Judge's Kid Jailed For Allegedly Beating Girlfriend Gets to Go Home

A Grundy County judge dropped the bond for the son of a Will County judge, clearing the way for him to get out of jail and move in with his mom and stepdad.

Louis Goode, 29, the son of Judge Carla Alessio Policandriotes, was released soon after his bond was reduced by Judge Robert Marsaglia Tuesday. Goode had needed $5,000 to get out but Marsaglia made it so he only had to come up with $2,000.

Goode was ordered to live with his mother and stepfather, Will County Sheriff’s Detective Tony Policandriotes, at their Shorewood home. And according to court papers filed by Goode’s attorney, Edward Jaquays, Goode will be totally unable to get at any of the guns in his mom’s house, as they will “remain in a secure, locked gun safe” he apparently can’t figure out how to open.

Goode, a felon on probation, will also be allowed to travel to Missouri so he can go to court for a case he has going on there, according to county records.

Despite his checkered past, Goode was still able to land a government job at the Will County courthouse before he was arrested this most recent time. He didn’t last long, as the cops picked him up on his first day of work Oct. 6 and hit him with felony charges for allegedly brutalizing his girlfriend over the course of a night and the next morning.

On that morning, Judge Alessio Policandriotes happened to stop by the Joliet house where Goode and Brandolino, as well their son, her child and her parents, were living, police said. While it’s not clear whether Alessio Policandriotes saw any of the alleged attack—and Undersheriff Jerome Nudera has refused to release police reports on the matter— 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 a petition for a protective order against Goode.

“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.

Alessio Policandriotes then drove off with her son and dropped him at his new job.

Goode allegedly began his abuse of Brandolino the night before, battering her and at one point locking her in the trunk of a car before they went to sleep, police said. Goode resumed in the morning, police said, and only stopped just as he was to head off to his new county job.

Will County Judge Robert Livas had Goode sent to the Grundy County jail out of concerns for his safety. The case was transferred to a Grundy County judge and special prosecutor Charles Colburn was brought in by the Will County State’s Attorney’s office. The Will County police, led at the time by lame duck Sheriff Paul Kaupas, decided to keep the case for themselves, despite Alessio Policandriotes’ position as a judge and the fact that her husband works alongside the same detectives who investigated the alleged crime.

The sheriff’s department also waited weeks before even scheduling a meeting with Judge Alessio Policandriotes to find out what she may have witnessed when she picked her son up for work, and apparently held off questioning her until after last month’s election. Both Alessio Policandriotes and Kaupas’ cousin, Ken Kaupas were on the ballot for that election. Alessio Policandriotes managed to keep her seat on the bench. Ken Kaupas failed to win his retiring cousin’s job.

While the hearing on whether to reduce Goode’s bond was not held until Tuesday, Jaquays must have figured he would convince Judge Marsaglia to see things his way. Two weeks before Marsaglia actually went ahead and dropped the bond, Jaquays filed papers in the order of protection case saying Brandolino will let Goode watch their son Wednesday, the day after the hearing.

Brandolino’s other “child is scheduled to have a medical procedure on December 3,” the court papers said, and she has allowed Goode to take care of their son while she attends to her daughter.

According to the conditions of Goode’s newly reduced bond, he is to abide buy the terms of the protective order. He was also ordered to go to counseling and to obtain a bracelet that will monitor whether he has alcohol in his system.

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