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Retired Cook County judge Anthony J. Scotillo died May 27 at age 76 of heart disease in Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He was president of the Justinian Society in 1972 and of the Illinois Judges Association in 1984.

The son of immigrant Italian parents in Chicago's Austin neighborhood, Mr. Scotillo joined the Marine Corps after high school and served four years. He graduated in 1957 from the DePaul University College of Law.

He began his legal career with Nicholas J. Caruso as Caruso & Scotillo, and after Caruso died in 1963 he opened a downtown general and matrimonial practice.

http://www.illinoisbar.org/Association/056j.htm

Mr. Scotillo became a judge in 1971, first serving in the 2nd Municipal District and later in the Law Division and Chancery Division. He retired from the bench in 1991 and continued to practice law.

Survivors include a nephew, Associate Judge John J. Scotillo of the 3rd Municipal District, who is married to Arlington Heights attorney Nancy S. Scotillo.

Palatine cops beat immigrant in cell

Pinoy immigrant accuses Illinois cops of brutality

10Mar08

PALATINE, Illinois — Stepfather knows best.

Chicago’s suburban Palatine, Illinois police officers found this out when they ignored the plea of Rick Holmes to take his stepson, Louie B. Salisid, to the police station instead of the hospital more than a year ago.

Salisid, who was 36 at that time, was having a “mental breakdown” from a bipolar disorder when he attacked his stepfather who was dozing off in his reclining chair in the early afternoon of Oct. 25th, 2006.

Even while having a difficulty of breathing and with a bloodied face from the beating by his stepson, Holmes managed to call 9-1-1 emergency for assistance after his stepson stormed out of their house in Palatine.

When paramedics came, Holmes asked them to look for his stepson and asked them to take him to the hospital.

However, the first responding Palatine officer, Dan Mesch, immediately took Salisid to the police station. Mesch’s partner, Dan Weidman, assured Holmes that he will relay his request to Mesch to take his stepson to the hospital.

Mesch testified before Judge John J. Scotillo of the Third Municipal District of the Circuit Court of Cook County in neighboring suburb of Rolling Meadows during the trial that he had just taken off the handcuffs from Salisid when Mesch told Salisid to sit down.

Mesch said he, then, saw Salisid, clinched his “fist and swung towards my face,” hitting his nose and lip and breaking his nose bridge.

Mesch added, Salisid “continued to throw punches and kicks towards me” when his fellow officer, Dan Weidman, walked in to assist in subduing Salisid.

But Holmes did not buy Mesch’s story, saying that Salisid told him later that “after punching the cop in a holding area of the Police station, Louie was handcuffed, dragged to a cell, thrown face down on a cot and a cop came in the cell, grabbed Louie by the hair and hit him twice about the eye.” That was the reason, his stepson had a “black eye,” Holmes told this reporter.

Last Thursday, March 6th, Judge Scotillo found Salisid “in need of mental health services on an outpatient basis” for the next seven years from Oct. 25, 2006, the day Salisid was released from the hospital.

During the bench trial of the case last Oct. 18, 2007, Judge Scotillo found Salisid not guilty by reason of insanity of the charge of aggravated battery for attacking a police officer (Mesch), which is a felony.

On the same day, the domestic battery, Weidman initially filed on behalf of Holmes when Salisid “punched Holmes several times with a closed fist about the face causing cuts and bruises by the nose and mouth,” was also dropped.

Holmes refused to press charges against Salisid because Holmes believes his stepson “was not in a right frame of mind” when Salisid attacked him in their home.

Last Thursday, Scotillo also ordered Salisid to follow the recommendations of the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) treatment and medication management plan that will be administered by Salisid’s psychiatric physician, Dr. Renato De Los Santos , who must provide the court Salisid’s progress report every 90 days until Oct. 25, 2013.

De los Santos must also “provide Salisid’s report to Dr. Anderson Freeman of the IDHS and Keith Nelson.”

The case dragged for several months because Holmes and his wife, Violeta (nee: Bolodo), mother of Louie, could not find another Visayan interpreter after the first interpreter, Geanette Ruiz, had become unavailable. Holmes blames the Cook County state attorney for dragging the case, by using the “lame excuse of not getting documentation until the day before several times.”

The hearing moved forward last Thursday, when a province mate of Louie from his native Plaridel, Misamis Occidental, Ms. Linda Evangelista, a registered nurse, volunteered to act as his court interpreter.

In the Philippines, Louie was diagnosed as having bi-polar disorder. After the incident, Louie was diagnosed as having paranoia schizophrenia.

Louie immigrated to the United States less than three years ago. He speaks Visaya and a “little English.”

Louie now works as a part-time Line Server for Old Country Buffet restaurant at Rolling Meadows by filling up items on the buffet that is depleted. His mother works as a window clerk at the U.S. Postal Service in suburban Algonquin, Illinois.

Private defense Atty. David G. Pugh assisted Louie in his defense.

Holmes and his wife, Violeta, said that now that the criminal case is over, they are on the prowl for a lawyer, who can assist them in filing a civil case against the Palatine police department for “incompetence, brutality and misconduct” of its police officers toward their son as they failed to observe protocol in handling cases of individual with abnormal states of mind, such as “restraining, instead of retaliating” plus “something for pain and suffering.”

Holmes said, “if only the police allowed the paramedics, who were on the scene, to take Salisid to the hospital, me and my wife would be $50,000 richer (the amount that cost Palatine for police mishandling of the case). Louie would not have gotten beat up and would not have suffered nine months of pain due to the brain trauma and we would have a lot of time in our hands of not having to go to court for the last year and a half.”

They said they only have seven months left to file a civil case before the statute of limitation will lapse.

Mesch and Weidman did not return phone calls left on their voice mails by this reporter for comment.

http://www.pinoyoverseas.net/news/?p=157

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