Deceased/Not Found CT - Jennifer Dulos, 50, New Canaan, 24 May 2019 *ARRESTS* #52

[Morgan10028]

In the deals of all deals, Krystal Kenney agreed to testify against Patrick Frazee in exchange for being allowed to plead guilty to a single charge of felony evidence tampering. After PF was convicted, the Judge sentenced Kenney to the maximum penalty of three years.

That's a deal with the devil by all definitions. I expect KM might receive something similar.

Yes, the plea with KK was absolutely a deal with the devil. If memory serves, KK came clean and worked with investigators MUCH earlier. Not that it will ever be ok, though I suspect the family may never have gotten the answers without that plea.

Just a reminder, Michelle Troconis hasn't assisted the investigation in 88 WEEKS.

I think KM's deal will depend on how much info he gave. HAS to be more than the call post-Albany Ave saying 'they did it', right? Oh, that and testifying against MT.

MOO

 

[Laughing]

You Must Absolutely use a school bus.

IMO.

especially if you can find an image with the camera visible. IMHO, MOO

jmho ymmv lrr

 

[citygirl]

Yes, I have Absolutely No Doubt, this was the reason for her requested black out.

In response to another member's post, the Interpreter for MT was wearing headphones in the snipe of everyone on the Zoom call of that particular court date. He would listen in English on the headphones and then speak to MT in Spanish through the phone. If she were concerned that she would develop a cramp in her arm while holding the phone up to her ear, she could have placed it on speaker phone. NOT.

Bottom Line? MT can most definitely understand ENGLISH and the Interpreter would interfere with her listening in ENGLISH.

IMO.

You nailed it. She was confused, IMO.
What a joke.
More than that, this ploy she played on our judicial system. Bogging down the system with this ridiculous claim. Made up out of whole cloth by her new attorney, JS.
Can't help but wonder what Andrew Bowman is thinking?
Doesn't matter as it only matters to Colangelo, and more importantly, to the judge.
Talk about mocking the system and wasting the courts time.
MOO.

 

[Jmoose]

You nailed it. She was confused, IMO.
What a joke.
More than that, this ploy she played on our judicial system. Bogging down the system with this ridiculous claim. Made up out of whole cloth by her new attorney, JS.
Can't help but wonder what Andrew Bowman is thinking?
Doesn't matter as it only matters to Colangelo, and more importantly, to the judge.
Talk about mocking the system and wasting the courts time.
MOO.

Sigh...As far as I’m concerned, Colangelo and Judge Blawie aren’t as attentive to the antics and the privileges that they are seeing. I don’t understand why she gets to leave the state whenever she wants to, GPS or not. And that business about the translator, well, I guess JS wouldn’t be doing his job if he didn’t secure one for her, but it really isn’t helping her cause. And, it’s costly and time consuming. And I still don’t understand why she didn’t have to be on video for the entire hearing last time-what is the judge thinking?

 

[Tink56]

You nailed it. She was confused, IMO.
What a joke.
More than that, this ploy she played on our judicial system. Bogging down the system with this ridiculous claim. Made up out of whole cloth by her new attorney, JS.
Can't help but wonder what Andrew Bowman is thinking?
Doesn't matter as it only matters to Colangelo, and more importantly, to the judge.
Talk about mocking the system and wasting the courts time.
MOO.

Yep, it's a charade....Here's a Golden Oldie from Twitter posted by Dave Altimari:
Dave Altimari

@davealtimari
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Feb 7, 2020

Full courtroom for the Michelle Troconis hearing, Jon Schoenhorn speaking to her family in Spanish even though they are all sitting in court talking to each other in English

 

[Southernsnooper]

Yep, it's a charade....Here's a Golden Oldie from Twitter posted by Dave Altimari:
Dave Altimari

@davealtimari
·
Feb 7, 2020

Full courtroom for the Michelle Troconis hearing, Jon Schoenhorn speaking to her family in Spanish even though they are all sitting in court talking to each other in English

Yes, IIRC, Fotis Dulos didn’t like it when Michelle spoke Spanish and so one would have to guess that she understands English just fine as she certainly communicated with him for years. Living, working and traveling together.
Moo

 

[Tink56]

Yes, IIRC, Fotis Dulos didn’t like it when Michelle spoke Spanish and so one would have to guess that she understands English just fine as she certainly communicated with him for years. Living, working and traveling together.
Moo

And, I doubt she was speaking Spanish when she was employed in the Middle East....

