Attorney Brett Podolsky represented a defendant who was in very ill health. The defendant, a gay male, was charged with biting off the finger of his lover’s mother. The mother showed up at the defendant’s apartment highly intoxicated. During the verbal altercation that ensued, she attacked the defendant, who is frail and in ill health.…

Attorney John P. “Casey” Keirnan represented a defendant charged along with 3 other defendants with Capital Murder. The State alleged that the head of a local dope ring wanted to have an individual who provided information to the police killed. This individual recruited and paid a facilitator to take care of the hit. The facilitator…

Attorney Katherine Scardino represented a young man who allowed an acquaintance to use his apartment to buy marijuana in Houston, TX. During the transaction, the acquaintance shot and killed one of the weed sellers in an attempt to rip them off. Our client was not present when this occurred, but the State of Texas alleged…

Attorney Robert Loper AND Attorney Gerald Bourque represented a defendant charged with the shooting death of a nightclub owner during a robbery attempt that went bad in the parking lot of a club in Port Arthur, TX. The State had an impressive list of witnesses which included two jailhouse snitches who were going to testify…

Attorney Skip Cornelius represented a male prostitute who allegedly ran up to the complainant’s car, robbing the complainant at gun point in the middle of the street and taking his laptop. J.J. Gradoni Investigates The defendant informed us that the complainant was actually one of his tricks, who had given him the laptop to hold…

Attorney Brett Podolsky represented a defendant charged with the shooting death of an individual in the parking lot of an after-hours club in Houston, TX. The State of Texas had witnesses that were allegedly going to testify that the defendant had shot the victim without provocation. The defendant claimed all along that the entire incident…

Thieves Amongst Us The Owner of a large Pet Grooming & Boarding Hotel for animals had become suspicious that one of the employees had been changing the deposit slips each morning and taking some of the cash collected. The Client provided us with the computer research that they had conducted, which indicated that a number…

Payroll Raised Fraud John Rhem, one of our Corporate Attorney clients, asked Gradoni & Associates to look into allegations from employees of a chemical plant that their Supervisor had extorted money from them in return for favorable reviews so the employees could receive pay raises. J.J. Hits The Ground Running Chief Investigator J.J. Gradoni spent…

During the month of February 2015 we received three new Death Penalty cases from Defense Attorneys Katherine Scardino and Jimmy Phillips. Escaped Brazos County Inmates The first case is a seven-year-old case being tried in Brazos County on a change of venue. Two inmates attempted to escape from a work project in a field where…

Attorney Kate McConnico represented an individual who had family law matters in Harris County, TX and Atlanta, GA with his ex-wife. Gradoni & Associates’ investigators received a phone call on a Thursday morning from Kate’s Client who stated that the local Constables were unable to serve papers on his former wife, who lived in an…