Well, Leo Stoller tried to pull it off and he corkscrewed it right into the ground. There was nothing glorious about it. The Truth Serum, well, okay, has some some satirical fun with Leo Stoller over his public record of judicial abuse and ethical misconduct.And, yes, the Truth Serum has at times gone into a state of cyber-cardiac arrest by laughing so hard about the seemingly-endless inquiries into Leo Stoller’s truthfulness.
Okay, maybe it’s not that funny, although there are worse ways to go than dying from laughter. But that’s a whole different subject.
This time, though, Leo Stoller was 100% correct. Leo Stoller vowed to crash-and-burn and he did. Whether it happened as a result of his own ineptitude or, uh, just the way things happen to turn out when you dedicate yourself to being a pestilence within the judicial system (or both) doesn’t much matter. The Truth Serum made a promise some months ago to call itself out when it is wrong, and well, this is one of those occasions.
Not so long ago, Leo Stoller waxed poetic about his endless filings with the civil courts as if he were exercising some God-given right to file whatever and whenever he wants in whichever court he pleases. Procedural rules, ethical guidelines, substantive claims, telling the truth under oath, court rulings, judge’s rebukes be damned– Leo Stoller seemed to be championing the idea that the federal and state courts were a constitutionally protected playground where you could make up the rules as you went along.
And on those myriad occasions when the courts warned Leo Stoller about his incredulous behavior and the fact that he was playing with fire– well, Leo Stoller seemed to take such words as a personal affront. More frivolous pleadings, more frivolous claims, and more unprovoked and unsubstantiated attacks on individuals, politicians, judges, lawyers, non-lawyers, and businessmen resulted.
So here it goes– the Truth Serum, uh, may have been, uh, may have, uh, been slightly wrong about the fact that Leo Stoller has no credibility. That wasn’t so hard to say. Leo Stoller vowed to go down in some form of Leo Stoller-perceived legal martyrdom, and so far he has done exactly that.
In a nutshell, Leo Stoller managed to salvage a scintilla of credibility over his lack of credibility.
And no, the irony isn’t lost on the Truth Serum– the courts have established ad nauseum that “Leo Stoller’s lack of credibility is a matter of public record.”
Okay, Okay. The Truth Serum has induced you with the title of this article then saturated you with its rhetoric for long enough, so here’s the deal: Leo Stoller was jailed on June 8, 2009.
Those words taste so sweet, the Truth Serum can’t help but to repeat itself: Leo Stoller was jailed on June 8, 2009.
Leo Stoller was taken into custody on June 8, 2009 and incarcerated in the Cook County jail indefinitely. He was held in contempt and taken into custody for allegedly failing to obtain a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation regarding whether he is competent to stand trial. It is an openended stay as a guest of Cook County, but is believed he will be jailed for up to two weeks. Maybe less. Maybe Longer. Maybe he’s out by now.
Regardless, the fact remains: Leo Stoller was jailed on June 8, 2009. (The Truth Serum can’t help but keep saying it.)
As an aside, psychiatric evaluations to determine whether Leo Stoller or his brother, Christopher Stoller, are competent to stand trial seem to be becoming a ritual. Christopher Stoller, you see, was a key player in the Stoller brothers’ business, which the courts described as “an industry of vexatious litigation.”
A translation of the legalistic phrase “an industry of frivolous litigation” can fairly be described as someone inclined to file frivolous lawsuits, make meritless and baseless claims, launch endless personal attacks and engage in a type of legal extortion designed to “extract a settlement amount from legitimate actors.”
Leo Stoller held Christopher Stoller in such high esteem that he made him the highly-coveted executive director of a group they claimed as being dedicated to the enforcement of judicial ethics.
By highly-coveted, the Truth Serum means to say that it looks at the public record of Leo Stoller and Christopher Stoller and, well, wants to hurl at the thought of either of these brothers having the temerity to represent themselves as being associated with anything associated with ethical behavior.
Anyhoo– Christopher allegedly got himself into trouble in Illinois, then found his way to Arizona. He allegedly got himself into more trouble in Maricopa County, Arizona, then found himself facing charges there as well.
Somehow, Christopher was able to remain free in Maricopa County, Arizona while his lawyer argued that he was not competent to stand trial. Hearings ensued, psychiatric evaluations were ordered, and the case moved forward while Christopher Stoller remained free.
While all of this was going on, apparently the Court learned that Christopher Stoller had an outstanding felony arrest warrant in Lake County, Illinois. Christopher Stoller was arrested on January 20, 2009 then spent time in the psychiatric facility at the Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix, Arizona while it was argued whether he was competent to stand trial.
