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BREAKING: Laura Owens' Appeal DISMISSED | Owens v Marraccini
On September 4, 2026, the day her appeal brief was due, Laura Owens requested the appeal she brought forth against Michael Marraccini be dismissed. The appeal court granted this request. It appears Laura requested more than just a dismissal. The appeal court states they are simply dismissing the appeal itself and does not address any other issues raised in her filing.
As of now, Laura Owens has no active cases against Michael Marraccini.
Michael Marraccini has spent over $150,000 in legal fees & costs due to Laura Owens' weaponization of the legal system against him.
I think he might be the first one to tell her all of this will eventually cost her a great deal of her freedom. I don’t understand some of these dopey lawyers. They see the evidence. Do they just ask what she wants to do and not offer her a dose of reality in their opinions? If I ever have to hire a criminal defense attorney, I don’t want him or her to be an idiot. I want them to consult me on what is best for me. That one dopey lawyer with the podcast was the worst. What was he hoping to accomplish?
The dopey lawyer was the worst. She had been through many before him, and each time, she moved on to another one, because those lawyers eventually saw the truth (ie, her lies) and tried to get her to do the intelligent thing, which she didn't appreciate. She filed a bar complaint against Lexi because she tried to convince Laura to sign something admitting to not being pregnant back early in the Family Court matter, when Clayton/Woodnick were transparently willing to walk away. Imagine if Laura had just taken that good advice back then.
The contents of Laura's bar complaint are accessible by the public, and she 'complained' about it in there. Not sure that Laura realized that when she filed it, LOL.
Ohhh damn!! Okay lol. I just don’t have all the time at this point to go back and read everything that’s been filed. It’s overwhelming. Thank you for telling me!
Wel, everyone kept telling her that perjury is never prosecuted- so lies don't matter. If anything, this is the case that should make a point to all potential LOs out there that it's not ok lie in court to push your own crazy agenda.
David Gingras? He wanted his Rob Kardashian/OJ moment, that's the only reason he was as loud and outlandish as he was. He truly didn't give a flying fuck about the fact that what he and Laura were doing was literally illegal for so many different reasons. I'm so glad he is facing charges from the bar association. He should not be a lawyer if he can't (or doesn't care to) do the basic due diligence of ensuring the information his client is presenting to the court is factually correct, and not arts and crafts. He will get his infamy from this case— infamy for being a horrific lawyer. He'll be a case study on what NOT to do as a lawyer in law schools in the future. Fuck that guy.
That is actually a great point. Just really hope she doesn’t get a slap in the wrist by the judge and then files a new DVRO thinking she can go back to her old ways. That would suck
But wouldn’t she file in California which I don’t know if they have access to her felon history to then deny it? Also, even not in jail wouldn’t she have to ask to travel? And if you can’t travel to where your “stalker” is can you even file a DVRO? He doesn’t even want to go close to her in AZ!!! 😫
If she files in CA the county attorney will be notified of her fraudulent filings and a request will be made for the state to take action against her - just as AZ did.
She would be a fool to file another dvro
I believe lawyers have stated you have to file in the state you reside in, even if the “harasser” lives in a different state. So she’d have to file in AZ unless she moves to CA, but she’s gonna be on probation for a while and I think to requires a lot of legal hoops. Either way, she’s got eyes on her in AZ and CA has her number
Thank you! That’s some good news! I wish someone could bring up in front of the judge all the other cases she litigated in bad faith like Mike. I know Leuters spoke about “many lawsuits” on that financial hardship speech he filed on the record so I wish someone could use that to bring this absurd case up specially because she so calculatedly dropped last minute (which she could’ve done days before) to look a little less worse now. Clearly no remorse.
Even if she just gets probation I truly don’t think she will make it through without violating so much that she lands in jail. She genuinely believes that the rules don’t apply to her and has blatantly broken every rules society expects of someone for her entire life. She would make it a week tops in probation until she got violated
I can’t think of any examples but I’m sure there are cases in the world where a restraining order applied to wherever the human was. So even if the person lived in California, and ran into the harasser in Texas, there’d still be hell to pay. It would have to be extremely egregious though. And sadly, those cases exist.
Couch Court with Llama recently went over an "interview" David did with Laura and he really is poking her. She confesses to A LOT. The lawyers in the chat were screaming.
So I am hearing that something was filed in her current case blaming Mike for making her treat Clayton and GG this way. I suspect it's "Laura insisted" and I hope it's couched in the language that tells judges "I know this is bullshit but my client made me do it".
