Criminal Case Against Judge's Son Charged With Battering Girlfriend Going to Grundy County

The Will County judge’s son charged with battering his girlfriend and locking her in the trunk of a car had a hearing at his mother’s courthouse Tuesday but will be making his next appearance in Grundy County.

Louis Goode, the 29-year-old son of Judge Carla Alessio Policandriotes, is already being held in the Grundy County jail. Judge Robert Livas sent Goode there for his own safety shortly after he was arrested Oct. 6.

Grundy County Judge Robert Marsaglia was sent up to Joliet for Goode’s arraignment Tuesday morning. Judge Marsaglia decided to hold Goode’s next hearing at the Grundy County courthouse.

Goode allegedly attacked his girlfriend and the mother of his child, 29-year-old Tanya Brandolino, battering her and harassing the night of Oct. 5 and into the following morning.

Goode threw Brandolino to the ground, kicked her, dragged her into the garage of their Joliet home and ordered her into the trunk of their car, police said, and she “complied because she was in fear.”

Goode locked Brandolino in the trunk but let her out after a few minutes, police said, and the couple headed off to bed.

In the morning, Goode again attacked Brandolino, police said, pulling her hair, kicking and choking her. When she called 911, Goode allegedly tore the phone off the garage wall.

Goode was hired to work as an office assistant at the Will County courthouse even though he is a felon and still on parole. He started his new job the morning he was arrested for allegedly beating Brandolino and his mother stopped by to give him a ride to his first day of work, police said. She arrived just as the attack ended, police said.

In a petition for a protective court order, Brandolino accused the judge of looking on as her son threatened to kill her.

“She got out of the car and said Lou get in the car,” Brandolino said in her petition. “He then threw the phone into the garage (and) he said in front of his mother I’m going to kill you you’ll never get custody of your son better get a good lawyer.”

Judge Alessio Policandriotes then drove her son to his new job at the courthouse. Detectives from the Will County Sheriff’s Department found him there, took him in for questioning and arrested him.

Brandolino’s petition did not specify whether she was still on the ground when the judge pulled up in her car.

Patch requested the police reports from the Sheriff’s Department through the Illinois Freedom of Information Act but was refused. In denying the request, Undersheriff Jerome Nudera said, among other things, that releasing the reports will “obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation” and possibly deprive Goode of a fair trial.

While continuing to Withhold the police reports on Goode’s arrest, the sheriff’s department still has not gotten around to speaking with Judge Alessio Policandriotes about how much she may have seen of the alleged attack on Brandolino. Sheriff Paul Kaupas said detectives asked the judge “one or two” times to come in for questioning but she has not obliged.

The sheriff said Judge Alessio Policandriotes will eventually be interviewed by detectives, possibly as early as Wednesday.

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