A judge warned Fotis Dulos on Friday to stop talking to the press — as he had in a recent interview when he claimed his missing, estranged wife Jennifer had “serious psychological problems.”
Superior Court Judge John Blawie warned Dulos’s lawyers that while there may be some acceptable exceptions to the gag order their client is under, “I don’t see how the statements about his missing estranged wife’s mental status fall under one of the exceptions,” the Stamford Advocate reported.
Dulos has appealed the gag order.
His lawyers, meanwhile, argued on Friday that a hindering prosecution charge against him should be dropped because he’s not charged with a felony in his wife’s disappearance.
Defense attorney Kevin Smith told the judge that there’s no “predicate” felony charge against Dulos, which should negate his hindering charge, the Advocate reported.
“There is no construction liberal or otherwise that can sustain this information, because what this information charges is a hindering charge, that requires some other felony. And that is what is not present here,” Smith in the hearing, according to the report.
Dulos is charged with tampering with evidence and hindering prosecution in connection to the May disappearance of his estranged wife, Jennifer Dulos.
His girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, was also charged with evidence tampering for her alleged role in the caper.
Police have said Fotis and Troconis were spotted on surveillance video dumping numerous garbage bags containing items soaked with Jennifer’s blood.
Fotis and Jennifer were locked in a nasty divorce battle when she went missing.



