A man accused of using a samurai sword to behead his ex-girlfriend on a San Carlos street pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity Thursday.
Castro’s family angrily scoffed at the claim.
"He’s just dragging this out as much as he can," Martin Castro Jr., Castro's father, said."This insanity thing, there’s no way. There’s too much proof there for everybody to see. He isn’t insane. He wasn’t insane. He knew exactly what he was doing." Legal analyst Dean Johnson said the criteria for being found not guilty by reason of insanity requires the defense to prove one critical point.
"The criteria is that he didn’t understand the difference between right and wrong at the time of the crime," Johnson said. The court granted a defense request to have Landaeta go through a mental health evaluation by a court-appointed psychologist and psychiatrist.Prosecutor Josh Keckley Stauffer said if he’s not satisfied with the report, he is ready to have Landaeta reevaluated by their own experts.
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