 

[Niner]

After all the delays - I can now finally shorten this up a bit...

Tuesday, Feb. 2nd:
*Pretrial Hearing (all cases) (Virtual via Zoom) (@ 10am ET) – CT – Jennifer Rebecca Farber Dulos (50) (May 24, 2019, New Canaan) – for *Michelle C. Tronconis (44/now 46) (Dulos’ GF) arrested & charged (6/1/19) & arraigned (6/3/19) with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence & hindering prosecution. Plead not guilty. $500K bond. Posted bond (on 6/3/19). These charges were dismissed (8/28/20) & recharged below. Stamford Sup Court #FST-CR-19-0148552-T Dismissed on 8/28/20.
*Charged (9/5/19) & arraigned (10/4/19) with tampering with evidence involving the borrowed car from work colleague. Plead not guilty. $100K bond. Posted bond (on 9/5/19).
*Charged (1/7/20) with conspiracy to commit murder. Plead not guilty. $2M bond. Bond reduced (1/8/20) to $1.5M & bonded out (on 1/9/20).
*Charged (8/28/20) with 2nd degree hindering prosecution, tampering with physical evidence & conspiracy to commit tampering with physical evidence. No plea entered yet. $500K bond. Posted bond.
Bond info & Court info from 6/3/19 thru 9/21/20 reference post #398 here:
Deceased/Not Found - CT - Jennifer Dulos, 50, New Canaan, 24 May 2019 *ARRESTS* #51
9/29/20 Update: #0167364T & #0148553T: Pretrial hearing on 10/1/20 has been rescheduled to 11/24/20. 11/22/20: Chief State’s Attorney Richard J. Colangelo Jr. contends that the three separate cases filed against Troconis in the death & disappearance of Jennifer Dulos have “cross-admissible” evidence & it would serve “judicial economy” to consolidate the cases. However, defense attorney Jon Schoenhorn says it’s too early in the pretrial process & there are too many outstanding motions to consolidate the cases, which he says could prejudice his client at trial. Schoenhorn fired off his own motion, reiterating his drive to have the cases moved to Hartford from Stamford Superior Court. The motions are likely to be discussed Tuesday, 11/24/20 when Troconis appears via video conference in state Superior Court in Stamford. Case #0241178T (conspiracy to commit murder) is also rescheduled on 11/24/20 & awaiting deposition. 9/30/20: Defense files 3rd Motion to compel disclosure of material evidence & for other legal sanctions.
11/24/20 Update: Cases #0167364T, #0148553T & #0241178T: Troconis has decided not to turn her video on. Judge is requesting she turn it in so at least he can verify it’s her. Troconis kept her camera off the entire hearing—only turning it on before the start so the judge could verify she was there. Judge Blawie: multiple issues will be discussed today. Discovery issues & change of venue request—all from the defense. Schoenhorn: I’ve been given none of the state’s forensic analysis except the final reports. I called the lab to get the rest, but Colangelo has prohibited the lab from releasing anything to me without his permission. Chief State’s Attorney Colangelo: I didn’t order anybody to do anything—just requested we do what we always do. The amount of discovery is voluminous. Colangelo says discovery is voluminous & will be ready for him to pick it up soon. Judge Blawie says it may be premature for oral arguments. Schoenhorn is also requesting that Colangelo says he will not turn over: the sealed custody evaluation from family court. Schoenhorn says he has not received video showing a man—presumed to be Fotis Dulos—riding a bike in New Canaan the morning Jennifer was murdered. Judge Blawie: I think here we have a conflict of rights. I’m going to order the report be turned over to me. I’ll look it over & decide whether any of it should be released. We’ll discuss it more at the next hearing. Now to Schoenhorn’s change of venue request. He wants the Troconis case moved from Stamford to Hartford. Schoenhorn says the Stamford judicial district does not have jurisdiction over this case because the alleged crimes occurred in Hartford & Avon—not New Canaan, where Jennifer was killed. Assistant State’s Attorney Dan Cummings is arguing against change in venue & change in jurisdiction for the state. Next hearing on 1/25/21. Both sides are expected to give arguments in terms of consolidating Troconis’ three cases.
12/7/20: The attorney for Troconis has filed a motion for additional discovery & exams which seems to indicate that Mawhinney has flipped & was interviewed by state police just weeks before he was released from prison." The motion indicates that Mawhinney was interviewed August 31, 2020 (90-minute video) by state police detectives at the department’s polygraph unit, located at is Middletown headquarters. it is unclear if Mawhinney took a polygraph or if that was simply the location of the interview. Schoenhorn has asked for a copy of a test if it exists. Mawhinney eventually signed a statement on Sept. 18, 2020 according to the motion, and was released from prison on a reduced bond less than a month later. Chief State’s Attorney Richard Colangelo, who is prosecuting the Dulos case, didn’t object to Mawhinney being released from prison and his bond reduced from $2 million to $200,000. The video showed Mawhinney discussing with state police investigators conversations he apparently had with Troconis & Fotis Dulos around the time Jennifer Dulos vanished. Mawhinney revealed potentially incriminating evidence against Fotis Dulos & Troconis. In his motion filed Monday in state Superior Court in Stamford, Schoenhorn is seeking information “pertaining to consideration, rewards or understanding regarding favorable treatment, compensation or reward of any kind in exchange for Mawhinney’s cooperation with the state, the investigation or prosecution of this case.
1/15/21 Update: Cases #0167364T, #0148553T & #0241178T have moved to 2/2/21 at 10am. 1/19/21: Attorney Jon Schoenhorn has filed new motions in the Troconis case, including one that asks the court to dismiss all charges & for other relief including suppression & "Franks" hearing. Schoenhorn’s second amended motion asks for her GPS ankle monitor to be removed. That’s something the judge previously denied when he did modify her bond release conditions. The third motion filed is a motion for sanctions for the State's failure to comply with defendant's supplemental motion for dicovery (in regards the interview co-defendant Mawhinney gave to state police this fall right before his bond was reduced & he got out of jail).
*Kent D. Mawhinney (54/now 55) – Murder: Pretrial hearing on 4/5/21. Court hearing re disposition (Violation) & (Spousal assault) pretrial hearing on 3/4/21.
*Fotis Dulos (52) – Committed suicide on 1/28/20 & declared dead at 5:32pm on 1/30/20. 3/3/20: Charges dismissed. The case against Dulos will be officially dismissed in about a year, unless the state decides to reopen it.

