DEFENDANT #34: RODRIGO ISMAEL PADILLA HERNANDEZ #339523 (The Vernon Patterson Dossier)

 

Role in People v. Michael Taylor (XNEGA111132)
Rodrigo Ismael Padilla Hernandez, licensed attorney with the State Bar of California and affiliated with McLane, Bednarski & Litt LLP, is named Defendant #34 in The Vernon Patterson Dossier due to his constructive knowledge of ongoing judicial and prosecutorial misconduct and willful failure to report or respond, despite being included in firm-wide notifications and documentation.

Padilla Hernandez joins seven of his MBL colleagues already named in the Dossier for active complicity through deliberate omission, including:

• Marilyn Bednarski (#105322)
• Barry Litt (#45527)
• David S. McLane (#124952)
• Kevin LaHue (#237556)
• Lindsay Battles (#262862)
• Laura Donaldson (#307638)

And notably, former MBL partner and now Judge Ronald Owen Kaye, a central figure in the constitutional violations underlying this case.

Summary of Involvement

Included in Communications Sent to MBL LLP Concerning Judicial Fraud
Hernandez, through his professional association with MBL, was either directly CC’d or had internal access to email threads in which the following were disclosed:

• A psychiatric competency assessment filed without a court order, violating California Penal Code § 1369;
• Improper venue transfer of a sealed assessment addressed to Judge Clover but filed in Judge Kaye’s court;
• A conspiracy between appointed counsel, judges, and clerks to suppress constitutional objections through sealed Marsden hearings;
• Direct implication of Judge Ronald Kaye, MBL’s former partner, as the judge who remanded Mr. Taylor based on void findings.

Did Nothing Despite the Scope and Severity of Allegations
Padilla Hernandez—like every other MBL attorney—had not just the right, but the ethical duty to:

• Disclaim involvement;
• Acknowledge receipt;
• Notify authorities;
• Affirm ethical distance from Judge Kaye’s conduct.

Instead, he chose absolute silence, aiding in the concealment of what may prove to be one of the most brazen instances of fraud upon the court in California criminal history.


Violations of Professional Duties and Public Trust
As an attorney licensed under State Bar #339523, Hernandez is bound by:

• Rule 8.3 – Duty to report misconduct by attorneys or judges when known;
• Rule 8.4(c) – Prohibition against conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, or misrepresentation, including through omission;
• Canon 3D – Duty of all officers of the court to report judicial misconduct when it threatens the administration of justice.

Hernandez’s silence is not neutrality—it is complicity cloaked in convenience.


Why He Is Defendant #34 in the Dossier

• Had access to material allegations of constitutional rights violations, fraud, and psychiatric coercion implicating his own firm’s former partner—and remained silent;
• Failed to take any affirmative step to protect the integrity of the profession, even as other attorneys, doctors, and judges used procedural voids to detain a man without trial or valid commitment order;
• His non-responsiveness completes the institutional wall of silence that defines MBL LLP’s failure in this case;
• He represents the final link in the firm's passive but deadly chain of complicity.

> “The lie was not spoken—it was preserved in silence. Rodrigo Padilla Hernandez, as the thirty-fourth defendant, shows us that the law’s greatest enemy may not be the tyrant who commands, but the advocate who refuses to answer.”