Identification of my rapist: Mark Lee Murray III

Mark Lee Murray III 

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Mark Lee Murray, III

Asheville Times, December 17, 1990, the cover story of the arrest announcement.

I have tried to move forward with my life, but at every turn, I get a road block.  Apparently, this is God's way to let me know that I need to finish dealing with the past in order to move forward in my future.

I thank God for my friend "Curtiss" who accompanied me to the hospital.  I thank God for my Clemson University friends who encouraged me to speak out otherwise I would not have a case number to reference (90-12-11574).   

Acquaintance Rape Case: 90-12-11574

I was denied victim compensation in 1991. (File No.: 91-11-006-0)

I will be pursuing a trial by jury. It's time that someone start fighting for that young lady inside of me that is still traumatized by the chain of abuse and rape endured in 1990.  My anniversary of this tragic set of circumstances is during this time of the year.

Ebony Magazine "Super Single Sister" feature.

Thank you to all who have poured out so many kind words and support since revealing my rape story. I no longer want to suffer in silence. It is time for my rebirth.

World Championship of Performing Arts Modeling Competition

2018 Acrylic painting collection by Benita Blocker

Babelicious at Christmastime by Benita Blocker

This collection is about celebrating as well.

Mountains, Valleys, and Water.

These two paintings can be switched positions to create to different looks.

2016 * 2017 * 2018 Landscapes

Power lines Collection: Blood, Fire, and Eclipse

My "Phoenix" by Benita Blocker

All paintings start at $35 and collections start at $50.  I'm trying to get a gallery crawl together.

Signs of a 1990 Abusive Relationship

HE (my rapist)

(Partial Movie quote from Creed 2.)

This article supplements my previous date rape article. There were compounding flags of violence.

Body slam Attempt

I remember trying to resist him as he lifted me over his head similar to the ice skating couples except there was no ice.  Just a front yard.  He was trying to decide whether or not to body slam me to the ground.  I don't remember if my roommate caught sight of the situation or whether he had some decency about him. Regardless, he lowered me safely back to the ground.

Workplace Assault (Fingered in the the Hallway)

He took my virginity on a previous occasion. Therefore, for some reason, he felt my body belonged to him.  So even at the workplace, he took the liberty of licking his finger and then without warning shoved his hand down the elastic band of my uniform bottoms inserting one of his fingers in my vagina. I remember grabbing his wrist, but he maintained control of the situation fingering me from a sense of power not pleasure.

Headlock

A co-worker witnessed him putting me into a headlock attempting to choke me.

Money exchange

A co-worker witnessed money exchanged.  He told our co-worker that I was paying him to have sex with me jokingly knowing it was because he wanted me to cash a check for him.  (Reminder: 1990 timeframe)

On the way to the (rape) location

He said he did not know why he was so violent.  He said he asked his mother was there anything in his past that caused him to be violent. He said his mother told him "no." We even passed by his old girlfriend's house.  He said "this reminds him of the old times."

My younger self wrote very detailed notes.  As I read through the pages,  I could tell that I was clearly trying to sort out this twisted tale of a bad relationship. I even wrote that I could not do anything about the abuse, but I had every right to report the rape.

Fight, Survive, Live

I hope young ladies in questionable relationships see the flags that I refused to see. Your life may depend on it.

Prominence

If the person who allegedly committed the crime is from a prominent family, then they are likely to get a slap on the hand and set free like my rapist. (i.e. #MeTooMovement)

If an alleged victim of an alleged crime is from a prominent circle, then the alleged person charged with the alleged crime is likely to be made an example of regardless of the lack of evidence supporting alleged act.  (i.e. #exonerateMichael campaign)

My 1990 Rape Survivor Story

Chills went through my body as I opened the large reusable folder/bag to revisit a night that changed my life.

I was the Hendersonville woman (second degree rape survivor). 

