The Affidavit of Richard E. Giles

As part of Josh Duckett's attempts to have the Injunction for Protection removed from the court because it was prohibiting him from persuing a career in LE (he's a pest control employee) he asked lead detective (and family friend on facebook) to write a statement for the judge's approval.

This affidavit was part of the complete Injunction for Protection file. Here it is below with my notes:

Since the "post" was NOT a "post" but a PRIVATE MESSAGE that could only be seen on MySpace by the sender and the recipient (all of us who have Facebook and MySpace are familiar with messages as opposed to posts), I can't help but wonder...

 

How in Hell was Josh Duckett notified at his place of employment by a friend when the POST APPEARED ON THE NETWORK???????????

 

Injunction for Protection Against Domestic Violence: Temporary Injunction

Here is the Temporary Injunction for Protection Against Domestic Violence with Minor Child(ren)signed by Judge Mark A. Nacke on July 5, 2006:

 

 

 

Injunction for Protection Against Domestic Violence: Infomation on Respondent

This is the Lake County Sheriff's Office Information Sheet:

This is the information on the child:

 

 

 

 

Injunction for Protection Against Domestic Violence - The Petition

Here is the petition for the injuction, completed by Melinda Duckett.

 

 

 

Injunction for Protection Against Domestic Violence: The Docket

The Injunction for Protection against domestic violence was filed in the Lake County Circuit Court. the file consists of 92 pages.  I will post the information in segments. The first is the docket for case # 2006DR1323 with Melinda Duckett as Petitioner and Joshua Duckett as Respondent.

It is presented in most recent activity first.

 

 

1.  The petition for injunction for protection was filed July 5, 2006

2.   Served on Joshua Duckett by Lake County Sheriff Office July 6, 2006

3.   Hearing with both parties present July 12, 2006

4.   Order signed giving Melinda temporary custody and Josh NO contact July 13, 2006

5.   Evidentiary hearing set for Aug 4, 2006 recorded on July 18, 2006

6.   Josh hires attorney Mary Hatcher July 20, 2006

7.   Attorneys requested continuance due to court being delayed (Hatcher did not show up)

      August 4, 2006

8.   The remainder of the docket is the attempts by Josh to have the order dissolved.

 



Petition For Dissolution of Marriage: Duckett vs Duckett

The previous blog article was the Paternity Settlement Agreement.  The following is the 42 pages of the petition for dissolution of marriage, Lake County Clerk of Courts Case N0.2006-DR-1178. I am including the docket for the case as of 3/12/2013.

As you read the foregoing documents look at the dates that the documents originated as well as the dates recorded in the courts. The activity is from June 14, 2006 until the dismissal on September 14, 2006 because of Melinda Duckett's death.

Melinda was granted sole custody of Trenton Duckett on May 26, 2006. She was awarded child support which commenced on February 15, 2006 until such time that Trenton reached the age of 18.
She filed for divorce on June 14, 2006 which included the Paternity Settlement Agreement. Parenting courses for both Melinda and Josh were ordered on June 14th with copies sent to Josh's attorney Mary Hatcher. Service was attempted numerous times on Josh Duckett without success. Then the divorce papers were successfully served on Carla Massero at 4:55 PM on July 3, 2006.  That night at 8:15 PM the threatening email was sent to Melinda's Myspace account. 

Melinda filed a restraining order on July 5, 2006 after filing a police report on July 4. On July 7th, the attorney filed for motion to compel Josh to pay child support, owing for May, June and July at $403 each month and to be held in contempt of  court for non payment.

There was a court hearing held on July 13, 2006 and Melinda was successful regarding the restraining order against Josh on both hers and Trenton's behalf.

With the case at issue Melinda filed a request for a pretrial conference and non-jury trial and was granted a two hour trial to be held in Judge Lawrence Semento's chambers in Taveres, Florida on October 9, 2006 at 1:30 PM. This order was signed by the judge on August 23, 2006 4 days before Trenton was abducted. A copy of said order was mailed to Josh's attorney Mary Hatcher on August 24, 2006.

Then on August 25, 2006 Melinda's attorney filed a motion to consolidate Petition for Injunction for Protection Against Domestic Violence with Minor Child into the Dissolution of Marriage also sent to Josh Duckett's attorney. The Notice of Hearing was to be held before Judge Semento on September 13, 2006 at 10 AM in Tavares.

August 27, 2006 Trenton Duckett was abducted...not hidden from his father...not killed. Abducted.