Portland -
Maine's highest court has upheld the conviction of a Portland man who is serving 60 years in prison for strangling his girlfriend and cutting off her head.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday rejected Chad Gurney's appeal of his conviction for killing 18-year-old Zoe Sarnacki on May 25, 2009, in his apartment and setting fire to her body to cover up the crime.
In the appeal, Gurney's attorney told justices that Gurney wasn't criminally responsible because he was suffering mental problems and having a psychotic episode that made him delusional.
In a unanimous decision, the supreme court agreed with prosecutors that Gurney knew what he was doing at the time of the crime and knew it was wrong.
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