And here is my story:

On December 13, 1990, the cooperative education students of DuPont (Brevard, NC) travelled to Asheville to eat dinner at Annabelle's in the Asheville Mall. After dinner, we all decided to go dancing at Adam's in Arden, NC.  We all split up into separate cars. I rode with Mark and before we left Annabelle's  he told the rest of the co-workers that we were going to get gas and get him a beer, and we would meet them at Adam's. Mark (age 21) and I then went to get gas and get him a beer.  We got onto the expressway headed to Adam's. He then asked me "was I ready?" I said "yes."  He asked me again, and I repeated the same answer. He then said "Famous last words" and immediately took an exit off the expressway.  I was wondering where we were going. I asked and he was saying just wait until we get there. We were headed to a residential area.  The next thing I knew we were going down a very steep hill and into a valley. I knew that I was not going to have sex with him in the car. So before he turned off the ignition, I said "Mark, I changed my mind." He said "it's TOO LATE." He turned off the ignition. He moved on the passenger side in front of me, and he said "you don't play games with me." He continued to threaten me by not backing off. So I said very strongly and aggressively - "NO. I DO NOT TRUST YOU ANYMORE." I then moved back in order to rest my back against the seat because I figured that he understood and accepted what I had said.  But he had not because he let the seat back and was getting ready to pull my leggings down.  I immediately put my left hand on my left thigh as a defense which I  used all throughout the rape.  Mark then told me to move my hand.  He told me to move my hand two or three times. I refused to move my hand. He then took his right hand and put his fingers in the joints of my left shoulder. He was hurting me.  I then moved my hand from my thigh, and he stopped hurting my shoulder. He was starting to pull down my leggings and underpants at the same time.  I said to him, "I don't have a choice?" He responded sarcastically- "you don't have a choice?" He finished pulling down my leggings. I then said "No, Mark, I changed my mind." He then said "I AM GOING TO FUCK THE HELL OUT OF YOU."  He started fingering me. As he began, he said "I hope this does not hurt you, but it will make it easier." A few months prior to this rape, he violently took my virginity. After he finished fingering me, he pulled down his pants and underpants; my mind drifted into helplessness. He reached into the back of the car to get a box of condoms.  He attempted to take just one, but he was going so fast that one or two extra came out, and he immediately put them back into the box and put the box back in the back of the car. He tore the blue wrapper off of the condom and carefully put it on.  I asked him was there any chance of me getting pregnant? He then asked " do I have a period? and I said "yes." He asked when was my last one?" I replied "two or three weeks ago."  He then said "THEN NO." I put my hand on my thigh again. He then told  me to move my hand.  He kept saying "move your hand; Benita, move your hand." So I would move my hand after the third command because I was scared that he would hurt my shoulder again. He started penile penetration. My vaginal muscles had tensed up preventing him from penetrating all the way.  My body was responding from the trauma of him taking my virginity a few months prior. So he started fingering me again. Then he tried penile penetration again. My vaginal muscles were still tensed. I was about a size 4 or size 6 petite in size. He told me to open my legs. He was still not penetrating far enough in. He then used his left hand to finish taking my leggings off of my right leg.  He bent my right leg up to hopefully attain a deeper penetration.  This did not work either.  He lifted by body up with his hands and let me down and said "this is about worthless." He tried penetration again. He was still using his right shoulder to muffle my mouth each time he attempted penetration to keep from hearing me express the pain that I felt when we were together the first time. He was not penetrating any further so he asked me in my ear while he was still partially inside of me - "HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE FUCKED BY SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOU?" He then tried to force penile penetration by going in a vigorously circular motion.  It did work for a split second, and my body responded as if I had be punched in the stomach. My stomach suddenly contracted, and the air that was in my stomach rushed out through my mouth. At that moment, we both had had enough. He got back on the driver's side and propped his arm up on the window after he let my seat back up. The next thing he says " I was only with you because Monique(his girlfriend) was not getting along well right now." He then got out of the car and took off the condom and got back in the car. He started pulling up his pants. I began pulling myself back together. I was trying to rationalize the situation, but then I began putting it in the back of my mind. He then cranked the car up and we were headed to Adam's.  He asked me "do I respect him?" I immediately said "NO," and then I said "yes, I respect you, but I do not think too highly of you." (my politically correct nature kicked in)  He rudely told me to fix my hair, and he rudely told me to put on makeup. I told him he should be happy I was ever with him. He then replied "Do you remember when I told you I dated mediocre girls? Well, they would be 10's here So you should be happy I was with you. I told him he could say at least one good thing about me. He said "I was nice." He said "Benita, you're nice." He also said "I was too naive." I told him that I lost an earring, and he said "I had to find it because he had almost gotten in trouble before with his old girlfriend when she found one in the car that was not hers. But he told her it was his sister's and she had used his car.  I told him to stop by a gas station or store near Adam's before going to Adam's in order to get myself fixed up.  We stopped by Budget Rent A Car near the airport.  I got out the car and went into the restroom. When I returned to the car, Mark was not in the car. I looked for my earring. It  was on the back seat. I put it on. Mark came back to the car and drove us to Adam's.  I forced myself to act as if "nothing had happened." He told me to just tell them we stopped by his house to make phone calls. He put on a jacket to cover the lipstick stains from muffling my mouth. He told me " Not to become a whore." He told me "he hopes I won't say anything about what happened because he damn sure won't. We entered Adam's together, but quickly went our separate ways inside.  

