An attorney for the Muslim-hating woman who allegedly shoved a man to his death in front of a speeding subway train last month is challenging the prosecutor’s psychiatric results — because of the New York Post.
“She gave — unbeknownst to me and the retained counsel — allegedly an interview to the New York Post and they drew up a story,” said Erika Menendez’s court-appointed attorney Joseph DeFelice.
Menendez told The Post earlier this month that Sunando Sen was a target for her anger at the Sunnyside 7 train subway station on Dec. 29 because of his religion.
“I’ve been beating up Muslims and Hindus for a long time. I just want to hurt them. I would punch them,” she said during the interview at Rikers Island.
The lawyer says that shows she is unstable. “She’s imagining things your honor. I’m not confirming the findings based on her long mental history and after speaking to her,” said DeFelice as he continued his request to have his own doctors evaluate his client.
State shrinks found the 31-year-old woman “fit for trial” during a previous court hearing.
Meanwhile, Menendez’s family hired private attorneys Steven Raiser and Thomas Kanniff to represent her until her mental state is determined.
Two woman believed to be Menendez’s relatives declined to comment as they left the court proceedings.
Justice Gregory Lasak postponed the Supreme Court arraignment for the murder-as-a-hate-crime charges until results of a second psychiatric exam are found on Feb 27.
ccarrega@nypost.com