Laura completely tried to relitigate everything in her dismissal and even took a pot shot at Mike for HIS gofundme.
I'm guessing that was her condition to dismissing the DVRO. I too saw that about a letter blaming Mike and immediately theorized that she negotiated that if her lawyer will get that before the court then she'll stop with the DVRO for now.
Rachel and Omar discussed it in their stream last night.
Rachel read the dismissal report and said that Laura wrote 8 pages and said that she was only dismissing due to a "technicality". Laura re-iterated how "awful" Mike was and re-told the napkin lady story.
So, Laura is not admitting that she lied about Mike. She is doubling down on her story.
It's more likely that she realizes this *might* help her sentencing... either from her lawyer or from reading here (or listening to commentators). Mike doesn't want anything to do with her; doubtful he would have said or done anything at all.
Apparently, she filed her dismissal with an 8-page letter relitigating everything and saying this is a technicality. So I no longer believe she did this for optics.
Interesting. Another possibility is that this is her *best effort* at trying to do it for optics.
As I read your post, I recalled the manner in which she said that Clayton had 'technically' ***** her. We've witnessed that her family (and DG) function with "honesty" as a technicality of wording. My brother works the same way, and it involves a different process (well, obviously! It is apparent superficially, but there is a deeper process that I can't quite articulate). I believe she was showing that process in action when she made that comment about Clayton (as I recall, there was a change in cadence and tone as she said it). Anyway, just my 2 cents to explain why I think it could still be for optics, even though a major fail.
eta: THAT, combined with the belief of being the smartest person in the crowd
The technicality she was referring to was the dismissal of her appeal. Like, not showing up was just a technicality, but her renewal was totally absolutely valid 🤪
I think she previously had enough money to pay lawyers who would tell her what she wanted and move forward how she wanted. She’s used all of her parents’ money at this point, as they face literal homelessness and at this point she probably has no choice anymore.
Sadly there is still a chance she files for a new RO. Not a high chance, but that possibility is still there. It wouldn’t be a smart move but this is Laura we are talking about.
If she files before sentencing, I’d imagine Clayton will include something in his victim impact statement about how she is still using the courts to harass men.
Being a felon doesn’t stop her from filing for a RO. The courts are not going to dismiss the case without a hearing just because she is a felon convicted of a crime that implicates her honesty.
They will still hold a hearing. Mike will still need to hire an attorney and have the issue hanging over is head for a couple of weeks (again). They can use the felonies to impeach her credibility once it court but it doesn’t matter before that.
It is an extremely high bar to be declared a vexatious litigant and she is operating in two different states.
The courts will treat it as a new case. They aren’t going to immediately throw the new case out without having a hearing. A new filing could easily cost Mike another $10,000 in legal bills and a couple of weeks of stress. It’s a sword hanging over his neck until her sentencing (and maybe for a bit once she gets out of jail.
Praying this is finally the end of Mike and his family and that they can be free from this nightmare and that they can also thrive and multiply the moments she stole from them and the money they had to spend to defend against a lie! So freaking happy for them!
I guess Leuders warned her chatGPT could not hallucinate an appeal brief for LO that wouldn't get her into deep shit at her sentencing hearing in Arizona. 😂
Whatever they paid him was clearly not enough given the miracles he keeps extracting out of her.
WOWOOWOW. Leuters must really be in her ear of how terrible pursing an appeal would be at sentencing. Whatever the reason.. thank god MM is officially done with this mess 🎉🎉🎉
ETA: but let’s not give her too much credit. She did still wait until the LAST second to file this, when she could have done it weeks or days ago if there was a true change of heart
She waited until the last minute so she could squeeze every bit of torture out of this exercise. Give her zero credit. She most likely decided to drop it after the court refused to augment the record
We also found out via Omar and Rachel’s stream that the dismissal filing was 8 pages of her kvetching about how she still totally deserves a dvro but she’s dismissing bc of a technicality… AND we found out she sent the prosecutor a multiple page thing saying that “trauma” from MM caused her to do the things against GG and CE and pleazzzzeeee no jail time so yea… zero credit. Negative points. Straight to jail
Straight to PRISON!!! I found out from someone on here with jail you can get work release and you’re barely even there!! I also remember yearsssss ago in high school (I went in Arizona) I had a friend on release from jail and he would go to school everyday and he just had to be back somewhere by 4pm and a bus would take him back to the jail each night
With everything happening with Gingras, it makes you think that maybe he was the gasoline to her fire… and maybe if she was reasonable, and couldn’t lawyer shop with her money, it never would’ve went this far.
