News for Norm Pattis

Fotis Dulos will have to turn over documents related to a $500,000 loan by a Greek investor, but his criminal defense attorney will not have to provide a deposition or any documents related to how he’s being paid in the $2.5 million civil lawsuits filed against his client, according to recent court rulings.
But Fotis Dulos may still be on the hook to provide the documents himself — if he has them, his civil attorney said.
Hartford Superior Court Judge Cesar Noble has...

A controversial private investigator who worked on the O.J. Simpson and Casey Anthony cases has been hired by Fotis Dulos' defense team in the case of disappearance of Jennifer Farber Dulos, Fotis Dulos' estranged wife, reports the News-Times.
Patrick McKenna, who helped the Simpson and Anthony defense teams successfully beat murder charges, has been hired by Fotis Dulos' attorney, Norm Pattis, who has said that the defense team has launched its own investigation into Jennifer Dulos'...

Fotis Dulos’ defense team has hired high-profile private investigator Patrick McKenna, who has worked on the O.J. Simpson and Casey Anthony murder cases, to assist in their defense of Dulos, who faces charges in connection with the disappearance of his estranged wife, New Canaan mother Jennifer Farber Dulos.
Sources on Tuesday confirmed the move by the defense team, which is led by New Haven attorney Norm Pattis. Pattis declined to confirm the hiring but said, “We will spare...

Patrick McKenna, the high-profile private investigator who helped win acquittals on murder charges for Casey Anthony and O.J. Simpson, has been hired by Fotis Dulos’ defense team, according to sources connected to the case.
The 51-year-old Dulos and his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, 44, have been charged with tampering with evidence and hindering prosecution in the May 24 disappearance of his estranged wife, Jennifer Dulos.
The disappearance of Jennifer Dulos has sparked a...

Days before Fotis Dulos prepared for another custody ruling from a judge he’d accused of being biased against him, he dropped a bombshell into the middle of his already bitter pending divorce from his estranged wife Jennifer Farber Dulos. He wanted the judge thrown off the case, claiming a phone call he had with her husband had created a conflict of interest.
Months earlier, as Dulos searched for an attorney to represent him in the divorce battle, he called Blank Rome, a high-end...

The search for Jennifer Dulos has continued amid a backdrop of sparring attorneys and a defense team’s controversial strategy to improve her estranged husband’s image.
Defense attorney Norm Pattis has shot back at novelist Gillian Flynn, who criticized him last week for using the storyline of her book “Gone Girl” as a possible theory for Jennifer Dulos’ disappearance.
In a statement released Tuesday, Pattis told Flynn: “Be gone,...

As The Inquisitr reported, InfoWars founder Alex Jones, who is being sued by families of Sandy Hook victims for allegedly pushing conspiracies that the shooting didn’t happen, was sanctioned by Bridgeport Superior Court Judge Barbara N. Bellis for suggesting that Christopher Mattei, a lawyer for the families, tried to frame him for child pornography.
Now, The Washington Post reports that the Connecticut Supreme Court agreed to review Bellis’ decision after Jones’...

The estranged husband of missing Connecticut mom Jennifer Dulos was allegedly caught on tape dumping 30 garbage bags that police say contained her blood.
Fotis Dulos’ attorney, Norm Pattis, says there is a reason for that.
“There is an explanation, but we’re not going to give it,” attorney Norm Pattis said Wednesday afternoon, the Stamford Advocate reports. “I think when we do it, it will appear a lot less troubling.”
Jennifer, 50, was last...

Video footage that police say shows Fotis Dulos tossing trash bags containing his estranged wife’s blood is not yet ready for public consumption.
New Canaan police have denied Hearst Connecticut Media’s request for the videos, which show two people matching the descriptions of Fotis Dulos and his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, on Albany Avenue in Hartford around the time Jennifer Dulos was reported missing on May 24, according to arrest warrants.
“After a careful...

The Connecticut Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal of a lower court’s decision sanctioning broadcaster Alex Jones, a sudden turn in a case pitting families whose relatives were killed at a Newtown, Conn., school against conspiracy theorists.
Eight families of people gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School and an FBI agent who responded to the scene brought a defamation case against Jones, who runs the conspiracy-driven Infowars website, and others. The families said they...