Arthur Guilford Dudley

Art was super communicative in the beginning with me, and then it seemed like maybe he was getting old, maybe he has dementia or something, but he just stopped. He was working on my dads appeal, and would give me updates whenever I called and then one day he just stopped returning my calls, wouldn't ...respond and then I realized he hadnt done what he said he was going to do and it almost cost me my dads life. My father had a mistake on his prison record, he won his appeal and those charges were completely erased from the judicial system, but not from the prison system, dudley sent us his appellate decision to help my dad inside by clearing his name with the inmates, which I appreciated, but he then promised he would have it removed from the prisons system as well, and he never followed through, so when my dad was moved to a different prison, they tried to kill him all over again and now Dudley wont take my calls or respond to me, his receptionist used to tell me he was in court or busy or would get back to me, but now she just says hes unavailable and she will tell him I called. The only thing that I can think is that Dudley needs to retire because he has Alzheimer's, dementia or something affecting his brain so heavily that he can't remember what he was supposed to do, but he isn't the attorney he used to be, and its beyond time for him to retire.

I reached Art Dudley by phone after many attempts to discuss reducing my conviction to a misdemeanor subsequent to serving probation. He asked me to send him a letter listing the status and details of my case. He never acted upon my request. When I reached him again he told me that the it will automa...tically be converted after the three year probation expires. Thirteen years had expired and I did a background check on myself. The conviction was still listed as a felony. I had the conviction expunged by another attorney, but remain very frustrated by the way mr. Dudley would not take the time to help me after my sentence was served.