‘Why are they withholding it?’: Attorney in Jennifer Dulos case wants psych report
Nov 18, 2020
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Schoenhorn has been arguing for months to receive numerous pieces of evidence from Chief State’s Attorney Richard J. Colangelo Jr., who is prosecuting the case.
The contents of the report have been contested by both sides with each saying it made the other parent appear unstable. The Dulos divorce was one of the most litigated cases in Connecticut’s family courts at the time with close to 400 legal actions.
A family court judge initially sealed the contents from public view after the proceedings in mid-May 2019. The court-chosen psychiatrist,
Dr. Stephen Herman, who crafted the report based on interviews with family members, including the children and Troconis,
refused to complete his testimony during the hearing.
The judge later struck the report from the record since the hearing was never completed.
In October 2019, attorney Norm Pattis, who was representing Fotis Dulos in the criminal charges,
revealed some of the report’s contents, claiming it showed Jennifer Dulos was unstable.
Pattis denied his comments violated the family court order and filed a motion to have the document unsealed so it could be used in his client’s defense. However, the report has remained sealed to defense attorneys.
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There's a reason the court struck Dr. Herman's report from the record!
I recall Dr. Herman being challenged during cross examination and leaving the witness stand, failing to complete his testimony, making his $40,000 custody report a moot point in family court.
IMO, Herman sounded more like a guy that had a man-crush on FD than an independent evaluator. He literally walked out of the courtroom here -- leaving no reason for Herman's biased report to ever be read by Attorney Shoenhorn when it had no bearing in family court.
Reportedly, after meeting with FD after JD filed for divorce in 2017, he deemed FD a “gregarious and confident person” with no psychopathic tendencies. This while FD's lawyer was promoting that GF be mentally evaluated for her fitness to be caring for her grandchildren -- alledging GF had a lengthy psychiatric history. Obviously, FD and his attorney's attacks on JD's fitness as a parent were also not spared.
I especially doubt that Herman's report included that Judge Heller restricted FD's contact with his children after he lied about them having contact with MT.
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