Machete maniac's lawyer argues that the Monsey massacre was a tragic incident rooted in nothing more than mental illness.

Machete maniac's lawyer argues that the Monsey massacre was a tragic incident rooted in nothing more than mental illness

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LEGAL NEWS: Grafton Thomas, who is accused in last week’s Hanukkah party machete attack in #Monsey is getting a rigorous legal defense from a former Yonkers NAACP attorney.....

SHOW ME A HERO: Famed #Yonkers Desegregation Attorney Michael Sussman Secured His Psychotic Clients Papers And Video Taped His Upstate Cabin Before Law Enforcement Even Thought Of Getting A Warrant

OFFERING UP A DEFENSE: Legal Eagle Michael Sussman argues hat the accused Hanukkah-party machete fiend is no anti-Semite, but instead a person who has long struggled with serious mental illness and not legal responsible
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DAILY NEWS: Feds lag defense lawyers in uncovering evidence trove in accused Monsey stabber’s cabin

Bungling FBI agents failed to search a cabin belonging to the man accused of stabbing five Jewish people at a Chanukah party in Monsey on Saturday night — and were shown up by defense lawyers who uncovered a trove of evidence there, court papers show.

The embarrassing lapse led to closed-door hearing Friday in White Plains Federal Court on federal prosecutors’ demand that suspect Grafton Thomas’ lawyer turn over additional evidence in the case.

The FBI failed to visit the cabin even though Thomas’ mother told authorities he had lived there, said a declaration by Thomas’ lawyer Michael Sussman.

Michael Sussman said he’d visited the residence on Wednesday and found a trove of potentially significant evidence.

After #GraftonThomas alerted investigators to the potentially significant find, federal prosecutors slapped him with a subpoena demanding he hand it over immediately.

Grafton Thomas left behind 13 unopened bottles of anti-psychotic medication — hinting that he had stopped taking his meds before the Dec. 28 machete attack on Hasidic Jews celebrating Chanukah at a rabbi’s home, according to Michael Sussman’s declaration.

Grafton Thomas, 37, also left behind notebooks filled with written ramblings, as well as five handwritten posters on the walls, Michael Sussman said.

None of the writings in the vacant cabin in Wurtsboro, a small Sullivan County town, contained anything hateful or anti-Semitic, the lawyer previously told reporters.

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-monsey-stabbing-evidence-fight-20200103-pi5ouxr345gfzdtqdiewvdtsnu-story.html
MORE INFO >>> NEWS 12: FBI issues subpoena to seize materials collected at home of Monsey stabbing suspect

The FBI was at the Goshen office of Grafton Thomas’ attorney Friday to seize materials that Michael Sussman collected from a home where the Monsey stabbing suspect lived.

The FBI issued a subpoena to seize material Michael Sussman says he took out of the #Wurtsboro cabin of Grafton Thomas’ mother, where he lived for several years before moving out in 2018.

But Michael Sussman says he has a responsibility to his client to chronicle all the evidence before he hands it over to federal authorities.....

http://westchester.news12.com/story/41518043/fbi-issues-subpoena-to-seize-materials-collected-at-home-of-monsey-stabbing-suspect

EVEN MORE INFO >>> FACTS: A Sullivan County Judge Is The One That Truly Has Jewish Blood on His Hands

WTF: The mother wanted a crisis team of mental health professionals to respond but the neighbor called 911, and Grafton Thomas was arrested and charged with menacing a police officer with a knife.

SMH... The county judge agreed to dismiss the case if Thomas stayed out of trouble, but nobody gave him a meaningful mental health evaluation

GOTHAMIST: Suspect In Monsey Hate Crime Stabbing Had Gradual Decline Into Mental Illness, Lawyer And Pastor Claim

Grafton Thomas’s mother started to see signs her son was mentally ill, according to Reverend Wendy Paige, who has been the family’s pastor and confidante for several years.

“It wasn’t as severe,” Paige recalled. “It was very touch and go; it wasn’t constantly. And it just worsened and worsened and worsened.”

By the age of 25, Thomas's defense attorney, Michael Sussman, said that his client started to receive disability payments because of his mental illness.

Thomas is 38 now and has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and depression.

Over the years, Paige said Thomas's mother, Kim Kennedy, struggled with getting him to take his meds and at one point asked the hospital to stop his government check unless he accepted a monthly injection.

“She told me she asked them to mandate that he get a shot,” Paige said. “So that she didn’t have to worry about him taking the medication or not, and they refused.”

Hospitals don’t have the authority to mandate shots, but there is something called Kendra’s law that allows for court-ordered treatment if a person has been hospitalized repeatedly or has violent tendencies.....

https://gothamist.com/news/suspect-monsey-hate-crime-stabbing-had-gradual-decline-mental-illness-lawyer-pastor-claim

Grafton Thomas stopped taking his anti-psychotic medication two months before he launched a bloody machete attack and there is a huge trove of writings and pictures they said are evidence of Thomas’ incompetence.
The machete maniac's family and lawyers continue to press their case that the Monsey massacre — described by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as an act of “domestic terrorism” — was a sad and tragic incident rooted in nothing more than mental illness.

And They May Be Right

https://www.amny.com/police-fire/hanukkah-stabbing-suspect-indicted-in-monsey-attack/