Diagnosed schizophrenic Eric Russell Andreasen was legally sane when he stabbed a retired grandmother to death in an Oceanside parking lot, a jury found Tuesday.
Andreasen, 39, faces a sentence of life in state prison without the possibility of parole at his next hearing in April. He had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to murder and a special circumstance that the killing happened during a robbery.
The verdict ended a two-week trial filled with graphic details of 54-year-old victim Katherine Parker's death on April 3, 2009, and intense analysis and speculation as to what was going on inside the violent schizophrenic's mind.
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