KNDO/KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA | Insanity plea likely in Manchester robbery-killing
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Associated Press - October 18, 2009 3:45 PM ET
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) - The lawyer for a Kitsap County teenager charged with killing stabbing an elderly neighbor to death says he will likely plead not guilty by reason of insanity.
Defense lawyer Bryan G. Hershman told a judge Friday he's waiting for a psychological and psychiatric evaluation of his client, 18-year-old Daniel J. Mustard. Hershman says the evaluation will probably take at least another month.
Mustard 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 on April 5. If convicted he faces a mandatory life prison term without parole.
Information from: Kitsap Sun, http://www.kitsapsun.com/
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