I Bought WhistlinDiesel's Court File

Added: 2026-05-10

[00:00:00]Whistland Diesel's courthouse is about 30 minutes, 20 minutes south from here.

[00:00:03]I'll be calling an Uber and getting down there and getting into his records if they will let me do it. Let's get in the car. It's a real shame the channel doesn't have a budget for a cameraman to follow me on this trip. You're going to be getting a lot of selfie footage and hopefully my camera skills are not absolutely unbearable, but we'll see.

[00:00:26]Okay, I'm outside the courthouse. I'm about to go in and ask the clerk to inspect the records in the case of State versus Debtweiler. Let's see what they say.

[00:00:44]All right, I'm leaving the courthouse. I got the file right here. They were trying to tell me they didn't have to give me the file because I'm not from Tennessee. I'm from Arkansas. And then the head clerk was like, "Nah, but I'll do it anyways." And then the deputy clerk, who's going to make the copies for me, was like, "I don't know if you want this. I got to redact them all.

[00:01:05]You're going to be here for a really long time." I mean, I wasn't even in there for 30 minutes. But they charged me 50 cents a page. I still don't even know what they've redacted yet. But we're going to head back to the studio, get into these documents, and figure out what the heck is going on in Cody Deweiler's case. I went to Franklin, Tennessee. I paid $33 and I got the entire court file in the state of Tennessee versus Cody Shane Deweiler.

[00:01:32]There is a sovereign citizen filing on this docket who was filed by men in Pennsylvania who's never met Cody who CCD the president of the United States and who sign off on his filing. Quote, "Geez, lol." There is a discovery response that says the state has no scientific evidence and there is a scheduling order that tells you in writing that the state and the department of revenue are negotiating a SETTLEMENT COURTS IN THREE DAYS. I'M America's attorney. I've been a lawyer for 25 years. I've helped over 12 million people. Today I'm breaking down the Whistland Diesel court file.

[00:02:04]Actually, before we go any further, if you enjoy this channel, if you are one of the real ones who'd submit an amus brief on my behalf, and that will make sense in a second, hit subscribe. It's free and it helps the channel because it signals to YouTube to go find others like you that may have not yet found my channel. Page 42 of the file filed January 24th, 2026, facts directly to Judge Dena Hood. The caption reads, quote, Amikas Curi, jurisdiction and venue challenge. It's from a man I can only assume is a big Whistland Diesel fan, so we'll call him the fan. He has never met Cody Deweiler. He has no involvement in this case. He just sent it. If you've never seen a sovereign citizen filing before, here's what they look like. He cites Maxim of Law by Charles A. Wiseman. Not a real legal authority, just a self-published pamphlet that floats around these crazy circles. He cites Marbury versus Madison, actually a real Supreme Court case, for the proposition that an unconstitutional law is void, which is true, but not relevant. That has nothing to do with whether Tennessee can prosecute someone for failing to pay sales tax. He cites Black's Law Dictionary, fourth edition. He capitalizes random words. Actually sounds like a text message from my dad.

[00:03:21]He refers to Cody Deweiler as quote legal fiction Cody Shane Deweiler. And then the fan threatens, quote, "If this behavior continues, I will petition the president to send a referral to the DOJ to have everyone involved arrested under 18 USC section 241 and 242." Guys, those are real statutes. They're federal civil rights criminal statutes. They have nothing to do with this case. They cannot be invoked the way the fan is trying to invoke them. And I'm sorry, but the president of the United States doesn't refer criminal cases to the DOJ on behalf of YouTubers. At least not yet. Might do that for Joe Rogan. That's how you know what you're reading.

[00:04:03]Sovereign citizen filings show up in courts all over the country. The theory, and I'm stealing this, is that there are two versions of you. There's the flesh and blood you, and there's the corporate legal fiction the government created when you got a birth certificate. They argue the courts only have jurisdiction over the legal fiction, not over the real you. Federal courts have rejected this theory in every form that it's ever been raised, but only in this universe.

[00:04:30]The Sixth Circuit calls these arguments patently frivolous and without merit.

[00:04:35]Other circuits have called them shopworn, baseless, and they use these words because judges are not allowed to say, >> "Not right here, partner." quote from one seventh circuit opinion, regardless of an individual's claim status, that person is not beyond the jurisdiction of the courts. So, this filing is going nowhere. Judge Hood will not act on it.

[00:04:52]It's not a real amus brief because the fan isn't a party, isn't a lawyer, didn't move for permission to file, and didn't represent any cognizable interest. Don't know if he's ever even been to Tennessee, but he's not currently living in our reality. The Tennessee rules of civil procedure don't let randos just mail filings into a criminal case and have them treated as actual briefs. So why is it in the file?

[00:05:16]Because clerks docket what comes in.

[00:05:18]That's their job. They stamp it. They scan it. They file it. Adjudication is the judge's job. The clerk's office isn't a gatekeeper for legal merit. And it shouldn't be. The system is designed to heir on the side of putting things on the record and letting the judge sort it out. If a sovereign citizen wants to come to your defense by defense, yeah, by faxing a brief to your judge, they can. And it will sit on that docket forever. 9 days after the first one didn't work, the fan sent a second filing. Holy cow. What if this guy starts mailing me stuff? I'm a big fan.

[00:05:50]I'm fine. I'm good. Don't no don't know.