According to the Maricopa County, Arizona Inmate Information line, Christopher Stoller has been incarcerated in the Lower Buckeye Jail since his January 20, 2009 arrest. After a series of hearings, Christopher Stoller was found competent to stand trial. He currently has a sentencing date set for July 20, 2009 at 8:30 am in Criminal Division G of the Maricopa County Superior Court.
Anyone interested in the disposition of Christopher Stoller’s case can call the Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff’s Inmate Information line at (602) 876-0322. Christopher Stoller’s booking number is P504004.
After Christopher Stoller’s arrest on January 20, 2009, Leo Stoller continued on per usual. He continued to represent himself to the public through his blog as the ”nation’s leading trademark expert,” despite the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent Office being on record as describing him as an unscrupulous opportunist whose legitimacy must always be questioned.
Leo Stoller continued to represent himself as having reached the the highly-coveted position of executive director of an organization dedicated to the enforcement of attorney ethics.
By highly-coveted, the Truth Serum means to say that it looks at the public record of Leo Stoller and Christopher Stoller and wants to, well, hurl at the thought of either of these brothers having the temerity to represent themselves as being associated with anything dedicated to ethical behavior. (Yeah, so what, the Truth Serum tends to repeat itself.)
Leo Stoller continued to use his blog as a propoganda machine, distorting the facts and maligning those who continued to hand him his head in any of the many courtrooms where he attempted to lie, coerce, and extort his way in and out of trouble.
The courts continued to note that Leo Stoller and judicial abuse were part and parcel of one another, much like peanut butter and jelly, or based on his juvenile understanding of the law, perhaps it is more accurate to say a clown and his plastic red nose.
And being the classy individual that he is, Leo Stoller continued using his blog to attack his ex-wife and label her the “worst mother in the world” and an evil-monger who should be shunned by society. He did so by representing himself as the director of another so-called organization, this one dedicated to fighting “parental alienation.”
(The Truth Serum recognizes that parental alienation is a real issue. And there are many legitimate organizations dedicated to this issue. But the record and past history clearly show that Leo Stoller would represent himself as the head of a Philipino tribe if he thought he could benefit from it.)
It is probably no coincidence that a Cook County family court judge presiding over his custody case came to the conclusion that Leo Stoller’s fitness was a legitimate concern.
Then, on February 25, 2009, a small dose of justice was meted out. Leo Stoller was hauled out of a Cook County, Illinois (Chicago) courtroom and remanded to the Cook County jail for a psychiatric evaluation pending further judicial proceedings for contempt.
That’s a nice way of saying the Court wanted to find out whether Leo Stoller didn’t have all his oars in the water, or whether he was just a bitter and mean-spirited prick.
Leo Stoller’s February incarceration for contempt, of course, was due to him defying the judge’s orders in the child custody case. A fair reading of his blog makes it clear that one of Leo Stoller’s favorite diversions was to air his grievances about his custody case by harassing his ex-wife, threatening her divorce attorney with unsubstantiated charges of unethical misconduct and illegal behavior, and characterizing the judge as a buffoon who did not know the first thing about the law.
After all, if someone is genuinely concerned about the welfare of their children and are heartbroken over their inability to see them, the natural thing to do is to malign their mother all over the Internet, isn’t it? Well, Leo Stoller has proven over and over again that he is a one-trick pony.
And this is the part where the Truth Serum reminds you that all of this is a matter of public record, folks.
Upon his release from the psychiatric unit of the Cook County jail after the February arrest, Leo Stoller attempted to reinvent himself again. The ”legal ethics expert”– whose ratio of sanctions and disciplinary proceedings per courtroom appearance may very well exceed Babe Ruth’s slugging percentage– now decided he was a Constitutional Law expert, or more specifically, an expert on freedom of speech.
So Leo took off defiantly into cyberspace once again. There are few things that are genuinely entertaining in this world, but Leo Stoller musing about being an expert in anything related to the law is one of the few.
Leo Stoller wrote about how he was unlawfully incarcerated. He wrote a little journal describing the horrors he faced during his nine days behind bars. He issued the usual Leo Stoller blog-threats to sue anyone and everyone he considered responsible for his incarceration– his ex-wife, her divorce attorney, the judge, anyone he could think of.
He spewed forth about how his Constitutional rights had been violated, he blew smoke about how he was the victim of malicious prosecution and Section 1983 violations.
He claimed he had been jailed for exercising his right to free speech. Apparently, Leo Stoller’s definition of the right to free speech is the right to publish venom about anyone related to a judicial proceeding where he had a perceived grievance.
Leo Stoller did so knowing full well that a Cook County judge had ordered him to knock it off, to cease publishing malicious material on his blog that was related to the child custody matter and to remove the garbage he had posted previously.