Well, I told a friend that weekend about the ordeal. She made me go to the hospital. When Mark showed up at the hospital in his fraternity letters, it prompted his arrest.  

The rape never went to trial.  He had to complete a series of counseling appointments and the District Attorney dropped the charges.  Mark's family was prominent in the area. They did not want to destroy his life. That is how the cookie crumbles when it comes to womens' rights. I can only hope that I was Mark's last rape victim because clearly, I had not been his first.

#MetooMovement

Somehow, God still has a Master Plan for us all.  Tests and Testimonies.

My Lyft Rental Car Ten Day Driving Experience

Before you decide to rent a car from Lyft to offer rideshare, you need to know

10 days of car rental plus roadside assistance cost me $428.48 in Charlotte, NC

Lyft also considered my refund of $250.00 which was the car rental deposit as "earnings." A refund should be refunded.  

Calling my refund "earnings" and paying me out like a "paycheck" minus additional rental car fees is misleading.

So did I work giving rides?

Yes, 100% Acceptance rate!  Plus, I completed 40 rides in ten days.  That is pretty good considering Lyft gave me a lemon of a rental car for the first 3 days. The Engine light displayed on day 2.  Neither cigarette lighter neither front nor back seats would charge my phone.  The "transmission overheating" light displayed by day 3.  The owner's manual said "DO NOT DRIVE."  I also discovered on day 1 that Hertz roadside assistance is $75.00 extra per dispatch because I picked up a "drill bit" in my rental car tire creating a flat.

So the first weekend of driving was cut short because of Lyft's mechanical CAR FAILURE.

I completed 18 rides within the first three days with a "lemon."  Hurricane Florence came through Charlotte, NC the next week.  So I pick up this college kid who was a rap artist studying music engineering in Charleston, SC who was home because his college evacuated.  On the way to the ATM, the rain plus the dark, winding road created almost ZERO visibility.  It was a long trip.  He was being very dramatic.  He (the passenger Zach) even reached from the backseat trying to turn on my hazard lights.  Luckily, the rain calmed down after ten minutes.  He invaded another bank customer's privacy by running up on him seeking cover under the canopy.  Finally, after finishing his ATM transaction, he gets back in my Lyft rental car to be taken back home.  He is dramatic again worried about creek risings.  Honestly, he was probably under the influence of a controlled substance because Lyft "Trust and Safety" blocked me from accepting rides an hour later saying that "someone reported me for alcohol or operating under a controlled substance" at 9:30pm on a Friday night.  I immediately felt the college kid was the problem, and I went back to lower his rating to three stars so that I will NEVER have to deal with him again. Apparently, Lyft did not like me down rating the  passenger so they subsequently disabled me from being able to adjust the passenger ratings.

