April 9, 2019th

Dear Commission on Judicial Performance:

I just wanted to clarify something you mentioned in your letter to me. I didn’t mention the attorney Charles Smith IV as a specific attorney complaint, I mentioned him because Judge Novak said that if I did not accept him as my attorney, she was going to put me in jail. She beat me down and I was in tears, because I had been stuck with that attorney previously and he did nothing but yell at me. After he was forced upon me, she had him clear the courtroom and she went into about a ten minute barrage against me. She said things I did not understand as being for me. She attacked my mental health and just lit into me for no reason. She said such awful, strange things that meant nothing to me, but she said them with such rage and vituperation that I was astonished and perplexed and felt like I blacked out for a moment. My face was covered in hives the next day (the doctor said it was extreme stress).

Judge Novak hit me with such abject cruelty I was astonished. There was no reason for it. Her heckling of me (calling me “stalker” from the bench, and comments like, “no wonder the doctor is afraid of you”, were both untrue and had no place in a setting such as a hearing.) She interrupted me every other word and had what I said stricken. She made up charges against me so she could circumvent the DA from having his own trial for the false contempt charges, because he would have ultimately found out the restraining order case against me was manufactured. She railroaded me, so she could fine me and throw me in jail, so she could tell the DA there was no need for him to also have a trial. The problem was that I WANTED him to have a trial, but she took that right away from me. I wanted the restraining order case to be found out to be false and have it dismissed, so I could feel vindicated. Judge Novak never behaved impartial. She mocked me and ran down my mental health from square one. She seemed to delight in it. The attorney she forced on me, Charlie Smith IV, made a point of showing he was not going to help me. He did not mention a trial, and he did not prepare for one. He brought two legal pads. He is someone who hangs around the court, everyone knows him. He screamed at me and kept me quiet. He was Judge Novak’s attorney, not mine. She merely wanted it to look fair and even, but it was not, he was doing her bidding. That is why I mention the attorney, because Judge Novak threatened me with jail, if I did not take him. The entire case against me was fraudulent. It was being done to placate someone and obviously they knew Judge Novak could be bought. I have suffered so much. I never expected a judge to be so unfair. She didn't even make concessions for my health. I have MS, and a large lesion on my brain. Stress could cripple or kill me. She didn’t care. I have no problem saying she was trying to harm me, or worse. I have never seen such a display of abject inhumanity. She spoke to me as if she hated me. I had no chance. She should not be a judge. The fear I felt was horrible. I still suffer. I was a county law librarian, a paralegal and law student and worked in a law office. I cannot tell you in strong enough terms that what Judge Novak did to me was not justice. It was a horror show. Only mentally ill people behave as did she. She perverted law to satisfy her own objectives. I can still feel my fear from encountering her. The hives on my face spoke volumes. What she did to me was third world country behavior, not the USA. I will sign a sworn statement, or submit to any form of lie detection to re enforce anything I have said. No one should have that happen to them. It was draconian and egregious behavior. Scary and intimidating.  I pity anyone coming into her courtroom.

Sincerely,