 

[sds71]

Alex Kasser has submitted a revised version of her proposed groundbreaking legislation named after Jennifer Dulos that would expand Connecticut’s legal definition of domestic violence to make it easier for victims to obtain restraining orders.

The Greenwich senator’s proposal tightens controls on the number of court filings litigants can make in divorce and custody matters and also lists a range of behaviors that include financial abuse, threats of the loss of housing, stalking, and threatening to publish sexualized images of the victim that would now be considered domestic violence or abuse.

The bill would expand the definition of domestic violence, domestic abuse and family violence in all state statues to include “coercive control,” a set of behaviors that abusers often employ when trying to instill fear to maintain control of their victims.

The behaviors include isolating victims from family and support networks, attempts to restrict resources needed for independence, including money, housing, transportation and health care, repetitive demeaning or degrading behavior, threatening to harm a victim’s children or pets, damaging the victim’s property as a means of intimidation, displaying or referring to weapons as a means of intimidation and threats or attempts to obstruct a person’s right to end a marriage or intimate partner relationship.

“The new version has a consistent definition of domestic violence and abuse, which also includes coercive control,” Kasser said. “The law applies that definition to all restraining orders, divorce cases and child custody cases because those are the forum of which domestic violence and abuse plays out in our family court system.”

Jennifer Dulos sought a restraining order and emergency custody of her five children when she left her husband, Fotis Dulos, in June 2017. A judge, however, denied her request for a restraining order because she was unable to show she was physically abused, according to court documents.The new definition of domestic violence, domestic abuse and family violence will be applied to all statutes that pertain to child safety and custody. The bill also amends divorce statutes to substitute domestic violence or abuse for “intolerable cruelty” and requires the Judicial Branch to provide legal assistance to victims of abuse to help with restraining order applications.

Under the bill, the Judicial Branch would have to commit to training judges and other staff in domestic violence, domestic abuse and family violence and presenting the Judiciary Committee with an annual report.

“If we can achieve and apply the standards laid out in the law, we could save enormous amounts of judicial resources and we would stop the cycle of abuse years earlier,” Kasser said.