Notice: "Rating Not Available" - Rating ability was disabled by Lyft.

Passenger Zach did not want to pay for his ATM run during Hurricane Florence, and he requested two stops.  One to the ATM and Another stop to take him back home.  Apparently, he felt safe enough to get back in my Lyft rental car to return home. Lyft's "NO TOLERANCE" policy had me blocked from working for Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.

Lyft gave me a "green light" at 11pm on Friday night, but they never unblocked my account.  Did "Trust and Safety" take the weekend off?  My Lyft car rental charges continued.  Lyft did not give me any credit toward my rental rate.

So I was paying Lyft out of my own pocket for their Hertz rental car because I had not earned enough rides before getting blocked to cover the rental rate. So they took $97.58 out of my account to cover their weekly rental and they KEPT my $144.84 in earnings to cover the Lyft rental car as well.  Lyft is so greedy!

They only have one pickup and dropoff location in Charlotte, NC.  I have called and emailed Lyft asking for relief and rental credit.  They are being unresponsive.  I don't want to travel across town to be denied any credit.  My Lyft account was still blocked when I returned the rental car as soon as I could.  The local Lyft office questioned whether or not I had the car a whole week because they do not accept early returns on their rental cars.  I could not believe that returning the car had a potential to be an issue.  Luckily, I was at my one week period.

I am now reactivated to drive for Lyft. I just have to update my vehicle information, but I need Lyft to make this situation right before patronizing them again.

I had been a faithful Lyft passenger before becoming a Lyft driver.  Now, I suggest everyone to consider Uber.  Time to Move Forward!

Acknowledgement from the Supreme Court of Georgia

This was not the first time that I had written the Justices of the Supreme Court of Georgia.  However, this was the first time that I received some sort of acknowledgement back from their clerks.  I believe that we need to file a different type of writ.  We still have not found an attorney willing to tackle the "untouchables" from the Augusta Richmond County, Georgia area. We are at a standstill right now.

The #exonerateMichael campaign will continue.  The November 2018 elections will hopefully open new doors for us.  The existing system just does not want to correct this injustice.  Everyone knows about it, but it is like a "game."  Let's see if they figure it out.  Unfortunately, Michael can barely get access to the prison's legal library.  I don't reside in Georgia.  It is just ridicious that no one can help finish this process.  The regional exposure and restitution from the State of Georgia should be enough incentive to bring Michael home for Christmas.  Is there one?

Georgia Scandal Continues into Third Year

As the #exonerateMichael campaign unfolds:

November 2015

• DNA Report does NOT show a MATCH for RAPE nor Justification for Life Without Parole Sentencing
• Edward Tarver of U.S. Department of Justice is asked to assist in reviewing the situation.

January 2016

Tarver's Office says they cannot assist, but FBI Augusta has been assigned.

March 2016
FBI Special Agents Chuck McKee and Mac Butts visit Michael C. Blocker at Telfair State Prison.

June 2016

• Judge J. Randal Hall denies Michael C. Blocker's request to return to court. Case CV1:16-34
• Michael C. Blocker is transferred to new prison.

July 2016

• Motion for Reconsideration filed.
• President Obama sent letter acknowledging commitment to prison reform.

October 2016 

• $44k bank levy wipes out advocate (Benita Blocker's) living expenses before the overhead checks could clear. (NOTE:  Unless a 100k deposit was scheduled to be deposited, there was no reason to put a $44k levy on an account that never carries a balance unless you want to make a statement.)
• Jimmonique R. S. Rodger, Deputy Director of Georgia Public Defender Council kindly informs us that direct appellate rights have ended.

