Taylor Schabusiness, the Wisconsin mother convicted of the methamphetamine-fueled murder, beheading and subsequent sexual assault of boyfriend Shad Thyrion, should be given the possibility of parole and “deserves to be happy,” her attorney told Fox News Digital.
Schabusiness, 25, was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole in the February 2022 slaying of Thyrion, 24. He was also sentenced to an additional 7½ years for mutilation of a corpse and three years for third-degree sexual assault.
“I really feel that these young women should be given a chance at the possibility — not the probability — of getting out with extended supervision or parole a few days after decades of work — therapy, counseling,” said Christopher T. Froelich of Green Bay-based Froelich. Law Group. He plans to appeal the court’s decision on behalf of Schabusiness.
Froelich took the case in February; Schabusiness’s previous lawyer, Quinn Jolly, resigned after the woman attacked him in court.
Some have speculated the spittoon Schabusiness wore Tuesday was not to protect the court audience but to obscure Schabusiness’ facial expression. Froelich, however, explained that there were “some issues at the jail” earlier in the day.
The convicted murderer has smiled, grinned and appeared to fall asleep in court, behavior that psychologists called by the defense, including Dr. Diane Lytton, said showed his mental incompetence to stand trial.
“He has been described as smiling – a strange grin – when he talks about crime,” Lytton explained on the stand. “Based on my experience and training, that’s a psychotic person right there.”
Taylor Schabusiness attacks her attorney, Quinn Jolly, at the Brown County courthouse in Green Bay, Wis., on Feb. 14, 2023.AP
Schabusiness laughed when it was discussed whether jurors would be shown photos of her ex-lover’s severed head that Green Bay Police found in a bucket. He even laughed when the jury rejected his insanity plea and convicted him on July 27.
Froelich said Tuesday he had made “several” attempts to obtain a plea in the case.
“Should a judge be on a case if they witness a fight in the courtroom?” asked Froelich. “I heard him trying to blink [the judge] in court. Is that another reason to get someone else, another judicial officer? I do not know.”
Taylor Schabusiness returned to a Brown County courtroom after attacking his attorney Quinn Jolly during the trial.AP
Attorneys also questioned at least one of Schabusiness’s charges.
“How can sexual assault happen? He is dead,” the lawyer said on Tuesday. “Once he was dead, it was not sexual assault, it was mutilation. Did the jury just go along with it because if he’s guilty of one, he’s probably guilty of all three? I do not know.”
Despite the Brown County District Court judge’s view that Schabusiness’ crimes “offended human decency,” the victim’s father told him that he would “forgive [her] for what [she] do to [his] son,” and that he knew “[she has] heart, there is a mind.”
“I believe everyone makes bad choices, maybe not on this scale,” Michael Thyrion said Tuesday. “There’s no point in hating you.”
Schabusiness’ relatives traveled 10 hours several times to testify on his behalf and were “disappointed” after the sentencing, although they “knew the stakes and what they were dealing with,” Froelich said.
Arthur Coronado, Schabusiness’ father, appeared Tuesday wearing an orange jumpsuit and matching shackles with his daughter. He was sentenced to 12 years in 2018 for sexually assaulting a child.
“It just shows that Taylor has family members … who really care about her, have a relationship with her,” Froelich said. “He is not a waste, he is not a waster. … We should give him a chance. That’s what I’m trying to do.”
Froelich described the photos submitted into evidence of Schabusiness before his drug addiction took hold. Unlike the dozens of autopsy photos and gruesome crime scenes that forever haunted Froelich, he said, this “shows who he really is — not this monster.”
“You can see … the kind of person she was as a little child, a little boy, a young woman kissing her baby, holding her brother as a child,” he told Fox News Digital.
“He asked, ‘Can you flip this one, can you flip that one?’ It was a happy day for him,” he said, describing how he moved pictures for a controlled Schabusiness at his presentation hearing. “I told him I was happy to see him smile because [she] deserve to be happy.”
Also presented as evidence was a pre-murder photo of Schabusiness smiling next to a photo of notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who committed most of his 17 sexually motivated murders and dismemberments in two hours in Milwaukee.
Froelich said he was a law school classmate of one of the lawyers who represented Dahmer.
“[Now]I have a Dahmer woman,” Froelich said.
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