Antagonistic tactics by Komisarjevsky Defense

Michaela and Hayley Petit

"This is something Jerry became a lawyer to do: Jerry is looking for the challenge...”



"The defense strategy is markedly different from the gentlemanly tack of Mr. Hayes’s lawyers. Thomas J. Ullmann, his chief lawyer, said the change was necessary. “You’d be a fool to adopt the same strategy that we had,” Mr. Ullmann said, “because it was a failed strategy.”

 Let's start by addressing the preceding statement culled from the linked article in this week's New York Times: Attorney Ullmann, head public defender for Steven Hayes, the first of the two men tried for the Petit family murders, most certainly did not employ a "gentlemanly tack"  nor"strategy"  throughout the majority of his dealings with this murder case.

 He did however soften his "tack" considerably, once the jury entered his sphere, and this was largely dictated by overwhelming evidence and the fact that his client was a completely different breed than Donovan's Komisarjevsky, a Sociopath of epic proportion. Although a rapist and a murderer,  Hayes resides several rungs down on the predatorial ladder.

Steven Hayes tried to suddenly change his plea to guilty within a hearing a few months before his trial began. Ullmann and co-counsel set about aggresively talking him out of it, even threatening to break client/attorney priveledge if need be in order to keep their client from committting "state assisted suicide" They wore Hayes down, they bullied him into not taking responsibility for his part in the kidnapping, rapes and murders. Somewhere around this time, Hayes tried to overdose on a handful of anti-anxiety pills that he'd been stockpiling. He was whisked off to the hospital and survived. The trial was delayed as a result.

We will concede much, but not all"


Thomas Ullmann in his opening statement during the Hayes trial.


Due to the tenuous position that he was in, the Thomas Ullmann at Hayes's trial where the media was present in spades, was a man trying to walk a tightrope.  If he became too aggressive, as he had during pre trial hearings and media interactions, he would surely alienate the Jury. As it was, his client was unpredictable, reluctantly allowing Ullmann to keep his plea technically " not guilty" but for the most part admitting to most of the criminal culpability that he was charged with. I believed that Ullmann knew his client would be found guilty, but was saving his efforts for the sentencing phase of the trial where he believed he had a chance at procuring him a life sentence instead of the sought after death penalty.

"It was a compromise that  Attorney Ullmann was clearly not used to, nor comfortable with, but it was obviously dictated by his client and his glaring guilt, not Ullmanns personal style nor preference, especially considering his well known criticism of the death penalty, a punishment that his client stated over and over that he deserved and wanted.

Long before the the Hayes trial was even scheduled, shortly after the murders, I immediately noticed Attorney Ullmann as particularly pugnacious and aggressive - None of his hostility was neccesary, nor did the situation demand it. I found his growing antagonism towards victim William Petit and his beleagured family obscene especially considering the somberness surrounding these crimes; triple murder, child rape and attempted famicide.

Ullmann bitterly complained about everything, the beefed up security for he and his client at court appearences, citing the unneccesariness of it and the fact that the state was going to such lengths to protect them, only to kill him"  The reason for this security was to protect the defendents from possible vigilantism. During the arraignment several attendees shouted angrily at the two men. People were removed by Marshalls, tensions were very high.

And it was no wonder; The details just got worse and worse  ;A mother raped and murdered within earshot of her daughters, who were tied to their beds helpless, having been sexually assaulted and molested as well. Photos from Komisarjevskys cell phone left a despicable trail of evidence of the assaults of 11 year old Michaela, clearly the focus of his pedophilia predation.

It was Michaela who he spotted in the Stop and shop that day. Steven Hayes had admitted to police raping Mrs Petit after both men jumped on her and tied her up, seconds upon her return to her house, bearing the 15,000,00 from the bank that was to be a pay-off for her familys safe return.

Hayes claimed that at this point komisarjevsky ordered him" to get rid of her". The plan was already made to kill the entire family. Too many witnesses and too much possibility for DNA and other physcial evidence; They had purchased gasoline at 6 AM that morning with Komisrajevsky sending Hayes out of town to buy gas at a station where Police would be less likely to investigate gas purchases, after the Petit house was burned down and the family discovered murdered inside.

The head of the household and only survivor, William Petit, was repeatedely beaten in the head with a wooden bat by Joshua komisarjevsky as he slept in his sunroom, on that late summers evening, his skull, brain and balance system damaged, along with his psyche, his soul, and likely his entire sense of social justice.

His once brilliant  career as a talented healer in the endocrinology field was abandoned after the crimes, partly due to the severity of his injuries, as well the emotional trauma from the loss of his wife and children and the nightmare that he himself lived through.

The only reason that William Petit Jr. survived is because the two men, recently paroled repeat felons, had their attentions fixed upon the females in the house; Michaela and Jennifer Petit were the original targets and the main motive for the entire nights carnage, despite the lawyers and Komisarjevsky's much more innocuous claim that this was simply a robbery or home invasion gone terribly wrong" with each man pointing his finger at the other for escalating the crimes to murder.

Dr Petit was "neutralized" right away upon the men's entry to his home, Joshua  Komsarjevsky who had jimmied a failing bulkhead lock and gained access into the home, leaving Hayes outside to be let in through a door after very nearly killed the man, swinging a baseball bat 7-10 times "as hard as I could as if chopping wood" (interview with Brian MacDonald.)

Mr. Petit, who had sustained severe blood loss and was drifting in and out of consciousness, left tied to a pole in his Cellar, suddenly heard loud thumping sounds from above and muffled moaning; he tried to yell at the men, but his voice was weak, he managed " Hey! " or something to the effect.

Joshua Komisrajevsky, the one who had been the one doing " all the talking" quickly answered " don't worry.. it will all be over soon"  The voice that had been reassuring earlier, dropped all pretense and now, had a sinister tone, one that signaled impending violence to Petit who thought that the men who he believed were armed(it was in fact a 9 mm lokalike pellet gun) might be getting ready to shoot his family.

He knew he was no match for two men with a gun, with his feet tied, no weapon and extremely weak from 7 pints of blood loss. He mustered an impossible adrenalin push that enabled him to break his zip-tied hands and crawl up the bulkhead steps his feet still bound together crawling then rolling to a neighbors garage yelling to call 911. This was his familys only hope.

The men quickly became aware of Dr Petit's escape from the basement but nonetheless were preparing for the murders of his two daughters. They were dousing Mrs Petit's now lifeless body with gasoline and leading a trail of gas straight to each girls bedroom being sure to splash their bed linens and clothing, they wanted to be certain to destroy any DNA evidence that they left behind.

Now, after re-living this heartbreaking terror, lets look at Attorney Donovan's latest attempts to slander the family of these victims.

Within this very article Donovan refers to "The Petit Posse"

As much as I am reluctant to repeat, let alone remark upon this shameless comment made by a man who is so obviously trying to bring attention to himself  via the torture and murder of a mother and her two children, I am strongly compelled to relay my observations regarding this man.

Donovan, who began his charge of this case posturing as the empathetic, sensitive attorney, citing that "he too had a beloved wife and daughters, but would give Joshua his all as he was entitled to a fair defense....."
 has been adapting a more and more antagonistic "tack" towards the victim and his family as the trial for his client nears.

He has done his best to try to wear down the family, the prosecutor, the judge, and the system through an overt abuse of legal motions, to call them a flurry would be a gross understatement. The motions have been a combination of attempts to overwhelm the family, the Judge, the court sending the message that there is more unpleasentry to come (at trial)  hoping to procure a plea bargain in exchange for life in prison rather than a looming death sentence for Joshau Komsiarjevsky. I have read every single motion, and within them there are perhaps a handful that are the genuine article-meaning there is any substance whatsoever contained within.

