During a preliminary jury screening for a gun silencer trial, one member of the panel,Keith Kalota, raised his hand when asked if anyone had ever been convicted of a crime. He had spent 16 years in Mendota Mental Health Institution for killing his family in 1987.
"...He was found not guilty by reason of mental disease — paranoid schizophrenia. Kalota had repeatedly stabbed his wife, Debra, 28; daughter, Constance, 4; and son, Jacob, 2, whose bodies were found huddled in a corner of their Milwaukee home. He told police God had told him to kill his family."
Both the defense attorney and the prosecutor asked that he be struck for cause and the judge agreed.
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