Slam the Gavel

   Slam The Gavel welcomes back Carl Roberts to the podcast. Carl was last on Season 5, Episodes 12, 39 and 80. Today Carl discussed a march he has put together that will take place November 19th at 12:00 noon at the Capitol of Colorado. There will be speakers there such as Robert Garza, Erin Lee, Steve McKenna and others.      Carl discussed the core issues of  the march such as Protecting the We...

    Slam The Gavel welcomes back Attorney Brendan Burns and Theo Chino to the podcast. Attorney Burns was last on Season 6, Episode 317.      Mr. Theo Chino, Attorney Burns and myself discussed what it is to be grateful for during the Thanksgiving holiday peppered with sarcasm, humor and wit. We have a lot to be thankful for, as we have met each other through others who are suffering the horrors o...

    Slam the Gavel welcomes back Dave Weigel to the podcast. Dave was last on Season 5, Episodes 230 and 278. The last time he was on we discussed how the system is 100% of the problem and solutions.      Today we discussed advocacy and when people should begin to advocate. Through trauma to self-care, healing oneself is the answer, then advocacy should follow.      Mother's rights, father&ap...

     Slam The Gavel welcomes back Mark Ludwig from St. Louis, Missouri to the podcast. Mark was last on the podcast Season 3, Episode 50 where we talked about Americans For Equal Shared Parenting on April 20th, 2022.       Title IV-D Reform was discussed while on the Washington D.C. trip this past week. We also discussed the Bradley Amendment (where in U.S. law the amendment is intended to improve...

    Slam The Gavel welcomes back Mark Andrews. Mark was last on the podcast Season 3, Episodes 13 and 23, Season 4, Episodes 116 and 138, Season 5, Episodes 29 and 289.  Today we discussed the Judicial Coverup taking place in California with the judiciary falsifying court documents and altering transcripts. To Reach Mark Andrews: nottobetakenaway@live.com Supportshow (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/...

    Slam the Gavel welcomes back Marineka Bowman to the podcast. Marineka was last on Season 3, Episodes 104, 131, 159, 160, 174 and 184. Season 4, Episodes 22, 48 and 61. Season 5, Episodes 149, 210, 238, 248, 256, 259, 263, 271, 275 and 284.    Today Marineka was back on to give updates to her case where the Supervised Visits/counseling with her daughter aren't happening. Her child is being...

     Slam the Gavel welcomes back Marc Fishman who was last on the podcast Season 5, Episodes 202, 224, 240, 264, 276 and 292. Marc discussed what parents go through with being retaliated on during family court proceedings.     Marc also gave the update to his case where Judge Cannataro GRANTED an EXPEDITED processing of hearing the Motion to Stay the Jailing of Marc Fishman! There is NO WAY this...

    Slam The Gavel welcomes back Debbie Carroll to the podcast. Debbie was last on Season 5, Episodes 167, 180 and 236. Today, we discussed the Frost Appeal update and how to protect your rights that involve ORPC attorneys, CPS and the courts. As reported in the Spring of 2025, Richard Frost's children were abducted by their mother and their aunt and placed with the two women and their partne...

    Slam The Gavel welcomes back Jamie Logan from Massachusetts. She was last on the podcast Season 5, Episode 175. Jamie's children were staying with her in Massachusetts for the past 11 months, however Colorado ruled the custody to the father BEFORE the findings of the UCCJEA (Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act) came out.       Jamie is sharing the TRANSCRIPT of the Body...

    Slam The Gavel welcomes Patrick McPartlin and Theo Chino to the podcast. While court watching on 11-4-2025  for Patrick McPartlin, Theo and I got to see what was happening with Patrick's case. It all started when Patrick was driving and got pulled over for an expired license. Then he had asked an attorney for his Oath of Office, then all hell broke loose. We discussed Patrick's Writ...

     Slam The Gavel Podcast welcomes Nicole Amill. Nicole is the mother of three. Two adult children and one nine year-old. Nicole moved to Lorain, OH from the Bronx, NY on February 24th, 2015.      Coming to Ohio with almost $100K to invest in real estate to have passive income, Nicole wanted to teach her children how to be self sufficient. She also wanted them to have a close relationship with G...

     Slam The Gavel welcomes back Theo Chino from the state of Illinois. Theo was last on Season 5, Episodes 128, 143, 164, 187, 192, 204, 206, 217 and Season 6, Episodes 252 and 322. Today we discussed the monsters you can't run and hide from. The monsters that exist to parents and their children lurking behind every corridor in the family courts, that seek to suck parents dry of their child...