To call these beleaguered family " a posse" is ludicrous. One need only watch the Petit and their extended family in court to see that they are the antithesis of  posse-like. They carry themselves with an almost beautific sense of humility and decency about them, including survivor William Petit Jr.
 He has spent his time recovering from the violent loss of his family, and his own substantial injuries, running what has grown into a successful charity, founded in the spirit of his lost wife and two daughters, all civic minded and most importantly exceptionally kind and caring human beings.

Petit  has consistently turned down thousands of interviews etc with the media and the press.he and his family long abided a gag order placed on this murder case in 2007, an order that it turned out they were not even beholden by. The gag  order applied to all police personnel, prosecutors, attorneys, defendants and other assorted court workers, judges, etc that  were privy to details of this case. but not the victim's family members.

The Petits could have shouted from the rooftops from the start all of the awful details that they had been informed about the crimes  who did what and who admitted to doing what quite early in the case.Plenty of family members of murdered victims have done just that.They did not.  instead they showed enormous restraint, they did not vent hatred and animosity at the two men who were literally caught fleeing the murder scene in the Petit's family car.

The details regarding what had been done to their beloved family members came out slowly from the forensic findings, as well as confessions and other evidence, such as komisarjevsky's cell phone photos.
The Petits remained mum about these things despite the holes in their minds and hearts that this disturbing and maddening information left in them.

Just as the trauma of the crimes began to abate the smallest bit, scars begginning to form, the Petit and extended family's received yet another emotional insult; Joshua Komisarjevsky, one of the most infamous solitary confined prisoners in the Connecticut Department of Corrections had been engaged in a correspondence and surreptitious jailhouse interviews with writer Brian MacDonald, in order to tell his "version" of the crimes to be published in a book slated for immediate release.

Creating shock and re-traumatization for everyone who had been so deeply affected by these crimes, this grotesque book, fueled by Komisarjevsky's claims and inner musements, was published, distributed and even made its way onto the shelves of the Cheshire Public library.

Despite multiple town meetings with hundreds of citizens voicing their dissent and disgust, the director of the library would not budge, touting " first amendment rights"and stating that even Komisarjevsky who was incidently a Cheshire resident, had a right to free speech.

It seemed nightmarish; the library most certainly did not stock every book ever written especially considering the details about a minor child's sexual assault; This was far from a historical perspective on a local crime.
It was yet another tool in Joshua Komisarjevsky's criminal toolkit. along with his night vision goggles, plastic gloves and knife.

Fortunately, the truth has a way of breaking loose; the writer of the hastily- written paperback, soon came to see that Joshua komisarjevsky had manipulated and decieved him. Forensic evidence from the Hayes trial discredited Komisarjevsky's  claims re sexually assaulting an 11 year old Michaela Petit. As well it became very clear that this "Book" although peppered with incidents that did happen, in the end gave nothing new away as these revelations were already known to authorities via physical evidence or Komisarjevsky's elaborate statement to Police.

Shopping his point of view all around town" 



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
We can presume that Donovan was referring to the fact that very quietly William Petit met with two senators several months ago when another bill to abolish the death penalty quite suddenly reared its head once again from the states judiciary committee who just didn't seem to care what the residents of Connecticut wanted.. IE most recent state-wide Quinnipiac poll  2010 showed that 78 percent of the state was in favor of the Death Penalty as Capital punishment for the very worst of the States murder cases that fit the aggravating factor

Bill Petit doesn't pontificate, he is a quiet man, dignified, thoughtful, with nary a trace of hatefulness in his countenance or his carriage; it seems that he simply sat down, one human being to another, political parties completely inconsequential as they should be in matters of life and death) explaining what he had lived through what his family had endured, the many indignities a victim or family members of murder victims within the court processes, and a few other key things.  I am sure he chose to speak one on one rather than addressing a legislative audience for good reason, its easier to speak one on one than address a whole legislature

 However before his client changed his plea, he did proclaim that he and his co-counsel would do anything including breaking client- attorney privileges, in order to save their client from " committing state assisted suicide" or as we know it taking responsibility for crimes that you have committed.

Ullmann needn't have worried, as it tnrns out, our Connecticut laws prohibited Mr Hayes from pleading guilty at that particular juncture in the process; it simply was not allowed, but Ullmann used the time to talk his client into keeping his plea not guilty, although these were just words they were a farce, as both attorneys had offered pleas of guilty in exchange for life sentences early in the process. This is a clear admission of guilt.

In the end, Thomas Ullmann and Jeremiah Donovan, like their client's Steven Hayes and Joshua komisrarjevsky would seem to be two different versions of the same monster; They both have sunk to similar depths in an attempt to "win"

And this is far from the first time Mr Donovan has crossed the line of ethical boundaries.

Sometime after the first year following the murders, Attorney Donovan contacted the Petit and other
family members   furtively ,using a " restorative justice firm to lure Petit and the other family members,with offers of opening a dialogue between he and the defendent joshua Komisarjevsky. They were taking the more with honey tack just as Joshua Komisarjevsky had placated and assuaged Jennifer Petit in order to gain her compliance,  before murdering her and her children.

When the understandably angry and disgusted family saw through manipulative tactic which included phone calls and letters, they immediately sought a restraining order against Donovan or any agency he hired.

A little over a year later,  Donovan came perilously close to being held in contempt of court for pulling a despicable self serving stunt outside of the Hayes trial, using the media horde gathered there to in effect interject a formal denial of that days forensic evidenciary testimony;  that his client Komisarjevsky had sodomized 11 year old Michaela Petit, before pouring gasoline on her and setting her afire.

As there was a gag order on the case at the time, an order which incidentally his client had flouted by basically co-authoring a self serving book about the crimes, Donovan made a point to say that he was announcing that the forensic findings announced that day in court were wrong, regarding the rape of little Michaela and claimed to be trying to ease the Petit family's minds between now and his clients trial.

When the Petit family heard the by now televised press conference with Donovan they were understandably angry and upset, and sought out the judge who placed the original gag order.

Attorney Donovan claimed to be utterly baffled at the Petit family's response; he thought they'd be relieved to know that his client had only ejaculated upon little Michaela and not sodomized her.

And this, because his client said so.

Two days following the highly publicized press gathering,Donovan, seeing the train coming down the tracks
did a full turn about and declared that his inappropriate impromptu press gathering"was the"only way that he could challenge the gag order on the case" which he didn't feel was fair, despite his client basically co authoring a book containing his version of the crimes, a version that heaped the blame on his accomplice naturally.


The worst part of all of this was that Attorney Donovanwith full aforethought broke a judge imposed gag order on a high profile case in order to discuss details about a minor child's sexual assault--the very reason that Television cameras were not allowed in either the Hayes or Komisarjevsky trials in the first place.

Now comparatively,
 ...
At one point during the pre-trial period long before any trial was scheduled Mr Ullmann using gentlemanly strategy  declared to the court that it "made him sick" that the court was even considering having simultaneous trials for Komisarjevsky and Hayes, in order to try to spare the families some of whom were elderly the trauma and expense of two separate trials likely a year apart.
The prosecutor withdrew the request likely afraid of a possible grounds for future appeal once the uproar began.  But the words were out there already:

"It makes me sick"

 

Michaela Petit's room after her body, still tied to her bed, was removed

Judge Blue Denies Komisarjevsky motion to Suppress confessional statements made to Police after Arrest.

Michaela Petit

Judge Blue has formally denied Joshua Komisarjevsky's motion to suppress all statements that he made to the Cheshire Police, following his arrest  fleeing the Petit murder scene. 

Komisarjevsky waived his rights to remain silent that day, as he has done many times throughout his extensive criminal past - a past that included arrests for at over forty felony's prior to the Petit murders. His past crimes ranged from arson ( he set fire to an abandoned gas station as a juvenile) to multiple breaking and entering, where he went so far as to use night vision goggles in order to stalk his victims and the layouts of their homes.

