A 34-year-old man bludgeoned and repeatedly stabbed his parents to death and then slit the throat of his family’s longtime housekeeper in a gated community of Newport Beach, a prosecutor told jurors Monday, while the defendant’s attorney said his client has been diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder and should be found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Cameden Burton Nicholson is charged with three counts of special circumstances murder with a sentencing enhancement of multiple murders. Since he has pled not guilty by reason of insanity the trial will be split up into two phases with the first part tasking jurors with deciding if the defendant is guilty of the charges and then pivoting in the second part to whether or not he was criminally insane at the time.

The verdicts will determi

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