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4 days ago

Was California man who killed parents, housekeeper insane? Jury to decide that next

Jurors who just convicted a 34-year-old man of bludgeoning and stabbing his parents and a longtime housekeeper to death inside their home in a gated Newport Beach community will now have to decide whether the defendant was legally insane at the time of the slayings. The sanity phase of Camden Burton Nicholson's special circumstances murder trial began on Thursday, Oct. 23 and will ultimately determine whether Nicholson will spend the rest of his life in state prison,
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3 weeks 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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5 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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