Judge Blue's Denial of Motion

I've stopped linking to, nor describing in detailed terms, the never ending motions cranked out by the Komisarjevsky defense team, for the following reason;

Few of the motions are genuine. 

It has become increasingly apparent that many of these "motions" are simply maneuvers to get around the gag order on this case, in an attempt to air this sociopath's latest connivance's via the media.

The media, including the Internet and blogosphere, have been reporting on the basics of every motion filed on this high profile case, and as such, the defense has used this as a platform to publicize whatever they re selling that week as the "truth"

 I will continue to report and link to the presiding Judges rulings and decisions regarding the defense's motions, as long as the ruling does not contain too much verbiage of the defense's original "motion" Attorney's Donovan and Bansley motions are largely comprised of admitted murderer, Joshua Komisarjevsky's latest whining, manipulations and attempts to distort the truth,

The truth is this:

On July 22 2007 Joshua Komisarjevsky targeted the Petit  family of Cheshire Connecticut for a home invasion, motivated by sexual assault and if he was lucky, robbery. He knew he needed a second man in order to bring an entire household under control, thus he solicited burly Steven Hayes as his muscle, using Jennifer Petit's attractiveness as a lure.

As such, if not for Komisarjevsky,  Michaela, Hayley and Jennifer Petit would be alive today, and William Petit would not have been beaten over the head with a baseball bat sustaining traumatic brain injury, severe blood loss and shock. He also would not be living with the emotional devastation caused by losing his entire family, their home and uultimately, his career as a superb healer. (he was a practicing Doctor of endocrinology prior to the murders,but has not returned to practice since)

Komisarjevsky in effect hand picked his victims, following them back to their home over a mile from a supermarket parking lot where mother and daughter were shopping for what was to be their last dinner.

 He has admitted attraction to Michaela Petit who was only 11 years old at the time of her sexual assault and murder.

He staked out the Petit home for break in potential. And he immediately called in a burly friend in crime (whom he had begun teaching the ropes of home robberies to) luring him in by describing the attractive Mrs Petit, who he knew to be Steven Hayes approximate age and a woman that he would be attracted by the idea of and thus help fulfill his master plan of a full out home invasion, kidnapping and rapes, in this case with a girl who just entered puberty early at eleven.

The same little  girl he took nude and semi nude cellphone photos of after tying her to her bed amidst her stuffed toys.

The same little girl he forced to shower after raping to try to rid her body of  his DNA.  Fortunately, the fire the men set died out upstairs as it became oxygen deprived in the top level where the girls bedrooms were and where they died Michaela still tied with her hands above her head, her body had been sprayed with gasoline whiles still alive, but much less so than her sister as the men had almost used it all up on Mrs Petits now deceased body strangled by Hayes, purportedly ordered by Komisarjevsky who wasn't certain if shed tipped off police and wasn't taking chances if the cops moved in after her trip to the bank with Hayes.

I will never get it out of my mind the moment that these thugs turned on Jennifer Petit who had given them everything they'd asked for and her trusting nature believed that they would do as they'd promised. This wasn't the case as we all know, and as she likely walked back into her home praying the men just leave with the money, they both turned on her tying her down including her throat, with Hayes raping her, as I believe either komisarjevsky the one calling the shots, had held him back from raping her, because he needed her compliance up until the point that she withdrew the 15000,00 for her family's safety.If she were made privy to the brutality ie via rape by one of these men, she would have bolted at the bank.

As such this was far more sinister than a plain old robbery, or even rape and I felt this from the moment I heard certain details about the crimes, prior to the gag order being imposed.

"The Threat Of Liberal Judicial Activism Reaches New Heights"

Yet another well written article written by Lester Jackson, the same writer that wrote a fantastic essay about the current state of our Country's Justice system" entitled The Modern Elite Ruling Class Notion of Justice"  

found in it's entirety in my June archives. 

--And I must say - he nailed it .  I wished that I'd written it.

It embodied  so well everything that I believed  part and parcel of the basic issues inhibiting our criminal justice system/.This includes the purposely crippled death penalty and the latent hypocrisy strewn throughout much of the Anti-Death Penalty arguments, particularly those made by abolitionist/ lawyers, who in effect. hijacked the death penalty system, rendering it near-unworkable in so many states, that the state winds up scrapping it, replacing it with life w/o parole, having disastrous effects on peoples safety from violent crime.

These subjects are rarely written about, other than superficially;  If it' is mainstream media, we might be given the results of a state-wide poll concerning  the death penalty,or the death penalty might be mentioned as an aside within a larger context, such as; how a certain high -profile case has brought the issue to the forefront of the state's conscience, as well in the state of Connecticut where our judiciary committee and legislature, have been chomping at the bit to abolish almost sadistic in its tireless obscenely timed efforts.

For example just this year the Connecticut Judiciary Committee decided, seemingly out of the blue,( for the second time in two years) to surreptitiously draw up and vote on yet another  death penalty abolishment Bill - a pet project of theirs for year, their most recent prior efforts resulted in a close vote that was promptly vetoed by then Governor Jodi Rell.

From there the bill was to be sent to the General Assembly, the second step for any crime based legislation to become law, and if it passed muster there, the bill would then be voted upon by the traditionally much more intelligent and discerning Connecticut Senate. Partisan politics notwithstanding, our Senators are generally speaking, an intelligent lot, and a fair number will and do cross party lines for such serious matters..

Note; The reason I cited the Judiciary's decision as obscenely timed is because at that exact moment in time, a trial was about to begin; The long awaited trial for one Steven Hayes" one of the two men charged in the murders, rape and robbery of three members of The Petit family in July 2007,.Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky were caught fleeing the Petit Family home in the Petit  family car, as eleven year old Michaela and 17 year old Hayley Petit were trapped  inside their house, burning to death from a gasoline fueled fire that led straight to their bodies which were tied hands and feet to their beds.

Their mom 48 year old Jennifer Petit had already been strangled to death by Mr Hayes seconds after he raped her, and both men set fire to the house, being certain to douse the girls and Mrs Petit's body with accelerant, hoping to insure the destruction of both men's DNA and murder all witnesses.

Adding to the tragedy, Hayley managed to somehow break free of her bonds, but was no match for a fire that the fire department described as violent and snake like and poor Hayley covered in gasoline was directly in it's path. She collapsed on the stairs while Michaela died a terrible death, struggling desperately to get free from her binds..

Their father William Petit Jr, who was badly concussed, suffering TBI and severe blood loss, testified hearing strange thumps above him and a terrible moaning. yelled up from the basement something like Hey from where he lay tied beaten and bloodied. One of the men, identified by Petit as  Komisarjevsky, the younger man who did all the talking,yelled down "don't worry it'll all be over soon"

"It will all be over soon"

Those words are Joshua Komisarjevsky's undoing.

Petit described the man's tone as sinister and ominous now, whereas before Komisarjevsky's tone had been placating and reassuring  " we only want the money, just don't try anything and no one will get hurt'

It' is fittingly ironic that Joshua komisarjevsky, mastermind of the home invasion, scheduled to be tried next month, basically hung himself  by behaving as the textbook cruel, arrogant ego-centric sociopath that he is..

In his evil mind,  there was no longer a need for pretense, he'd gotten the money from Jennifer Petit , he'd raped 11 year old Michaela, as was his main motive for the break-in, and he'd intended for Dr Petit to die in the fire along with the two girls. However, his words to Bill Petit and the way that he had said them propelled Petit to draw the very last of his adrenaline break his hand binds and hop up the cellar steps to reach a neighbor to call 911. feet tied head bludgeoned by komisarjevsky's baseball bat beating upon entry to the house, he knew he was no match for two men, he needed to get the Police to his home fast.

