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A lawyer who was attacked by her murderous client in a frenzied courtroom attack has given up her case after refusing to defend herself further against charges that she beheaded her lover.
Taylor Schabusiness has been named the new public defender in her Wisconsin murder case after ousting her original attorney, Quinn Jolly.
The killer, who is attempting to plead insane in court, made headlines this month after he lashed out at Jolly when a witness failed to come forward to testify about his mental state.
Schabusiness is charged with first-degree murder, mutilation of a corpse and third-degree sexual assault after the victim’s own mother discovered her son’s severed head in a bucket, covered with a towel, at her home.
Wisconsin attorney Quinn Jolly has dropped the case of an accused murderer who violently assaulted him in court
Taylor Schabusiness, pictured in a mugshot last year, is accused of decapitating her lover after strangling him during drug-fueled sex.
After being assaulted by his client in a courtroom in Greenbay, Wisconsin, on February 14, Jolly asked the judge for permission to stop fighting his attacker’s case.
The judge approved the motion, saying the lawyer’s decision “makes a lot of sense to me.”
“I am satisfied based on the statements and obviously I was here in court for the last hearing, I saw the events that occurred,” the judge added.
The grisly Schabusiness murder trial previously saw Jolly successfully win her client more time before he was due to appear before a jury, while also allowing her mental competence to be tested as she pleads insane.
The 25-year-old will be named new counsel for the upcoming hearing on Friday, where the court will hear gruesome details of her alleged crime.
According to police, after killing her lover, the 25-year-old admitted to performing oral sex on him and using a sex toy on her victim after his death.
She has pleaded not guilty by reason of mental illness or defect, which has led her defense to call proceedings to investigate her suitability to stand trial.
Moments before Schabusiness attacked his lawyer, Jolly informed Judge Thomas Walsh that his expert had not yet finished his report on the murder defendant’s mental capacity.
After the judge reluctantly agreed to postpone the trial for two weeks to gather the remaining testimony, Schabusiness violently lashed out at Jolly.
Despite being elbowed in the face, the lawyer was not injured in the attack.
Taylor Schabusiness, 25, is seen attacking her lawyer, Quinn Jolly, in court on February 14.
Schabusiness is shown returning to a Brown County courtroom earlier this month, where he violently assaulted his own defense attorney.
After her brutal attack, three sheriff’s deputies finally got Schabusiness to calm down and sat her against a door.
Video from the Greenbay courtroom showed Schabusiness jumping out of his seat trying to grab Jolly, beating him in a frenzied assault before a Brown County Sheriff’s deputy quickly sprang into action and tackled Schabusiness to the ground.
The officer in the footage was seen struggling to keep her down as she tried to wriggle out of his grasp and toward her attorney.
‘Stop,’ the officer would tell Schabusiness as he tried to kick himself free, before wrapping his foot around a wire attached to his utility belt.
As officials tried to clear the courthouse, two more sheriff’s deputies rushed to the scene and checked her in while one of the accused killer’s supporters tried to calm her down.
Together, they managed to get a barefoot Schabusiness to sit against a door before pulling her out.
When the trial finally resumed, about 10 minutes after the attack, Jolly informed a judge on the case that he planned to file a motion seeking to be removed as Schabusiness’s attorney.
Schabusiness’s mental preparation for trial has been a central issue in her case since she was arrested last year.
She was charged with murder after her ex-partner Shad Rock Thyrion’s head was discovered in a bucket in her mother’s basement.
Police records show that his mother, Tara Pakinich, called authorities at her Green Bay home shortly after 3 a.m., revealing that she was awakened at that time by the slamming of the storm door and the sound of a vehicle pulling up. moved away
Then he noticed that the cellar light was on and went to see if his son was there, assuming it was Schabusiness, with whom Thyrion had spent the day, whom he had heard coming out.
Criminal complaint filings said that after the victim’s mother saw no one in the basement, she saw a bucket at the bottom of the stairs after turning to leave.
After removing a blanket covering the top of the bucket, he “discovered the victim’s head,” according to complaint documents obtained by DailyMail.com.
Arriving on scene, Green Bay Police Officer Alex Wanish reported how he had “observed the plastic bucket on the floor…[with] a shower/beach towel over the bucket.’ The officer ‘picked up the towel and saw a human head inside the bucket.’
He also noted “what appeared to be dried blood on a nearby mattress.”
Law enforcement quickly caught up with Schabusiness after the find, discovering her while she still had blood on her sweatshirt and sweatpants, along with scratches on her arms, a cut on her left thumb, and what appeared to be blood on her hands. .
When asked about the incident, Schabusiness, who has a husband and recently became a mother to a son, admitted that she and Thyrion had been using drugs, including smoking methamphetamine, earlier in the day.
She said that she had also injected herself and Thyrion with Trazadone, a powerful sedative. Police recovered evidence of drug use, including a glass pipe and a bag containing light-colored powder, from the scene.
Schabusiness initially claimed to have passed out during the attack, and when asked why the head was in a bucket, replied ‘that’s pretty fucked up’.
She allegedly told the police that she and Thyrion were going to have sex and that he had taken out two metal chains, one for him and one for her.
She said that he put the chain around his own neck because the strangulation was something they had used before during intercourse.
But then he surprised investigators with his next comment, when he snapped, ‘Damn the head. I can’t believe she left my head though.
According to the complaint filing, she then told officers that they were “going to have fun trying to find all the organs since she had dismembered the body.”
Remaining calm, Schabusiness allegedly told detectives that after Thyrion put the chain around her neck, which she likened to a dog choke collar, she just went ‘crazy’ strangling him.
She said she could feel his heartbeat, “so she kept pulling him and choking him harder,” claiming he wouldn’t die as he continued to “rebuild himself into muscle.”
The issue of Schabusiness’s fitness to stand trial has been a central issue in its court proceedings.
Shad Rock Thryion’s head was cut off and left in a bucket for his mother to find.
Thyrion’s penis was found in the same bucket as his head, while other body parts were found in a variety of bags in the basement, including plastic bags.
The 25-year-old then recounted how she sat on top of him, suffocating him as he lay face down on the bed and how she watched him cough up blood and “waited for him to die”.
Changing his tune, he went on to tell investigators “I liked it” as he detailed his actions. Schabusiness said she knew her victim was dead when her face turned purple, but she continued because she “was already so far away.”
When asked what he did once he realized he was dead, Schabusiness said that he had “played” with Thyrion’s body.
The complaint states: “Schabusiness stated that he sucked on the victim’s penis, that he had a dildo that he put in the victim’s mouth and then in the victim’s ass.”
After the grisly act, he admitted to beheading and dismembering Thyrion with knives he stole from his mother’s kitchen.
The victim’s penis was found in the same bucket as his head, while other body parts were found in a variety of bags in the basement, including plastic shopping bags. His upper torso was found in a storage bag along with a carving knife and various internal organs.
Schabusiness told detectives that she had planned to take all the body parts with her when she left in her minivan, but had become “lazy” and was not prepared because the killing was random and unplanned.
She remains in custody on $2 million cash bail while hearings continue on her ability to stand trial, and she faces life in prison if convicted.