Dulos case: Defense seeks state evidence with emergency order
The emergency order, filed Tuesday by attorney Norm Pattis, asks the judge to compel the state attorney to share the evidence “critical” to his client’s defense. If the state does not play ball, Pattis asked that the state be prevented from using any evidence it won’t share in the prosecution.
“Given the extraordinary public interest in this case, and given the fact that scarcely a day has passed since Ms. Dulos vanished in which there is not a press account repeating the suspicion that Mr. Dulos engaged in foul play, it is fundamentally unfair for the state to withhold this evidence while the jury pool is daily exposed to adverse publicity about the case,” Pattis wrote
Pattis claims the state has evidence that Fotis Dulos was not present at his estranged wife’s home on the day she was reported missing, but refuses to provide it to the defense. He requested that the state provide evidence regarding Troconis’ interview with investigators, as well as information pulled from Fotis Dulos’ computers and cell phones.
Pattis argued that his client needs to be given access to these items in order to “perfect his alibi.”