Immediately following the vicious machete attack at a Hanukkah party at a rabbi’s Monsey, New York, home, the suspect’s attorney, Michael Sussman, pointed to his alleged “long history” of “mental illness and hospitalizations,” depression, and psychosis.

Sussman claimed the attacker heard a “voice talking to him about a piece of property that he understood was in that house,” and the requisite “demons” he saw and “not terribly coherent … explanations” he provided prove this, as strategically interpreted by the lawyer.