As of November 19, 2025, the judge entered a judgment requiring me to pay defense fees:

plus 10% yearly interest

This amount does not include my own attorney fees or trial costs.

This is only what I must pay to the defendants.

This is, in effect, a financial punishment for bringing the case at all.

The judge applied a technical rule called Wyoming Rule of Civil Procedure 68, which allows defendants to recover every dollar they spent after making a settlement offer — if the plaintiff loses and doesn’t beat that offer at trial.

Here’s what happened:

Rule 68 wasn’t created to punish victims.

But in my case, that’s exactly how it was used.

These amounts come directly from the defense’s filings and the judge’s signed order.

The defense hired expensive out-of-state court reporters and now I’m responsible for paying their:

• $903.76 transcription fee (Meadors Court Reporting)
   
• $914.10 transcription fee (Murphy Court Reporting)
   

These aren’t my transcripts —

these are the defense’s transcripts.

Yet I’m forced to pay for them.

The defense flew in a witness who testified for one hour.

I am now responsible for covering his airfare.

Nothing about this cost was necessary.

A remote appearance was an option — but they chose the most expensive path because they knew Rule 68 would let them bill it back to me.

The witness stayed three nights at the Hampton Inn.

Not one night.

Not two nights.

Three.

The defense billed it all — and the judge approved it.

They printed thousands of pages at $0.25 each.

• July: 777 pages — $194.25
   
• August: 63 pages — $15.75
   
• October: 1,571 pages — $392.75
   

Most of this paperwork was created by them, for their defense strategy — yet I’m the one paying the bill.

Yes, they even billed me for individual stamps.

Some as low as 69 cents.

And the court ordered me to pay for those too.

The cost judgment against me is only part of the financial fallout.

On top of being ordered to pay $4,193.66 to the defendants, I am also responsible for my own attorney fees, which are still being finalized.

That amount does not include:

• my attorney’s trial preparation
   
• the 3 days of trial in late October / early November
   
• post-trial filings
   
• transcript coordination
   
• final billing
   
• closing tasks
   

Based on the hours spent, the trial duration, and normal billing practices, the total is expected to exceed $35,000–$40,000 once the final invoice is issued.

And that number includes none of the emotional harm, none of the lost time, and none of the psychological impact of reliving the trauma for nearly two years.

These fees are significant not because of the dollar amount alone, but because of what they represent:

I did everything a person is told they’re supposed to do:

• report wrongdoing
   
• file a civil case
   
• follow legal procedures
   
• tell the truth under oath
   
• trust the justice system
   

And after being found naked and terrified in my own home, after enduring a year and a half of litigation, after going through the emotional strain of a bench trial…

…I am left with tens of thousands of dollars in legal bills and a judgment that forces me to pay the people who harmed me.

This is not justice.

This is punishment for seeking justice.

I’m sharing these numbers publicly because this is what most people never see:

• how the system financially destroys victims
   
• how procedures like Rule 68 silence people
   
• how massive legal bills scare tenants into staying quiet
   
• how going to court alone can wipe out someone’s savings, stability, and future
   
• how losing in Wyoming means you don’t just lose — you are made an example of
   

The reality is:

This is why I’m going public.

This is why my story needs to be heard.

And this is why systemic change is necessary.

This isn’t just a bill.

This is a message.

A message from the system that says:

• Don’t fight powerful landlords.
   
• Don’t challenge insurance-funded defense lawyers.
   
• Don’t expect fairness as a tenant or sexual-privacy victim in Wyoming.
   
• Don’t believe the court will protect you.
   
• And if you dare to seek justice — you will pay for it. Literally.
   

This cost judgment is not about reimbursement.

It’s retaliation baked into procedure.

When you lose a case here, they don’t just let you walk away wounded.

They make sure you stay down.

This is exactly why I’m sharing my story publicly now.

Because no victim should ever face:

• the trauma of the incident
   
• the trauma of the trial
   
• and finally the trauma of being billed thousands of dollars for simply seeking justice
   

This isn’t accountability — it’s intimidation.

It’s wrong.

It’s dangerous.

And it needs to be exposed.

Wyoming uses a little-known rule, Rule 68, that was meant to encourage settlement. But in practice, it gets weaponized by landlords, insurance companies, and powerful defendants to punish victims for trying to get justice.

Here’s how it works — and how it was used against Andy:

The defendant makes a “settlement offer.”

It doesn’t have to be fair.

It doesn’t have to admit fault.

It can even be $0.

In Andy’s case, the offer didn’t come close to addressing what happened to him.

If the victim rejects it and later loses ANY part of the case, they owe the defendant’s “post-offer costs.”

Not damages.

Not attorney’s fees.

But “costs” — a vague term that defendants often inflate, pad, and abuse.

Defendants routinely list costs that aren’t allowed under the law.

In Andy’s case, they tried to bill him for:

• Deposition fees before the offer
• Transcript fees that Wyoming rules explicitly forbid
• Copying costs for thousands of pages nobody used
• A witness’s hotel (not allowed under civil rules)
• Travel that was unnecessary because the witness could have testified remotely
• $477 in unexplained charges

And a cost list they didn’t even verify — which they must do. They asked the court to force Andy to pay over $4,000 after he was the one who was violated and traumatized.

The message to victims is chilling:

“If you fight us, we will make you pay for it.”

This is how Rule 68 is routinely used:

• To scare renters
• To deter whistleblowers
• To pressure people into silence
• To ensure powerful defendants never face accountability

It’s a financial intimidation tool — not a fairness tool.

Andy’s attorney challenged nearly every cost as illegal or improper.

Most of the claimed costs:

• Were incurred before the offer
• Were not allowed under Wyoming rule 501
• Were not necessary for trial
• Were not verified
• Were improperly padded
• Or were simply not permitted under Wyoming law

If the judge allows these costs anyway, it highlights exactly what this website exists to expose:

Wyoming’s court system often protects abusers and punishes victims.

The bigger issue: Rule 68 gives judges enormous discretion — and almost no oversight.

A judge can:

• Disallow improper costs
• Rubber-stamp them without explanation

In Andy’s case, the judge initially awarded “costs” before seeing the actual bill, which is standard — but what she does now will show whether she follows Wyoming law or enables abuse.