WATERBURY — Norm Pattis, the New Haven-based attorney who has represented high-profile defendants in Connecticut numerous times, has joined the team representing the Waterbury woman accused of imprisoning her stepson for more than 20 years to argue an appeal of her bond conditions.

Pattis' firm, Pattis & Paz, said in a news release Friday that it has filed a motion with the Connecticut Appellate Court in an attempt to alter the conditions of Kimberly Sullivan's release after a Superior Court judge ordered she be monitored by GPS.

Pattis has represented the likes of Alex Jones and Fotis Dulos in Connecticut courts previously.

Sullivan was released on a $300,000 bond the day after her March 13 arrest on charges that include first-degree assault, second-degree kidnapping, unlawful restraint, cruelty to persons and reckless endangerment.

On March 26, prosecutors argued that the initial conditions of Sullivan's bond should be changed, requesting electronic monitoring and home confinement for her. A judge two days later ordered the GPS monitoring but did not agree to place Sullivan under house arrest while she awaits trial.

“In our view, there is a strong argument that the modification was made due to public attention and desire for punishment, rather than any real concern regarding her willingness to appear in court,” Paz said in the news release.

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