By PAUL ANDERSON

SANTA ANA – A 34-year-old man was convicted Wednesday of bludgeoning and repeatedly stabbing his parents and a longtime housekeeper inside their home in a gated community of Newport Beach, killing all three.

Camden Burton Nicholson was convicted of three counts of special circumstances murder with a sentencing enhancement of multiple murders. Because he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, the trial will now enter a second phase with jurors determining whether he was legally insane at the time of the 2019 slayings. If deemed sane, he faces life in prison without parole; if found insane, he will be committed indefinitely to a state mental healthy facility.

Jurors concluded Nicholson killed his parents — 64-year-old Richard Nicholson and 61-year-old Kim Nicholson — o

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