Taylor Denise Schabusiness attacks another defense lawyer
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Taylor Denise Schabusiness and her then-attorney, Curtis Paul Julka, on April 4, 2025 (Law&Crime Network).

This is deja vu from 2023. Convicted murderer Taylor Denis Schabusiness, 27, on Friday lunged at her defense lawyer in court during her hearing for allegedly attacking a prison employee. A deputy from the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office quickly knocked her to the ground. He and four other law enforcement officers swarmed on her in an incident that only adds to her pattern of outbursts in and outside of court.

After all, she is serving a life term without parole in Wisconsin for brutally murdering and dismembering her lover, Shad Thyrion, 25, in February 2022.

“This crime offends human decency; it offends human dignity; and it offends the human community,” Brown County Circuit Judge Thomas Walsh said in the 2023 sentencing hearing. “When life is taken from a person in the fashion that it was in this case — where the victim’s remains are cut up and packaged in containers — it’s difficult to identify a human nature in those activities. It really is. It’s very troubling.”

At the time, she showed up to court with a wrapping around her mouth. This was months after she lashed out at her then-attorney Quinn Jolly during a hearing. They struggled. Again, law enforcement took her to the ground.

That brings us to 2024, when she was charged in an ongoing case for battery by a prisoner. She and current lawyer Curtis Paul Julka showed up to court on Friday for a preliminary hearing. As seen on footage, she suddenly yelled out and lashed at her attorney.

Julka was pretty deadpan about it all, shrugging as the guards swarmed his client.

Online court records show that later, the defense formally made a not guilty plea after the state called a detective to the stand, and Julka did the cross-examination.

After the hearing was over, Schabusiness’ lawyer took an unsurprising path.

“Attorney Julka withdrawn from case,” records state.

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