Joan Porco's Most Controversial Claim

Perhaps one of the more significant and controversial issues during the porco trial was that regarding the alleged nod that joan made during questioning soon after the attacks on the night in question. One morning in late 2004, peter and joan porco were discovered in their quiet suburban home with massive head injuries inflicted by an axe. Peter a new york state appellate division court clerk died later that day. Porcos lawyer, terry kindlon, says jurors should have never heard evidence at trial that his mother, joan, had nodded to indicate yes when a police officer asked whether her younger son. I was a year above porco in school.

Christopher porco, 22, is accused of attacking his parents with an ax as they slept in their home in 2004. He allegedly killed his father and put his mother into a coma in what appears to have been the drastic act of a desperate young man in deep financial difficulty.