Jackson Ngai speaks with his defense attorney, Jim Erickson, Monday. Ngai faces trial for the death of music professor Danielle Martin.
Posted on 10/21/2005 3:48:26 PM PDT by lunarbicep
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - 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.
"If we can keep him locked up in a mental hospital for the rest of his life, that will be justice," prosecutor Corby Holcomb said.
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."
Ngai's attorney, Jim Erickson, did not immediately return a telephone message left at his office Friday.
Ngai, 24, had checked out of a mental health treatment center less than a day before Martin was killed.
WOO HOO!!!! I really didn't want to be the only or the first one to post these thoughts. Honestly what will this person contribute to society? They might get better? How would anyone really know for sure? Anything could set them off again.
Mentally unstable individuals who don't commit heinous crimes should get the help they need, but those with the propensity to commit mayhem should be dealt with.
My thoughts exactly. This is not the first time I have heard the robot card being played.
Guilty but insane. If he regasins his sanity, send him to prison.
Wanna buy a duck?
HA HA HA
I don't miss that man being in the WH one bit.
How about Guilty but exempt, by reason of insanity
I should change my screen name to "Politically Incorrect". Everything I think is a thought crime.
H.L. Mencken said something to this effect more than fifty years ago.
I like that. It has a certain ring to it. =P
Okay, he's insane. Now take him out back and hang him or shoot him.
Is "Ngai" a cowboy name?
The verdict sounds like it's dead on to me. The defendant has a history of mental illness, and is obviously nuts. This is what the insanity plea was meant for.
"They turned me loose from the nervous hospital. Said I was well. Mmhmmm."
That is just plain wrong.
By being institutionalized, he is keeping otherwise underemployed psychiatrists and other dangerous characters inside, off the streets, where they can't harm us.
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