SALEM – The lawyer for Ernesto L. Gonzalez, the 38-year-old Lynn father charged with parental kidnapping and willfully misleading police in the investigation of the disappearance of his 5-year-old son in 2008, is asking to meet with a judge to work out a possible guilty plea.Gonzalez’s son, Giovanni Gonzalez, was reported missing on Aug. 17, 2008 by his mother Daisy Colon after he never returned home from a pre-arranged weekend visit with his father at his 2 Brightwood Terrace apartment in Lynn.Gonzalez told police he had not seen his son since the previous week, but Colon insisted to police she had dropped her son off at his apartment on Friday, Aug. 14. Police verified Colon’s story after examining her cell phone records, which proved she spoke with Gonzalez on Aug. 15.The incident sparked an intense investigation throughout the city to locate the boy, but to no avail.Gonzalez’s court-appointed lawyer, Christopher S. Skinner, asked to schedule a lobby conference with a judge on Dec. 29 during a hearing Tuesday in Salem Superior Court.A lobby conference occurs either in the judge’s chambers or at sidebar out of public earshot in the courtroom.Judge Timothy Q. Feeley continued the case for the date requested.Gonzalez is facing up to five years in state prison on the parental kidnapping charge and up to 10 years in state prison for lying to law enforcement officers. There is no minimum mandatory punishment on either of the two indictments.Assistant District Attorney Jean M. Curran told Feeley that she will be contacting CellMark Diagnostics, the private forensic DNA testing laboratory in Dallas, Texas that examined most of the DNA specimens, to ask them to provide further background testing files for the defense.Gonzalez, in a jailhouse confession in November 2008, claimed he stabbed his son with a kitchen knife because he was misbehaving. He said he then put his son’s body in the bathtub, dismembered the body and placed it in six grocery bags. He said he then placed the grocery bags inside a duffel bag and disposed of the body parts in three different Dumpsters within the city, but authorities never found any trace of the boy’s remains after combing the city.Police during a search of Gonzalez’s apartment found traces of the boy’s blood on a knife, on a piece of wood flooring, a cleaning liquid cap and the bathroom threshold.Gonzalez remains held without bail at the Middleton Jail pending the outcome of his case.