Death Threat--Judge Watched Son Threaten to Kill Battered Girlfriend: Petition

A Will County judge looked on as her son threatened to kill the girlfriend he had just finished battering, according to a petition the Joliet woman wrote for a protective court order.

Louis Goode, the son of Judge Carla Alessio Policandriotes, was charged with aggravated domestic battery, unlawful restraint and domestic battery in connection with the alleged attack on his 28-year-old girlfriend, Tanya Brandolino, who is also the mother of his son.

Goode, 29, was starting a new job Monday morning as an office assistant at the Will County courthouse and his mother stopped by his Barber Lane home to take him to work. Goode was hired for the job despite having criminal convictions for forgery and the possession of a controlled substance. Goode was living at the home with Brandolino and her family, police said.

In her petition for the protective order, Brandolino said Goode kicked, pushed and choked her Sunday night before briefly locking her in the trunk of their car.

The following morning, Goode resumed the physical abuse, Brandolino said, and she tried to call the police. Goode then grabbed the phone out of her hand and knocked her to the ground, she said.

That was when “his mother pulled into the driveway to pick him up for work,” the petition said.

“She got out of the car and said Lou get in the car,” the petition said. “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.”

Brandolino said Judge Alessio Policandriotes “kept telling him to get in the car and he did.”

A police dispatcher then called Brandolino’s phone back and informed her they had received an “abandoned 911 phone call,” the petition said. Brandolino told the dispatcher there was not a problem and she “didn’t mean to call,” the petition said, but the dispatcher told Brandolino the law was already on its way. Deputies met with her at her daughter’s school bus stop, the petition said.

Detectives found Goode later that day at the courthouse. He was questioned, arrested and taken to the Will County jail. On Tuesday, Judge Robert Livas ordered that Goode be transported to the Grundy County jail out of concerns for his safety.

On Wednesday, Livas granted Brandolino’s protective order. Two other Will County judges, Marilee Viola and Chrystel Gavlin, recused themselves from the matter.

Will County Chief Judge Richard Schoenstedt said he has requested a judge from another county come to Joliet to handle both Goode’s criminal case and future hearings regarding the protective order.

Judge Schoenstedt said he has not spoken with Alessio Policandriotes about whether she witnessed her son threatening Brandolino—or possibly saw the girlfriend on the ground— since she is a potential witness in a criminal investigation.

“As (she may be) a witness, it would be improper for me to do so,” Schoenstedt said.

The Will County Sheriff’s Department is handling the investigation of Goode’s criminal case. Alessio Policandriotes’ husband, Tony Policandriotes, is a detective with the sheriff’s department.

On Tuesday, a receptionist at the chief judge’s office said Alessio Policandriotes was declining to comment on her son’s situation. Judge Alessio Policandriotes did not respond to a second request for comment made Thursday.

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