The police Confession  from Hayes and other evidence show that the men were aware when Bill Petit escaped from the cellar just a few minutes later, feet still tied literally rolling unable to crawl, to his neighbors house, the men were upstairs near a window when they saw and heard Petit, and according to Hayes Komisarjevsky began yelling at Hayes" the guy got out dammit!"he got out!" hurry up the cops are coming!

And yet the men still chose to murder the two young girls anyway by setting them on fire. The jig was up, they were most certainly going to be identified by Petiit, who had seen their physiques, heard their voices, they both had heavy criminal records, would be able to identify them.

Only moments earlier Dr Petit tied up in his cellar had heard his wife being raped and strangled, unbenownstto him at that time, and Joshua Komisarjevsky, so non plussed by the rape and murder that he'd just witnessed, couldn't resist taunting the man of the house, husband to the woman he'd just seen violently raped and strangled. He just had to relish what he imagined were his last moments of power over the soon to be dead Dr Petit.  Although as a perfectly predictable sociopath, he later claimed to police and within letters and journals confiscated by prison guards that Hayes was responsible for escalating the crimes to murder, this when it was so obvious that he was the one calling the shots, he was the one who targeted the women in the first place.

In the historically largely Democratic Connecticut, for the first time in twenty years like it or not woke up to find ourselves being Governed by a  Democrats this as the result of a precariously close vote whereupon a very unusual  situation involving a substantial number of  "missing, empty voting ballots in a city north of Fair field ,called Bridgeport. The city, it should be mentioned, had been rife with dirty politics and corruption -corruption which has had the trickle down effect, burrowing it's way into the Bridgeport Criminal Court system, a veritable revolving door for violent criminals.

When people say   "but what can we do about all of this after all we're just one or two, or three -  people?

 One answer  first of all , you can vote  , not only  in the larger election such as State Governor et al but just as  for your lawmakers ; local  assemblymen and women, as well as your State Senators

The people who comprise the Connecticut Legislature.

These men and women have a ridiculous amount of power, especially when you consider that the majority of house members are Lawyers, whether in active practice or not. Lawyers, with Lawyer friends. 

Find out their voting records in the past if they've served before on the state legislature. If they are a newbie running for office in you're city or township, find out  their stance on important criminal justice issues such as The Death Penalty, a subject that within the past four years, has been at the center of huge divisiveness between the residents of  Connecticut and its mostly democratic legislators who do not seem to care what the people want but rather they continuously vote to abolish the DP from some unrealistic armchair philosophy that includes the notion that it costs too much because the very same democratic party has crippled its actual implementation with a ludicrous and endless appeals process.  This is Irony at its worst. 

Specifically how have they voted on any and all crime bills?  Have they taken a proactive and tough stance against crime for the people of Connecticut, or have they just gone along with their parties majority?

The majority that is mostly responsible for lackadaisical approach to crime would be the seemingly ever-reigning Democrats n the Connecticut legislature.

Watch them operate during the now televised coverage of all Legislative sessions, which are now televised by law' One can garner a very good view into who the players are, who  has control within the house, and the Senate  All of This despite some obvious posturing for the camera's         

And how do we decide such a formidable decision?    I have discovered via my Blog and my lobbying efforts, that many people care very much about issues that affect crime, sentencing and public safety - they are often simply unsure of the process and how they can induce change.

There is nothing wrong with being uncertain of how local and State legislation works, but the shame is in not finding out and getting more involved,  because these "lawmakers" may invariably decide the fate of you or someone you love by being either soft or tough on issues involving crime and sentencing.

Watch listen learn. Ask questions of a friend or acquaintance who is in the know regarding the machinations of local politics as well as the Connecticut court systems.

And now that I have managed to once again pontificate ad nauseum.  in bold print below is the article by Lester Jackson that incited this post in the first place.

In making the case for judicial review, Chief Justice John Marshall pointed out that judges take a sworn oath to uphold the laws of the United States. Until last month, it would have been unnecessary to stress that he was obviously referring to actual laws, not the unfulfilled fantasies of a lone member of Congress. Nevertheless, on July 7, in a case largely ignored by the media, dissenting Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, Soto mayor and Kagan carried judicial activism to new heights by advocating a stay of execution on the basis of an imaginary law. They thereby revealed themselves to be so desperate to save barbaric murderers that they unashamedly and brazenly sought to apply un-enacted legislation introduced on June 14 by one senator, Patrick Leahy, with not a single cosponsor and by no representative at all. They had to know that this was not going to pass, because it had never been seriously considered in over seven years -- even when those least unlikely to vote for it controlled both houses of Congress and the presidency.

On May 20, 1994, Humberto Leal Garcia raped and murdered 16-year-old Adria Sauceda, whose skull he crushed and whom he left with a long stick protruding from her insides. Although he had lived in the United States since before he was two years old, Leal sought to avoid execution by taking advantage of the fact that he was a Mexican national who, he contended, should have been informed of a treaty right to Mexican consular assistance. No claim was made that he had in any way been prejudiced by lack of such assistance or that he was anything but clearly guilty as charged. (Indeed, he confessed when he was finally executed.)




A mere three years earlier, the Supreme Court had rejected an identical claim. Jose Ernesto Medellín, a Mexican national who had been in this country since preschool (4), had bragged about brutally robbing, raping, and murdering two girls, 14 and 16. The Court cited congressional refusal to pass a law required to enforce a consular consultation right. As stated by the Leal dissenters, the Court had "held that, because Congress had not embodied our international legal obligations in a statute, the Court lacked the power to enforce those obligations as a matter of domestic law." But they went on to assert that Leal's applications "do not suffer from this... legal defect" thanks to Leahy's bill.


It is noteworthy how easily the Leal dissenters slithered from lack of a statute to pending legislation, inviting the gullible to believe that the latter is a substitute for a duly enacted law. Their claim that it had a good chance of passing was obviously disingenuous, refuted by the lack of even one cosponsor and the failure to pass it since the need for it first became apparent seven years earlier.


The real aim of this artful exercise is transparent. Justices opposed to capital punishment (which has overwhelming public support) seek to sabotage it at every chance. Opponents routinely resort to absolutely anything to delay executions. There is no argument or ruse too preposterous (47) for them to try.


Here, the dissenting justices sought to grant "alien" murderers a right not possessed by citizen murderers: to call their "native" country's consulate even if, like citizens, they were raised and educated in the United States. This would be one more weapon to employ in the death penalty opponents' long term strategy of endless delay. If granted, would it surprise anyone if the same justices pivoted to seek a bar to executions of American citizen murderers on the equal protection ground that they lacked a right enjoyed by aliens?


In the end, the Leal case was shockingly significant, not because of its particular extremely gruesome facts barely touched upon here, but because of what it revealed about those at the apex of the legal system. Four justices proclaimed themselves disposed to implement, as if actual law, any pending legislation that suits their fancy -- even if proposed by but one legislator, one percent of the Senate or 0.19% of the entire membership of Congress.


It is, of course, nothing new for critics, including justices themselves, to accuse the court of rewriting law, twisting and torturing it beyond recognition. But, until now, there was at least a pretense of making decisions based on actual law. Resort to such pretense is bad enough!


Now, however, the United States is but one justice away from a majority so arrogant and incapable of embarrassment as to see no need even to resort to this pretense in usurping the democratic process. We are perilously close to five imperial justices so hell bent on ramming their unpopular personal values down the throats of an unwilling public that they will enforce laws that they themselves acknowledge do not exist -- in this case, for the benefit an unspeakably barbaric murderer.




Really! Do such justices have anything but contempt for the rule of law, contempt for the legislative process, contempt for the Constitution that clearly specifies that process, contempt for self-government and, ultimately, contempt for the American people?




