STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — During a court appearance this week for Damien Hurstel, his attorneys cited concerns about his level of treatment on Rikers Island.
Hurstel — who is accused of killing and then decapitating his mother’s live-in boyfriend last year in the family’s West Brighton home — has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, the defense has noted previously in court proceedings.
“Judge, he tells us he’s only sporadically been getting his meds,” defense attorney Mark Fonte said Tuesday in state Supreme Court, St. George…