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fromwww.ocregister.com
1 day ago

Man who killed parents, housekeeper in California home had just left hospital, jurors told

During opening statements on Monday in a Santa Ana courtroom, Senior Deputy District Attorney David Porter told an Orange County Superior Court jury that Nicholson, then 27, used a variety of knives and other blunt instruments to bludgeon and stab his mother and father to death, to do the same to Morse the next day. A day later he turned himself in, the prosecutor said, and claimed he carried out the killings in self-defense.
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fromsfist.com
4 months ago

Davis Stabbing Suspect Takes Stand In His Own Defense

Carlos Dominguez's defense seeks to establish his mental state to argue for not guilty by reason of insanity.
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fromwww.ocregister.com
4 months ago

3 years ago gunfire erupted in a California church the suspect has pleaded insanity, but death penalty lurks

The shooter in a Laguna Woods church attack is pursuing an insanity defense while prosecutors weigh the death penalty.
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