And is the time coming for the people to reciprocate that contempt? Repeatedly, justices have expressed concern for the Supreme Court's legitimacy and public confidence, lest they be perceived as merely imposing their own subjective views rather than impartially and objectively applying the law. What will happen to that legitimacy and confidence if more Leal type dissenters are appointed?


The Leal dissent has exposed, in very raw form, just how critical the 2012 election will be. The nation is one justice away from a majority that sees no need even to pretend adherence to actual law in seeking to impose their own subjective values.

From time to time, there are calls for making Supreme Court nominations a major issue in presidential elections. These calls have never been really met.

This time, the presidential candidates should wake up. They should be talking seriously and often about justices who have contempt for the law, so that the American people will also wake up to the danger.

If they don't wake up in 2012, they surely will wake up in 2013 to a Supreme Court that a majority of Americans do not respect because the majority of the Court lacks respect for them. In turn, that will call into question the very legitimacy of judicial review for which Chief Justice Marshall so eloquently laid the ground

Lester Jackson

C/o The American Thinker

Witness List In Komisarjevsky Case Won't Be Made Public:

Countdown to September 11th/ Recollections

As the tenth anniversary of September 11th draws near, the memories of that terriible day creep more and more into my thoughts, pulling on my already - world - weary heartstrings, and  that place inside of me where all of my anger, regret and deeply rooted pain for all victims of violence resides.

As signs of the cyclic and by now predictable, September 11th memorial preparations begin to   I can't help but marvel over the seeming majority of Americans that seem to have rather adeptly compartmentalized their feelings memories etc regarding this tragedy, as if in a a box, to be opened annually upon request of the media.

An obligation almost, very nearly foisted upon them  eager to be forgotten, once the fanfare, the specials, fade..And yes while time is a healer of sorts, and as human beings we take advanatge of iyd sllsying sndf buttressing affects  it almost seems blasphemous here because, well.... 9/11 was different. 

First of all, although tragic, 911 wasn't "a tragedy". 

It was an en - masse set of violent crimes.Thousands of senseless and cruel violent crimes committed against thousands of innocents. Through these crimes, thousands of hero's, martyrs and heartaches emerged 

When I think of 9/11, I think of all of the individual stories, stories of  courage, pain, fear and loss - and it feels to me as if it happened yesterday, no matter how much time passes. IAnd this is why I cannot fathom ever reaching the emotional equilibrium whereby my grieving for this event becomes relegated to one,or two days a year.

And of course there were also the changes the crimes left.

I can recall immediately seeing and feeling a dramatic shift in the way that people behaved towards one another in the months that followed 911. There was a new sense of commonality that had never been there before., a connectedness among just about everyone, this decidedly did not exist prior to the attacks. 

Also there was the en - masse  rejection of  all  things vapid  tasteless violent and unimportant.

Nowhere was this more obvious than the entertainment industry; All films depicting gratuitous violence, (especially terrorism of any kind) were quietly but determinedly censored, or rejected out of hand by Film and Studio heads. This was the first time in my life that I had ever witnessed any kind of Censorship, for any reason, in this Country. And for the first time ever, it didn't seem like such a bad thing.

People were kinder towards one another, there seemed an elemental change in what we all viewed as being important. A pushing away of monetary pursuits and obsessions, a return towards family friends and community.I remember thinking ' how ironic - these evil acts, had, in the end, unwittingly served to do good, defeating the very evil that brought them all to bear;  They bought us back full circle to the things that truly mattered.. It seemed for a time that the entire country's value system had made a dramatic shift for the better.

To be continued

Komisarjevsky Motion denied - objects to being called evil etc in Petit family murder memorium

Honestly, do these lawyers have a brain between the three of them? 

Great thinking guys encourage your child rapist client to continue an adversarial stance towards the sole survivor of a triple murder that he literally Masterminded! A set of brutal crimes that resulted in three innocent members of the Petit family of Cheshire Connecticut,  being sexually assaulted and murdered, including a child and a 17 year old girl, both brutally murdered by fire. 

And why all of this mayhem? 

Because Joshua Komisarjevsky decided on July 23rd 2007 that he wanted to rape an 11 year old girl whom his predatorial brain had locked onto, spotting Michaela Petit  and her mom Jennifer at a neighborhood supermarket. That is why these crimes happened, and this is who made them happen.

The murders were ultimately committed in order to destroy DNA and other evidence of the kidnappings,. rapes, assaults,  as well as getting rid of all witnesses to the crimes..

The $15,000 that Komisarjevsky extracted from Jennifer Petit, who believed that she was buying her family's safety, was merely an added bonus to these two men. They likely intitially figured that they'd grab some  jewelry,small electronics they could sell and if lucky, some cash, but the main motivation was clearly sexual assault .

And despite all of  Komisarjevsky's repeated  indignancy over such issues as the Petit family wearing small pins representing their charitable foundation, into court, and whether his family gets as many seats as the victim's family at the trial,  well this only speaks to the very evil which is at the core of this entire nonsensical motion. A motion that like the other thirty plus or so that the public defenders for komisarjevsky have continuously spewed out for months now, has cost the taxpayers of this state hundreds of thousands of dollars.

And not for nothing, attorneys Donovan, Bansford and Co: but didnt this very same client who says he's being demonized in the public by a memorial, just over a year and half ago, eagerly co-write a published book about the Petit murders?   And completely disregarding the gag order that had restrained the ploice lawyers family victims and prosecutors from discussing any details of this same set of crimes?

A book that included komisarjevsky bragging about beating William Petit while he lay sleeping on his sun porch, striking him repeatedly with a wooden bat, "'swinging 10-15  times, as hard as I could, as if chopping wood"' 

And as if this wasn't bad enough, within the very same book, Komisarjevsky, admitted child rapist, repeatedly insults the victim of his near deadly baseball Bat assault, for not escaping or fighting whilst he was suffering from traumatic brain injury severe blood loss, and zip-tied hand and foot tied to a pole in his basement with a garbage bag on his head!

Mind you. this is the man whose family members komisarjevsky raped and then murdered by burning them to death,  tied to their beds, after pouring gasoline all over thier beds and their bodies and lighting a trail of fire as he and Hayes ran out of the home laughing. These were a set of crimes that he admits without saying so explicity, would never have happened if not for his targeting Michaela and Jennifer Petit at that supermarket, following them home casing the house and calling in a pal ito help him in a night of  assault terror rape and extortion.

And now, he and his lawyers have the audacity to talk about William Petit polluting the public image of  Mr Komisarjevsky within what was a rather restrained memoriam on the anniversary of the murders of his family. 

An interesting note here is that this is the second time that Mr komisarjevsky has loudly objected to being called an animal; the last time is a matter of public record and can be found online

in the court stenographers notes of his sentencing hearing for over 25 home break -ins, break -ins

 that led to his last prison stint. Mr Komisarjevsky had the nerve then to read a statement to the court objecting to the prosecutors portrayal of him as a "wild animal".

 He was also labeled a dangerous predator by that Judge, and in classic sociopath form, despite all of his

feigned indigence in front of the court, he later bragged about the label to fellow inmates in his halfway house,(also a matter of record, and on the Internet as well as a link in my archives.)

He was apparently immedietely mocked by the other men  upon hearing komisarjesvky bragging

that the Judge had called him a "dangerous predator" 

One man present recalled another inmate scoffing "What?You?!!  You're a weird dude,  you're 120 lbs soaking wet, yeah,  you're  a real dangerous predator..."  Ribald laughter followed by the group..

