The defense lawyer for a man accused of going on a murderous rampage that left seven people dead in California's wine country conceded his client committed the slayings but said the man was psychotic at the time.
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Public defender Marteen Miller told the Superior Court jury in opening statements Monday that Ramon Salcido killed the seven people, including his wife and two of his daughters, but said the former winery worker was under a "psychotic depression" at the time of the 1989 rampage.Sonoma County Assistant District Attorney Peter Bumerts, who is seeking the death penalty, said he would use a confession that Salcido made to sheriff's deputies en route back from Mexico to show the slayings were premeditated.