I was sincerely hoping not to have to update this thread on the situation, but I knew it was kind of inevitable.
On Saturday, I received a letter from Dartanya containing motions to the Judge to set aside the final judgement and to set a new trial. He claimed he did not appear to the trial because he never received a response to his previous Motion for Continuance (to get the trial date moved) in the mail. Just as a side note, Umm....Just because you don't get an answer in the mail does NOT mean you don't have to show up to your designated court date. Pretty sure that's common sense. But again, pretty sure that's also just an excuse for his cowardice.
The second paper he mailed was interesting, picking and skewing and contorting choice statements from this forum's thread to send into the judge and interpreting them COMPLETELY out of context and twisted into lies, as well as a few other claims, which I am going to try to stick to the facts here without peppering in my personal feelings because I am honestly so sick and disappointed at the backstabbyness and treachery of others, I don't really know what to say.
Anyway, This excerpt from a previous post was a public apology dated 1-19-10 to Eric & Denis Daily and their friend Mike whose last name I still do not know concerning the mixup about their table at the Daytona Expo.
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I don’t know if Dartanya is involving you guys in any of this drama or not, but I know I said Thanks at the show, (even though nothing sold except you guys’ baby normals, ), but I wanted to say I am sorry for an inconvenience it may have caused. I will state here as well as in front of the judge, that if Denis or Eric Daily, whose table it actually was, feel that I owe them any kind of money for the 4 snakes I had on the corner of their table, to please contact me directly.
I also wanted to say that from the brief time we spent together and what I have heard other people mention of you all at Captive Bred Reptiles, you seem to be nice, respected people and I would be extremely careful associating with someone like Dartanya. He has proved, a several times over, that he cannot be trusted and he is willing to backstab and hurt a friend or a fellow breeder without a moment’s hesitation. I hope that if you continue to associate with him that you do not get hurt as I have.
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I also went to the Repticon, Orlando show on January 13th to help a friend, and being a generally cordial and outgoing person, said Hi to everyone I knew, including the aforementioned gentlemen. The only passage of conversation consisted of a Hello, Hey that's a nice looking pied! See ya later.
So where, in any of the abovementioned statements or situations would You, Eric Daily, Denis Daily, or Mike, consider yourself threatened, harassed, or intimidated by me? Prior to Saturday, February 6th,
I had no idea who any of Dartanya's intended witnesses were, save for the Sergeant from the S.O. who was mentioned in the Motion for Continuance filed on Jan 19thish.. so it's interesting that in this petition to the Judge, Dartanya claimed I ruined/besmirched his "expert witness", Eric Daily's, business name of Captive Bred Reptiles on a public forum (this one, I presume), and threatened, harassed and intimidated his witnesses on this forum as well as at the Repticon Show.
That's a gallant feat, even for me, considering I had no idea the three of those men were even involved in this situation until February 6th, or any idea why they would even be involved, considering they barely know me and have nothing to do with the situation at all, save the ownership of a table at Daytona, which the show program clearly stated anyway.
I'm not pointing fingers, or getting any further into this, because I don't know the situation's details. For all I know, one of you could have said you saw me at the show, and Dartanya completely made up the rest of his claims without consulting the three of you, nor do I know if you are completely behind him in this situation and been "spying" or whatever you want to call it. If he made up those statements without your knowledge or permission, you know what kind of "friend" he is to you. If you have helped in adding fuel to his fire of lies, then shame on the three of you, three grown adult men, for completely fabricating a situation that never happened in an attempt to hurt an innocent person for no reason or gain to yourselves. I just don't understand it.
Finally, the Judge denied all of Dartanya's requests today, February 9th. I have a feeling, though, that Dartanya will not accept that he was wrong and just accept that it is over. Not really sure what to say or do anymore about any of this nonsense. It just really makes me sad.