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With the classic fragile ego of a psychopath, that insult likely stung Komisarjevsky more than anyone present ever knew,  he probably ruminated over it for months. It may have even contributed to his lighting upon the idea of escalating his by now rote break ins, and escalating to what was undoubtedely already a seed of criminal fantasy brewing in his twisted head; breaking into the home of a desirable girl and tying her up and sexual assaulting her. After all he had proven to himself time and again how easy it was to get into these womens homes. But being shrewd he knew he'd need a second hand man to pull this off, as he actually 128 lbs soaking wet to be exact and physically he'd have a hard time overcoming any male head of household oe even a teenaged boy or strong woman as was evidenced by his struggle with Hayely Petit who he admitted he needed Hayes to help him re-subdue..

In almost every instance of the home break-in' that Komisarjevsky was being sentenced for during the aforementioned sentencing hearing, the home owners were home during the robberies,something  komisarjevsky has widely admitted to preferring for the"excitement" of knowing that the homeowner was home and oftemn just yards away-usually sleeping,as he creepy crawled through thier home.He often made sure of exactly where the victim was by stalking them from outside their homes in trees etc- using night vision goggles and other tools.

Thus... the"dangerous predator, and "animal" labels from the Judge and prosecutor, who were simply stating the obvious. He predated and behaved as a predatorial animal does and clearly continued to do so

after he was released.

And this leads us to the next all important question: How did this man, who was given 9 years plus 6 of special parole by that very judge, get out of prison in just over two years, then sent to a halfway house, unencumbered by things like bars etc and soon released back into the unsuspecting Connecticut Public via " the early release parole program,"

http://www.scribd.com/doc/61661350/JUDGE-Fasano-s-Ruling-Re-Dr-Petits-Memorium-to-Family-on-Day-of-Denied

Office of Victim's Advocate Petition Komisarjevsky Motion to Sequester William Petit

Well glad to see that the Governor's recent plethora of cuts to the office of Victims advocate did not yet have a chance to affect thier prompt and terse response from the OVA to komisarjevsky's lawyers recent motion to have the sole survivor of their client's night of murder, rape and assault, sequestered from his very own trial. See below

Motion from OVA-in response to defense motion to sequester Petit fromTrial

If you scroll down a few posts on this page you should find a post regarding public defender, Jeremiah Donovan and Co.s latest motion to have all trial witnesses, including victim and sole survivor William Petit Jr., sequestered from( meaning he may not attend) the very trial of the man, who in his own words, beat Petit's head with a wooden bat, as he lay sleeping on sun porch,

" striking him at least 10-15 times, as hard as I could, as if chopping wood" 

* The above line excerpted from interview and/or letter to writer Brian MacDonald, who, after hearing the irrefutable evidence from the Hayes trial, including forensics and witness testimony, realized that he'd been suckered by komisarjevsky, a classic sociopath, by an obvious self- serving version of what supposedly happened on the morning of the rapes and murders, with all of the capital crime responsibility (  those crimes that render a death sentence) falling upon his accomplice, Steven Hayes -Naturally.

In reality, it was Joshua Komisarjevsky that targeted the victims and called the shots: being a life long chronic home invader with a history of attraction to young girls, setting fires, stalking his victims from trees with night vision goggles and even more damning - stealing personal belongings such as photographs and lingerie from attractive women who lived in the homes that he robbed -often while the homeowners law sleeping unaware of his prescence.

Anyone who knew about the Petit crimes saw through the MacDonald "book' immediately; it was so obviously a sociopath's ploy. There was also a strict gag order on the case at the time which komisarjevsky and his lawyers were well aware of. The objective was clearly to throw out facts that were already known to police, and  the states attorneys office, to lend the appearance of legitimacy to the book, so that komisarjevsky's entire version of the crimes would' be more likely to pass as the truth of what actually transpired that night. 

In reality this 'openness' was nothing more than a ruse, for all of the "facts" that komisarjevsky 'admitted to' were already a matter of record either through his own confession, Steven Hayes confession, witness corroboration, OR evidence seized at the scene - For example; cell phone photos of nude and partially nude Michaela and Hayley Petit taken by komisarjevsky on his Cell phone, these photos komisarjevsky had the audacity and stupidity to try to explain away as pictures taken only in order to "blackmail Dr Petit after the crimes"

This idiotic explanation must have taken komisarjevsky days to conjure; he knew the photos had been taken into evidence, he knew he had to address them, Thus, in classic  psychopath form, he came up with any possible alter reality other than the fact that he is, and was a sexual predator, rapist and pedophile, and following classic sexual sadist form he was memorializing his crimes by photographing them in order to excite himself by re-living the sick excitement he derived.

In any event, the cell phone photos that this lowlife took the time to take, dually served to show the central motivation for these crimes; A sexual predators desire to have complete control an eleven year old girl - still so much of a girl that her bed was ensconsed in her stuffed animals. He had spied Michaela Petit earlier that summer's evening, shopping at an area Stop and Shop supermarket near the Petit's-and komisarjesvky's (parents) home where he was residing after a recent prison  stint which he was still on active Parole for. After following the pair home he called his criminal pal steven hayes describing the actractive young looking blond Jennifer Petit and proposed they stake out the house for a break in involving rape robbery and whatever else opportunity presented..

 Although there is no doubt that although Michaela was his target. Joshua Komisarjevsky was self admittedely excited over the notion of tying up and  "having complete control "(ie power) over all of  the Petit house.This, despite the fact that as an obvious pedophile, attractive Jennifer Petit, at 48, was completely out of his sexual predatorial range, and Hayely, at 17 being an unusually strong and  intelligent girl  very much a woman in appearence at least, was far too threatening to komisarjevsky to be a central sexual target. This was not only because of her age and  her` size,she was a big girl at 6ft tall, her strength (she was an avid athlete) and moreover, her emotional strength, all of which excluded her as a natural target for this coward's power lust. He did however take the time to molest Hayely, as was evidenced by a single photo of hayely nude from the waist down tied to her bed with her legs tied apart.

This single photo if one goes by the cellphone timestamp seems to have been taken while Hayes had just left with Mrs Petit to her bank to extort the 15,000 as a buy off to guarantee her family's "saftey" I have thought a lot about that one pornographic photo of Hayely, as many of us have been perplexed by the fact that according to all press reports, only 11 year old Michaela was sexually assaulted, with two perverts in the house and an attractive 17 year old  tied to her bed all night? After attending portions of the Hayes trial and hearing about that one lone despicable photo of Hayely, I recalled Komisarjevsky's own words about Hayely taken from excerpts from the interviews and letters to Brian Macdonald.

This take it in also goes for his so called "journals" (which were conveinently found" by prison gurads in his cell)Much of these "journals" were in fact first writes and rewrites of letters to Macdonald specifically written  for inclusion in the book) must be taken with the complete aforeknowledge that he is a sociopath, Macdonald wrote him asking for his story about what happened and komisarjevsky sitting in prison decided that he would use this "book" and the writer who was to write it as a tool to pawn off a rewritten self serving version of the murders and rapes, using regurtitated facts that he well knew that the Cheshire police, The FBI and prosecutors were already privy to via irrefutable evidence and testimony, and therefore the entire book was his way of "explaining away" extremely damning evidence and trying to shape into something anything that might make him seem less of a monster and of course lay that mantle upon his accomplice, now convicted Steven Hayes.

I  believe the photo was taken more as an opportunistic act as well as a way of a final demaning of Hayely who he'd told Macdonald had been "a fighter till the end-she'd  refused to submit to he or Hayes even attempting to get away multiple times and nearly successful shed managed to start dialing 911 on her cell phone when he had to call hayes to help him subdue her and re-tie her.

