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A judge on Wednesday appointed an attorney to represent the children of a Cheshire man charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of his wife last month.
Emanuel Dominguez-VillaGomez, 31, faces charges of murder, first-degree assault, risk of injury to a minor, first-degree reckless endangerment and first-degree unlawful restraint. He is being held on $1 million bond.
Monica Pinto Dominguez was found in a pool of blood on the floor of the couple’s home at 780 Mountain Road...

The Cheshire man accused of stabbing and killing his wife in front of her children last month has a new attorney.
Norm Pattis is now representing 31-year-old Emmanuel Dominguez-VillaGomez, who is facing murder charges. Pattis is also representing Fotis Dulos, the estranged husband of missing New Canaan mother Jennifer Dulos.
Police said they found Dominguez-VillaGomez’s wife, Monica Dominguez, in a pool of blood when they responded to their Mountain Road home in September....

A Cheshire man, accused of stabbing his wife nearly three dozen times, resulting in her death, was back before a New Haven judge today.
And, today marked the first day he was represented by a familiar, high-profile attorney.
Attorney Norm Pattis today officially began representing Emanuel Dominguez-VillaGomez, who was charged with murder last month. According to court documents, he went into a jealous rage.
The sight of VillaGomez in court was too much for Diana Montes, who...

Attorney Norm Pattis has filed his formal appeal with the state Supreme Court asking for a hearing on whether the gag order imposed on the criminal case against Fotis Dulos should be overturned.
Pattis filed a request last month for the state's highest court to hear his appeal after Stamford Superior Court Judge John Blawie, who is overseeing the criminal proceedings in the May 24 disappearance of Jennifer Dulos, granted State’s Attorney Richard Colangelo’s request for a gag...

The state Supreme Court will hear an appeal of the gag order imposed in the Fotis Dulos case.
Defense attorney Norm Pattis, who requested the hearing, will need to file a legal brief by Oct. 9 and the state has until Oct. 28 to respond. A hearing will be scheduled after Dec. 5.
“We are delighted. I am looking forward to the argument,” Pattis said. “Gag orders are a form of prior restraint on speech and are particularly odious.”
The state’s highest...

Fotis Dulos, the estranged husband of missing woman Jennifer Dulos, is once again talking to the media and this time he is claiming his missing wife had psychological issues.
“I'm sorry to say it, but Jennifer was suffering from serious psychological problems that I didn't immediately understand and didn't want to go into further,” Dulos told Greek news site Proto Thema in a lengthy story about the case published Friday.
He said that the marriage began falling apart in...

The state Supreme Court will hear an appeal by Fotis Dulos to have a gag order imposed by a Stamford judge revoked because it hinders his ability to fight allegations that he had something to do with the disappearance of his estranged wife, Jennifer Farber Dulos.
Chief Justice Richard Robinson granted attorney Norm Pattis’ application to have the state’s highest court review the gag order put in place on Sept. 12 by Judge John Blawie. Pattis must now file a legal brief by Oct....

Fotis Dulos claims in a new interview his wife, missing Connecticut mother Jennifer Dulos, had “serious psychological problems” that contributed to their marriage falling apart — and became “a hermit.”
The Greek real-estate developer — who has been charged in connection with Jennifer’s disappearance — told Athens website Proto Thema their relationship began breaking down in 2010.
“Jennifer gradually began to take me out of her...

The estranged husband of missing mother Jennifer Dulos has given an interview to a Greek outlet. That’s despite a judge barring Dulos, his attorneys, and the prosecution from speaking publicly about the case.
The popular weekly Greek newspaper, Proto Thema published the interview online last week.
In the interview, Fotis discussed the crumbling of his marriage and how Jennifer handled his request for a divorce.
“We decided to break up our marriage amicably,”...

The Hartford Courant has asked the state’s highest court to hear an appeal of the gag order issued by a Superior Court judge in the criminal case against Fotis Dulos, estranged husband of missing New Canaan mother Jennifer Farber Dulos, arguing that it exceeds the court’s authority and amounts to prior restraint of free speech.
The filing on behalf the Courant comes a week after Dulos’ attorney, Norm Pattis, asked the Connecticut Supreme Court to lift a Sept. 12 gag...