Am I the only one who is doubting the story about MT sleeping with her daughter due to a storm? (even if LE were wrong about no storm) I can believe that it was part of the alibi and was planned, or that MT was so anxious because she knew what was about to happen that SHE wanted to sleep with her daughter.
This is turning into something of a key issue and so it was amusing that TP fought so hard to have MT cell phone removed from the trial (not that it would prove who physically initiated the call) and then shows up in Court with a HANDWRITTEN summary of phone calls and expects this to be believed. Pure lunacy imo but he did it because its just the way he rolls. Yes, we are to believe a documented liar about lies about her phone calls? Nah...just can't do it.
Almost as funny as his ill informed weather commentary and questioning about whether one airport was closer than the other and yet still never providing a day or time stamp for the video at the Ski Club that showed the rain. To be noted is that I've now checked 4 sources of precipitation data for the date in question and each show no precipitation in Hartford. There could have been popcorn storms in the area but he provided no data on this or lightening either and all this data is readily available. I call this pure laziness as its not hard to do.
Just another example imo of poor preparation (wrong time zone), laziness in not doing the research properly and with integrity, no evidence to corroborate the entire episode with MT allegedly going to her daughters (no direct testimony from MT daughter or even her cell records but these wouldn't prove that the daughter made the call as it could have been made by MT to herself using her daughters phone too OTHER THAN a hand-written call log written by someone that seems incapable of telling the truth about much). Right. I hope the Jury sees straight through this for the BS that it is. Thing though is that TP threw this spaghetti on the wall of the Court simply to see if it stayed and he is doing this over and over with very limited push back from the State or Judge so far as I can see and we see this happening over and over again.
Right, we just saw MT lie about lies over the 2 interviews so far and we are supposed to believe her handwritten list about phone calls because TP shows the list to the Jury?
I was so disgusted by this entire line of questioning that I actually took a brief time out to read the chat on L&C and even there many folks who are paying attention were saying that MT could very well have used her daughters phone to then call herself and nothing existed in evidence to prove anything TP was saying in Court on the matter! Good thought imo from the L&C folks and given MT propensity to lie and deceive I do very much wonder if this isn't precisely what happened? Thing though is that there is a big difference between clients lying or unable to tell the truth and attorneys in Court repeating those lies or putting forth uncorroborated hand written phone logs as being anything remotely similar to evidence.
There is no doubt that AB’s connections would have been beneficial. I think this is why JS tried soooo hard to get the trial moved to the Hartford area-that is where he knows people. I don’t actually think JS is a bad defense attorney-but this is what he has to work with-a lying client, in an arena where he is unfamiliar.
To me, a good attorney is one who at a minimum actually follows up on their words and then does the work in an efficient and timely fashion and respects the time of others, my time and respects my budget. Yes, this is a very low bar for expensive professionals but its CT and so even with my low standards its hard to locate many that can meet this very low bar imo. TP imo doesn't even come close to meeting my sadly low bar. Not close.
I just wasted a 45 min listening to one of the many pretrial zoom calls between Judge, TP and State (the Herman report was discussed but not resolved, endless moaning about MT ankle bracelet and other admin matters). TP had been fighting hard for the Herman report for months at the time of the video and what I do find stunning is that NOBODY from the State pushed back to explain to the Judge what this report was and that it is part of a sealed record. We saw zero from the State on the report in this hearing and frankly I found this appalling. No wonder this document ended up being discussed in the Troconis trial as it seems the State did zero to keep it out. So far as I can see from this hearing the then Atty Colangelo and his colleague at the State did zero to protect DV Victim JF regarding this discredited report and this frankly disgusts me on a most basic level.
But what I find particularly disgusting and wrong is that TP lost his case to have the family court documents made available AND YET he is still waving this report around in Court and Judge R is allowing it.