He knew they were about to leave the home in flames killing everyone in the house; he had obviously sexually molested if not fully asssaulted Michaela as the time stamp on his cellphone left a trail of time evidence, as well as  at the Hayes trial among the cellphone photos found on Komisarjevsky's cell phone amongst pictures of himself nude and erect and a myriad of little Michaela, in various stages of undress and were described of  and nude from the waist down the fact made her lesss of a target to that to feel any more than a passing prfedatorial sexual curiousityerverted  to her despite her obvious beauty.

Nevertheless, being a sexual predator and a rapist he certainly derived excitement and a power lust from the notion that all of the females in that house were "under his control"  Michaela all evening, but more or less quietly, at least until Hayes left with Mrs Petit for the bank; he needed Mrs Petit's cooperation and compliance, which meant that she must trust him and not see him as the rapist killer that he was.

 In effect komisarjevsky ameliorated and manipulated the protective mother hen, whose trust he needed to hold onto just until he obtained her  money via her trip to the bank with Hayes.

He was such a good con artist in fact that he managed to win Jennifer Petit's trust, despite having nearly killed her husband upon entry to the home. I am certain she was unaware of the assault upon her husband and was merely told that he was tied up in the cellar as seeing that either man was capable of this type of brutality would have surely led her to take her chances and flee whilst at the bank thinking that the police would get to her home before any more of her family was harmed.

Note that once again on the trip to the bank to procure the 15000, Komisarjevsky has Hayes do the "dirty"  work, the dangerous work, IE if any cameras or witnesses caught Steven Hayes at the bank, or worst case scenario, if Jennifer Petit chose to tell a security person a kidnapper was outside in the car it would be Hayes that would be apprehended. 

I am certain that Komisarjevsky likely had to hold Hayes off" ie from the " main prize" he'd promised him as part of the incentive to invade the Petit's home in the first place ie "The pretty and young looking mom" he described to Hayes after following the pair back to their house from the Stop and shop was the perfect lure for his partner in crime, Steven Hayes. Hayes and komisarjevsky I am also certain had struck upon their mutual fantasies of rape ( ie power and control).prior to this crime, perhaps as far back as when they met at a Hartford area halfway house at the end of separate prison stints.

I do not think Mrs Petit was raped or even molested until the money was procured, due to komisarjevsky's "ultimate plan" In the meantime komisarjevsky had Mrs Petit, Hayley and Michaela tied up in three separate bedrooms, two on a separate floor from Mrs Petit. Time stamps on the cellphone photos prove that the first series of Michaela was taken shortly before and after Hayes was out getting the now infamous gasoline; filling 6 containers stolen from the Petits garage at approx 6;00 Am that morning, even admitting to sending him out of Cheshire knowing he'd still likely be caught by gas station cameras, but perhaps hoping police would not look that far from the scene of the soon to be arson murder/ crimes in Cheshire, and if they did?

It would be Hayes' image and not komisarjevsky that the cameras would see.

The entire book debaucle was very painful for the Cheshire and surrounding communities as well as the Petit Renn and extended families, I liken it to picking at an already raw scab. And it was all just another manipulation set up by Joshua komisarjevsky in hopes of fooling the public and his jury pool and thumbing his nose at the cases gag order at the same time. The order applied to all Attorneys, defendants, witnesses, police officers and judges involved peripherally or directly.

When the paperback book by crime writer Brian MacDonald was announced as imminently becoming published and thus available for purchase at local book stores and libraries, including the Cheshire library, this set the community and surrounding environs in a justifiable uproar.They knew after hearing excerpts from the paperback novel that it's entire reason for being insofar as Joshua komisarjevsky intention, was a grand attempt to dupe the public and thus also his potential jury pool.

People have a habit, even journalists amazingly enough, of reading anything and automatically citing it as fact. I've seen it with this case dozens of times, There has been more misinformation written about these crimes, most of it benefiting the rapist murderers such as  testimony that the murderers shared with  MacDonald or  defense paid psychiatrists etc ( Hayes had seen a shrink hired by his attorneys for 9 months during his prison stint whilst his lawyers desperately sought to rewrite history as well as Hayes already existing confession to police.)

In the end I was at least somewhat glad to note that writer Brian MacDonald snapped out of his temporary seduction by Komisarjevsky, who in the book he'd maddeningly described as surprisngly soft spoken and very articulate . After hearing details about forensic evidence in the case via the Hayes trial , he cited komisarjevsky as one of the " most manipulative" people" he'd ever encountered. 

It took him a while, but he eventually figured it out; unfortunately, a great many good people were greatly harmed and emotionally tormented because he Mr Macdonald ddint bother, or care to, take sociopath 101- something any responsible writer should research  before sitting down to write a book about murder and rape, despecially one based soley upon letters and interviews with the mastermind of these crimes.

As well Macdonald was aware, as was Komisarjevsky and his attorneys, that the entire case was under a gag order, which was utterly violated by the letters alone, never mind publishing a book this about a triple rape and murder where neither defendent had yet to even be scedhuled for trial!.

Thankfully in time the truth usually has a way of rising above lies and evil, albeit sometimes at its own pace painfully enough for those involved, However, Brain Macdonald will forever be a writer and a man that acted in collusion with a child rapist and murderer, a man who caused horrific suffering and pain and whether unwittingly or not helped put a psychopathic killers lies into book form where they were given eternal credibility, despite the fact that the entire book was a ruse and is rife with self serving lies. It is a book now and will forever stand to those who dont know any better as "the truth"

As a  victim of violent crime, I can tell you that when crimes like this happen, the truth is all that the victims and thier families have left. So to sully that truth by giving an open platform to the very man who orchestrated all of this violence, brutality and death upon the Petit family, and that platform being so premature no less not years after the crimes, once the evidence and facts have come out via a trial, but at a time where the possibility of any kind of counter to the ridiculous claims being made in this book and presented as fact to those not familiar with the case, ie the families as well as the prosecutor and police had to stand by as the book was sold, livid and mute, for they were bound by the same gag order that Mr Komisarjevsky and his attorneys so blatantly violated in cooperating with the writing of this book. 

Note Komisarjevskys lawyers certainly had to know about thier clients meetings with this writer in prsion- considering only they and komisarjevsky's parents were on his isitor list until Mr Macdonald began appearing on said list supposedly duping the guards into believing he was an attorney. This in one of the highest profile murder cases in the state. Can anyone spell collusion ???

Now....

Getting back to this latest audacious motion by komisarjevskys camp, who now have the audacity to claim Dr Petit is not a victim but rather a complaining witness" and as such should not be allowed to attend the trial of the very man who beat his head so badly with a bat that he required large quantities of blood and a 5 day stay in the hospital which he finally had to leave in order to attend his families funeral.

Besides the actual beating which resulted in Tramatic brain injury which has life long consequences, he suffers from cognitive problems, vertigo, and of course Post traumatic stress both from the assault and the personal knowledge of what his family experienced.

Dr Petit was also victimized by being tied up, threatened to be shot with what appeared a 9mm  gun  "if he moves put two bullets in him This from komisarjevsky to his accomplice Steven Hayes, then ultimately dragged to his cellar, bleeding profusely (the bleeding already life threatening  was exacerbated by the drug thinner Coumadin which Petit took daily. He spent 6 plus hours drifting in and out of consciousness, zip-tied  hands  feet and chest,with a garbage bag over his head, during the entire night and morning, knowing that his family was at the mercy of these men who had already shown they were capable of great violence.

Now despite all of this,which is a matter of record and was undisputed by either criminal and proven fact at the Hayes trial,, Komisarjevskys lawyers claim in their latest motion to sequester, that William Petit JR  is not a victim but rather a "complaintitive witness"

 It should be noted that this entire motion to sequester all witnesses is really only about komisarjevskys lawyers attempting to sequester Dr Petit, they don't want the Jury seeing William Petit face or reaction to the horrible evidence of his families rapes and murders, crimes that were in fact the brainchild of their client the defendant Joshua Komisarjevsky.

