The shaggy-haired Princeton grad accused of killing his millionaire hedge-funder dad is still exhibiting signs of mental illness — this time refusing to let the prosecution’s psych experts examine him because he thinks they’re imposters, his lawyer said Tuesday in Manhattan court.
Defense lawyer Alex Spiro asked for another mental competency exam for his client, Thomas Gilbert Jr., 32.
The lawyer filed an affidavit from an inmate pal at Rikers Island alleging Gilbert’s delusion.
“My client is not believing these people are real doctors,” Spiro told Justice Melissa Jackson. “This friend related to me that Mr. Gilbert doesn’t look well.”
Jackson noted that she had ordered a competency exam a few months ago and Gilbert was found fit.
She told Gilbert, who has grown a shaggy beard and wore his tangled hair down, that he must cooperate with the district attorney’s experts.
She warned Gilbert that if he didn’t submit to the examination, he may not be able to mount his planned insanity defense.
“Do you want to give it another chance?” she asked Gilbert.
He nodded yes.
Assistant District Attorney Craig Ascher said he would have his experts attempt to interview him again in the next six weeks.
Gilbert has been locked up since Jan. 2015 for allegedly shooting his father Thomas Gilbert Sr., 70, during a dispute over his monthly allowance.
Spiro has insisted during the case that Gilbert is too mentally ill to proceed to trial.
“It is my firm belief my client is unfit and remains unfit unless and until he is treated and brought back to fitness,” he said.
Gilbert ingested a battery last year and has complained that he is being poisoned by radioactive fallout at Rikers.
Prosecutors have conceded that he has psychiatric problems but have argued they aren’t severe enough to render him unfit.