A woman accused of decapitating a man in Wisconsin attacked her lawyer in court on Tuesday.
Taylor Schabusiness, 25, attacked her attorney, Quinn Jolly, in Brown County circuit court just moments after he had asked the judge for an additional two weeks for a defence expert to review his client's competency to stand trial.
After Judge Thomas Walsh agreed to postpone her March 6 trial, Schabusiness attacked Jolly and was wrestled to the courtroom floor by a deputy.
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 over the killing of Shad Thyrion, 25, in February 2022.
Prosecutors allege she strangled Mr 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 Tuesday to March 6. The judge also proposed a May 15 trial date.
At the end of the hearing, Mr Jolly told the court he would file a motion to withdraw from the case as the defendant’s attorney but the judge did not immediately rule on that.
Schabusiness was arrested last year, after Mr Thyrion's mother found his severed head in a bucket in her basement.
Schabusiness remains in custody as hearings into her fitness to stand trial continue. She faces life in prison if convicted.
