 Michelle Traconis says she's seeking a public defender to handle her appeal because she's indigent and cannot afford it. Traconis was convicted of conspiring to help her boyfriend, the late Fotis Doulos, kill Doulos' estranged wife, Jennifer Doulos, in New Canaan in 2019 and cover up the crime. Traconis was sentenced to 14 and a half years in state prison last month. She had private attorneys during her five-year-long legal battle, cost for attorneys estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.