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ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. - A man has been convicted of three counts of first-degree murder for the stabbing deaths of his parents and their housekeeper in their Newport Beach home in 2019, according to the Orange County District Attorney's Office.

The trial will now proceed to a sanity phase to determine the final sentencing.

What we know:

A jury convicted 34-year-old Camden Burton Nicholson, of three counts of first-degree murder.

The victims were his parents, 64-year-old Richard Nicholson and 61-year-old Kim Nicholson, and the family’s 57-year-old longtime housekeeper, Maria Morse of Anaheim.

The conviction includes the special circumstance of committing multiple murders.

The killings followed an ultimatum from his parents that he check into a mental health and addic

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