Guaranteed my conviction.
In October 2019 I was falsely accused of a crime that never occurred. In October 2021 I was falsely convicted of that "crime" due to the abhorrent representation of Mark Alderuccio.
This man sat on every piece of information I gave him. Every piece of exculpatory evidence concealed, every defense strategy, logical fallacy and argument disregarded, but most dehumanizing, he let every lie told about me at trial go unchallenged.
He had six months to prepare for my trial. And after two years of postponement, there wasn't an angle to it that I didn't have covered. I wrote him email after email after email cogently detailing all of it - none of which he respond to, all of which he ignored.
I wanted to have a jury trial, but Mr. Alderuccio convinced me otherwise.
"You couldn't have a better judge for a bench trial" he said to me. Giving me example after example about just how fair minded this judge was, explaining how he's worked with him since the 90's -- KNOWING full well that "burden of proof" and "reasonable doubt" don't even factor in at a bench trial, it all comes down to whoever's easier to believe.
The sheriff flat out lied, in the police report and on the stand in saying I confessed to this woman's accusations, and for two years the judge had been convinced of that.
The most crucial piece of information that needed to be conveyed to him was the fact that I have denied that anything even happened from the beginning. Mark Alderuccio had unimpeachable proof of that fact and sat on it.
There were also two eyewitnesses that heard my repeated denials to the sheriff that day. One he didn't bother to get, and the other, someone he knew, he discouraged me from getting.
I saw him a week later in his office to ask if there was still time to appeal, something he never told me was an option.
I then found out that under the sorely mistaken impression that I had agreed to it, he had gone to the judge - not to have the charges dismissed - but instead legitimized the charges by attempting "to have jail taken off the table," a veritable admission of guilt.
This judge, so fair minded according to Mr. Alderuccio, refused.
A critical piece of information Mark Alderuccio hid from me until after the trial.
After ridiculously defending the prosecution and judge as having gone into the trial with an open mind, he basically blamed me for not just shutting up and accepting the verdict.
I attempted to ask a question about the trial and he angrily cut me off, exclaiming "You were convicted! you can't second-guess every little thing after the fact!"
I have no doubt that man fully expected me to be carted off to jail that day to have nothing more to do with me as he has treated me with utter contempt ever since.
There was an ocean of reasonable, reasonable doubt. Mr. Alderuccio effectively nullified all of it by convincing me to have a bench trial instead of convincing one fair-minded juror to consider all the facts, which could've easily been accomplished. read more
