Congratulations to me, @Ametrine, for the winning thread title! I would like to take this opportunity to thank Bernal, Alice’s fifth and now ex-lawyer, because he has inspired three winning thread titles for me. Farewell, Bernal, you are released from your duty. You can now join Leon and Marie on the beach for piña coladas.
Recap
Housekeeping:
- Please stick to the main players.
- Obscure any identifying information from screenshots from those who are not main players (and/or Alice's latest sock account), and those who do not have more than 10,000 social media followers.
- Keep it on Tattle.
Recap
- Alice has sacked Bernal, in a move which was surprising yet totally expected at the same time. The relevant court document can be found here. We suspect that Alice either did this as a delaying tactic, and/or did it so she could have Dr Dupee’s confidential report in her possession.
- @Hiraeth's thoughts on Alice’s latest move:
“In my opinion, Alice knows she's toast so this is a delay tactic. However, she's played this card too many times in this case and a continuance is unlikely since the trial has been calendared for months and any further delay will cause additional damage to the children.”
“Since Bernal is now gone I am certain that Alice won't file her own witness list or trial brief. She's so immature. She's doing the legal equivalent of sticking her fingers in her ears and saying "la la la, I can't hear you." Judge Josh will not be impressed by this behavior and it is likely to backfire on her--badly. If she cares about her kids why would she risk custody like this? She abandoned Ella in the courtroom once already, now she's figuratively abandoning both her children. Unreal.”
- A minute order was released on 21 Feb. @Hiraeth’s analysis of it is as follows:
- " “Nunc pro tunc” is the term for a court order that corrects an earlier order of the court. So this February 21, 2024 minute order is correcting the court's minute order of February 7, 2024.
- Dr. Dupee’s report came out on February 14, 2024.
- The court had another case management call on February 14 to discuss the custody evaluation and postponing the trial.
- Someone complained to the judge that the minute order of February 7 was not specific as to whether the trial briefs and witness lists, etc. that were to be filed on February 21, 2024 were to pertain to the custody trial only, or both the custody trial and the financial trial.
- Given this information, the court ruled:
- The February 29, 2024 hearing date is being kept on calendar for a status report on whether the trial dates of March 6, March 7, and March 13 will go forward.
- If the parties do NOT stipulate among themselves to continue the trial, then the trial is going forward and all counsel will have to file witness lists, exhibit lists, trial briefs, and the side-by-side issue declaration relating to the custody and visitation issues."
- Ever the grief-thief, Alice made a trite “tribute” post to Alexei Navalny on Instagram, complete with sad face emoji of course.
- Alice then posted a series of photos of her with Celia Walden and Emma the hostage chihuahua-mix dog to Instagram, but she deleted them not soon after. We suspect either Celia asked her to remove the images as they weren’t filtered to her normal standard, or Alice removed them as she herself wasn’t filtered enough, or Alice removed them because she didn’t get much engagement on the post.
- Tone made a veiled threat towards Bianca on Twitter by posting an image of William Wallace from Braveheart having his throat slit. But let Alice and her FMs cry again about how she's the one being bullied and threatened.
Housekeeping:
- Please stick to the main players.
- Obscure any identifying information from screenshots from those who are not main players (and/or Alice's latest sock account), and those who do not have more than 10,000 social media followers.
- Keep it on Tattle.
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