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[theweaselking]

A college student who claimed he stabbed and slashed his piano professor more than 200 times because he thought she was a robot intent on killing him has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.

Jurors reached the verdict Thursday in the case of Jackson Ngai, a former student at the University of Texas, who could be committed to mental institutions indefinitely.

Ngai's attorney has said Ngai believed music professor Danielle Martin was a robot or was controlled by a computer chip in her brain and was trying to kill him. On her body was a handwritten note that said, "Computer chip in brain."

Daneen Milam, a defense expert who said Ngai was insane, said the number of wounds on Martin's head, which left a deep hole in her skull, showed he was focused on something other than just killing Martin.

"He said he was getting a computer chip out," Milam testified. "He said that's what he was going to do. When he couldn't do it, he called the police to help him."

Comments

[anivair.livejournal.com]

Boy kills man because he's a robot to get computer chip out of his brain. And we're wondering if he's insane? Here's a thought . . . yes he is.

[jerril]

There's the issue of proving that it isn't just a clever excuse to try to keep out of jail. However, CALLING THE COPS to help you get the chip out is going above and beyond the duty of coming up with a crazy excuse.

And they're right about the attack style indicating that yes, he is infact a total nutbar.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Also, it's not like pleading insanity is get-out-of-jail-free -- you don't get out of a mental hospital until the doctors say you can, which in many cases equals never.