place in a computer system to ensure everyone is treated in the same manner? Being physically handicapped in my situation is hard enough to deal with on a daily basis. Now that I was evicted from my home, I no longer reside in a wheelchair friendly environment so the pain and suffering I have to tolerate is immeasurable. The loss I have had to endure is just unbelievable; how can I ever recoup from this total lack of common sense the Warren County Government feels it can place on someone?
I want this story to capture your mind and sink into your soul when you read it, I want it to open every day people’s mind to consider what would you do if you or someone you knew and loved was placed in this predicament? And this is what Warren County defines as justice in its courts and legal departments. A calamity of constant errors.
It is my intention to make this situation known to every person in America. Citizens of this great country should not become victims of an incapable legal system in the county government. Especially when the judge ignores basic errors. That is not what I consider a judge; there is not even a spec of an inquisitiveness to find out why this event even occurred? Not even a spec of respect for the elderly and handicapped. Her decision to uphold the decision in this case shows catastrophic violation of civil rights, the total disrespect for truth and justice.
Again, shame on you Warren County General District Court and Sheriff’s Department, servers and processers, I believe it is more like lack of service or process. There was never a due process of the law and if this is it, the process is not working properly in Warren County. It was the process to evict an old man who did nothing wrong except get handicapped and old!
Can’t you see I am truly the victim of a corrupt court system that neglects to uphold true justice, it also victimizes the elderly and physically handicapped!
A judge with a lack of respect is not a judge that is not entitled to sit on the bench, the bench is not for a person whom puts the title on but doesn’t wear it well. This total lack of respect for others, lack of respect for the law, lack of empathy to the situations of the people before the court. Certainly not the personality characteristics becoming of a judge who should be upholding the law, skills that should be required of all in the court system. In the clerk’s office as well, they are there to serve the people and I should not feel as if I am beneath any of the clerks or judges when I approach them for service. It is their job to serve the people. Not the people serving them!
If you feel the same, please share this with everyone because in the event their next victim is you or a family member or a friend you will want these changes made in our judicial system in Warren County and all throughout the nation.