Frank Parlato
A Confused Jury Convicts — And a Fool Walks Into His Own Trap
Paul Boyne, 64, was convicted on 18 felony counts of stalking and electronic stalking on March 10 in New Haven Superior Court.
His crime was a blog. TheFamilyCourtCircus.com.
He named Connecticut family court judges, described their homes, published their addresses, and invoked the idea of how appropriate it would be if someone used rifles with specific calibers to take their lives.
No one injured any judge. The blog was up for years before they prosecuted him.
The FBI reviewed the blog in 2015 and declined to bring federal charges. Eight years passed. Then Connecticut moved.
They could not prosecute him at first because there was no hate crime cyberstalking law on the books in Connecticut. Then in 2022, they made one. It appears Connecticut enacted the law largely to charge him.
Connecticut’s electronic stalking statute — CGS § 53a-181f — did not exist before 2022.
Virginia State Police arrested Boyne in July 2023, following an investigation by the Connecticut State Police Computer Crimes Unit and Hate Crimes Unit. Virginia extradited him to Connecticut.
During the pendency of the case, Boyne spent 18 months in a Connecticut jail.
The Trial
The trial went forward. Four judges testified, three of whom said they were afraid on the stand.
At the end of the trial, Judge Peter L. Brown read the jury 145 pages of instructions. The jury started deliberations on Monday at 4 pm. They deliberated for 45 minutes and went home. They came back Tuesday, deliberated another 45 minutes, and convicted Boyne on all 18 counts.
Ninety minutes. Eighteen felony counts. A novel First Amendment standard that appellate courts across the country are still working through. Five minutes per count.
Judge Brown did not base his 145 pages of jury instructions on justice. It was a ploy to confuse the jury.
For a detailed breakdown of what those 145 pages contained and what they left out, see our earlier report: What 145 Pages of Jury Instructions Do to a Jury — and What It Does for an Appeal.
What Confusion Does
Confused people do not make brave decisions. Confused people make safe ones. In a jury room, the safe decision is the one that requires no juror to stand up and say the state is wrong.
Juries tend to fear the judge and the prosecution.
The founders thought the jury would be the palladium of liberty and safeguard the country from judges like Brown.
It takes no bravery to convict. You get the prosecution’s smiles and the judge’s nod. You just avoid the eyes of the defendant who is going away.
It is easier to convict when you are confused. You cannot articulate why acquittal is right. You cannot hold a position you cannot explain. You cannot resist other jurors when you are not certain of the standard yourself.
Acquittal requires courage. Even to debate requires courage.
The 145 Pages
Judge Brown’s 145 pages were unnecessary. The typical Connecticut criminal charge runs 20 to 60 pages. The Counterman standard — the single legal concept that could have produced acquittal — was four pages. The remaining 141 pages were statutory definitions, repeated eighteen times, one for each count.
Brown was a trial judge in a case where his colleagues were the alleged victims. He had good reason to want a conviction. He would have embarrassed the whole judiciary if the jury had returned an acquittal, so he cooked up the jury instructions to ensure the jury found Boyne guilty.
For our full analysis of Judge Brown’s two lies to the jury, including the unanimity trap and jury nullification, see: Judge Brown’s Two Lies in the Boyne Trial.
Boyne was foolish. He must have known Brown was corrupt. The prosecution offered Boyne a misdemeanor and time served, but he declined and went to a judge who wanted to find him guilty. His miscalculation — he thought the jury would save him.
But a confused jury, misled by a corrupt judge and buried under 145 pages of instructions, is no safeguard.
The Fool
Boyne’s words are savage. His hatred and bias hurt his cause of exposing the corrupt family court system.
When you combine antisemitism and racial bigotry with a call for bullets to the head and then turn down a misdemeanor that would have set you free, you can be said to be a fool.
Now he faces anywhere from no jail time — he had that already in his pocket — to five or ten or more years in prison.
He has elderly parents at home, at last report, who need his help.
The Sentencing
Maybe Judge Brown will be lenient. He ought to be, but that would require noblesse oblige, something that this coarse judge would never understand.
During the trial, Judge Brown had to pretend to be neutral. A judge can never tell whether a sole juror might be intelligent, hang the jury, and then disappoint his friends on the judiciary.
But now he has the rabbit in the stew pot, and he can cook him for as long as he likes. He has to prove this was not an excursion into foolishness and punish Boyne hard to save face for his cronies.
