A 34-year-old man convicted of bludgeoning and repeatedly stabbing his parents and a longtime housekeeper inside their home in a gated community of Newport Beach has schizo-affective disorder and was criminally insane at the time, his attorney told jurors Thursday.

Camden Burton Nicholson was convicted Wednesday of three counts of special-circumstances murder with a sentencing enhancement of multiple murders. Because he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, the trial is now in a second phase, with jurors determining whether he was legally insane at the time of the 2019 slayings. If deemed sane, he faces life in prison without parole; if found insane, he will be committed indefinitely to a state mental healthy facility.

The burden of proof is on the defense. Jurors must decide the que

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