Prima Facie Evidence of Professional Misconduct

In re Harry L. Roen, Esquire · Fla. Bar No. 164797

SEEREERAM v. SAITH · CASE NO. 2023-DR-004193-O · NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA · COMPILED BY DEVO SEEREERAM, Ph.D., P.E. (PRO SE)

Executive SummaryWhat this record is, and what you will find in it

This site presents a documentary compilation of professional-misconduct evidence concerning one attorney — Harry L. Roen, Esquire — arising from his representation of the Respondent in Seereeram v. Saith and the related criminal, civil, trust, and federal proceedings. It is a record of conduct, drawn from the filed court file, organized so that a reader can verify each point against the underlying document. Where the compilation draws a conclusion from those documented facts, it is stated as the compiler’s view of the disclosed record.

The subject is not a novice. Mr. Roen was admitted to The Florida Bar in October 1973 — more than fifty years of practice — and he teaches Family Law in the legal-studies program at Seminole State College. The conduct documented here was undertaken by a practitioner who knows the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar as well as anyone in the State, and who instructs others in this very field of law. Nothing here can be explained by inexperience.
41
Predicates
10
Thematic Clusters
20
Bar Rules Implicated
1973
Year Admitted

How each predicate is built

The compilation is not argument — it is structure. Each of the 41 predicates is assembled the same way: the documented facts, with citations to the filed record; a mapping to the specific Rule(s) Regulating The Florida Bar implicated; and, where applicable, a crime-fraud-exception analysis under United States v. Zolin and Fla. Stat. § 90.502(4)(a). Each predicate is independently sufficient to support relief in its forum. The reader is invited to test each one against the cited document.

What you will find — the ten clusters

Live Privilege Invocation & Crime-Fraud Ripening
Predicates 40 · 41 · 17 · 36
The June 3, 2026 blanket privilege invocation over non-privileged source-of-funds questions — why the crime-fraud issue is live today.
Fee-Motion Fraud & the Coercive Settlement Demand
Predicates 9 · 10 · 20 · 15 · 32
A sworn fee affidavit sourced from concealed liquidation, validated by a conflicted "independent" expert; a $3M demand letter with § 836.05 exposure on its face.
Mental-Health Plea Substitution & Witness-Reversal
Predicates 1 · 35 · 5
A documentary plea-term substitution and a coverage-counsel reversal, sheltered by counsel; self-contradiction across two depositions.
Witness Coaching, Intimidation & Evasion
Predicates 18 · 25 · 16 · 28 · 3 · 39
The most reader-legible conduct: witness coaching, a false "wiretapping" accusation counsel knew was baseless, and a UPL-pretext threat.
Financial Disclosure, Source-of-Funds & Asset Concealment
Predicates 12 · 33 · 2 · 4 · 7 · 13 · 6
Counsel-supervised fraudulent financial affidavits, asset-location obstruction, the children's-529 depletion, and the tax-nonfiling admission.
Manufactured / Backdated Loan Documents
Predicates 11 · 37
Backdated loan instruments connected to the litigation; the $50,000 transfer to a dissolved entity with backdated agreements.
Vulnerable-Client Exploitation & Representation Inception
Predicates 26 · 22 · 23 · 38
A coercive retainer at the origin of the representation; direct, continuing notice of client impairment; the "twice-paid divorce" comparator.
Trust, Property & Jurisdictional Foreclosure
Predicates 34 · 31 · 14 · 30
Two false equity-interest allegations and an $11M instanter demand; a Verified Motion filed without the Trust instrument; Article-I suppression.
Litigation-Process Coercion & Procedural Posture
Predicates 29 · 19 · 27 · 21 · 24 · 10
A sustained contempt-and-incarceration campaign against a compliant pro se litigant; fabricated citations; posture misrepresentations.
Notice-and-Continuing-Knowledge Layer
Predicate 8 (with 22–23)
A 47-letter crime-fraud-exception notice campaign met with counsel's continuing silence — the knowledge element under every cluster above.
The Candor Capstone
June 3, 2026 representation
Counsel represented in writing that the Court barred discovery directed to him on privilege grounds. No order, by any judge, on any date, did so.
Living document. The Prima Facie is revised almost every day as the record develops; the current version and date appear on its cover page. Any subject reviewing it should always check the cover for the latest version.

Where to go from here

▸ The full report — all 41 predicates with their record citations and Bar-rule mappings — is in Tab 02 (Full Prima Facie), where each point can be verified against the document it cites.

Designated channel; opportunity to correct. Any correction or correspondence should be directed to Mr. Dennis Miller at dennis@devoeng.com. A subject who believes any item is inaccurate is invited to submit a written correction, which will be reviewed against the record and, where warranted, the item revised or removed. Nothing here is offered for settlement purposes.

The Full ReportPrima Facie Evidence of Professional Misconduct

The complete compilation — all 41 predicates, organized into the ten clusters summarized in Tab 01, each with its documented facts, record citations, and Bar-rule and crime-fraud-exception analysis. Every factual assertion is cited to the filed record so the reader can verify it independently.

▾ Open the Prima Facie (PDF)

This report is updated almost daily. The version number and date are printed on the cover page.