FULLERTON, Calif.—A 30-year-old man was sentenced April 3 to 26 years to life in prison for killing his stepmother with a pick axe in Lake Forest nearly a decade ago.
Oscar Luis Morlett III was convicted March 2, but because he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, jurors had to determine whether he was sane at the time of the crime. If he had been found insane at the time of the killing, he would have been committed to a state mental hospital for an indefinite period. Jurors found March 15 that he was sane at the time of the killing.