[00:05:52]Don't need no help. He CCed the president of the United States. He CCed the speaker of the house. He CCed Cody Dewweller's personal email address. He claims in this second filing that there was quote a gentleman's agreement between council that Cody might be arrested again but allowed to turn himself in and that this agreement was violated. Look, there's no evidence anywhere in the file that any such agreement existed. Although Cody does talk about it in one of his videos, it's now part of the permanent record in a Williamson County felony case. Let's move on from the crazies for a minute.

[00:06:25]On November 24th, 2025, Assistant District Attorney Carl Hes, that's the guy you're supposed to boo in this story.

[00:06:32]>> Everyone boo.

[00:06:36]>> He filed the state's discovery response.

[00:06:39]It's a one-page document. Item one, all known rule 16 statements attached. Item three, documents and tangible objects available for inspection. And then the item four, I'll read it to you exactly, reports and results of scientific tests, none. Now, I want to be honest with you here about what this means and what it doesn't mean because if I oversold this, I know you'd catch it. Tennessee code annotated 67-1-1440G, the statute that Debtweiler is charged under, requires the state to prove a willful attempt to evade or defeat a tax. Willful, guys, that word IS DOING ALL THE WORK. Scientific tests in a tax case wouldn't be DNA or ballistics. It would be forensic accounting. It would be a Treasury or TBI analyst running the numbers and producing a report that says based on registration history, GPS data, social media geo tags, and dealer paperwork, this vehicle was primarily used in Tennessee, not Montana. And the defendant knew it. Well, that report doesn't exist. The state has told the defense and the judge in writing that it doesn't exist. What the state actually has paper. The state has the dealer's bill of sale. They have the Montana LLC registration. They have publicly available YouTube videos showing the Ferrari being driven, displayed, and ultimately destroyed in the United States. They have Deweiler's own social media. That is a circumstantial willfulness case. It's not a smoking gun case. It's a smoking car case.

[00:08:04]There are no emails between Debtweiler's accountants saying, >> "Let's set up an Montana LLC to illegally dodge Tennessee sales tax." If those existed, the state would be required to produce them and they'd be in this file and they are not in this file. Willfulness is the hardest element in any tax evasion case. The US Supreme Court has said that willfulness in tax cases requires the voluntary intentional violation of a known legal duty.

[00:08:30]Tennessee courts apply a similar standard for state tax crimes. So, the state has to prove that Cody Deweiler, a 26-year-old YouTuber whose accountant set up his LLC, knew he was breaking the law when he registered the Ferrari in Montana. They have to prove that beyond a reasonable doubt to 12 people with paper and YouTube videos and no forensic accountants report. That's not a slam dunk. Let's look at page 53 of the file, the amended scheduling order. This is signed by Judge Dena Hood. The original plea date was March 30th, 2026. It got pushed to May 11th. That's next Monday.

[00:09:06]Here's the part that matters. The reason for the continuence is handwritten at the bottom of the order. It says, quote, "Reset to continue negotiations with the state of Tennessee and TDOR." The TDOR is the Tennessee Department of Revenue, the Civil Tax Authority. Most continuences in criminal cases say additional time needed or scheduling conflict. They're boilerplate. They tell you like nothing. This one specifically names the Department of Revenue as a negotiating party. That is not boilerplate, my friends. That is a tell.

[00:09:38]In tax cases that have both a criminal exposure and a civil tax exposure, the realistic resolution looks like this.

[00:09:46]The defendant's going to pay those back taxes, maybe plus penalties, plus interest, to the revenue department, but civily. And in exchange, the criminal case resolves with a plea to a reduced charge or with a judicial diversion or in some jurisdiction with a deferred prosecution. That isn't a guess. That's how these cases work. And the order specifically identifies the TDOR as a party at the table. Combine that with the discovery response paper case, no forensic report, willfulness contested, and you have both sides looking at trial risk and deciding to talk. Now, court is Monday, people. May 11th, 3 days from when this video goes up. Here's what I think is most likely to happen. Not certain, likely. Either the parties announce a global resolution, Deathweiler pays the TDOR, maybe pleads to a reduced charge or accepts diversion, and the case ends. Like, they just dismiss it, which I think is likely, or they ask for another continuence because the deal isn't papered yet. What I do not expect is a trial date being set on Monday. Trials tend to get set when negotiations fail.

[00:10:48]The order tells you that negotiations, at least recently, were still active.

[00:10:52]So, what does this court file actually tell you when you put the pieces together? You got a 10 million subscriber YouTuber who gets indicted on a class E felony for sales tax on a Ferrari. The arrest video goes out. The internet goes feral. The state files for a gag order. The judge denies most of it. And then the file goes quiet. The state quietly admits it has no scientific evidence.

[00:11:14]The state and the department of revenue quietly start negotiating and they tell that to the judge. A continuence quietly gets entered and the loudest thing on the docket for the last 3 months is this sovereign citizen in Pennsylvania faxing the judge. That's what most criminal cases actually look like when you think about it. They're loud at the start.

[00:11:33]They're quiet at the end. The headlines are about the indictment. The disposition gets a paragraph that nobody even reads. So, do you think Tennessee should accept a civil settlement and let this case go quietly away? What do you think the state's real motive is right here? Is it the tax? Is it the money? Or is it the spectacle? Or, and I'm just spitballing here, does someone in the Williamson County government hate Cody?

[00:11:59]Drop your pro opinion down below in the comments and let me know what you think.

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[00:12:22]Did it go dark? I'm still here. Have you hit?

[00:12:28]Item three, documents and tangible ele scientific tests in a tech but allowed to turn himself in. And that's