Who is Elizabeth Tissot? Bronx Defenders lawyer busted with illegal gun during a family dispute
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: A Bronx Defenders Office lawyer may need legal help herself after she was found in possession of an illegal firearm following an altercation outside her home. When police arrived at the Vincent Avenue home on the evening of Wednesday, December 21, following complaints of a family dispute, Elizabeth Tissot was found flashing an illegal gun. Tissot who has worked for the public defenders office since October, was arrested just before 6.30 pm.
Police seized a 9mm Smith & Wesson semi-automatic handgun and charged Tissot with criminal possession of a weapon after a witness informed them that she was in possession of an illegal firearm, New York Post reports.
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“That’s like the pot calling the kettle black,” one veteran Bronx cop told NY Post. “They defend the perps for this stuff, then they do it themselves.” “We call them the Bronx perps’ legal aid,” the cop asserted, adding, “I hope she gets prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.” “How hypocritical,” another Bronx cop said of the incident, charging, “Does she think she’s above the law? People in her office don’t want any laws. They want all criminals to walk the streets.”
Tissot was charged with misdemeanor gun possession on Thursday, December 22, in the Bronx criminal court and released without posting bail. Tissot graduated from the University of California Irvine School of Law, according to her LinkedIn profile, and up until last year, she worked as a public defender in the Washington, DC metropolitan area for several years.
A public defense nonprofit organization called The Bronx Defenders is fundamentally altering how low-income people in the Bronx are represented in the legal system. Meaww previously reported a relatively different incident where the Western District of Missouri's US Attorney's Office sentenced a former public defender to jail on August 9 for importing heroin to Ce-Antonyo Kennedy, a prisoner with whom she had a personal relationship. Juliane L Colby, 44, of Shawnee, Kansas, was imprisoned for one year and one month.
On February 8, Colby admitted guilt to the charge of planning to distribute heroin. Colby was taken into custody and charged at the state level for aiding the prisoner who was 20 years her junior in getting a cell phone while incarcerated. Despite a diversion agreement reached in conjunction with the state court case, records at the state and federal levels reveal that she eventually admitted to smuggling the drugs.
Colby was listed as a "mitigation specialist" and a member of Kennedy's defense team in the state court filings. According to court documents, Conspirator1 is the detainee with whom Colby admitted planning to transit heroin between August 1 and August 10, 2019. According to the article, Colby hid the heroin, a number of papers and court documents from an abandoned criminal case, as well as images of herself, in an envelope marked "Legal Mail." Eight little baggies containing a total of 3.25 grams of black tar heroin were taped under the package's flap.