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• If you're going to investigate things like a legal order or a TRO - it would help if you understood the process. First of all, things served on the EVENING of the 27th might not be filed with the court until the next day, or the 28th. The police will come out to a scene and they have the right to issue a TRO - a temporary restraining order - which lasts for a different amount of time according to the state. Then the person has to go to court to set a court date for a judge to decide upon a RO - or a permanent restraining order. Now one can be served with a notice to go to that hearing - but that's not a restraining order. If you're not sure about the dates on this restraining order - I'd have to look at everything - but I could explain to you whether or not something was "served". Because when the police actually hand the victim or the caller a TRO - they're handing that to the victim. That is not serving it upon the other person. Nothing is served upon the other person until the notice of the court date. Then there are hearings where the person is present or not present. Some are "ex parte". If there's an "ex parte" hearing - then the other person might not be served either. Now if the judge decides to issue a permanent restraining order, then it has to be served upon them by a sheriff, marshall or constable depending on the state. That may take days to serve. Because it goes from the court to the constable's office, who then has to go and serve the person. Then, after they are served, then they file a "proof of service" with the court that they served the person. So yes it is possible to have a restraining order in effect without someone actually having been served with a copy of it.

  • LMAO It would help if YOU understood a TRO… A TRO is filed with the court; this isn't a protective order issued in an emergency situation. This TRO was clearly filed after a false story was posted claiming it had already been served... But thank you for your comment.

  • "The evening of the 27th" isn't any better, Jody. The story claimed I was served on the 26th -- 600 miles away in not only another county but another state. This is a complete fabrication. The screencap shows that the paperwork was not even filed until AFTER that story had run.

    As to whether they are required to serve me, yes they are. The law (and the form) clearly state this -- and even the bogus story published on a lesser site acknowledges this, by claiming I had already been.

    I'm honored that censorious, anti-liberty forces see me as so credible and my ideas so dangerous that they must try, so desperately and ineptly, to silence me.

    • I'm just saying that the TRO process is very difficult to understand because it's complicated. As I said, I'd have to see all the papers to see what's real and what isn't. But it is possible to have one in effect but not have one served upon you.

      • Actually it's pretty simple.. Papers get filed, judge signs them, court sets hearing date, server gets them, once served, you're bound by the TRO till the hearing; at that time the judge will extend it or end it.. If you're not served, you don't have to go to court and certainly aren't legally bound by what's on the TRO.