More Sleazy Fun with Tim Geiszler's Silly, Little Lies

This man is priceless. The minutiae of these peoples' ploys is so incredible. That people are paid or volunteer to sit around thinking of the tiniest ways to discredit my mom astounds me. I always have to wonder how many people this is happening to.

So, the Geiszler/Loken camp is in a desperate full court press to convince Judge Deschamps to convene a completely unprecedented and uncalled for competency hearing. Apparently in order to back up his claim that Mom is unreliable or incompetent, Geiszler does the pettiest little thing.

He files a motion with the court to extend the deadline for the settlement conference the judge has ordered. Only, he says that he's tried to contact Mom regarding the rescheduling but she didn't respond. He files the motion with the description of her non-response on Thursday, and on that same Thursday afternoon sends Mom the email asking her if she minds rescheduling. Obviously, she couldn't respond after Geiszler had already filed something saying she didn't.

So he's lied. In a court filing. About something so stupid and little. He clearly doesn't mind lying. I guess if you're willing to try to wrest control of someone's life away from her for strategic reasons, your professional ethics don't dissuade you from lying in court documents.

This is the kind of petty ridiculousness we deal with -- it's also very instructive. This is how people are discredited and their lives ruined. Little by little. A tiny lie here, and a tiny lie there, and a few big lies thrown in, and suddenly you have what seems like community-wide consensus about someone's character or, in this case, competency.

I would wager that Geiszler thought that his little lie would slip through without rebuttal. He would think that because he would assume that our new attorney would start filing immediately and he would be reasonably confident that that attorney would not want to dispute Mr. Geiszler's representation. He would assume that our new attorney would go along with the incompetence narrative. Because previous attorneys have gone along with Mr. Geiszler's narratives.

And there it would be as evidence: See, the Defendant can't function on her own -- she can't even respond to simple email requests.

Sorry, Mr. Geiszler. The tricks you learned in whatever Sleazy Lawyer Guild you belong to can't work forever. Now your silly, little email is part of the public record along with your silly, little lie of a filing. Congratulations -- the Montana Bar should be proud to have you.

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