Santa Barbara Woman Found Legally Insane in Attempted Murder Trial

Santa Barbara Jury Finds Cora Vides Was Legally Insane at Time of Attempted Murder

The same Santa Barbara jury that found 21-year-old Cora Vides guilty of first-degree attempted murder in the 2021 Valentine’s Day stabbing of her Laguna Blanca classmate, Georgia Avery, has found that she was legally insane at the time of the crime, according to a statement released by the District Attorney’s Office on Wednesday. In this latest sanity phase of the trial, the jury had to assume that Vides was sane at the time of the stabbing, and…

Santa Barbara Woman Found Legally Insane in Attempted Murder Trial

A jury reached a verdict Wednesday afternoon and found that it is more likely than not that a Santa Barbara woman was legally insane when she attempted to murder her former classmate.Cora Vides, 21, was found guilty of attempted murder for the February 2021 stabbing on Aug. 12. Vides pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity which meant her trial was broken into two phases, the guilt phase and the sanity phase. In the first phase, District Attorn…

Jury Convicts Cora Vides of Attempted Murder, Finds Her Legally Insane at Time of Attack

Santa Barbara County District Attorney John T. Savrnoch announced that Cora Vides, a 21-year-old resident of Santa Barbara, California, was found guilty by a jury on August 12, 2024, of Attempted Murder with Premeditation and Deliberation. The Jury also found true allegations that Ms. Vides personally used a deadly weapon, a knife, and did personally inflict great bodily injury on the victim, [Georgia] Avery. The charges stemmed from an incident…