Giuiliano and Allo
Coming soon to a theater near you.
Mom remakes self to get dirt on her son's juror.
Doreen Giuliano was obsessed with saving her son from a life behind bars after he was convicted of murder.
She gave herself an extreme makeover — blonde dye job, fake tan, sexy wardrobe, phony name — and began spying on jurors. She befriended one juror to root out any possible misdeeds at the trial, and for nearly eight months, they drank at bars, smoked marijuana and shared meals in her tiny Brooklyn hideaway.
The juror eventually opened up to her about his time as a juror, completely unaware that this seductive older woman was the same dutiful mother who sat through the entire trial just a few feet away from him.The juror, naturally, doesn't quite see it that way. Jason Allo faces the possibility of being hauled into court to explain conversations recorded by a seductive undercover mother wearing a wire.
The bizarre saga has become the basis for a defense motion filed this week demanding that the verdict be set aside, while exposing the desperate attempt that Giuliano made to win her son's freedom.
"What she did was extraordinarily commendable," said one of Giuliano's lawyers, Ezra Glaser. "It shows the love of a mother and the great lengths she'll go to to help her child."
"He didn't do anything wrong," said his attorney, Salvatore Strazzullo. "We're going to defend Mr. Allo's actions to the full extent of the law.
Oh, I see. It's okay for law enforcement to pretend to be someone else in order to entrap another, but when Mom and Apple Pie try the sting on for size, suddenly, suddenly the stingee is on the short end of the justice stick.
Makes me wonder how many of the 664,731 persons registered as sex offenders in this country found themselves lured in much the same way as Jason Allo?
Check out these September 2008 stats from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children...
In May 2007, that number was 602,189. In 16 months, there were 62,524 new registrants added.
That's 3908.8 per month, 130.3 per day, 5.4 per hour.
In other words, every 11 minutes and 6 seconds another person is added to the SO registry.
The lesson learned from the sting--police or citizen--is something our own mothers always told us.
Don't talk to strangers.
Read more about Doreen Giuliano over at the LA Times.