November 2016

Attorney General Carr's office says that they are opposing counsel and cannot assist in the matter.

January 2017
Ashley Wright is appointed Judge by Governor Nathan Deal.

March 2017

• Edward Tarver is no longer with U.S. Department of Justice
• Duplicate charges from 2009 legal lawsuits go onto Michael C. Blocker's prison bill.

May 2017

• Judge J. Randal Hall becomes Chief Judge over Judge Lisa Godbey Wood.
• Michael C. Blocker is transferred to a new prison.
• (A scandal within a scandal spirals out for about nine months.)

May 2018
Michael C. Blocker is transferred to a new prison.

June 2018
Motion to Dismiss the Grand Jury Indictment is filed for case 2007RCCR00181.

July 2018
Michael C. Blocker transferred to new prison.

August 2018
Michael C. Blocker is seeking legal assistance to finish up his release since he can not get access to the legal library at the current prison.

We are looking for 13 more signatures at
https://www.change.org/p/non-violent-offender-being-trapped-in-maximum-security-prison?recruiter=532225508&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition

My First Tea Party Experience

It was Ladies Day out, and I enjoyed fine china, teapots, table linen, and some English Southern Flair!  

The August 2018 menu:

All the food was very flavorful and rich!  The experience was relaxing and delightful!  The bookstore/Coffee shop location featured artwork from local artists so I did my own art crawl.

The tea service experience was provided by Lady Lillian's Tea.  Her classic and specialty tea services always include fine china with linens, scones, fruit, savories and sweets, and seasonal pots of  teas paired with the menu.  Cost: @$25 per person on average.  The portion sizes were petite but very filling!

North Carolina Lottery Scratch Offs: 000 and 001

Whether $3 or $10 ticket, the beginning of the lottery roll were NOT winning tickets.  000 and 001 were consistently NOT winning tickets based on my North Carolina lottery experiment. 003 and 005 were winning tickets. Also, 148 or 149 seems to be winning tickets.  So if you see  "4 tickets left," one of the tickets are likely to be a winner.  If you see two tickets left, then I would choose a different scratchoff game based on my findings on this experiment.

Lucky No. 7 scratch offs (May 2018 Launch date) and Block-O Bingo (June 2018 Launch date)

PNC Bank's 2018 Response: Misidentifcation and Misinformation

Wrong Name and Wrong information.

On April 12, 2018, PNC Bank called me in response to my escalated CFPB complaint. I kindly asked her if she was requesting 5 minutes or 30 minutes of my time. She replied five minutes because PNC intended to respond in writing, but they needed to know the name that the check was made payable to and if the check had been cashed. Then PNC spent about 60 days in tiered review processes to generate a response which identified an unknown individual (Matthew Christopher ???) as the payee.

PNC policy states that third party checks can be cashed for PNC Bank deposit customers only. However, I offered repeatedly to open a deposit account in my name if it would mean cashing the check. However, PNC refused to offer me the paperwork to open a PNC deposit account after I shared my intent to close my account after I got the third party check cashed.

PNC Policy states that only accountholders can engage in legal document review. PNC VIOLATED their PNC policy and submitted the POA documents for legal review on at least three occasions seeking approval to open an account in a third party name, deposit the third party check, and give me a debit card to withdraw the funds for the third party. After submitting three different POA documents for three different legal document reviews over three different weeks, I was declined three different times for three different reasons for declination. Eventually, PNC told me to go away, and they would not allow me to open any deposit accounts for myself nor a third party. I was so horrified that I wrote the C.E.O. on March 22, 2018. The certified letter was delivered on March 26,  2018. The US postal tracking number 7018 0360 0000 8158 5189

PNC called to acknowledge receipt of the letter on April 5, 2018; yet, they did not offer relief nor apology for my dissatisfactory customer experience.

