Taylor Schabusiness attacks her attorney, Quinn Jolly, in Brown County court Feb. 14, 2023. PC: Fox 11 Online
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — Two weeks after Taylor Schabusiness attacked her attorney, Quinn Jolly, during a court hearing, the judge on Monday granted Jolly’s request to withdraw from the case.
Schabusiness, 25, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault for allegedly attacking Shad Thyrion last year. She has pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
During a Feb. 14 hearing, moments after Judge Thomas Walsh ruled the trial would be delayed, Schabusiness got out of her seat and attacked Jolly. A sheriff’s deputy quickly subdued Schabusiness.
At that hearing, and again more formally in writing, Jolly requested to be removed the case, saying the attorney-client relationship was “irretrievably broken.”
Schabusiness was escorted in court by two deputies Monday.
The state public defender’s office has found a new attorney, Judge Walsh said. He scheduled another hearing for Friday.
According to the criminal complaint, police were called to a residence on Stony Brook Lane early in the morning of Feb. 23, 2022. There, police found a severed head inside a bucket in the basement.
Schabusiness said she and the victim were using drugs, including meth, and engaging in sexual play, when the man was strangled. She then sexually abused him, dismembered the body and placed body parts in various locations in the home and a vehicle, the criminal complaint states.
“Schabusiness made the comment that at one point, she did get paranoid and lazy and that she thought it was the ‘dope’ that was making her paranoid,” the complaint states.
Police say they took Schabusiness into custody later on Feb. 23 at an Eastman Avenue residence.
Schabusiness removed an electronic monitoring bracelet hours before the murder, according to the sheriff’s department. A warrant was issued for her arrest, but she was not located before allegedly killing Thyrion.
She is being held on a $2 million cash bond.
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