Judge's Husband Says She Arranged Meeting With Detectives About Son's Criminal Case

The Will County judge accused of watching her son threaten to kill his girlfriend after he allegedly battered the young woman spoke with detectives and agreed to come in for questioning, her husband said.

The claim by Tony Policandriotes, the husband of Judge Carla Alessio Policandriotes and a detective with the Will County Sheriff’s Department, directly contradicted his boss, Sheriff Paul Kaupas. Kaupas said earlier this week that detectives made “one, maybe two requests to talk to” the judge.

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

Policandriotes said the sheriff is wrong.

“You’ve got Paul Kaupas saying one or two attempts were made to get Carla to come in and make a statement—that’s absolutely untrue,” Policandriotes said.

“One of the supervisors in my unit called her, left a message,” Policandriotes said. “She called him shortly thereafter and had a conversation. They set up a date” to meet.

Policandriotes declined to disclose the date of the scheduled meeting between his wife and his fellow detectives.

When told of Policandriotes’ claim that a meeting was scheduled between the judge and detectives, Kaupas said he knew nothing about it.

“I haven’t received a notification,” he said.

Alessio Policandriotes’ son, Louis Goode, 29, allegedly attacked his girlfriend and the mother of his child, 29-year-old Tanya Brandolino, battering and harassing her 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 was to start his new job the morning he allegedly beat Brandolino and his mother stopped by to give him a ride to work, police said. The judge reportedly arrived just as the attack ended.

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 police reports on the incident 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.

Goode was locked up in the Will County jail but transferred to the Grundy County jail for his own safety. Grundy County Judge Robert Marsaglia was assigned to the case and came to Joliet For Goode’s arraignment Tuesday.

During the arraignment, Judge Marsaglia decided to have Goode appear at the Grundy County courthouse for his next hearing.

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