The Dallas County District Attorney’s office is investigating allegations that a justice of the peace court fabricated a hearing notice in a Mesquite woman’s...
that they do not believe the hearing notice placed in Hardaway’s file was one normally produced by the court. A hearing notice alleged to be fake is a Microsoft Word-generated document dated June 14 and signed by Williams.A hearing notice used in a woman's eviction case is under scrutiny after an attorney for the tenant alleged in a suit that a court fabricated the notice, which appears unlike other computer-generated ones.
Melton inspected Hardaway’s case file on Aug. 16 and found a notice of a new hearing date, according to the suit. The same clerk who helped Hardaway review her case file on Aug. 5 told Melton that she “did not recall seeing that page in this file” weeks earlier, the suit alleges. O’Brien said the allegations of fraud have no merit and that she has no reason to believe Hardaway did not receive notice of her eviction hearing.
O’Brien said the clerks who testified in the suit filed by Melton have “violated Dallas County Policy by not going through the proper chain of command and making their allegations known to me or Human Resources at Dallas County.”
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