FULLERTON, Calif.—A 30-year-old man was convicted Mar. 2 of killing his stepmother with a pick axe in Lake Forest nearly a decade ago.
Since the defendant pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, another phase of the trial will begin later this month.
Oscar Luis Morlett III was convicted of first-degree murder with jurors finding true a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a deadly weapon. The sanity phase of the trial was scheduled to begin March 13.
Morlett was convicted of killing 66-year-old Jeanne Ellen Morlett on Aug. 9, 2013.
She was living with the victim and his father, Oscar Morlett Sr., and brother, Alex, at 21 Blazewood in Lake Forest at the time, according to a trial brief from Senior Deputy District Attorney Seton Hunt….