I filed my CFPB complaint on April 11,  2018 only to wait an additional sixty days to receive a letter of misidentification and misinformation. I would have gladly opened a PNC deposit account if it would have granted me third party check cashing and save me over four months of discussion of this horrible experience with PNC Bank.

State Exhibit 6 was Weak before the Jury was even charged in 2008

Ashley Wright (the State) request to charge the jury dated 2007; yet, certificate of service to public defender Hugh Hadden is dated 2008. (Pictured above)

 . . . and in the form set forth in the attached Exhibits 1 through 15.

Pictured is Exhibit 6.

As the #exonerateMichael good fight continues, Mr. Blocker noticed that Exhibit 6 was missing from the paperwork that I mailed to him.  I thought that maybe it was missing as a result of a copier paper jam, but no, upon examining the original paperwork, Exhibit 6 (six) was truly missing from the rest of the pages.  Luckily, I remember seeing that document within a MASTER set of paperwork.  I found it!  It surrounds reliability of Identification.  This exhibit is so weak that I do not understand how the State was even able to Charge the jury.

Let us examine Exhibit 6.

"Identity is a question of fact for you to determine.  Your Determination of Identity is dependent upon the credibility of the witness or witnesses offered for this purpose. You should consider all of the factors previously charged you regarding credibility of witnesses."

1. Mr. Blocker was arrested one week after alleged burglary and alleged rape "monster hunt."  
2. The mugshot which the alleged victim picked out from the pre-existing mugshot collection that was presented to her did not look like Mr. Blocker.
3. No rape DNA match was EVER identified.
4. The allegedly victim fabricated other parts of her story like outgoing phone calls on the land line which proved be to falsehoods.
5. The "second burglar" concept was never addressed possibly because a separate "deal to squeal" was worked out?

Shall I continue?

Rest assured that Michael Christopher Blocker did not sit in jail for a whole year just to sign a guilty plea for crimes that he DID NOT commit.  The State is guilty of prosecutorial misconduct surrounding the phony indictment 2007-RCCR-181 The State should be ashamed of robbing Mr. Blocker's parents of their health so that they could use Michael Christopher Blocker as a scapegoat to get a series of promotions during the 2008 election year.

The Grand jury INDICTMENT should be removed and Michael Christopher Blocker should be exonerated.

My PNC Bank Experience 2018

PNC Bank has sent me many mailings soliciting my business, but I had ignored their offers like all the other offers that I receive in the mail.

However, in my fight for the #exonerateMichael campaign, a small check written off of PNC Bank needed to be cashed.

My own bank pointed me to PNC Bank because the check was not "my check."  It was endorsed, but not written out in my specific name.  Clearly, PNC Bank would be the best place to cash their check for a falsely incarcerated family member.

So I took a "Power of Attorney" document, certified tracking numbers to show that the mailings came from the prison, and I even had the inmate call in on the prison line that I had set up, but the representative was more interested in me opening a PNC Bank Account.  I informed the representative that I have over 15 years with my bank, but "what have they done for you lately?" is what I was asked. I kindly explained that I had some challenges with my bank over the last couple of years, but we have worked through those times.  I really just wanted to cash the check for my loved one.

He kindly forwarded the Power of Attorney document to PNC Legal even though I did not open an account. After a FOUR day wait, the document was declined because the wording was too restrictive.  We quickly got another Power of Attorney document turned around with the power to open and close an account.  Another PNC banking representative told me that opening an account, depositing the check, and then withdrawing the funds back out through a PNC debit card was what needed to be done.  After another FOUR day wait, PNC Legal department declined the second draft of the Power of Attorney saying it was missing the Acknowledgment clause, and it needed to be filed with the Register of Deeds.  So I worked on a third draft of the Power of Attorney.  We got as quick of a turnaround as we could including paying $26 to have the "new document" filed.  The city clerk at the Register of Deeds even stated "how strange it was to register a Power of Attorney document just to cash one check."  I explained that PNC Bank was requiring all of this "red tape" to cash their own check.

