Policandriotes Leaves Will County's Bench

JOLIET, IL — Starting this week, you won't see Carla Alessio Policandriotes entering a fourth-floor courtroom at the Will County Courthouse wearing a black robe and sitting behind a raised wooden bench. Her days as a Will County judge are over. The Shorewood lawyer's retirement from the Will County judicial system takes effect this week.

Last October, Policandriotes notified the Illinois Supreme Court of her plans to retire in the middle of her current six-year term on Will County's bench, effective Friday, Aug. 3, 2018. Her current term in office was not supposed to end until Dec. 20, 2020.

Seventeen years ago, in 2001, Policandriotes became an associate Will County judge back when her name was Carla Alessio Goode. Although Will County residents voted to retain her for another term in November 2014, Policandriotes was the only Will County judge of the five on the ballot box with more than 50,000 people voting against retaining her. Thirty percent of the voters wanted her gone.

Here's a rundown of several Joliet Patch articles on Policandriotes from recent years. Some include her decisions on the bench. Others include articles about her son, Louis "Louie" Goode, who briefly landed a county government job at the Will County Courthouse despite his lengthy criminal record. Alessio Policandriotes is also married to long-time Will County Sheriff's Deputy Anthony Policandriotes.

Judge's Son Locked Girlfriend In Trunk: Report

On Oct. 6, 2014, Louis Goode was approached by detectives at the Will County Courthouse, where he was starting the first day at his new job as an administrative assistant. Goode was able to land the county job despite still being on probation for a felony cocaine conviction in Missouri.

After 13 Months, Attorney General Can't Decide On Releasing Police Reports Of Judge's Son

Patch first requested the police reports on the arrest of Louis Goode, the son of Judge Carla Alessio Policandriotes, through the Illinois Freedom of Information Act on Oct. 9, 2014. After stalling with an extension, Jerome Nudera of the Will County Sheriff's Department refused to release the reports.

Judge Policandriotes Hospitalized After Attending Banquet

This past June, an ambulance was called to the Drury Lane for the Illinois Crime Commission banquet in Oak Brook Terrace. Policandriotes was taken out of the facility on a stretcher and brought to a local hospital.

Policandriotes: 32 Years Prison For Man Who Killed Mom, Dumped Body In Dirty Canal

Judge Policandriotes had the latitude of imposing a prison sentence for Shane Smith of anywhere between 20 years to 60 years. Smith was 33 years when he murdered his mother. He's 37 years now.

Judge Lowers Bail For Defendant In Beecher Tragedy That Killed 5

Judge Carla Alessio Policandriotes sided with Joliet criminal defense attorney George Lenard who asked that his client Sean Woulfe's $1 million bond be lowered to $250,000. Lenard told the judge that his client's family could come up with $25,000 in bail, which is 10 percent, of a $250,000 bond.

Louis D. Goode Back In Courthouse After Latest Brush With Law

Convicted domestic abuser Louis "Louie" D. Goode, the son of Will County Judge Carla Alessio Policandriotes, has put himself back in trouble with the legal system at the Will County Courthouse as a result of his decision to get behind the wheel of a 2004 Hummer H2, court records show.

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