This why we have juries. Some brilliant people understood that judges could be influenced by friendships with government officials or lawyers or with whoever or by the desire to please them or by the thought they could gain favors from them and be rewarded by them. Today, many judges could be influenced to favor lawyers who gave large campaign donations. So, the best way to deal with these possibilities is to have the judgments made by a group of total strangers who do not know either side. And, the standard to win a jury decision is very high. I needed to get 5 out of 6 of the jurors to vote for me to win.

 

In America, we consider when a candidate defeats his or her rival for an office by 60% to 40%, it is a landslide. So, in order to win, I needed a super landslide. I needed a 83% to 17% vote win. And, I got that super win. And, the jury made the only logical decision which is that I should not have to pay Christopher Heinrichs anything. I would bet that Heinrichs is already a rich man and that he already has more than enough money to buy all he needs and live a very affluent life. So, the money he stole from me just goes to his amassing of wealth. I am sure that almost nobody knows that a judge can just throw out a jury decision and make the victim pay for the expenses of and the bills for “services” of all those who wanted to have him or her locked up and lost their case. And, is it possible that when Heinrichs charged me $52,000.00 (not including what he charged me for the appeals) for the same case my lawyer Robert Wilson charged me $20,000.00 that Judge Polly Jackson Spencer did not realize that Heinrichs was charging for way more time than he actually used in my case? In my opinion, Heinrichs and Kelly Cross are just thieves, and Polly Jackson Spencer is an abettor of theft. Also, Polly Jackson Spencer protected Jefferson Bank from any responsibility in their gross mismanagement of my money and allowed them to charge $5,000.00 for their “management” of my money. And, the Jefferson Bank’s lawyers charged me almost $20,000.00 for sitting in on my trial. And, the appeals court upheld Spencer’s decision, throwing out the jury verdict. And, the Texas Supreme Court refused to hear my case.

 

So, this is the system. And judges, can at will, throw out jury verdicts; this is not justice. There is no profession so filled with incompetence, negligence, sloth and theft as the “legal” profession. One lawyer had me sign a contract in which I agreed that he would only work on the case which was specified in the contract. So, when I instructed him not to proceed with the case until he corrected a lie he had made, he started to work on another case totally contradictory to the contract he had written. And, the bill he sent me was for way more time than the amount of time he could have possibly spent on the case I hired him for plus the other case which his contract forbid him from working on. But, the Bar Association did not see anything wrong with what he had done. Some lawyers think that court ordered settlement conferences are excuses from preparing a case and not doing any discovery. They do not do any interrogatories, requests for production or depositions. They want their clients to walk into the conference without the necessary information which he or she needs to negotiate a settlement which is fair to himself or herself. The Bar Association should not have the responsibility of licensing lawyers and for disciplinary action against lawyers and these responsibilities should be taken from them.

 

And, they should be handled by a state agency like every other profession. Do not expect the mainline media to report the abuses going on in the probate courts or any other horrors in the legal profession. This is not like the times of Benjamin Franklin when an ordinary person could buy a printing press and start printing a paper in his basement. Television stations and newspapers are very expensive operations and are owned by big corporations. And, the reporters are employees. So, reporters report stories the managers want to be make known and do not report stories which the managers do not want to be made known. And, stories which are reported can be slanted by the biases of media company in which the stories are reported. I sent the information about what happened to me in the probate court to Bruce Davidson, then the court reporter of the San Antonio Express-News, and to Paul Venema, the court reported of KSAT, and I also sent the information about what happened to me to KENS, but it was not directed to any specific person. And, I did not receive a reply from any of them. Former Mayor Philip Hardberger is treated like a hero by media. I know him well because I was a client of his when he was a personal injury attorney. He is very rich, he owns his own boat and airplane. And, he is retired. So, he does not need to worry about reprisals against himself for taking a controversial position. And, if he were a real hero, he would speak out against the injustices in the system. But, he is just a self-satisfied part of the system. As a matter of fact, he has stock in the “legal” corporation which represented Jefferson Bank in my probate case. If all the money which Jefferson Bank lost for me and what Jefferson Bank‘s lawyers charged were added together, it would come to more than what I netted in the case in which Hardberger represented me. And, Hardburger charged me a fee of $85,000.00 for a case which did not go to court. Also, Hardberger recommended that I not reconcile with my elderly father. He did not like my father because my father has asked him to take less than his customary 40% of the settlement amount.

 

Sincerely yours, Robert Litoff