Judge Still Hasn't Talked to Cops About Whether She Saw Son Batter Girlfriend: Sheriff

The Will County judge accused of watching her son threaten to kill his girlfriend after he allegedly battered the young woman three weeks ago has yet to talk to detectives investigating the case.

“I know there’s been one, maybe two requests to talk to her,” Sheriff Paul Kaupas said of Judge Carla Alessio Policandriotes.

But the judge still hasn’t agreed to come in for questioning, Kaupas said.

“All I do know is they made one or two requests and it didn’t happen,” he said.

The sheriff said he brought the matter up to Will County Chief Judge Richard Schoenstedt Monday morning.

“He said she’s been out of town,” said Kaupas, but that she should be back Wednesday.

“There’ll be some arrangements to interview her,” the sheriff said. “It could be Wednesday or Thursday.”

Judge Alessio Policandriotes’ son, Louis Goode, 29, was arrested and jailed Oct. 6 for allegedly battering his 28-year-old girlfriend and mother of his child, Tanya Brandolino.

Goode threw Brandolino to the ground, kicked her, dragged her into the garage of their 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 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.

Judge Alessio Policandriotes’ husband, Tony Policandriotes, is a detective with the sheriff’s department. Kaupas said Policandriotes was not present when Goode was brought in for questioning.

“He’s not involved in the case,” Kaupas said.

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