Baker Will Use Insanity Defense

A Deerfield man accused of beating Vernon Hills woman Marina Aksman to death on April 1, 2010, will claim he was insane at the time of the alleged crime, according to a story in Friday’s Lake County News Sun.

Edward Genson, one of the lawyers for Daniel Baker, told Lake County Criminal Court Judge Daniel Shanes Friday he has a psychiatrist who will testify Baker was insane at the time of the killing. According to the News Sun article, criminal insanity means a person does not know the difference between right and wrong.

Baker is charged with bludgeoning Aksman to death in her Vernon Hills home and then leaving with her daughter and his then girlfriend, Kristina Aksman, in the victim’s car. He was apprehended in Montana.

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