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| Hanukkah stabbing suspect still unfit for trial a year after attack in New York |
| 2021-01-02 |
| [IsraelTimes] Grafton Thomas, charged with attacking 5 and killing 1 with a machete, diagnosed with schizophrenia; hearing this month will decide if he can stand in court. A US federal judge has ordered a hearing to decide whether to civilly commit the man charged with stabbing five people with a machete at a suburban New York Hanukkah celebration in 2019. Are there any long term psychiatric facilities open in America? It was my impression that only short-term facilities remain for emergency stabilization of those judged an immediate threat to themselves or others, and for those needing treatment before they go to trial. A recent psychiatric evaluation found Grafton Thomas remains mentally unfit to stand trial despite months of hospitalization at a federal facility in Missouri, where he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.A hearing this month will determine Thomas’ prognosis for rehabilitation — and whether he should be civilly committed rather than tried in federal court. Thomas, 38, is charged in an attack at a rabbi’s home in December 2019 that left five people maimed in Monsey, an Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City. The most critically injured victim, Josef Neumann, 72, died three months after the attack. US District Judge Cathy Seibel ruled last week that an evidentiary hearing is needed to determine whether additional hospitalization would be likely to restore Thomas’ mental fitness. Federal prosecutors have said Thomas kept handwritten journals containing anti-Semitic comments and a swastika and researched Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... ’s hatred of Jews online before the attack. In a recent court filing, they wrote Thomas "is alleged to have committed an extremely serious offense, and there are reasons to believe that he can be restored to competency." Thomas’ attorneys have argued he was not motivated by anti-Semitism and has struggled with mental illness for years. They asked Seibel to dismiss the federal hate crime charges against him and remand Thomas "to the Bureau of Prisons for proper care pending its determination that he is no longer dangerous." Seibel’s ruling could also affect the state charges Thomas faces, including attempted murder, defense attorney Michael Sussman said Friday. He said a civil commitment, if ordered, would be "for at least several years." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 All such people need the Munich Treatment. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-01-02 05:14 |