Hi Iwpat
Hi Iwpat, thanks for responding to my thread. I take it you must be from South Carolina. Having never pursued anything in court in any other state, I certainly am not qualified to argue with you on your points. Are you an attorney, or do you know an attorney who might be interested in my case? I don't mean for free. If so, please contact me. I believe a good experienced attorney can put it together for trial fairly easily. The area is Columbia. With the exception of having a few documents certified, making a final decision as to which witnesses to subpoena, and arranging my personal testimony into an easily understandable order for the jury, slow process, but I am doing okay. However I know an attorney could do better, and better gain the attention of the judge also.
I don't blame the system for any of my failures, and my object going in is not to pretend I am an attorney but simply not to make a fatal mistake. So far I haven't and I have enough faith to believe I want.
My disappointment with the SC court system is that the only qualification for a judge is being an attorney and elected to the legislature. A judge told me at hearing when I quoted a rule, "we don't go by that rule", and I have more witnesses than just myself that heard him say it. However, when the transcript was delivered, the wording was changed. Not being ignorant enough to challenge a judge on something like that, I simply used his "changed wording" to accomplish something else at the next hearing. It worked.
I have met judges in hearings that I thought were nice, but the one thing I have noticed about all of them, at least concerning a pro se individual, they do not pay attention, but get it over with as quickly as possible. I would be willing to bet, if I had any way to prove or disapprove the fact, that no judge in two years has read any document I have filed.
Again, thanks for your response, and any other information would be appreciated also. Oh, I do have copies of all the rules and access to cases.
