Laura Owens

After Mike and Danielle left the courthouse that day, I sat down with Clayton to process what just happened.

And you know where those tears are coming from.

It's six plus years that this man has had to endure.

Clayton knows better than anyone else what it feels like to try to prove his innocence against Laura Owens.

Clayton was determined to see this thing through.

He'd recently gotten a phone call from one of the state investigators in Arizona.

The criminal case against Laura Owens wasn't finished yet.

She did not burst in while they were... She did.

They kicked her out and paid for her hotel.

And they thought, it's finally over.

She filed a kidnapping report against him in his own police station.

And spoilers, karma's going to show up in the best way possible.

In October 2025, Mike Maricini and his legal team prepared for an evidentiary hearing on Laura's domestic violence restraining order renewal.

This had nothing to do with her criminal case in Arizona.

She'd been charged with multiple felonies five months prior, but the DVRO renewal was an entirely separate legal matter in another state.

After a dramatic back and forth in their first scheduled hearing, Laura filed a disability accommodation request with the San Francisco Superior Court, citing the Americans with Disabilities Act.

It's the kind of filing the courts are obligated to take seriously.

Here's Mike's attorney, Omar Serrato.

Nobody was expecting an ADA request to supersede everything, but it does.

In California, you don't fuck with ADA law.