Update: Judge Explains Baker Guilty Verdict
Prosecutor and defense lawyers comment on case after Deerfield man is found guilty of murdering a Vernon Hills woman over two years ago.
(Update at 1:50 p.m.) Lake County Judge Daniel Shanes ruled Monday Deerfield native Daniel Baker was guilty but mentally ill in the grisly April 2010 murder of his girlfriend’s mother, Marine Aksman of Vernon Hills. That ruling could mean Baker will spend the rest of his life in prison. Shanes said Baker did not act with premeditation when he repeatedly struck Marina Aksman with a baseball bat in her Vernon Hills home after the victim had called him “bipolar” and told him that she was cutting off the relationship with her daughter, Kristina Aksman, but instead went into a tirade. A guilty but mentally ill verdict means the defendant had issues that impaired his judgment but he was cognizant of what he was doing. “This is truly a sad and …
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Pete Johnson
1:43 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
any updates on the latest death on central ave? was it murder? more ›