Boyne is scheduled to be sentenced before Judge Brown on May 26, 2026 in New Haven Superior Court.
The Appeal
Brown denied Boyne the right to represent himself three times during the proceedings. Under Faretta v. California, a competent defendant has a Sixth Amendment right to self-representation. Courts have held that wrongful denial of that right is a structural error — meaning it is not subject to harmless error analysis and requires automatic reversal. If Brown got that wrong, everything that followed, the 145 pages of jury instructions, the buried Counterman standard, the 90-minute verdict, is beside the point. The conviction unravels on its own.
Judge Brown decided 145 pages was the answer. He decided to repeat the prosecution-friendly statutory elements eighteen times and the defense-critical Counterman standard once.
A confused jury convicted and went home. Boyne goes to prison. Judge Brown can face his colleagues with honor. He is no judge, but he is, after all, one of the boys.
Judge Brown, crooked, bias and a true friend to his brethren – other crooked judges.
For the complete Frank Report coverage of the Paul Boyne case see:
Paul Boyne Convicted on All 18 Counts in Connecticut Family Court Blog Case
What 145 Pages of Jury Instructions Do to a Jury — and What It Does for an Appeal
Judge Brown’s Two Lies in the Boyne Trial
Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.
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According to WFSB staff:
“conspiracy theorist”?
Is Boyne in jail because he’s confused and/or crazy?
https://www.wfsb.com/2026/03/11/conspiracy-theorist-blogger-found-guilty-cyberstalking-connecticut-judges-prosecutors-say/
WFSB staff wrote, New Haven Judicial District state’s attorney John Doyle Jr. said, “… The jury was presented with evidence that a majority of the blog posts authored by Boyne made multiple references to the ‘JEW-dicial’ branch and how the Connecticut family courts were part of a vast Jewish conspiracy.”
Can the prosecutor be more specific so the public is less likely to be misled in the future? For example, here are a few facts:
Which state officials will tell the public more about their philosophies and practices?
The Epstein files show massive, real conspiracies of individuals in control of government and corporate offices who also excused, promoted and enabled sexual assaults on children.
As soon as possible, official investigations and public conversations must expose the Connecticut family court system’s violations of criminal law which destroyed tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of children and families since the 1980s.
The Connecticut family court system violated criminal law which, in turn, destroyed tens of thousands — or hundreds of thousands — of children and families since the 1980s. Patrick Carroll III and Joette Katz can probably tell WFSB reporters where to find that data. If no such data exists, maybe some state office somewhere can tell us why no such data was ever collected.
I’m pretty sure the jury wasn’t confused at all.
https://ctexaminer.com/2026/03/21/ecuadorian-mother-battles-attorney-general-william-tongs-staff-for-custody-of-her-child/
If Brown does not respect the 1st Amendment he will find out real quick that there are patriots who hold the 2nd Amendment in high regard.
Baloney. You’re the same troll/shill who posted all the other incendiary comments. Step away from the keyboard and go touch grass.
Both of the following are correct:
1) There are lots of problems with the CT family court system.
2) Paul Boyne is a shitty excuse for a father and a human being. There are tons of good reasons why his kid’s don’t want to have anything to do with him.
The nasty racism on display in the comments speaks to the kind of people Boyne inspires.
1) “lots of problems” isn’t the way most normal people describe decades-long fraud, racketeering and murder in “family courts”
2) Paul Boyne tried to get the mainstream news to inform the public about that fraud, racketeering and murder in “family courts”
And, if you’re the one posting those “nasty racism” comments to prove your point, you won’t admit it, right?
The most deceitful are the most dangerous.
Paul Boyne seems to have hid nothing and tried to expose everything.
Meanwhile, guess who created the world system that’s destroyed children and families? If you don’t already know, you’ll need to sift through a few thousand years of deceit to then take a guess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%27Accuse…!
Is Paul’s murder in prison already planned?
The naked racism in the comments prove what sort of person Paul Boyne is and what sort of inbred moron supports him.
I’m proud to live in a country where Black judges like Brown are on the bench and not knuckle-dragging subhumans like Boyne and his ilk.
“Sov Cit; Uncomfortable Truth; Clive Anderson; Boyne’s Rabbi; White Power; Anonymous” etc.,
Someone pays you to write all those comments and stir up trouble or your first name begins with “C”?