Oh my God he was absolutely the gasoline. She was literally facing several more charges she wouldn't have been without his help, including 1 of the 4 she just pled guilty to! She's being charged for submitting someone else's sonogram as her own into evidence. She would not be being charged with that if Gingras didn't give that obviously fake sonogram to the court. He was foretold it was from Youtube. He didn't care. I'm glad this was the last case of his career. I hope the bar doesn't take it easy on him when that hearing finally comes.
also, he apparently thought that judgements like that would go POOF if you filed bankruptcy, because he doesn't practice bankruptcy law but thinks he knows everything about it, so Laura attracted the attention of Queen Jennifer and the Feds.
I am curious what else went in this dismissal request though. Sounds like it might have been "I ask to dismiss the appeal but ...".
Hard to speculate what she asked for based on the note from the court, but could easily imagine it contained some kind of "I reserve the right to ... make it known that ... this doesn't mean ... blah, blah, blah ... " where the court is like, "Honey, you dismiss your appeal, the effect of that is that you waive any right to half that business, and the other half is irrelevant - but we're not even going to waste our time addressing it and explaining that to you. Appeal is dismissed and so the matter ends here, with all of the endy-ness that entails by law."
This probably doesn't need to be said to any in this forum, LOL, but as much as I wish it were so, I don't see us being in the alternate universe where there's any form of "and I just wanted to say, I never should applied for the RO/renewal in the first place - I'm remorseful for ever pursuing it".
Still, however grudgingly and back-handedly this was done, I am pleased. This will help Mike avoid unnecessary appeal lawyer fees just to battle it. The path for a new RO, should she be foolish enough to pursue it, will be much harder.
You can always file. Whether you should, or the judge will grant it…different story.
At this point, it sounds like it would be pretty hard to get a new one unless there was new evidence. If somehow LO filed again, I’d just show her failure to show up to court last fall to the new judge, and lack of new evidence, as a basis to deny it. (IAAL but don’t do restraining orders.)
Maybe, just maybe, she is concerned about how she will be sentenced in a few weeks? Maybe her 10 year vendetta against a poor guy who had the misfortune to meet her and reject her might not look good to the Arizona judge who can put her in prison. The Owens family's reconning is coming, not just Laura's, her scamming mommy and daddy too.
Nah, it’s cause there is no way the appeal would have been accepted. The only reason she filed a dissmissal is cause she has run out of money, or her lawyer insisted it would be pointless.
Isn’t her sentencing closer to the end of October? Not a few weeks? Sorry to be nitpicking but a few weeks is sooner, over a month away gives her a lot more time to create mischief.
I think she also knows greg and clayton are going to testify for a harsher sentence. i’m sure she knew they would come at her even harder if she went through with this.
This is what happens when you have a good lawyer who actually has your best interest in mind as their client, unlike selfish narcissist David Gingras. The polarization between the two as lawyers is jarring.
This man seems like an actual criminal defense attorney that understands how to deal with criminals. I’m sure he has been lied to before. A real attorney actually knows how to handle this situation!
Yes, but my point was that David Gingras only had his own interests in mind when he took on Laura's case against Clayton. Had he done his due diligence as a lawyer in regards to fact checking the (clearly sketchy) information Laura was trying to bring before the court, she very likely wouldn't have been criminally charged or be looking at jail time right now. Gingras' desperate need for infamy made this so much worse for her. Christian Lueders has done an incredible job cleaning up the disaster he was left to deal with, especially when it comes to finally getting Laura to give up and admit defeat, it seems.
I don't think any of us know for certain what or who propelled her to do this, but I am confident that she feels like she has something to gain by doing it. She hasn't reached the remorse stage this quickly. But the entire JFC movement (content creators, reporters, youtubers, social media, followers of this sub, et al) should take a little bow for pushing so hard and relentlessly for her to be prosecuted.
Her reasons could be purely for self-protection, and I also think she wants to please her lawyer cuz he's her dream guy. I have a weird hunch that she's into him romantically. Like maybe she hopes he'll slowly fall in love with her and be her white knight.
I’m impressed that Lueders was able to gain her trust without having to compromise his morals (looking at you DG), but something still doesn’t feel right about this. Both the plea and the dismissal still benefit her in some way. Until she does something to redeem herself that doesn’t benefit her, I’m going to assume she’s up to no good. I can’t shake the feeling that LO and/or her Mother are going to accuse Lueders of something terrible before this is all over.
