"Schoenhorn also pointed out Fotis Dulos was previously accused of having a copy of the sealed report, which was prohibited, that ended up in the possession of his defense attorney, Norm Pattis."
Insinuation?
I think it’s smoke. Pattis has been handcuffed by his civil litigation with GF and imo even he wouldn’t be so stupid as to risk more litigation from her. Pattis did it seem pass the tainted case evidence off to Jon Schoenhorn who sat on it for over a year and he wasn’t punished by the state for that. Judge r also did zero that I heard about on the tainted evidence and he didn’t side with State to dismiss atty Jon Schoenhorn either which was disappointing too imo.
So it seems we have a “go along to get along judge” here on the issue of keeping attorneys in order. Sad but his behaviour on this issue simply told me that he is simply going through the motions of processing this trial because he no doubt drew the short straw in the case assignment process as the prior judges have seemed to run for the hills on this case!
The other thing that cannot be discounted is that MT simply stole the report from one of her attorneys. Images taken from Attorney Schoenhorn office from many of his interviews show zero security in place and no obvious signs of locked places to secure a sealed document. I honestly would put a high probability on this having happened but my pure speculation.
Schoenhorn is simply imo doing what he usually does which is throw blame elsewhere and never take responsibility for his own words and actions. Par for the course imo on his and atty Audrey Felsons brand of what I’m calling “gutter law”. Their behaviour in court has been reprehensible imo and Judge r gave them every benefit of doubt and so to see their client with the sealed report to me is simply more proof of their absolute lack of ethics and unwillingness to comply with court rules.
I honestly don’t know why either of these individuals still have law licenses? Welcome to corrupticut I guess is only explanation I can see. I’ve given up on CT Bar to do anything and CT Judges don’t do anything that I can see to police the matter either. KM is another one to add to the list as his license status iirc is “in suspense”! It’s shocking but it’s Corrupticut and it’s how attorneys behave imo.
Defence is vulnerable on this discredited report issue and Schoenhorn in his comments did everything to point the finger elsewhere. But, I believe it was a well planned stunt by the defence team to taunt supporters of JF and now atty Schoenhorn is hiding behind not seeing anything. It’s kinda like the MT defence so Im guessing his level of knowledge might just be similar to that of MT in the murder of JF!
I do believe both defence attorneys to be complicit here based on what we heard from State yesterday and I hope issue is investigated and if it’s true then they should be punished. It was shameful that episode happened but frankly worse that judge didn’t secure the report and take the computer to protect the victims and reduced entire episode to one of high school rivalries and pettiness.
Frankly I wrote off Judge R after this minimizing statement on the episode as to me it belied zero respect for the issue at hand which was protecting victims and securing the report which he imo did zero on with his ruling. Judge could have issued a longer statement to admonish the gallery and still secure the report but he didn’t and for this I lost total respect. Perhaps he did it in chambers but my guess is that given the obvious integrity issues with both defence counsel that he wanted it all on the record and didn’t trust defence counsel for a chambers conversation. Also he probably couldn’t have the conversation in chambers
as entire issue will need to be investigated and this includes both of MT attorneys, Audrey Felson and Jon Schoenhorn imo.
Atty schoenhorn said also that defendant didn’t get report from him. This simply means he didn’t give it to her but did she take it from his office with him simply leaving it on his desk? I can see this as this is the kind of practitioner he is Imo. Or, did mama a take it from Schoenhorn office
And give it to MT?
Did MT get it from Attorney Felson as so far Atty Audrey Felson had shown zero ability to follow any court orders on the discredited report and had disregarded direct judge admonishments on the topic 5 times that i counted in her cross of Atty Meehan on the Family Court situation. So, we have another atty on the defence team with little professional integrity imo so I could see her letting MT read the report and perhaps even allowing MT to take screen shots too and perhaps that is what was on MT computer screen?
It’s a mess imo but it’s also indicative of the the fact that trust once lost cannot be regained and imo both these defence attorneys have crossed the line one too many times to trust or believe.
It’s all quite sad too as vigorous defence is a cornerstone of our system.
So, we now head into defence presentation imo simply with our hands on our wallets and unable to believe much of anything they or their client put forward.
It’s sad, pathetic and imo was totally avoidable behaviour but it’s sadly where we are with this tragic case.
Moo