#newport-beach

#newport-beach

The house, with 4,371 square feet, has five bedrooms and 3 1/2 bathrooms. It is in a guard-gated community and has hand-hewn hardwood and stone floors. There are high ceilings, crown moldings and French doors that open to the yard. The cook's kitchen has a center island, a breakfast area, granite counters and top of the line appliances.

Spyglass Hill was the first of the planned communities that emerged in Newport Beach. Originally owned by the Irvine family, the land was developed under the auspices of the Irvine Co. Spyglass Hill was built in the early 1970s by the Lusk Co., and the last tract was completed in 1972.

During opening statements on Monday in a Santa Ana courtroom, Senior Deputy District Attorney David Porter told an Orange County Superior Court jury that Nicholson, then 27, used a variety of knives and other blunt instruments to bludgeon and stab his mother and father to death, to do the same to Morse the next day. A day later he turned himself in, the prosecutor said, and claimed he carried out the killings in self-defense.