Leo Stoller also returned to one of his other favorite diversions– clogging up the Courts with idiotic lawsuits, brain dead motions, baseless claims, and frivolous pleadings. He continued to draw the Courts’ ire. His credibility, as always, being questioned at almost every turn.
Leo Stoller also began to spread himself around a bit, to use his blog to attack people other than those involved in the custody matter. Leo Stoller even started to get a little mellow– for a while there, it became abnormally entertaining. Leo backed off from the attack dog schtick for a while and it appeared as if he was making a Leo Stoller-style attempt to gain an iota of credibility because, after all, it’s never to late to start.
Well, that didn’t last long. It didn’t take Leo Stoller long to go off the rails with his frivolous pursuits and his endless stream of unsubstantiated attacks on people.
And always the person to make a brilliant move when it matters most, it was discovered that Leo Stoller allegedly tried to bamboozle the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Nothern District of Illinois.
And on he went. Leo Stoller continued to represent himself to the public as a brilliant legal mind and continued to offer ridiculous rewards in ridiculous matters. He continued to post false and derogatory pathological musings about anyone he perceived as being the bad guy in any of the ridiculous matters he brought before the Courts.
He also seemed prepared to post the bond amount required to file an appeal after the ritualistic dismissals of any one of his ridiculous motions in any one of his ridiculous cases.
Then, uh, Leo the Brain continued his pattern of requesting indigency from the Courts. For anyone fortunate enough to not have been schooled in legal language, Leo Stoller was requesting the Courts to waive its filing fees due to his economic circumstances.
(Just to go off for a minute– this especially angers the Truth Serum because there are a lot of people out there now who are suffering difficult economic circumstances. And then Leo Stoller, with his long record of ethical misconduct and judicial abuse, essentially asks the Courts to subsidize the filing fees in one of his Leo Stoller-type ridiculous filings. Offensive is too mild of word.)
That, uh, didn’t go over to well. On April 24, 2009, the Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued an order denying another ridiculous Leo Stoller motion. The order disposed of the frivolous motion in two sentences.
The remaining twenty or so sentences in the 7th Circuit order talked about how the Court had warned Leo Stoller about continued frivolous filings, about how he had ignored those warnings, and ended with, “If [the Court] conclude[s] that Stoller has been untruthful regarding his alleged indigency, the Mack bar will be reinstated.”
Um, the Truth Serum has only two things to say about that 7th Circuit order.
First, the Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook. For anyone who would have no reason to know one way or another, this man is well-known as being an excellent judge. Not exactly a guy you want mad at you.
And second, ouch, oh, man-that-hurts. Again, for anyone with no reason to know one way or another, the Court’s words in that order are, shall we say, extremely pointed. Always professional and judicious, but the judicial equivalent of Mike Tyson warming up in one corner while some unfortunate soul wearing oversized boxer shorts stands in the other corner counting the seconds until he finds out what the back of his face tastes like.
And on he went. He continued to use his blog as the conduit for his rage. Leo Stoller then intensified his smear campaign regarding the custody battle and continued to publish his ridiculous self-serving jibberjabber. (Hey, it’s a word– well, if it isn’t, it should be.)
Then that glorious day came when Leo Stoller regained a shred of credibility over his lack of credibility.
June 8, 2009. What a great day. Leo Stoller and his big mouth and empty head thrown in jail.
Of course it would be nice if he were still there. It would be an even fairer measure of justice if he were locked up for a long time. Maybe he was released. Or maybe he is still interpreting ink blots splattered on 8 x 10 cards. Maybe he found the love of his life and wants to stay. No judgment here.
And the rumor is he gave the password for his blog to someone so they could take it down. However it happened, Leo Stoller’s blog isn’t on the Internet anymore.
Anyway you look at it, the Truth Serum isn’t complaining. Leo Stoller got thrown in jail again. Good times, good times indeed.
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The Leo Stoller Truth Serum Blog apologizes for going back on its promise by publishing information related to his custody battle. The Truth Serum could not contain itself any longer. The Truth Serum merely got to the point where it felt a fuller version of the story must be told in its pursuit to expose the real Leo Stoller.
Leo Stoller and Christopher Stoller are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The opinions and representations made by the Leo Stoller Truth Serum Blog are based on the public records of Leo Stoller and Christopher Stoller, and the Truth Serum, you guessed it, encourages everyone to look at the records, do their own research and form their own conclusions regarding the activities of Leo Stoller and Chritopher Stoller, and, by all means, do not blindly accept the opinions expressed or representations made my the Truth Serum or anyone else.