According to his lawyer, Anthony Comello believed the mob boss was part of “the deep state” and he wanted to eliminate him to help President Donald Trump
However, Comello did not help his case by refusing to cooperate with a state mental exam on Wednesday. “It appears to me he failed to cooperate,” the judge, Justice William E. Garnett, said.
Garnett also warned Comello that refusal to cooperate could have consequences, including not being able to mount a defense of insanity.The judge then said he wants a mental evaluation of Comello from the prosecution and defense by January 3rd, 2020, saying, “At that time, I might make an appropriate order.”
Comello’s insanity defense has precedent, however. As Michael Perlin, a professor at New York Law School and specialist in mental disability law told the , “You’ve got a real, real tradition of insanity defense cases of very, very seriously mentally ill people who committed their crime out of some kind of utterly bizarre political motivation.”
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