DEFENDANT #3: SUZETTE LOUISE CLOVER (The Vernon Patterson Dossier)

 

Role in People v. Michael Taylor (XNEGA111132)

Presiding judge during the initial imposition of unlawful psychiatric detention, who sanctioned a competency evaluation and subsequent hospitalization based on a sealed order that was never disclosed or served, thereby enabling a constitutional violation of due process and unlawful confinement.

Summary of Involvement

Judge Suzette Louise Clover stands as a pivotal figure in the genesis of the procedural violations haunting People v. Michael Taylor. She exercised judicial authority to authorize the involuntary psychiatric evaluation under Penal Code § 730, despite the absence of an executed court order made known to the defendant or his counsel.

Her rulings facilitated the misuse of mental health statutes to detain Mr. Taylor without the requisite procedural safeguards, effectively endorsing a clandestine suspension of constitutional protections. The evaluation initiated under her watch served as the legal pretext for the defendant's forced hospitalization, lasting from October to December 2024.

Documentation and communications indicate that Judge Clover failed to ensure transparency or due process, including denying the defendant’s timely requests for access to the sealed court order authorizing the evaluation. This omission contributed to a prolonged deprivation of liberty based on fabricated or unsupported psychiatric claims.

Her judicial stewardship during this period reflects a disturbing disregard for procedural fairness and an alignment with systemic mechanisms that weaponize psychiatry against defendants.

Why She Is Defendant #3 in the Dossier:

• She sanctioned an unauthorized psychiatric evaluation that triggered unconstitutional detention.
• She failed to disclose or provide access to sealed orders, denying the defendant the right to confront and challenge the basis for his confinement.
• Her rulings represent an example of judicial endorsement of psychiatric coercion as a tool of procedural suppression.
• By permitting the mental health machinery to operate unchecked, she contributed directly to the deprivation of due process and liberty.

> “Judge Clover’s bench became the gateway through which due process was suspended, and liberty seized under the guise of mental health — a chilling precedent that must not stand unchallenged.”