Hermit who froze mom in ice wants to stay in ‘hole’

Lieberman, who defended Schuth in federal court, said Schuth is scared.

“This demonstrates a good example of why prison isn’t really the place for people with mental illness,” Lieberman said. “Even if you go back to the facts of his state case, without trying to minimize his conduct, he was living in isolation, wanting to be left alone. If he had been left alone, none of this would have happened.”