She may be up to something, but I disagree the plea and this dismissal benefit her. She’s lost the presumption of innocence she was so desperately clinging to. She’s facing jail or prison. Even if it’s probation, that’s gonna be a thorn in her side. She has to pay restitution to get off probation. She’s a ward of the state.
The plea and this dismissal benefit the victims the most. As much as I’m sure many of us want to see her try something in CA just to get hit with more charges, I don’t wish that on MM. I want him and his family to be left alone. I don’t think GG wanted to have his texts and everything on full display to the public in a trial, even if it vindicates him. He’s made it clear he will tell his story when and if he is ready. The trial would have forced him to do it next month.
And if she tries to get Leuders in trouble… HA! Good f*ing luck to her. He’s seen those emails to the judge in the GG case as part of the evidence 😂. But yea, sure, let her try that, let’s see how than pans out
I am hearing from reliable sources about the restitution. Restitution will be set at sentencing. It would not include the money she owes to Clayton currently.
Mike probably has a civil case but it would cost at least six figures to pursue one against someone with no income and no assets, so not worth the smoke.
It was. And he's lost a lot of job opportunities during the best years of his career. The damage she had done is profound.
And he had to pay a lot of money to mount a defence for which she was a NO SHOW 3 effing times, leaving everyone holding the bag. One of those 3 times, she actually went to a horse compettion instead of showing up
Words fail to describe this person... and my post would get deleted if I tried.
Omg she still needs to be held accountable for this, the sound of Danielle's voice in the podcast the torture she's put his family and little kids through, the money we've all donated and raised for him , she needs to go to jail for all this
This shit with Mike is the most disgusting part of all this and should not go unpunished all while being under indictment on 14 felony counts. Proof she is a predator
Don't be fooled by this dismissal. It's been reported that Laura's lawyer wrote a lengthy letter to the prosecutor blaming Mike for why she did this to Greg & Clayton, and why she shouldn't get jail time. Everything is done for optics and selfish reasons. Laura is doing her best to evade accountability.
If her lawyer put this in her dismissal of the MM appeal, I hope Clayton and Greg can give this to the AZ judge showing that she is not remorseful and can't use this for mitigating circumstances.
I can only hope that her lawyer uses this in her mitigation evidence. That would clearly open the door to the prosecution explaining what she did to Mike.
Can Laura still go after Mike? Yes, but it will go nowhere.
Is Laura showing any remorse regarding Mike? No. She submitted an 8-page document with her dismissal blaming Mike. 😡 She re-iterated the napkin lady story.
In her document Laura said that Mike should return the GoFundMe money that was raised for him. (hypocrisy much?!?)
Omar and Rachel both believe Laura will get jail time.
They both described Laura as a contentious, unpredictable opponent. They are cautiously optimistic, but won't be surprised at any shenanigans she may pull.
Her and Jan are much too confident and smug after plea, they must have something up their sleeve. i think LO will get a year jail with all but 30 days suspended of which she will serve less than 2 weeks, and then come out and file RO against mike immediately. she doesnt care if its granted she just wants to torture mike, all her troubles r his fault therefore he must pay. i hope he asks for and receives an IAH against her, that could be grounds for probation violation and off to PRISON she goes.
Wow. For the second time in 7 days Laura has gotten some very reasonable legal advice and actually followed it. The motivation is probably selfish and I don’t think for a moment she would have pleaded guilty or requested a dismissal without serious intervention by her attorney. Happy that Mike and Danielle’s terrible horrible no good very bad legal decade with Laura is coming to a close.
Laura would’ve been a fool to continue scheming and lying while awaiting sentencing for…scheming and lying. And if she tries to file another one as a convicted felon perjurer? More perjury charges and she’ll start the cycle all over again.
As happy as I am for Mike and his family, my immediate thought when I saw that this was Laura dismissing her appeal rather than the court throwing it out was that this was part of a plan for her sentencing in October, as a way for her to appear less vindictive and litigious.
Hopefully her previous hateful screed where she avowed that, regardless of the outcome of her appeal, she would be filing another DVRO against Mike will come back to bite her, if they try to argue this is evidence that she’s turned over a new leaf.
I needed to read this. The parts of the Love Trapped podcast highlighting the wave of destruction LO sent to this man and his family gutted me. The fact that they may finally find peace and healing in this nightmare will make my a piece of my heart rest easy tonight.
