HARTFORD, Conn. — State prosecutors want to disqualify Michelle Troconis’ lawyer from defending her because they may call him as a witness to testify about how he obtained a mysterious box of evidence containing a sweatshirt police believe is similar to one connected to the killing of Connecticut mother Jennifer Farber Dulos.
The defense lawyer, Jon Schoenhorn, responded in a filing in court late Tuesday that the attempt by the prosecution to disqualify him is “absolutely baseless” and “only reveals the weakness of its case.”
“That is wholly aside from the fact that the state’s desire to learn what counsel may or may not know about the state’s evidence or the incompetence of the police investigation, does not in any legal sense create a conflict of interest between attorney and client nor constitute grounds for disqualification,” Schoenhorn wrote in the court filing.