The bill has the support of Jennifer Dulos’ close friend, Carrie Luft, who has acted as the spokeswoman for her family as the missing persons case has spanned nearly two years.

Intimate partner violence affects all genders and cuts across the socioeconomic spectrum,” Luft said. “This bill, and other legislation like it, is a critical step toward a larger shift. By changing the language of domestic violence to include coercive control, we can change the law. By changing language, we can also change the discussion, and, I hope, change the story.”

“Jennifer would have wanted to do everything in her power to help others in abusive situations to live free from fear,” Luft added.
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[Southernsnooper]

Alex Kasser has submitted a revised version of her proposed groundbreaking legislation named after Jennifer Dulos that would expand Connecticut’s legal definition of domestic violence to make it easier for victims to obtain restraining orders.

The Greenwich senator’s proposal tightens controls on the number of court filings litigants can make in divorce and custody matters and also lists a range of behaviors that include financial abuse, threats of the loss of housing, stalking, and threatening to publish sexualized images of the victim that would now be considered domestic violence or abuse.

The bill would expand the definition of domestic violence, domestic abuse and family violence in all state statues to include “coercive control,” a set of behaviors that abusers often employ when trying to instill fear to maintain control of their victims.

The behaviors include isolating victims from family and support networks, attempts to restrict resources needed for independence, including money, housing, transportation and health care, repetitive demeaning or degrading behavior, threatening to harm a victim’s children or pets, damaging the victim’s property as a means of intimidation, displaying or referring to weapons as a means of intimidation and threats or attempts to obstruct a person’s right to end a marriage or intimate partner relationship.

“The new version has a consistent definition of domestic violence and abuse, which also includes coercive control,” Kasser said. “The law applies that definition to all restraining orders, divorce cases and child custody cases because those are the forum of which domestic violence and abuse plays out in our family court system.”

Jennifer Dulos sought a restraining order and emergency custody of her five children when she left her husband, Fotis Dulos, in June 2017. A judge, however, denied her request for a restraining order because she was unable to show she was physically abused, according to court documents.The new definition of domestic violence, domestic abuse and family violence will be applied to all statutes that pertain to child safety and custody. The bill also amends divorce statutes to substitute domestic violence or abuse for “intolerable cruelty” and requires the Judicial Branch to provide legal assistance to victims of abuse to help with restraining order applications.

Under the bill, the Judicial Branch would have to commit to training judges and other staff in domestic violence, domestic abuse and family violence and presenting the Judiciary Committee with an annual report.

“If we can achieve and apply the standards laid out in the law, we could save enormous amounts of judicial resources and we would stop the cycle of abuse years earlier,” Kasser said.

The bill has the support of Jennifer Dulos’ close friend, Carrie Luft, who has acted as the spokeswoman for her family as the missing persons case has spanned nearly two years.

Intimate partner violence affects all genders and cuts across the socioeconomic spectrum,” Luft said. “This bill, and other legislation like it, is a critical step toward a larger shift. By changing the language of domestic violence to include coercive control, we can change the law. By changing language, we can also change the discussion, and, I hope, change the story.”

“Jennifer would have wanted to do everything in her power to help others in abusive situations to live free from fear,” Luft added.
Revised Jennifer Dulos law would expand scope of domestic violence

Love! A bit of good from this tragedy. Moo

 

[Wheel Of fortune]

I just listened to this podcast which was very fact driven with a few thoughts and opinions here and there.
It's clear as day FD did it, MT participated in some way, shape or form and I hold hope Jennifer will be found...or, and this is painful to say, partial remains at worse.
Wish this employee of Fotis had been faster in picking up the red flags around FD asking so much to be done with the Tacoma.

Moo

what podcast. please post link. thank you

 

[Cloudydiamond]

It’s unknown if those recent motions will he taken up today.
@News12CT
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@MarissaAlter
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HAPPENING TODAY: Michelle Troconis’ hearing is a go today. It sill be virtual. Since the last hearing her attorney filed motions asking for some of her charges to be dropped, her GPS ankle monitor to be removed, and Colangelo to be sanctioned for not providing discovery @News12CT

 

[Tink56]

This is an interesting guide in how participants should dress, where they should be during the hearing, etc. when involved in a remote hearing:
https://jud.ct.gov/remotejustice/Docs/Quick_Ref_Guide_Remote_Hearings.pdf?v1

 

[sds71]

