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Woman accused in dismemberment slaying attacks her attorney

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                                Taylor Schabusiness attacks her attorney, Quinn Jolly, in Brown County court in Green Bay, Wis., today. Schabusiness is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault in the killing of Shad Thyrion, 25, in February 2022.
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Taylor Schabusiness attacks her attorney, Quinn Jolly, in Brown County court in Green Bay, Wis., today. Schabusiness is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault in the killing of Shad Thyrion, 25, in February 2022.

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                                Taylor Schabusiness returns to a Brown County court room after attacking her attorney, Quinn Jolly, during a court hearing in Green Bay, Wis., today. Schabusiness is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault in the killing of Shad Thyrion, 25, in February 2022.
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WLUK/TIM FLANIGAN VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS

Taylor Schabusiness returns to a Brown County court room after attacking her attorney, Quinn Jolly, during a court hearing in Green Bay, Wis., today. Schabusiness is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault in the killing of Shad Thyrion, 25, in February 2022.

WLUK/TIM FLANIGAN VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
                                Taylor Schabusiness attacks her attorney, Quinn Jolly, in Brown County court in Green Bay, Wis., today. Schabusiness is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault in the killing of Shad Thyrion, 25, in February 2022.
WLUK/TIM FLANIGAN VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
                                Taylor Schabusiness returns to a Brown County court room after attacking her attorney, Quinn Jolly, during a court hearing in Green Bay, Wis., today. Schabusiness is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault in the killing of Shad Thyrion, 25, in February 2022.

GREEN BAY, Wis. >> A woman accused in a grisly killing and dismemberment case in Wisconsin attacked her attorney today during a court hearing, moments after a judge agreed to delay her trial.

Taylor Schabusiness, 25, was seated in a Brown County circuit court when her attorney, Quinn Jolly, asked the judge for an additional two weeks for a defense expert to review his client’s competency to stand trial.

Moments after Judge Thomas Walsh reluctantly agreed to postpone her March 6 trial, Schabusiness attacked Jolly and was wrestled to the courtroom floor by a deputy, WLUK-TV reported. The courtroom was then cleared before the hearing resumed.

Schabusiness is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault in the killing of Shad Thyrion, 25, in February 2022. Authorities say she strangled Thyrion at a home in Green Bay, sexually abused him and dismembered his body, leaving parts of him throughout the house and in a vehicle.

Schabusiness has pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. She is being held on a $2 million cash bond.

Following her courtroom outburst, the judge moved her competency hearing from today to March 6. The judge also proposed a May 15 trial date.

At the end of the hearing, Jolly told the court he would file a motion to withdraw from the case as Schabusiness’ attorney but the judge did not immediately rule on that matter.

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