Lawyer Accused Of Stabbing Her Own Mother To Death

Today, we have news on yet another grisly killing, but this time, it's the lawyer who was alleged perpetrator of the crime.

It was just earlier this week that we bemoaned what a horrific summer it’s been for lawyers and legal professionals. From multiple law firm bombings to multiple senseless murders, it’s definitely been a gruesome couple of months.

Today, we have news on yet another grisly killing, but this time, it’s the lawyer who was alleged perpetrator of the crime.

Earlier this week, 56-year-old Suzan Grossman-Kerner, who we believe is a graduate of Hofstra Law, reportedly had an argument with her mother, Irma Grossman. Newsday has the details on what happened next in Long Island, New York:

[O]n Monday, “sometime prior to 12:48” p.m., Grossman-Kerner went to her mother’s Terrell Avenue home in Oceanside, where the two argued over “her daughter’s ongoing medical conditions.”

“The daughter, enraged, ultimately stabbed her mother to death,” said Azzata, who added there is no record of prior domestic incidents at that address or between the mother and daughter. Grossman was pronounced dead at South Nassau Communities Hospital about 2:55 p.m.

Azzata said police recovered a kitchen knife but still are working to positively identify it as the murder weapon.

According to Nassau Assistant District Attorney Michael Walsh, Grossman-Kerner was the one who called 911 after she allegedly stabbed her mother “multiple times” in the “head and neck.” Grossman-Kerner was charged with second-degree murder, and pleaded not guilty at her arraignment. She is currently being held without bail.

During her arraignment on Tuesday, her lawyer, Todd D. Greenberg, requested that his client be put into “immediate psychiatric care” because she was “very distraught.”

“We need a very, very stringent suicide watch on my client,” [Greenberg] told the court. “She’s been hospitalized before; she’s made suicide attempts in the past.”

He continued, “One can say, of course, if the allegations are true — that you stabbed your mother — one could imagine there’s a serious mental illness involved in this. What is clear is that she does have prior psychiatric history, very serious psychiatric history. And most likely, that psychiatric history will enter into the defense of this action. . . . She has a mental illness and we’re gonna deal with that within the court system.”

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Grossman-Kerner’s husband, Sherman Kerner, who is also an attorney, had this to say about the situation: “The impact to a family is what anyone would imagine it is: It’s a tragedy for my family, my three children. Of course, my mother-in-law was a wonderful woman; my wife, who was a wonderful mother and of course, it’s something that stays forever…. It makes you sad for everybody involved. It’s a tragedy for everybody involved.”

If convicted of murdering her mother, Suzan Grossman-Kerner could face life in prison.

Daughter Charged With Fatally Stabbing Elderly Mother On Long Island [CBS New York]
Suzan Grossman-Kerner pleads not guilty to murder in death of her mother, Irma Grossman, cops say [Newsday]
Daughter stabs mom to death with kitchen knife [New York Post]

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