@Seattle1, this matter was reported to Atty Gen. William Tong two days after the Contempt charge was made against MT (with a copy of the letter sent to Judge Randolph and Judge White in Stamford). The Press never reported on any possibility of attorney involvement even after the very clear imo video showed both attorney's were well aware of what was on MT screen. The Jon Schoenhorn comment about not being near the desk was imo frankly laughable if you look at a longer video of his placement at the desk and his proximity to the MT computer. Atty Audrey Felson was sitting maybe 5" from MT and the MT computer screen was tipped directly into her field of vision imo for a good period of time. Judge Randolph did nothing and the State did not file charges either so far as I've been able to see publicly. The States Atty investigated the matter, looked at the same videos we saw and probably had better resolution too and YET they did not choose to go after the attorneys. But, does this surprise you as they didn't choose to pursue sanctions or contempt against Jon Schoenhorn after he withheld case evidence in his possession for over a year! The State just put forward a weak effort to get him dismissed from the case which was a low probability event imo given where the trial was at that point. BUT, Judge Randolph could have done something to Jon Schoenhorn regarding the evidence being withheld AND HE DID NOTHING TOO.
Not unsurprisingly, zero has been done. I think the best way to describe 'regulation' of attorneys in CT is "non regulation'. Judges routinely let flagrant violation slide and iirc it took a very courageous Judge in the Alex Jones trial who had effectively reached the end of their rope dealing with the games and rule violations of the infamous Norm Pattis to report him. I've lost track of exactly how many attorney's FD had over the year (7 or 8) as he moved through Family, Civil and Criminal Courts in CT but even when FD
and his attorney Michael Rose lied on the stand and in the submitted documents the presiding Judge Heller simply wrote a memo denouncing the lying and then proceeded to 'boot' Atty Rose for his role but she did it behind closed doors and with no sanctions or punishment to him. This then allowed the MT Defense "Dream Team" to bring Atty Rose back to the stand in the MT trial where imo he chose to not tell the truth. My guess is that Judge Randolph knew that Atty Rose (and GAL Atty Meehan for that matter too) didn't tell the truth but he did zero to any of the attorneys, including good friend and MT attorney, Jon Schoenhorn.
Its tough to have much hope that anything will change in CT if the Judges who are on the forefront of the issue choose to do zero to impose order and standards in their courtrooms AND don't report the behaviour of rule breaking attorneys. Judge Randolph did zero to address any of the rule violations of either Jon Schoenhorn or Audrey Felson and the harshest statement he uttered on the record was directed iirc at Audrey Felson when he said she had, "...crossed a doubt yellow line...". IMO Schoenhorn and Felson made a mockery of Judge Randolph and his court room and if he wasn't willing to do anything about the situation then I'm not sure anything will ever change.
Its all something of an inside joke imo as if you go down the laundry list just of FD attorneys and make a list of rule violations then imo it would be a very very long list. AND, this doesn't include the games in Court of co-conspirator Kent Mawhinney!
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