An Atascadero man who killed his wife in 2008 behaved normally at a family member’s Las Vegas wedding a week before the murder, according to testimony presented Friday.

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A psychologist testified Wednesday that an Atascadero man, who is accused of bludgeoning his wife to death with a hammer in 2008, believed he was sacrificing her to perform God’s will.

Judge John Trice ruled today in San Luis Obispo Superior Court that Downs did not know that what he was doing was morally or legally wrong.

A second doctor who examined double-homicide suspect Andrew Downs testified in a court hearing Friday that the defendant was criminally insane at the time of the crime.

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A widower of one of the two sisters killed in Santa Margarita on Christmas Day 2010 took the stand during the fourth day of the insanity trial for Andrew Downs.

The Atascadero man charged with killing two sisters in Santa Margarita on Christmas Day in 2010 was in a psychotic state that day, according to a psychiatrist who testified Tuesday in San Luis Obispo Superior Court.

Murder suspect Andrew Wesley Downs shot and killed two sisters in Santa Margarita last year because he thought they were military officers who were part of an evil government conspiracy against the world, a forensic psychiatrist testified Monday.

Donald Robert Baker, 40, of Templeton, who has been staying in Santa Margarita in recent weeks, didn’t appear for his 3 p.m. sentencing today.