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, or if he will be committed indefinitely to a state mental health facility.

An Orange County Superior Court jury on Wednesday found that Nicholson killed his parents — 64-year-old Richard Nicholson and 61-year-old Kim Nicholson — on Feb. 11, 2019, and the family’s longtime housekeeper, 57-year-old Maria Morse of Anaheim, the

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