Jose “Chille” DeCastro spent most of Tuesday, January 24, 2023 far away from West Virginia. The self-proclaimed champion of Jacqueline “Laney” Hudson’s family did not appear at the sparsely attended rally her family put together in the apparent absence of something bigger that DeCastro had supposedly been privately promoting online.
Reports surfaced last week that DeCastro had been allegedly contacting teens in his efforts to hold a bigger rally in Huntington, West Virginia, and offering to reimburse their travel costs and encouraged the children to cross state lines to come to the rally without parental permission. At least one report was made to the FBI.
This set off a firestorm of criticism on Discord channels, with the loudest voices screaming “I DON’T BELIEVE THIS!” coming from those who admittedly, didn’t watch the source live streams, didn’t read the coverage in either long or short forms, didn’t watch when actual news organizations picked up the coverage of Tuesday’s rally or do anything more than sit in their echo chambers, working themselves up to make accusations without facts.
For all of the debates in all of the screaming in Discord forums and chats, there was one voice missing: Jose “Chille” DeCastro.
DeCastro is one to fire off a cease-and-desist letter to anyone who crosses his path in a negative fashion. He has shown that he will bring contempt charges against Kate Peter in his lawsuit against her, Josh Abrams, 50 John Doe YouTube creators, 20 John Doe YouTube workers and YouTube itself, if she even mentions his name. His response to Monday’s circulation of an e-mail purported to be written by him was an immediate denial and declaration that he’d never stop in his quest to overturn Terry vs. Ohio.
Yet as the firestorm rages and the debates are held over what he’s alleged to have done or not done, DeCastro remains curiously silent. His echo chamber is smaller than most of the “big name” YouTubers in the First Amendment (1A) Auditing Community, even as he assembles his alleged “Auditors United” team under his sole authority, but he has never shied away from denying wrongdoing or protecting his innocence even when he clearly wasn’t.
His recent pledge to the family of Jacqueline “Laney” Hudson to be their biggest supporter and the only voice worth listening to, was put aside on Tuesday as he failed to show up in support of the family’s efforts to bring awareness to their case.
The gathering started with four family members, swelled to twelve friends and family members as a local news crew arrived and finished with about four family members; there were no reported incidents with police. While a good portion of the crowd was made up of teenagers, they did not appear to be in distress.
Tuesday’s gathering would be considered big for a DeCastro gathering (his last attempt in Oklahoma brought in 3, including himself and Deboraugh Rogers, the subject of the gathering), but by most accounts he largely had no involvement in Tuesday’s gathering, leaving the family without support of the man who stated he’d drop everything for them.
Tuesday’s responses by Google in Jose “Chille” DeCastro’s suit against it, Kate Peter, Josh Abrams, 50 John Doe YouTube Creators and 20 John Doe YouTube workers and the Lawrence County defendants in his case against the City of Ironton had a similar theme: they both state that Jose “Chille” DeCastro failed to state a case against them in his latest filings and moved both judges to take action to correct his failure to do so.
In the Ironton lawsuit, DeCastro’s last minute reply in the case – after it had already been dismissed – forced the Judge to reopen the case to allow DeCastro’s argument to be heard. His submitted document failed to mention the smaller group of defendants made up of John Chapman, Jane Doe and Lawrence County. As his filing did not set forth any causes of actions against them, the defendants argue that he has abandoned his claims, since he was had been previously directly ordered by the Court to state his claims against them and failed to do so. They’re seeking dismissal of their portion of the case because of it.
In the YouTube/Google case, YouTube/Google is seeking a delay in their response to DeCastro’s revised second amended complaint as he’s already received permission to revise it again and make a third amended compliant; noting that DeCastro failed to attach a copy of the third amended complaint to his motion and the Judge failed to give him a time table of when that motion was due.
DeCastro’s amendment to his second amended complaint did name YouTube/Google as a defendant but essentially failed to state why he was suing them, what exactly they did wrong or even what he wants from them for their alleged wrongdoing. Because of this, and due to an illness with their lead attorney, they’re asking the court to allow them to have thirty days to reply to DeCastro’s third amended complaint once he files it.
YouTube/Google indicated that it did have a preliminary discussion with DeCastro on the 19th of January in which he refused to give a timetable for producing his third amended complaint and stated that he would wait for YouTube/Google to reply to his amendment to his second amended complaint before drafting that third complaint.
The argument made by YouTube/Google is that they essentially have nothing to reply to in DeCastro’s current filing and simply would be wasting time by filing a response to the current complaint.
YouTubers MERB and DogTective were ecstatic over the filings in reaction videos, links featured in our “Live Streams” area below, with MERB claiming to be orgasmically happy that “real lawyers” have entered the case.