This motion to exclude Petit from the courtroom is made even more ironic considering several months ago buried within the now mountainous pile of motions regularly spit out by komisarjevskys public defenders, was a particularly offensive motion from komisarjevsky camp regarding the formal seating arrangements in the courtroom during his trial. whereby his lawyers insisted that unlike the Hayes trial-which amazingly, they were actually allowed to attend (so that they might take notes on what to do and what not to do etc.), komisarjevsky attorneys made a motion demanding to sit directly across from survivor William Petit Jr. so that "he could quote "face his accuser." This will give you a clear idea of the antagonistic attitude that has pervasively defined the komisarjevsky " defense" from the very start.  

And   this was just one of a bundle of courtroom seating arrangement demands that included: more space for The defendant Joshua komisarjevskys family" who apparently all plan to attend the trial in full visual  support of this murderous hell hound,) an objection to the Petit families being given a small room where they could retreat during breaks after particularly disturbing testimony such as autopsy photos descriptions etc.!

As well another motion decried what they labeled special arrangements that the beleaguered Petit families, who they claimed were getting by being given an "inordinate amount of seats and seats that faced the Jury, which is the standard seating arrangement of every solitary murder trial in Connecticut and many other states. Komisarjevsky's lawyers however didn't think it suit their clients best interests and wanted the prosecution and defendant reversed so that the jury did not get a birds eye view of the grieving Petit and extended families..

There were other obscene requests/demands made from the defense  motions that would seem to have set the tone for all of the motions to come-there must be at least 60-70 pre-trial motions thus far from Komisarjevskys "lawyers" 

Most of the motions were denied, as they were so clearly vividly self serving and had zero legal foundations to boot. But no matter, poor Judge Blue, and in a few cases Judge Fasano(the judge that presided early on in the pre-trial process before Blue) was and is still obliged by judicial law to answer every single motion as if it were legitimate - no matter how ridiculous --And I must say, he did this with a great deal more patience than I could ever muster, not to mention an incredible amount of intelligence, insight and in many cases, legal brilliance.

A few months back before the jury selection even started, there was actually a motion from the komisarjevsky lawyers citing an adamant objection to the Petit family and friends or anyone for that matter being allowed to wear their tiny little Petit Family Foundation Pins to court.

See accompanying link here for photo of the Pin  http://www.petitfamilyfoundation.org/

Yes, these lawyers actually had the audacity  to have their clerks who are paid with our tax dollars as are they, typing up motions that disallowed a family who lost three of their own, including two children, to rape and murder, from wearing pins that displayed the Charity logo. The design, which is understated and moreover, very small, was made by a friend of Hayley Petit, was chosen to be the eternal symbol for the family's  charitable foundation that has thus far raised thousands upon thousands for people suffering from chronic illness, violent crime as well as giving scholarships to deserving kids in need..

 For those who haven't seen it the small logo depicts three birds nestled together, one larger than the others, with a wing protectively encircling what appears to be her baby chicks.

Yes, the donning of these little pins is certainly going to inhibit the entire possibility of justice for Joshua Komisarjevsky, the same man who earlier demanded to have courtroom seating revamped from its 50 year old tradition so that he could quote" sit facing his accuser" 

Now if this had been any other group of public defenders besides Donovan, Bansford and co., I'd be taken aback, repulsed, appalled and disgusted, but frankly, with this group, morally speaking, they no longer have the capability to shock,they have long ago joined their client in utter evil incarnate, as well predictability( as in "the banality of evil" )

Sorry guys, there is no free passes under your ever-widening umbrella of  "all's fair while engaged in a "vigorous defense" for ones '"client"  ( no matter how much mayhem, murder torture and brutality said client has wrought upon innocent others.) As well  it should not go unmentioned that somehow through the years, the original notion of entitlement to a"fair defense", slowly segued into" a vigorous "defense which apparently includes doing, saying, whatever the hell it takes to get the guilty person "off"- no matter who is hurt,  re- victimized and no matter the price to the system and society. And by price, I am not only speaking of money, there is much more at stake here as a society, as human beings.

And the best, or really the worst, part of all of this, and the most ironic, is that the man, the "defendant/client" that these attorneys are sinking to such unethical depths over, would just as quickly rape and kill any of their own brethren, their granddaughters, for example,(their own children wouldn't be age appropriate for komisarjevsky as he is a pedophile) That is if they were within client Joshua komisarjevsky's reach, and preferred age range; ie  puberty 10-15 years of age or so. 

And despite this I am certain that not one of his three lawyers, two of whom I know for a fact have wives and adult children of their own, have allowed themselves this very real very important and pertinent consideration. Never mind the concept of how would I want to be treated if I were a surviving family member? ' Could I not, as a responsible attorney, represent my client as is my job, and yet do it in a way that is not so egregiously harmful to the surviving victims, and society at large.?'

Needless to say I wont be holding my breath for any one of these men to have such an epiphany; They all have their eyes glued to the rabbit blinders on as they circle the track. Clearly, the Petit family have long ceased being human beings to them; This puts them in the same company as their client.

In any case....

I was extremely heartened to wake up yesterday to see that during this particular  weekend, while the good people of the State set an all time attendance record for charitable activism ( at the annual  GE//Petit Family Foundation 5K Race day) the devoted folks at the Connecticut Office of Victims Advocate were  task mastering on behalf of the Petit family as well.

Below you will find both the motion from Komisarjevsky's lapdog's and more importantly the response from the OVA on behalf of Dr Petit.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/60479077/Motion-From-OVA-for-Dr-Petit-to-Attend-Trial

http://www.scribd.com/doc/60479659/Judge-Blues-Order-That-the-Sequestration-of-Dr-Petit-Be-Heard-in-Tandem-With-Issue-Re-Sequestration-of-All-Witnesses-Made-by-Defense-Heard-Aug-15

Thousands gather at Petit road race

The fourth annual Petit Family 5K Road Race Day has been another awesome success! Over Three Thousand people turned out for the event today,  a day of athletic competition, fun and activity sponsored by G.E as well as many other State and local businesses, each one listed on the Petit Family Foundation web-site http://www.petitfamilyfoundation.org/  .

There hasn't been an official report of the funds raised in this years Race day event yet, it's rather early for that,  but it is clear from the amount of people who showed up and participated,  that the support for the Petit's and their extended families has not waned at all as time marches on, but rather it continues to grow, to encircle not only this  family, who has lost so much, but as importantly to do our best to heed survivor Bill Petit Jr's plea made to us on the day of his families memorial; this was to carry on the spirit of his family Jennifer, Hayley and Michaela, by reaching out to other's who are suffering and in need.

A legacy was created by those inspiring words, so many people otherwise disconnected  from things of this sort, now turned towards issues and ther plights of others, things that they once might have turned away from not out of a careless disregard but rather a reflexive desire to shield themselves and their loved ones from all things unpleasant or painful. I have personally seen a gravitational change within this state and I am very proud of the continuing commitment towards activism and charitable endeavors.

Komisarjevsky defense makes motion to sequester witnesses during trial, including Dr Petit

As I said delay delay delay, that is the defenses plan of action.

In no particular order, here are the documents on the komisarjevsky lawyers motion to sequester witnesses during the upcoming trial.   This includes Dr Peti of course who the whole motion revolves around, he who both victim and witness.

However, Within Donovan and Bansford's motion, they have the audacity to claim that Dr Petit is not a victim, according to law, but a "complaintitive witness"

Its personal  jabs like these and other bad behaviors by these so called legal professionals that has alienated these lawyers already before the trial. has even begun.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/60164237/Motion-for-Sequestration-20110204160308
http://www.scribd.com/doc/60163430

http://www.scribd.com/doc/60164458