The spouse of “Duck Sauce Killer” Glenn Hirsch appeared shaken up in Queens court docket Thursday as she pleaded not responsible to costs she stashed an arsenal of weapons inside her house.
Dorothy Hirsch, 62, clutched her head and stated “I can’t do that,” earlier than coming into the plea on an 18-count indictment charging her with a slew of unlawful weapons possessions crimes, for which she might withstand 15 years in jail, if convicted.
Her protection lawyer later defined that Dorothy was “upset and scared” — including that she “emphatically” professed her innocence to the decide in the course of the listening to.
Investigators searched Dorothy’s Briarwood condo in June as a part of the probe into her estranged husband over the deadly taking pictures of a Chinese language-food supply man in Forest Hills.
Glenn Hirsch, 51, stood accused of gunning down Zhiwen Yan on April 30 — apparently over a vendetta in opposition to the Nice Wall restaurant for shorting him on duck sauce — when he killed himself final month.
Police allegedly recovered a cache of unlawful weapons from Dorothy’s house, together with a .357 magnum revolver, a .25 caliber semi-automatic pistol, a .38 caliber revolver, a .380 caliber semi-automatic pistol, a .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol and three 9mm semi-automatic pistols.
Dorothy Hirsch pleaded not responsible to 18 counts of weapons costs in Queens Supreme Court docket.
The shaken Hirsch advised her lawyer within the courtroom "I can not do that."
Lawyer Mark Bederow stated his shopper was "comically overcharged" by prosecutors.
Lawyer Mark Bederow advised The Publish that his shopper had no clue her allegedly murderous hubby — who she accused of beating and raping her — had stashed the weapons inside her condo closet.
The case “is comically overcharged,” Bederow stated after Thursday’s listening to, including that the cost of intent to make use of the firearms was notably “absurd.”
He famous that Glenn, an obvious hoarder, had stored the weapons, “in rubbish luggage and bins wrapped in tin foil and plastic – tantamount to a Russian doll – in a closet that was solely stuffed along with his objects.”
Bederow has claimed in court docket papers that the battered spouse wouldn’t have recognized concerning the weapons or questioned her husband about what was within the luggage.
Glenn Hirsch fatally shot himself whereas he was awaiting trial on costs that he murdered a Chinese language-food supply employee.
Zhiwen Yan was allegedly killed by Glenn Hirsch as a result of Hirsch had a vendetta in opposition to the restaurant the place Yan labored for skimping on duck sauce.
He accused the Queens District Lawyer’s Workplace of treating his shopper “in a heavy-handed style just because she was married to someone that they consider is the so-called ‘Duck Sauce Killer.'”
Bederow claimed prosecutors are refusing to show over proof of Glenn’s alleged abuse of Dorothy which is “clearly related” to her case. The DA’s Workplace is “ignoring a lot proof which factors away from her as a result of someone needs to be held answerable for what he could or could not have carried out,” he claimed.
“She is a 62-year-old girl who has by no means been in bother in her life and he or she is being described as this horrible particular person and it’s terribly upsetting,” Bederow stated of his shopper.
Nonetheless, “she could be very robust and is assured that she goes to be acquitted swiftly,” he added.
The lawyer defined that as quickly because the grand jury transcripts are turned over to him he will probably be submitting a movement to dismiss the indictment in opposition to Dorothy.
In a suicide notice Glenn despatched to the decide assigned to his case — and which Bederow filed in Dorothy’s case — the accused killer repeatedly claimed the weapons in his spouse’s condo didn't belong to her and that she mustn't face costs over them.
“I wish to take full accountability for the eight weapons recovered from a closet in her condo. I acquired these firearms years in the past …” Glenn wrote, including that he moved the weapons into Dorothy’s place after he closed a storage facility the place he beforehand stashed them.
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