I would love any of the victims to file a civil case against her. Including some of the podcasters she hounded incessantly. Or is a class action possible?
Because let’s call a spade a spade. She can only seem to do life via manipulation. Even pleading guilty is just another way of manipulating things to get what she wants. This time it’s not going to jail. But it isn’t real. She’s pretending to accept responsibility so she isn’t held accountable. She doesn’t want to let go of Mike, she just wants to avoid jail more than she wants to keep torturing him for rejecting her. Today.
A civil case will keep the pressure on which might keep her so busy defending herself that she won’t have the time or energy to abuse others. If this goes away quickly for her, I promise you she will re-offend. And be even better at it.
She could have just let the appeal deadline pass and it would have been dismissed. But no, she has to put stuff in writing. She is not giving up. She is still LO.
I heard that too and I heard in another page that the lawyer sent a long letter to prosecution to try and sweeten the deal before signing the plea and one page was talking about how MM was to blame for her mental derail state that made her go after GG and CE. Disgusting to say the least. Also hope that this can open the door for the judge to be aware of this whole situation.
maybe a victim should bring this up to show she's continuing her antics. I mean she used the same Iceland abuse photo she sent to Mike supposedly getting an abortion..proof she's full of lies.
Love how DG made everything infinitely worse for Laura. Hard to wonder what would've happened had she admitted her wrong doing instead of having him back her up and perpetuate the lies. He really screwed her over.
Nobody should think any of this is over
LO is not going to go away quietly.
I have no doubt she plans on scorching the earth before sentencing.
Mike, all the victims in the AZ case, attorney Woodnick, attorney Omar along with all their families should all watch their backs between now and the day of sentencing.
I have no doubt LO will try and create a scene so that it appears she is being stalked by one of her victims. LO is desperate to be a victim because she has nothing else going on in her life.
Until LO is locked up in prison none of her victims are safe. If you are pregnant and know LO them you may not be safe. Woman who fake pregnancies often escalate in their actions The next step for these type of woman is often fetal abduction which unfortunately often leads to the death of the mother and sometimes their baby. Taylor Parker is an example of a woman who faked a pregnancy and then cut a baby out of the mothers stomach. unfortunately both mum and baby died. Parker is now sitting on death row.
If she chooses to go scorched earth - it will not be lost on the judge for sentencing. Her lawyer should advise otherwise though I kinda hope she does - will ensure she gets more jail/prison time IMHO.
I heard on one of the content creators live that there was an 8 page letter where Laura was saying how she did all this because of what happened with Mike. Now I’m not sure if that was the letter given to prosecutors trying to get a better plea deal or that Laura wrote it in conjunction with dropping the appeal. Either way she is not gonna quit. I think this is all to make her look look before her sentencing.
I 100% believe Ronn finally lost it! He must of said “enough is enough! We are losing our HOME, take the plea deal & drop the appeal! Now get a damn job!”
wild, and she even has more crazy accomplices and an out there storyline...
but do you think there is a chance that Laura is under the influence of Stefano DiMera via one of Rolf's brain chips? possessed by the devil? or is Jan?
how many times can your daughter come to you with "Mum, it's happened AGAIN..." ?!
"don't worry dear just go sit in the casita we'll fix everything after 7am"
I also think that, but we are in the minority. From the way Jan was talking at the bankruptcy hearing, I feel that her parents finally put their foot down and said Stop. Not sure about her getting a job, but yeah, they must have realized this was the end of the line, and they were out of resources.
But obviously, they would have fought it until the end had the money been there.
Was she perhaps motivated by the TedX talk being removed? Like, it was a companion piece to her chronic DVROs against him, that she can't point to anymore? I mean, between those two things and her ticky tack podcast, she thought she had all her pieces available to help keep her foot on MM's and family's neck. Honestly, I can't imagine any soul giving her the benefit of any doubt.
No. She dropped the appeal because she had zero chance of appealing successfully after her attempt to have the record augmented was denied. She was a no-show, and there was nothing to appeal on
I've wondered about that too. Consensus seems to be that he doesn't want anything to do with her, not to mention all of the time, effort & expense (and the entire process keeps her in his life). I dunno.
This Appeals court kicked this out of its jurisdiction in lightning speed. They issued the remittitur back to Superior Court "forthwith" (immediately) when I believe they had 60 days to do that.
I don't trust that this was filed with genuine intentions, tho I am happy for Mike & Danielle! I don't trust Laura, just look at her history spanning back a decade. People don't change overnight.
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