The Background briefly: In 2002, a former supplier of Computer items approached me on two separate occasions to give him support as he had recently begun a new business.
After recommending him an Indonesian customer who wished to start a Computer center in Indonesia, the supplier began supplying and exported Computer parts to Indonesia for this Indonesian.
The Indonesian ran into financial difficulties and was late on payments for half of the supplies he received. The Supplier turned to the local mafia to recover payments from the Indonesian. Fearing for the safety of his family and himself, the Indonesian fled to Indonesia.
The Supplier had a lawsuit brought against my wife, accusing that he sold the Computer items to her and she had failed to pay.
Incredulous
Not only is the matter that this blatant lie was permissible for a Court hearing (despite hard evidence given to the Court to refute such allegations), this Court case was postponed for 8 years!
Even more incredulous
When there was enough proof during the cross examination of the plaintiff that he was misrepresenting and blatantly lying under Oath, the Judge did not dismiss the case as a mistrial.
The Final Showdown
On June 24th, my wife and I took the stand to be queried by our own legal Counsel as well as to be cross examined by the prosecution.
That was preceded by uncertainty whether our case was to be heard by a different Judge (something that we learned on that morning while waiting in Court) or it would continue with the previous Judge.
This 11th hour uncertainty and inconsistency sent several mixed signals to me.
Our legal Counsel finally managed to reverse the hearing back to the Judge who had been presiding over our case.
The Prosecution failed to discredit that the forgery of my wife’s signature was a mistaken understanding.
As witness in the lawsuit, against my legal Counsel’s belief as well as my understanding, the Prosecution cross examined me for less than 15 minutes. I expected it to last for more than two hours because I had produced the bulk of evidence to refute the plaintiff’s accusation. Strangely, my cross examination was that short.
Judge’s verdict
After receiving written submissions from the Prosecution and the Defence Counsellors, the Judge will give his verdict on July 21st.
For my part, I think that I made it very clear to the Judge that the plaintiff did business with the Indonesian who fled the country, that the plaintiff had falsely accused my wife, lied and that none of his allegations carried any semblance of truth.
It is comforting that the aged Judge took time to question me and get the facts clearly understood as he wrote down every answer that I gave him.
8 years of this charade and I lost the count of how many times we went to Court only to be told to return at another appointed date for hearing.
Don’t fret. You’re going to win this case. The truth will always prevail.
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Windy Reply:
July 6th, 2010 at 1:06 am
Lainy,
It hasn’t been easy for me as the Judiciary in my country is known to be manipulated. Corruption thrives.
But I spoke as best as I possibly could.
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