Judge's Son Pleads Guilty to Kicking Around and Locking Girlfriend in Trunk, Gets to Walk Free

The son of a Will County judge pleaded guilty to kicking around his girlfriend and pulling her hair, and then locking her in the trunk of a car, but still got to walk away a free man.

Louis Goode, 30, will have to serve two and a half years of probation, and does still face the possibility that his probation for a cocaine case in Missouri might be revoked, but that seems unlikely.

Goode’s attorney, Edward Jaquays, said his client had been holding off on pleading guilty 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’s Missouri case has a hearing scheduled for next month.

The plea deal in Illinois has Goode doing 114 days in jail — but he already has credit for it since he did 57 days before his stepfather, Will County Sheriff’s Detective Anthony Policandriotes, posted bond for his release in December 2014.

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 his government job. Goode overcame obstacles to obtain the county job, as he was, and still is, on probation for pleading guilty to possessing cocaine.

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, essentially eradicated, as Grundy County Judge Robert Marsaglia — who was assigned the case to avoid the appearance of conflict — sealed the entire case file.

Marsaglia has 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, Colburn said. During an 11-month period, Goode only attended court twice, according to county records.