As the general public learns about the kind of people in the Epstein files who ran the whole world into the ground, your fake comments look faker and faker.
What’s the one thing judge Brown loves eating more than watermelon?
Jewish poontang!
Judge Brown is smart enough to see through your attempt to poison the well in the case. He’s probably also witnessed many political antics steering the case. He might have been pressured and/or deceived throughout to provide cover for those who committed actual crimes against children and families in the family courts for the past several decades. The general public will eventually be informed of that racketeering.
Attorneys, state employees and state contractors attempting to sabotage court proceedings are among the worst of the worst. Here’s to hoping you’re just a private shill with no influence in government.
I’m praying for you every night and day, Brother Boyne.
Your attempt to stir up hatred for Paul is a sin.
Oh, and Paul was not attempting “to stir up hatred” for anyone? Yet you are sucking his balls like they’re jolly ranchers. You’re a filthy hypocrite.
The true criminal is Jane K Grossman stealer of children from their mothers for money.
The wealth management program. Cost savings. Connecticut is home to some of the wealthiest. The original problem began with fathers being striped of all their assets and access to their children. Connecticut began instituting the welfare reform. Responsible fatherhood and healthy marriage. The state of Connecticut began instituting fatherhood legislation. Starting programs to educate fathers in impoverished communities. Fathers in the prison system. Over the years like anything else the programs began being abused. In order to get people off welfare specifically single mothers. Discouraging out of wedlock births and father’s abandoning their children. They went above and beyond and began painting mothers in a negative light. The system is not just for impoverished communities and incarcerated individuals. The family institute fatherless households and incarceration. Working towards letting fathers out of jail. Domestic violence prerpitors started being with kit gloves. Granted access to children because the state concerns for financial abandonment. The wealthy fathers began to use the statistics and program in promoting themselves. Poverty is the leading cause of incarceration and other social issues. Criminal justice reform deeply intertwined with economic were pushed by Connecticut. The resources to welfare recepiants was depleted and is used for state benefits. Fatherhood programs were developed for lower wage earnings fathers and released from prison. The programs were hijacked by the fathers rights groups for assets and wealth management. Claiming parental alienation and gatekeeping even in abusive situations. Using studies for shared parenting volunteer studies. Generating funding streams to colleges like Uconn and Yale for fatherhood.. it’s not personal it’s these judges following economics over Best interest standards. Over $500 million dollar was donated by men to Yale and Uconn involved in high conflict litigation. One in California and one case in Connecticut. Wealth management in divorce procedures. ” Fatherhood is a purchase” in a way the father’s rights movement is not wrong. They have purchased fatherhood to be a priority because it’s tied to the United States economics. They have used federal government programs to manipulate family court. Connecticut being a large part of it. Jane Grossman is following judicial branch agreements. Because it financially beneficial to the state of Connecticut. While the men’s rights groups attack title 4d and domestic violence funding. $154 million dollar is placed in health and human services programs. It’s unknown how much university are receiving in funding to push biological rights and entitlements over Best interest. A focus on the AFCC. Canadian members education that ” gifts and prizes” child support and alimony are going tied to parental alienation cases. Almost 8 billion dollars in arrarges in Canada. While $118 billion in arrarges in the United States. Wealter fathers often made such claims. Perhaps the United States is having an extremely difficult time enforcing it. The government is being talked into giving fathers primary custody to save money. The statistics are never broken down and toss into the public leading to misinformation. Forcing settlement for the benefits of the state rather than the best interest of children. Prior to covid there was historical amount of women in the work force. The average salary needle for them hasn’t moved much. Difficult to raise children on the income. Connecticut organization using equity as a weapon to flip custody or give 50/50 custody in even the most complex cases. Paul Boyne blog demonstrated this highlighted sexual abuse cases. Over shadowed by racism and suggestions. Leading to Connecticut’s, the AFCC and attorneys claiming that the people complaining are crazy. Which in some cases is absolutely correct. However Connecticut leading these programs can not dispute the bias based on assets and wealth management including the state it’s self. Helping to cover up the Epstein files. Voting not to disclose sexual assault alligations. Failure to disclose ” other” in Tanf block grant funding. Failure to disclose complaints filed and granting immunity. While the state accumulate wealth children are given to higher wage earnings. Promotion of Fields of employment historically held by women funded for larger male involvement. Labeled toxic feminist for noticing. Using equity and opportunity to cover it up. Exploiting the minority community for male domination. Then calling them alienators, privilege white women for noticing. The three strikes rule and custodial inference to coursively comply with court orders. Coursive court procedures to reunify abusive parents because it’s financially in the best interest of the state to do so. Women claiming Alienation or unjustified estrangement of their children for having strong bonds born out of nurturing. Not because it’s emeshment. Because it’s not financially lucrative to support motherhood in the United States. Despite all the progress in education and employment. I disagree with the majority of work surrounding parental alienation a weapon only successful for fathers the majority of the time. However, I do support Dr. Childress calling out incompetence, curruption in the family court psychology field. Including the base in Connecticut using access, wealth, assess management to guide family court cases. Connecticut is the state leading all of this. Shame on Jane Grossman for being a part of it. Fathers like Paul Boyne did show the actual draining of wealth to people involved in family divorce cases. However, the wealthy white men has bought family court. ” Reform” has begun to be sold behind closed doors in the Best interest of the state. The worst interest of children. Just like the Epstein files it’s all getting covered up.