MarissaAlter
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Hearing underway. Judge will take up two motions today. The state’s motion to join all three cases against Michelle Troconis into one and the defense motion to remove Troconis’ GPS ankle monitor.
Michelle Troconis does have her camera on per the judge’s request. Last time, Judge Blawie allowed it off. However, the screen only allows for 9 boxes and she’s the 10th so she’s not up on the main screen currently.
Troconis attorney Jon Schoenhorn does not want the three cases against Michelle Troconis joined. Says it’s pre-mature. Cross-admissible evidence would have to be presented by state
Prosecution saying he “could go on for the rest of the day” on cross-admissible evidence. Mentions witness statements, alleged helping clean the red truck, Kent Mawhinney statements, so-called “alibi scripts.”

 

[Jmoose]

MarissaAlter
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Hearing underway. Judge will take up two motions today. The state’s motion to join all three cases against Michelle Troconis into one and the defense motion to remove Troconis’ GPS ankle monitor.
Michelle Troconis does have her camera on per the judge’s request. Last time, Judge Blawie allowed it off. However, the screen only allows for 9 boxes and she’s the 10th so she’s not up on the main screen currently.

I think JS is getting paid solely to get that GPS monitor removed, so she can split. That’s it. How many times has he requested it by now? Sort of in the same way that Norm Pattis and Kevin Smith had to have been relieved that they didn’t have to actually go to trial with fD, I think JS looks at his job as just keeping her from going to prison...and the form that may take is getting that monitor removed.

 

[sds71]

Schoenhorn says this motion is premature because at least two of these cases are in the wrong jurisdiction. He’s filed to have the case moved to Hartford. Says alleged crimes occurred there, not in Stamford/Norwalk judicial district.

Schoenhorn also bringing up that arrest warrants are mostly theory and speculation—“falsehoods, outright exclusion of pertinent information.” If any of those allegations are true, they’re against Fotis Dulos, not Troconis. And he’s no longer part of this case.
@News12CT
Schoenhorn: they have yet to prove an actual murder even occurred. They’re speculating Jennifer Dulos was killed. Just because they think it, doesn’t mean it happened.
Schoenhorn: I still don’t have all the discovery. I continue to file motions. And if they do give me discovery, it’s a document dump, very difficult to sort through, understand
Schoenhorn to Blawie: Part of the problem in this case is that you, your honor, have been misled in this case/these arrest warrants.

 

[sds71]

Schoenhorn: some of the information in these arrest warrants are just made up. Claims Troconis was a lookout while Dulos disposed of evidence in Hartford. There’s no evidence she was a lookout, just was sitting in the front seat of the car
Schoenhorn: even how the detectives categorized the 7/8 hours of interviews is wrong.
We need a Franks hearing.
Blawie agrees there is no direct evidence Jennifer Dulos was killed. But says there is circumstantial evidence and the court makes no distinction between the two.
Schoenhorn is now discussing the Kent Mawhinney “jailhouse informant” interview where he implicated Dulos & Troconis and exonerated himself. Says he’s missing discovery on this.
Schoenhorn: Mawhinney appears to be the star witness against Troconis. He had his bond released without a hearing. With the state not objecting to his bond reduction, this looks like a quid pro quo
Prosecutor Daniel Cummings says the state does plan to call Mawhinney at trial but says he’s not their star witness—just one piece of the evidence against Troconis

 

[Southernsnooper]

Loving how Cummings responded!

Moo

 

[Jmoose]

Wasn’t troconis’s bond reduced at one point in 2019, and the prosecution did not object then, either...what was the quid pro quo there?

 

[sds71]

@MarissaAlter
Prosecutor Daniel Cummings says the state does plan to call Mawhinney at trial but says he’s not their star witness—just one piece of the evidence against Troconis.
Cummings in regards to not explaining evidence in warrants: it’s not our job to tell the defense how to do its job. We don’t need to “show our hand” and explain how every piece of evidence will be used against her at trial. Schoenhorn has to do the legwork.
Cummings also goes after Schoenhorn hard on Schoenhorn’s claim “alibi scripts are not alibi scripts.” Cummings says Troconis lied on those pieces of paper about what she did, what Dulos did that day. Says she repeated those lies in interviews with police.
Blawie says he will not rule from the bench today on whether to combine the cases.
We’re now moving on to the motion to remove Troconis’ GPS monitor.