News for Norm Pattis

The children of missing Connecticut mom Jennifer Dulos are now in the custody of Dulos’ mother as police continue to investigate her disappearance more than two months after she vanished, reports say.
A court granted Gloria Farber temporary custody of her five grandchildren on Thursday, according to NBC 4, which reported that Farber has been taking care of the five children since their mother’s disappearance two months ago.
Dulos was last seen dropping off her children...

The mother of missing Connecticut writer Jennifer Dulos has gained custody of the five children Jennifer shared with her estranged husband Fotis.
Gloria Farber won custody of the five kids, who range in age from 8 to 13, on Thursday, NBC News reports.
Fotis, who along with his 44-year-old girlfriend Michelle Troconishas been charged in connection with his wife’s disappearance, has been trying to get custody of the children.
“Fotis misses his children deeply," his...

Defense attorney Norm Pattis said he is underwhelmed by evidence turned over by prosecutors so far in the Jennifer Dulos disappearance case.
“It was like waking up Christmas morning and getting an IOU,” Pattis said during an interview with WPLR’s Chaz and AJ.
“We still don’t have the evidence that they say they have, even,” he said.
In a motion to dismiss hindering prosecution and evidence tampering charges against Fotis Dulos, Pattis said...

A motion filed this week by Fotis Dulos’ lawyers asking a judge to dismiss the charges against him presents an interesting argument but may have an ulterior motive.
“I think that this is an effort on the defense’s part to get more discovery,” said Brittany Paz, a defense attorney and former associate of Fotis Dulos defense lawyer Norm Pattis. “The problem is that this is an ongoing investigation and so discovery has been sparse.”
Fotis Dulos and...

Lawyers representing Fotis Dulos claimed in a court filing on Wednesday that the prosecution has “put the cart before the horse” by charging their client in connection with Jennifer Dulos’ disappearance.
The attorneys filed a motion Wednesday — two months since Jennifer Dulos vanished — to dismiss the tampering with evidence and hindering prosecution charges against her estranged husband.
“The defendant stands charged with two crimes that have no...

The estranged husband of a missing Connecticut woman has again argued her disappearance nearly two months ago is a ploy to get him in trouble and keep him from their five children.
Fotis Dulos accused his estranged wife Jennifer Dulos of trying to frame him for her disappearance in an attempt to access her medical records, according to court documents obtained by the New York Post.
The three-page motion filed Wednesday asked the court to grant Fotis access to records for $14,000...

Jennifer Dulos, a 50-year-old mother of five from New Canaan, has been missing for almost eight weeks and Michelle Troconis, the woman charged in connection with her disappearance, made a brief appearance in court Thursday morning for a pre-trial hearing.
Jennifer Dulos was last seen on Friday, May 24, when she dropped her children off at school in New Canaan.
Court documents say that police who went to search Jennifer's home after she was reported missing found blood and...

Jennifer Dulos’ estranged husband again accused her of framing him for her disappearance in his bid to access her medical records, according to new court documents.
Fotis Dulos’ lawyer Norm Pattis filed the three-page motion Wednesday asking for a court order to obtain billing records for $14,000 worth of medical tests Jennifer underwent from February through April.
“The defendant seeks information about the diagnosis and treatment Ms. Dulos received in the weeks...

The girlfriend of a man charged in connection with his estranged wife's disappearance made another court appearance.
Michelle Troconis was on the docket to face a judge in Stamford on Thursday.
However, her case was continued to Aug. 19.
Troconis, along with Fotis Dulos, were arrested in connection with the disappearance of Jennifer Dulos.
The search for the missing mother of five children has spanned nearly two months in locations across Connecticut.
The...

Michelle Troconis — charged in the disappearance of New Canaan mother Jennifer Dulos — had her court-approved trip out of state cut short after just one day because of issues with her GPS monitoring device.
State’s Attorney Richard Colangelo raised the issue during a 90-second pretrial hearing in Troconis’ case Thursday.
Judge Gary White last month granted defense attorney Andrew Bowman’s request to allow his client to travel out of state from June 30...