Michael Calvo sat with his head down as the family of his late girlfriend spoke about how his “monstrous violence” has left them devastated.

“There is nothing joyous about a lack of criminal responsibility when the victim was stabbed to death,” Ana Paula Kitterhing De Sousa’s daughter Raquel Almeida Margulies told court, reading from her victim impact statement.

“Stabbed by someone she trusted, cared for, and even loved. Stabbed by someone for whom she would accept even the strangest parts about. Stabbed 26 times. I would now like us to take 26 seconds of silence and reflect on that for a brief moment,” said Marguiles, as two dozen friends and family members stood in the courtroom for 26 seconds of silence.

“I assume that despite your mental illness that there is a part of you that know

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