Fuck you to the state of Connecticut. Fuck you to the department of public health and human services. Fuck you to to the judges and AFCC for selling children to predators.
2014 Linda Gotlibe comes to Connecticut judicial hearing. Children rejecting a parent is alienated, no questions. AFCC peace talks. Gotbile at risk of losing business re-emerging on the scene to announce Christopher Ambrose lawsuit. Protecting her assest and wealth management. Court ordered services at any cost. Catering to wealthy families. Articles emerge about three female family court judges Connecticut family court reform, parental alienation activists they resided over the divorce cases of the unconn donor. No kids involved, but court ordered psychological testing. A notorious judge for enforcing child support orders wants to enforce child support orders on a father from a wealthier section of Connecticut. Looking for someone to represent the father to enforce court orders. Placed on the frank report. Looks like they clipped his wings. Perhaps Anthony Gay fatherhood initiative/ child support enforcement had a chat with him. Wealth management and assets. Anthony claims the mother of his first child was a barrier. So everyone must be. The good old boys club. Jane’s in the club.
Judge Brown, was connected to Andrew Shubin and Jerry the diddler of CYS and the famous shitty kitty committee brown-charles-400×400.jpg
Great picture of judge Brown. You could fit a lot of male genitalia in that mouth of his plus a whole watermelon.
Hhmmm, who would troll to misinform or shill for an agenda in the Boyne case?
What creepy computer code prevents the registering of a — vote to dislike that comment?
Juries are always confused these days and judges see to it that they are.
Everyone will deceive his neighbor,
And will not speak the truth;
They have taught their tongue to speak lies;
They weary themselves to commit iniquity.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%209&version=OJB
What kind of people face colleagues with honor while also being afraid of them? His coworkers who rigged that game aren’t his colleagues.
“Judge Brown represented the Commonwealth but declined Uncle Donng’s death shot.
The FBI looked at the case not only in 2015 but in 2022 as well. CT sought to have them charge Paul boyne twice and twice the Feds declined.
Ct created a law that violated federal law.
It was created bc the Feds refused to take action and Paul boyne is a threat to their liberties and freedoms.
He’s more knowledgable than all of them combined and would have destroyed these judges had he been granted his right to self-representation which is why judge brown refused.
“He’s more knowledgable than all of them combined”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Judge Jane Grossman is a leading child trafficker in family court!
She routinely severs loving, healthy parental bonds and banishes innocent mothers to deliver children.to the solo financier of the litigation.
Jane Grossman is a childless psthological liar who is being protected by the racketeering industry that has been running through the ct judiciary for decades.
Family court rakes in more money than all other courts combined.
I’d like to see receipts with dates for the alleged installation of grossmans home security system which she allegedly installed in response to his article.
Where’s the evidence of that?
She is a piece of SH*T.
Accurate analysis and breakdown of exactly what happened and why it happened.
Paul Boynes rights were violated repeatedly. Virginia state law was violated to bust down his door and confiscate his belongings.
The illegal CT law was driven by Josette Katz as a means to incarcerate Paul Boyne.
This is a great scam reflective of exactly what family court judges do to parents and children on a daily basis.
These people are pure evil.
… They’ll get it all from you sooner or later ’cause they own this f**kin’ place. It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good, honest, hard-working people: white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. …