Judge’s Son Already Convicted of Vicious Abuse Admits to Violating Probation, Gets to Stay on Probation

A Will County judge’s son admitted to violating his probation in Missouri a month after he pleaded guilty to kicking around his girlfriend, pulling her hair, and locking her in the trunk of a car — but he will get to stay on probation.

Louis Goode, 30, was also sentenced to probation in Illinois after he pleaded guilty to domestic battery and felony aggravated domestic battery on May 16. Goode’s attorney, Edward Jaquays, had said he put off pleading until he could get prosecutors in Missouri to fall in line and give him a similar deal to the one he was getting in Illinois.

Goode is the son of Will County Judge Carla Alessio Policandriotes. He was arrested in October 2014 at the Will County courthouse, where he was starting the first day of a government job.

Goode overcame obstacles to obtain the county job, as he had pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine in Callaway County, Missouri three years earlier, which led to his sentence of probation there.

The night before his 2014 arrest, according to police reports obtained by Patch, Goode viciously battered and abused his girlfriend, 30-year-old Tanya Brandolino, who is also the mother of his son.

In the police reports, detectives said Goode explained how Brandolino attacked him while he was sleeping because he took $70 out of her wallet to buy cocaine “for both of them.”

Brandolino “threatened to take his son away from him,” the reports said, so Goode told detectives he “grabbed (her) by the arm and dragged her to the car and put her inside the trunk.”

“Louis stated that he told (her) that he would drive the car off of a cliff,” the reports said.

The couple went to bed after Goode let Brandolino out of the trunk, police said, but the abuse resumed the following morning. The reports indicate that Judge Alessio Policandriotes even witnessed her son battering his girlfriend, but instead of reporting the crime, she chose to drive him to his new job at the courthouse.

Brandolino went so far as to accuse Judge Alessio Policandriotes of looking on as her son made a death threat.
“She got out of the car and said Lou get in the car,” Brandolino said in her petition for the 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.

That petition has been removed from public view, as Grundy County Judge Robert Marsaglia — who was assigned the case to avoid the appearance of conflict — sealed the entire case file.

Marsaglia also reduced Goode’s bail from $5,000 to $2,000 and allowed Goode to leave the state for eight days in January so he could go to Texas. Marsaglia also allowed Goode to skip court, Special Prosecutor Charles Colburn said in February. During an 11-month period, Goode only attended court twice, according to county records.

The Missouri Highway Patrol caught Goode with cocaine, Callaway County Prosecutor Christopher Wilson said in December 2014. Goode was charged in November 2010 and in October 2011 copped a plea that could have seen the case go away and his record cleared if he successfully completed five years probation.

The cocaine conviction can still disappear from Goode’s record, even though he admitted on Monday to violating his probation, according to court records. The records say Goode was put on another five years of probation with the original conditions to apply.