REPARATIONS FOR THE DEFENSE

Unless Kindlon is going to pursue Chris’ appeal at the public defenders’ fee rate, he has no right to ask the County to pay for the transcripts for Chris’ defense. If Chris is determined to be indigent, then he is entitled to a public defender to file an appeal on his behalf (and that assigned public defender is entitled to the trial transcripts at no cost ). Those who are privy to this information must ascertain that Kindlon/Shanks (having billed the County for the trial transcripts) are the appelant’s lawyers and are paid according to public defenders’ rates as established by the legislature.
Christoher Porco should have been declared indigent at his indictment. But, because Joan Porco’s attorney, John Polster, convinced her that Kindlon/Shanks would get an acquittal for her son, Joan paid K/S’s fees. Now that those “expert” witnesses were less than expert…K/S feel guilty asking Joan to pay for their testimony… Is there no shame among these lawyers?
We are astonished that Kindlon would ask the people of Albany County to pay for his defense costs… especially because his defense was so damaging to the Porco/Balzano family. Imagine an attorney telling a victim (mother) not to ask the defendant (her son) if he did, in fact, kill his father and try to kill her?! No family member was allowed to ask Chris if he was innocent (or guilty)… as demanded by Terry Kindlon.
Because of K/S, Albany County taxpayers paid the cost of a Goshen trial… Now, they are asked to pay for an appeal… Don’t let the County pay a cent more than a public defender would receive! No one should profit from this nightmare!

Oh… In case anyone is wondering why I logged on to this blog tonight… it really wasn’t to “fuel the fire.” I logged on to read and to be in touch with those who were still thinking about Peter Porco’s life and his murder… because, today, August 22nd, our family would have celebrated Peter’s birthday. We will remember Peter for the way he lived; not the way he died. We know that he loved his wife, his children, his parents, his sister and brother, his extended family, and his friends because his good deeds and actions told us so!

WHAT WOULD HAVE PETER DONE?

Patty Szostok spoke for our family and her brother when she said that she had to trust in the process as Peter had, all his life. That process did not let us down. It, through the efforts of so many, found the evidence, brick by brick, and created the walls that will hold Christopher away from the family he deceived and used, and society for the rest of his life. The process was made very difficult by the protections afforded defendants, which is as it should be. But, the truth found its way thru all the obstacles, and reached out to the jury. And, that jury did not fail the process with “unreasonable doubt”; neither did it show unreasonable sympathy for the defendant because he was constantly referred to as a “child,” nor because his mother once again tried to save him from the consequences of his behavior.
There is no doubt that a portion of Christopher’s defense has been paid for by Peter’s insurance benefits. All along, Joan’s family has questioned the legal advice that has been given her by her attorney, John Polster. He has worked closely with the defense team and has allowed Joan to pay for Christopher’s defense. He has encouraged Joan to separate herself from any and all family members who couldn’t support Christopher 100%. He allowed Joan to be a defense pawn. He has defended his actions by saying that his client, Joan, wanted to defend her son, and he has only helped her to do so…and, helped the defense duo, Kindlon and Shanks. He has had the nerve to say that he knows that Peter Porco would want him to be Joan’s attorney and to help her protect their son!
Peter Porco, himself, told Christopher that he would have to press charges against him for his forgery of loans which were ruining Peter’s credit and which were illegal. Does John Polster really believe that if Peter Porco was willing to press charges against his son for forgery, he would want Polster to defend his son against murdering him and trying to murder his wife? … And, using his (Peter’s) life insurance proceeds to do so? How much money does anyone really think Peter wanted Chris to steal from him, alive or dead?
The next trial our family is waiting for is the NYS Bar Associations unethical and criminal proceedings against John Polster. Now Joan knows that a jury has weighed the evidence and found her son guilty; she has to know that she was mislead by John Polster… who was working for Shanks and Kindlon … and, that she was not doing what Peter would want her to do for Christopher…as Polster worked so hard to convince her of.
But, wait… I hear the sound bites of “appeal” being shouted into any media device available. Do I also hear the sound of money being drained from Joan’s assets? Yep! Is her faithful attorney John Polster encouraging her to finance such an appeal because Kindlon says the record is “fraught with reversible errors?” … Someone needs to stop the madness and retrieve her from the clutches of Polster, Kindlon and Shanks and return Joan to her family who truly loves her

WNYT PORCO TRIAL BLOG

Dear Abby and Chris,

This blog site was truly a gift to many of the Porco/Balzano family members.

It was a way for us to take the temperature of the public as to guilt/no guilt...and use that information as an indication of how the jury might be thinking.

It gave us the opportunity to correct the lies and fabrications that were used by the defense to distort the truth.
By allowing us to write the truth, even though unheard by the jury, we felt some control over this wholly uncontrolable family nightmare.

We were deeply touched and strengthened by the kind words, prayers and expressions of concern sent to us by so many blog participants.

We also needed to read those blogs declaring Chris was innocent. We all WANTED to believe in his innocence. We HOPED that there would be some one thing that would dispell all the evidence pointing to his guilt

So many of our family members read and/or contributed to this blog on a daily basis. Since we all live in different parts of the country, this blog allowed us to go through the trial TOGETHER at all times of the day and night. Being together in this blog was especially important to a family in which both the victims and the accused were/are members.

So, when you make your assessment of this blog... please add the above comments, and our appreciation, to your success.