     Slam The Gavel welcomes new guest Ellie to the podcast. Her family immigrated from the Ukraine to the United States LEGALLY, for a brighter future. However, she soon lost her daughter to CPS and the greedy money courts involving a Dependency Judge. Ellie and her husband found themselves being bullied by the judge and CPS in Shasta, California.      From there, her daughter, then 12 years-old...

   Slam The Gavel welcomes Steve DeVore, Travis Nicholson and Terri Parker to the podcast. They came on to discuss a young man sitting in jail, on taxpayer dollars for a false accusation made during divorce.      The mayhem began in January of 2021 when Jamey DiDomenico, a loving DAD and devoted husband suddenly discovered incriminating text messages on an iPad that their four year-old had been us...

   Slam the Gavel welcomes back Theo Chino to the podcast. Theo Chino was last on Season 5, Episodes 128, 143, 164, 187, 192, 204, 206, 217 and 252.     We discussed why the general public is so concerned over a professional football player hurting their big toe than why taxpayers are unaware they are paying a new "tax." It is for the success of other peoples children/parents and their h...

     Slam the Gavel welcomes back Carrie Haight to the podcast. Carrie was last on Season 5, Episodes 185, 221 and 266. Today we addressed parents' questions regarding Coercive Control, Parental Alienation, Child Psychological Abuse in the DSM V, V995.51, and why Family Court favors the abusive parent. We covered other topics as well such as going "grey rock," reunification, toxic p...

   Slam the Gavel welcomes new guest, Lee Dobson from Canada. Lee has been suffering legal abuse in the Family Court system for the last three years. The catch is, that he has no ex wife, family and no children.       All it took was one false accusation and an UNSIGNED Restraining Order to put him in a position of self representation. As an electrician Lee has lost jobs due to waiting for hearing...

     Slam The Gavel Podcast welcomes Julie M. Anderson Holburn to the podcast. Today we have updated the case on Giselle Smiel. On September 28th, 2025, Renata DeMello was on the podcast, Season 6, Episode 313, discussing the case of her childhood friend Giselle and how she was being held in L.A. County Jail on $500,000.00 bond. Giselle had been in the L.A. County Jail for the last three weeks and...

     Slam the Gavel welcomes back grandmother, Claudette Collins. Claudette was last on the podcast Season 5, Episode 239.  Claudette is retired from healthcare and is a former Sunday School teacher in British Columbia, Canada.       Claudette has updated her story as in the past episode she had been falsely accused in Alberta Courts without evidence by her oldest adult daughter. Claudette has evi...

     Slam The Gavel welcomes new guest, Attorney Brendan Burns from Chicago, IL. Attorney Burns has been an attorney for the last 23+ years. He is a licensed attorney in the State of Illinois, practicing in civil litigation, estate planning, family law, corporate law, residential real estate and mainly focused on the people that he has been honored to represent.       Today we discussed the aspect...

     Slam the Gavel welcomes new guest, Melissa Strawn to the podcast. Melissa is a domestic violence victim who has had a Protection Order for YEARS, but now she is only TWO days away from going to JAIL. Her case is in King County WA. She has one of the most clear-cut cases of JUDICIAL FRAUD. The Seattle Superior Court Judge, Judge E. Rania Rampersad held her divorce trial without Melissa while s...

     Slam The Gavel welcomes back Jeff Morgan to the podcast. Jeff was last on October 3rd, 2022, Season 3, Episode 119. Today Jeff came on the podcast to talk about No-Fault Divorce. Jeff has two goals in his current legal battle in Texas: to SAVE his own marriage and DESTROY no-fault divorce in the state of Texas. When his wife of 11 years filed for No-Fault divorce in July of 2025 in Dallas Cou...

   Slam the Gavel welcomes back Heidi Weber to the podcast. Heidi was last on Season 1, Episode 17 and Season 2, Episode 119. Today she updated her case and talked about how her in her last case as a Pro Se Litigant was dismissed five weeks prior to trial in Federal Court. We also included how she will proceed in the future as she reopens the case. STG will follow this case very closely. To Reach...

     Slam The Gavel welcomes Renata DeMello to the podcast. She is here to discuss her childhood friend's case. Giselle Smiel is a devoted mother, a woman of faith, and a survivor of severe domestic violence who is now facing six felony charges, not because of any criminal act, but for protecting her children in the midst of a high-conflict custody battle. With no criminal record, Giselle has...

     Slam The Gavel Podcast welcomes Edyta (Edie) Hanna Basista. Edie is a civil rights advocate, trauma survivor, and pro se federal plaintiff in Basista & Palacios v. Batch, et al. , a landmark constitutional lawsuit filed under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985(3), and 1986, as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), in the U.S. District Court for...