HARTFORD — A decision could also be shut for Kent Mawhinney’s home violence instances, however it stays unclear the way it might impression the Jennifer Dulos proceedings.
Mawhinney, who has pleaded not responsible to conspiracy to commit homicide within the Jennifer Dulos disappearance, appeared Thursday in state Superior Court docket in Hartford for the primary time since a decide ordered Hartford State’s Legal professional Sharmese Walcott to offer detailed responses to the proof the prosecution has gathered within the home instances.
One other prosecutor stood in for Walcott through the transient proceedings on Thursday. Decide Hope Seeley informed the courtroom she anticipated the case to go in a specific route Thursday. As a substitute, she referred to as for a brief continuance till Feb. 23 so she might obtain “the additional info the courtroom has requested for,” Seeley stated.
Mawhinney and his legal professional Jeffrey Kestenband declined touch upon the way in which of the courtroom.
On the home prices, Mawhinney has pleaded not responsible to sexual assault of a partner, disorderly conduct, second-degree illegal restraint and violation of a protecting order.
Legal professional Jon Schoenhorn, representing Michelle Troconis, who has additionally pleaded not responsible to conspiracy to commit homicide and different prices within the Dulos case, has been in search of details about whether or not Mawhinney is understanding a deal on the home prices in alternate for his cooperation in his shopper’s prosecution.
Schoenhorn needs all arrest stories and proof within the home violence instances and some other proof indicating whether or not Mawhinney struck a deal to testify in opposition to his shopper. On Jan. 24, Seeley informed Walcott she had a month to offer the courtroom with the data Schoenhorn was in search of.
Mawhinney was initially charged with spousal sexual assault in January 2019. He and his estranged spouse had been nonetheless residing collectively in South Windsor as they had been getting ready to divorce, when the lady reported to police that Mawhinney pressured her to have intercourse in alternate for hire, courtroom paperwork stated.
Mawhinney was charged a second time in April 2020 with violating a protecting order that had been put in place when he was arrested on the sexual assault cost. In that case, Mawhinney’s estranged spouse claimed he had been driving by her dwelling regardless of being prohibited from contacting her, courtroom paperwork acknowledged.
Mawhinney, whose divorce was finalized in December 2020, was a longtime pal and former legal professional of Fotis Dulos, who was embroiled in a contentious two-year divorce and youngster custody dispute when his estranged spouse vanished in Might 2019.
Fotis Dulos died by suicide in January 2020 whereas dealing with homicide, kidnapping and different prices in his spouse’s demise and disappearance.
Mawhinney has been accused of attempting to offer an alibi for Fotis Dulos the morning of the disappearance, in line with his arrest warrant.
Based on arrest warrants, Jennifer Dulos was attacked within the storage of her New Canaan dwelling when she returned from dropping off her 5 youngsters in school on Might 24, 2019. Whereas her physique has by no means been discovered, she is presumed useless by police and her household.
The evening of the disappearance Fotis Dulos and Troconis, who was his live-in girlfriend, had been caught on Hartford surveillance video making a sequence of stops, the warrants acknowledged. Fotis Dulos was seen dumping baggage in trash containers, the warrants acknowledged. Among the baggage had been later recovered and contained Jennifer Dulos’ blood and clothes, the warrants acknowledged.
Jennifer Dulos’ blood was additionally discovered on the seat of a pickup truck belonging to one in all Fotis Dulos’ staff, the warrant acknowledged. Police stated they imagine Fotis Dulos used the truck the day of the disappearance, the warrants acknowledged.
Mawhinney was arrested in January 2020 and held on $2 million bond till he was launched in October that 12 months on a decreased quantity of $246,000. The discharge got here weeks after Mawhinney was interviewed by state police about Jennifer Dulos, Schoenhorn stated in courtroom filings.
A prosecutor stated Mawhinney will probably be one in all their witnesses if the Troconis case goes to trial.
