PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) — A Kitsap County teenager charged with stabbing an elderly neighbor to death has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
The Kitsap Sun reports 18-year-old Daniel J. Mustard entered the plea Friday in the Kitsap County Superior Court.
Mustard had previously pleaded not guilty to aggravated first-degree murder in the stabbing of Ruby Andrews, his 87-year-old neighbor, during a robbery at her home in Manchester in April 2009.
In the court filing, Mustard says he believes he was legally insane at the time of the killing. He says that he's competent to stand trail, but claims to suffer from several disorders, including psychosis and bipolar disorder.
If convicted he faces a mandatory life prison term without parole.
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Information from: Kitsap Sun, http://www.kitsapsun.com/
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