Even listening to the hearing at 1.5x what hit me was that TP simply wants to complain, doesn't follow up on open items or emails and over and over wants the State to do his job for him and complains bitterly if someone actually asks him to work or read documents. The classic complaint was about discovery and not having read it even though it was delivered, "Judge, the State dumped a huge pile of documents on me and I haven't had time to read them". It was never ending complaining with zero evidence of ever having attempted to do the work. It was just a time wasting, paper pushing and client billing game from TP but perhaps that is what the Troconis Crew want to have happen? Endless delay, keep MT out of CT and jail until her daughter can graduate from high school so they were willing to pay for TP to effectively waste the Court's valuable time for YEARS! Great, because its what happened.
If I were the client I would be beyond annoyed as he is simply wasting huge amounts of time "on my dime". Simple and easy example, TP was arguing for over 2 months or so for return of items siezed at one of the raids and items taken include things from MT daughter and Mama Troconis. Spent long time moaning about situation. He never responded to State with information about the items taken so the work could be done to eliminate or not the States need for particular item. Something so simple to handle between the Defence and State had to instead be kicked up to waste a Judge's time to make the simple determination for TP to provide the state with general descriptions (Apple iPad with stickers on it or Dell Computer etc. but give them something to work with as many electronic items had been siezed). At the time I believe the State might have been over 2 years delayed with trials due to COVID, didn't have enough Judges, couldn't schedule the Troconis trial due to COVID delays and instead what we see is TP wasting over an hr of Judge time with administrative matters that had he actually done the work could have been resolved months ago in a matter of maybe 1/2 hr. Ditto for his client on this issue, they provided zero information as to how to identify their electronic items either yet were screaming (we saw this in Mama Troconis on the matter of her siezed laptop in a pre trial hearing) that their rights had been violated by the State.
I also don't think TP is a good attorney because his language is imprecise, lazy and factually incorrect often. Another example from the time wasting zoom meeting referred to above. TP said that Mama Troconis is a "psychologist" and needs her laptop and electronic devices returned.
The APA.org defines Psychologist as follows:
Summary of Education and Training
Psychologist
Degree: MA, PhD, PsyD, EdD
Training: Graduate courses in human behavior, development, personality, research, statistics, psychotherapy, assessment, ethics. Two years for master's degree, four to six years for doctoral degree, followed by one to two years of full-time internship.
Can prescribe medications: In certain states with additional training.
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Mama Troconis simply has a Masters degree based on public information with no additional degrees to imo be called a Psychologist either by TP or anyone else. I believe that before she lost her license to practice in FL she was licensed as a Counsellor. There might be one or a few states that allow licensure for Psychologists with only a Masters but the last time I checked it was just WV; perhaps things have changed or did Mama Troconis relocate to Wheeling and is practicing there? I still wonder though why her former business that I believe was ordered to be shut down by the Federal Prosecutor in FL appears to still be in business?
This example is a somewhat minor point about someone of no significance but it gets to my fundamental issue of lack of authority and integrity of TP. My point is that TP did not refer to Mama Troconis correctly and effectively lied to the Judge and imo to the Court as to who she was. But, my bigger issue is if someone isn't going to take the time to speak with integrity and honestly which imo TP does not do then imo its frankly impossible to believe anything this person is saying. Titles such as Psychologist are important and this one in particular involves significant academic commitment, effort and clinical work to obtain. To just toss out that someone is a "psychologist" when they aren't is imo wrong, misleading and quite simply a lie.
We have seen similar examples of falsehoods from TP over and over and he seems to practice the type of law where he feels its ok to behave and say whatever he wants and then simply challenges others call him on the misstatement and lies.
I frankly thing the State of CT does not need someone like this as part of the bar and I've frankly been appalled at his imprecise/misleading/wrong statements seen just so far in the Troconis trial.
TO a certain extent I blame the State for not being forceful enough in calling out the flat out wrong statements made. But, the reality is that the system of law has standards of behaviour that are assumed to be followed and so to see this not consistently happening is burdensome as well as obstructive to a process that is already challenging to execute.
Following the rules of the Court imo is important as is integrity and honesty in words and deeds and sadly I don't see any of this from TP and that disturbs me greatly.
MOO