CANNIBAL NOT GUILTY DUE TO INSANITY?

 

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- A three-judge panel has found a man not guilty by reason of insanity in the death of a homeless man he admitted to killing and partially eating.

The Connecticut Post reports the judges deliberated about an hour Tuesday before finding prosecutors had proved that 35-year-old Tyree Lincoln Smith of Lynn Haven, Fla., killed and cannibalized some of Angel Gonzalez's body parts in December 2011, but that Smith was legally insane at the time.

The judges will determine Sept. 9 whether Smith should be committed to a mental hospital.

During the trial, prosecutors presented a videotaped statement to police in which Smith says he used a hatchet to kill Gonzalez, then took out the man's eyes and part of his brain and ate them. 

However, Tyree Lincoln Smith will likely serve out the rest of his life in a mental hospital after a three-judge panel found him not guilty of murder Tuesday by reason of insanity.

• Following the trial of one of the city's most notorious -- and certainly most gruesome murder cases -- the Florida man who claimed he was ordered by voices to kill and eat a harmless homeless man was to be committed to a state mental hospital, pending further evaluation.

Source: Herald, Stamford Advocate

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