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   The troubled attacker who allegedly stabbed two teen tourists at   
   Grand Central Terminal on Christmas morning was cut loose by a Bronx   
   judge just weeks earlier — despite a string of violent busts in   
   recent months, The Post has learned.   
      
   Prosecutors wanted Steven Hutcherson, 36, to be committed to a   
   psychiatric program for randomly threatening a stranger on a Bronx   
   street last month, but Judge Matthew Grieco instead gave the career   
   criminal a conditional discharge that put him back on the street,   
   records show.   
      
   Less than two weeks after that Dec. 12 hearing, Hutcherson allegedly   
   went off the rails at a restaurant in the historic Midtown terminal,   
   launching into an anti-white rant and knifing a 14-year-old girl and   
   her 16-year-old sister, visiting the city from Paraguay with their   
   family.   
      
   “If the judge had only held this individual accountable two innocent   
   tourists, children, may have had a Merry Christmas instead of an   
   ‘attempted murderous’ Christmas,” a law enforcement source said   
   Wednesday.   
      
   “Now this is [their] permanent view of New York City — almost being   
   murdered.”   
      
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   Hutcherson, who also uses the name Esteban Estonia Asues, has been   
   arrested at least 17 times over the last two decades — and the   
   subject of more than a half dozen domestic violence complaints by a   
   Manhattan woman he has allegedly stalked for over a year, according   
   to sources.   
      
   He’s also had a string of encounters with cops for mental health   
   disturbances, most recently on Dec. 5, when he was found acting   
   unruly outside a Bronx apartment building and brought to St.   
   Barnabas Hospital for psychiatric evaluation by police, the sources   
   said.   
      
   Prior to that incident, officers found him standing on the fire   
   escape of that same building on Mt. Hope Place screaming while   
   refusing to come down on Nov. 27, according to the sources. Then   
   too, he was brought to St. Barnabas Hospital for a psychiatric   
   evaluation.   
      
   Those incidents occurred as Hutcherson allegedly repeatedly got into   
   trouble with the law in the last year, spending more than a month in   
   jail after he was arrested in July for resisting arrest.   
      
   Sources said he had walked into a Bronx precinct stationhouse acting   
   belligerent and refused to leave, prompting cops to arrest him and   
   find a dagger and switchblade on him. He later pleaded guilty to   
   misdemeanor weapon possession charges.   
      
   Hutcherson did another stint behind bars in October, spending more   
   than a week in lockup after he was arrested for smashing a display   
   case at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan, causing   
   $81,000 in damage, records show.   
      
   He pleaded guilty to second-degree menacing on Oct. 12, for which he   
   also received a 15-day sentence.   
      
   Two weeks before the Christmas Day stabbings, Hutcherson was back in   
   court facing Grieco in a case stemming from Nov. 7, when he randomly   
   came up to a man outside his job in the Bronx and threatened him.   
      
   “Why are you working for white people? I’m going to kill this man”   
   he yelled, according to victim Yussif Abdullahi.   
      
   “I’m gonna shoot you,” Hutcherson threatened, per the criminal   
   complaint. “I don’t care what kind of green card the government gave   
   you. Open your mouth and say something. I will shoot you right now.”   
      
   Police did not recover a gun, but found a knife with a red handle in   
   his pocket when they arrested him, according to sources.   
      
   Hutcherson pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of third-degree   
   assault, a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail.   
      
   But Grieco, who was appointed to the bench by Mayor Adams in March   
   after nearly 30 years in the court system, including serving as   
   counsel to judges in Supreme Court and the Appellate Division,   
   sentenced him to conditional discharge, over the objection of   
   prosecutors.   
      
   The Bronx District Attorney’s Office “believed Mr. Hutcherson would   
   benefit from substantial mental health programming, including   
   inpatient treatment,” a spokesman said Wednesday.   
      
   Mental health treatment options were discussed with Hutcherson’s   
   public defender and the judge, the rep said, but “Ultimately,   
   through counsel, Mr. Hutcherson declined mental health programming   
   and the transfer of his cases to the misdemeanor mental health   
   treatment court.”   
      
   “Three cases were resolved via pleas to the top charge receiving 15   
   days jail, and in one case, the court delivered a sentence of a   
      
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