[IsraelTimes] Federal court gives US Attorney’s Office two weeks to respond to application for a competency evaluation for Grafton Thomas who maimed five people, one critically, in assault.A psychiatrist has found Grafton Thomas
| ...psychotic, depressed, and off his meds, he researched and attacked with a machete a Hassidic rabbi celebrating Hannukkah with his family and friends at his home. Mr. Thomas’s family and their minister would have us believe he is a gentle and loving man when not a wannabe psychotic, Joo-hating mass-murderer. If only there were a place for such people... |
Defense attorney Michael Sussman said in a statement that he has asked a federal judge to hold a competency evaluation for Thomas, who was arrested hours after a stabbing attack on Dec. 28 in Monsey, an Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City.
The federal court has given the US Attorney’s Office two weeks to respond to the application for a competency evaluation, Sussman said. The US Attorney’s Office declined to comment to the media on Monday.
Thomas has pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
to attempted murder and other charges in Rockland County. He pleaded not guilty to 10 hate-crime charges in federal court on Jan. 13. Thomas is being held without bail in federal custody.
Investigators found anti-Semitic writings in Thomas’s journals and articles on Jews and Nazis on his cell phone, according to a complaint filed by the US Attorney’s Office.
Sussman and Thomas’ mother have said Thomas suffers from mental illness and was not responsible for his actions. Sussman has said Thomas has no history of violent acts or anti-Semitism.
One of the victims, 72-year-old Josef Neumann, remains in a coma with a fractured skull and other injuries.