Mon Dec 31, 2012, 03:19 PM

Subway push suspect laughs [View all]

Source: AP-Timesunion.com

NEW YORK — A 31-year-old woman accused of shoving a man to his death in front of a subway train because she believed he was Muslim laughed and smiled during a court hearing where she was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

Erika Menendez, 31, was charged Saturday night with murder as a hate crime after she told police she spontaneously pushed Sunando Sen, according to prosecutors.

"There is no reason. I just pushed him in front of the train because I thought it would be cool," she said, according to the Queens district attorney's office.

She laughed so hard during her arraignment in Queens criminal court that Judge Gia Morris told her lawyer: "You're going to have to have your client stop laughing."

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Subway push suspect laughs [View all]	Omaha Steve	Dec 2012	OP
Yeah... Seems a few fries short of a happymeal.	NutmegYankee	Dec 2012	#1
sounds more like too much happymeal.	kwassa	Dec 2012	#16
I guess the stage is already being set for some "mental illness" bullshit	bluestateguy	Dec 2012	#2
guess i'm not clear on why it should be obvious there is no mental illness at play here....	unblock	Dec 2012	#3
Clearly she's not right. I don't think they have to set the stage.	TwilightGardener	Dec 2012	#4
Yeh, but "not right" and "mentally sick" does NOT mean she didn't know it was wrong.	Bucky	Dec 2012	#11
I agree, she could just be a sociopath who knew exactly what she was doing	TwilightGardener	Dec 2012	#15
This is the defense contained in the New York Penal Law.	rug	Dec 2012	#18
You have just illustrated a common misunderstanding regarding mental illness and the law	slackmaster	Jan 2013	#45
Mental illness is not BS	Mdterp01	Jan 2013	#51
Many people do awful things because they think it is "cool".. and they are not mentally ill.	secondwind	Dec 2012	#5
Quite true. It's a very slippery slope. It's relative to the norm. n/t	RKP5637	Jan 2013	#52
A person may be mentally ill without being 'legally insane.'	LongTomH	Dec 2012	#6
Here is the NYT story that wan't up yet when I posted this she has a mental past!!!!	Omaha Steve	Dec 2012	#7
Thank you for this. Have a relative who needs monitoring but doesn't get it because when is good	uppityperson	Dec 2012	#10
If she smoked pot she wouldn't have been on the streets....	Spitfire of ATJ	Dec 2012	#14
really? I don't know about NY, but in many states, smoking pot does not land you	cali	Jan 2013	#42
Cop Shops get Fed money for pot busts.	Spitfire of ATJ	Jan 2013	#46
I must not be watching enough fox news.......	wandy	Dec 2012	#8
easy	sbmvv	Dec 2012	#12
Apparently, it's also open season on anyone with a mental health diagnosis.	Denninmi	Dec 2012	#22
how do we know there are mental health issues involved in many of these cases	JI7	Dec 2012	#27
We don't know.	Denninmi	Dec 2012	#31
The CT school case is speculation	Marrah_G	Dec 2012	#38
Then accept my sympathies	sbmvv	Dec 2012	#33
Sorry, didn't think of it that way...	wandy	Jan 2013	#49
Re-Institutionalization. Now.	Sen. Walter Sobchak	Dec 2012	#9
For whom?	Denninmi	Dec 2012	#23
the mentally ill with histories of threatening behavior,	Sen. Walter Sobchak	Dec 2012	#24
i guess same would apply to those without mental illness	JI7	Dec 2012	#26
So, you're advocating incarceration for people not actually convicted of any crime?	Denninmi	Dec 2012	#32
Actually	Marrah_G	Dec 2012	#35
There is a pretty big difference between "potential" and "ticking time bomb"	Sen. Walter Sobchak	Dec 2012	#39
Maybe because she has a history of violence towards others and not taking medication?	Marrah_G	Dec 2012	#34
It's open season on Muslims to some people.	Spitfire of ATJ	Dec 2012	#13
Clearly she's a socio/psychopath. nt	Locut0s	Dec 2012	#17
Sounds like perhaps she should not have been let out of the hospital	Marrah_G	Dec 2012	#19
Perhaps she wants to avoid the "hate crime" charges? n/t	crim son	Dec 2012	#20
what mental iillness is it that results in someone attacking someone because they don't like	JI7	Dec 2012	#21
She clearly has issues	Marrah_G	Dec 2012	#36
yeah, they all have issues, she admitted why she did it	JI7	Jan 2013	#40
She has a severe and persistant mental illness	cali	Jan 2013	#43
And we know who keeps this hating alive every day...	southerncrone	Dec 2012	#25
Our decaying civilized society,	NoOneMan	Dec 2012	#28
Yup. Faux "news" and the rabble-rousers they celebrate like Pam Gellar.	Archae	Dec 2012	#29
What a sick f**k. She deserves to be locked up forever.	smirkymonkey	Dec 2012	#30
Blindingly obvious case of Psychopathy.	Odin2005	Dec 2012	#37
time to put doors on subway platforms, i guess...	grahamhgreen	Jan 2013	#41
Obviously severely mentally ill	slackmaster	Jan 2013	#44
She looks like Backward-B Face girl	obamamyprez	Jan 2013	#47
that's who she reminded me of also	JI7	Jan 2013	#53
Life in prison or life in a mental hospital.	geek tragedy	Jan 2013	#48
Crazy like a fox, perhaps?	MADem	Jan 2013	#50