Taylor Schabusiness listens to testimony in the mental disease or defect portion of her trial July 27, 2023. PC: Fox 11 Online
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — Taylor Schabusiness’ sentencing is expected to go on as scheduled Tuesday, after her attorney withdrew a request to postpone the hearing.
Schabusiness, 25, was convicted of three charges for the murder, dismemberment, and sexual assault of Shad Thyrion at a Green Bay home in February 2022. The first-degree intentional homicide conviction carries a mandatory life prison term, although Judge Thomas Walsh has the option to set a date when she could first ask for parole. Sentencing is set for Tuesday morning.
On Friday, her attorney, Christopher Froelich, asked for the hearing to be postponed because he had not been able to meet with her to review the pre-sentence report in advance of the sentencing.
However, after that was filed Friday, he was able to meet with Schabusiness, according to a letter filed Monday.
“I did thoroughly review the DOC pre-sentence investigation (PSI) report with her during our meeting on Friday which lasted several hours at the jail. The defense is now withdrawing our motion for continuance in this case,” Froelich wrote.
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 pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of mental disease. A jury convicted her, and rejected the so-called insanity plea.
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