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• "That was why he was in the house in the first place," McGowan said during his opening statement.
• Authorities say McVay had just walked away from a minimum-security unit in Sioux Falls on a grand theft sentence and had been mixing cough syrup and alcohol on July 2, 2011, when he climbed under Schein's slightly open garage door, entered her house, killed her and drove off in her car.
• Eggert said McVay has suffered from mental illness as well as alcohol and drug issues for much of his life, and the night before the killing he mixed alcohol with a DXM-based cough syrup, which causes hallucinations. He awoke briefly at 3 a.m. to find spiritual entities surrounding him and awoke again hours later to find them still there, telling him to follow through on his plan, she told jurors.
• "That was the sign he was going to get the transportation and the final stuff he needed before going to Washington, D.C.," Eggert said.
• After Schein's car was reported stolen, police used the tracking service in the vehicle to locate McVay on Interstate 90 near Madison, Wis., later that day and he was arrested after a brief chase.
• Madison Police Officer Kipp Hartman had been trying to get the suspect to reveal his name when McVay began saying that he "killed a little old lady" in South Dakota and stole her car to get to Washington, D.C., to kill the president, the officer testified.
• Dieter said the guilty but mentally ill verdict gained popularity in a dozen states as part of the public outcry over John Hinkley being found not guilty by reason of insanity in 1982 in the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.
• A defendant's mental illness should be a mitigating factor in sentencing, he said, "something that can lessen the degree of culpability."

• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota man convicted of multiple rapes over several years has been re-sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says 28-year-old James Bruguier Jr. has been ordered to serve concurrent sentences of 354 months, 300 months and 180 months for three convictions.
• The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the resentencing after the Lake Andes appealed his original sentence of 30 years in prison. He is now expected to serve 29.5 years.
• A federal jury convicted Bruguier in August 2011 on charges of sexual abuse, aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse of a minor and burglary.
• Johnson has said the crimes involved sexual assaults on an adult and two teen

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