Finally, I had the third draft of the Power of Attorney filed and ready for PNC Legal review.  I asked for them to expedite the review because we were already pushing three weeks trying to cash one check. Initially, the response was NO special treatment unless it was a "life and death" situation.  Then after explaining  

• That the STATE prison address written on the check was a "life and death" scenario.  
• PRISON is not day camp.  
• He does not have a job, and he needs his money.
• Can you give me an example of what you call a "life and death" situation?

So the PNC Bank representative was convinced enough to get PNC Legal to review this third draft within two days. Thank God.  Unfortunately, PNC Legal found one more reason to decline the new document.  The PNC representatives explained that they were NOT lawyers, and the lawyers in their PNC Legal Department are apparently not reporting comprehensively enough.  It was clear to everyone that no matter how many "Power of Attorney" drafts that we submit; document approval was not guaranteed even with making suggested corrections.

I thanked the PNC Bank representatives for not making me wait FOUR more days to find out that they still will not cash their own check.  I also told them

• Consumers should not have to hire an attorney to cash a check.  
• Consumers should not have to spend $26 on a filing fee to have PNC Legal department to review a document that they may decline.
• Consumers should be able to pay a check cashing fee instead of going through PNC Legal document deficient review process.
• I would also be willing to talk with someone higher up about my three week banking experience.
• I was in the bank so many times that I should have collected a paycheck myself for working there.

BOTTOM LINE:  PNC BANK could not/WOULD not cash their own check.  Many other online reviews report the same thing.  "Money goes in PNC Bank easy; but hard to get it out!"

OTHER ONLINE PNC Bank Reviews from banktracker.com below:

November 2017 online review

December 2017 online review

February 2018 online review

408 consumer reviews yield  PNC Bank a rating of TWO out of Five stars.

I'm convinced that any future PNC Bank mailings that I receive that don't include a check will be tossed in "File 13" (the trash). 

Lawyer Review: John F. Hanzel, Esq of Cornelius, NC

John F. Hanzel, P.A.

Call log showing that I left John F. Hanzel a voicemail about my displeasure with his negligence.

A Call log showing that I called his office to complete my small claims court paperwork.

Other people have shared their experiences about John F. Hanzel as "Worst than a thief."

Another review on John F. Hanzel stated that he is "crooked as they come."

Avvo Rating for John F. Hanzel as of date of this article: 4.3 (below average/concerned)  Also, it shows that he has been disciplined by a "state licensing authority."

Avvo Rating score defined.

Facts: 
John F. Hanzel cashed two checks that I wrote him.  One check cleared 10/12/2017.  One check cleared January 30, 2018.  John F. Hanzel and I entered into a verbal agreement on September 1, 2017 in order to prevent Coastal Federal Credit Union from renewing a judgment for ten additional years.

I found out in February 2018 by Sheriff Deputy that a judgment was renewed by Coastal Federal Credit Union on December 15, 2017.  John F. Hanzel cashed my second payment to him six weeks after the judgment had been entered on the books.

Summary
John F. Hanzel has never kept me updated on my judgment case.  John F. Hanzel has only returned my phone call one time and that was to pursue a lawsuit against the sheriff deputy that levied all my overhead money out of my business checking account.  Of course, after telling John F. Hanzel the whole fiasco, he then informs me that he is a good friend of that particular Sheriff Deputy and says that it is a conflict of interest to sue this deputy.  However, John F. Hanzel had no problem accepting my money in agreement that he would get rid of the same judgment debt that said deputy levied on my account on a prior occasion.  Did John F. Hanzel "drop the ball" on my case as a favor to his Sheriff Deputy friend?

My small claims case is scheduled for April 12, 2018 against John F. Hanzel.  Hopefully, his breach of contract will yield me enough money to settle the debt.