A Manhattan jury rejected Thomas Gilbert Jr.'s mental defect defense and convicted him of second-degree murder in June.
A heartbroken mother pleaded for a New York City judge on Friday to give leniency to her Ivy League educated son, who was convicted for the execution-style murder of her husband.
The 34-year-old Princeton University graduate was found guilty in June for killing his 70-year-old father, Thomas Gilbert Sr., on Jan. 4, 2015. Gilbert Sr., the founder of Wainscott Capital Partners, was found with a gunshot wound to the head inside the bedroom of his Beekman Place apartment. "I ask you, judge, to put him in a psychiatric hospital somewhere close to home so we can visit him," said Shelley Gilbert, who was married to her husband for 30 years before the murder."I knew if my husband can speak from heaven, he would say this is wrong. This is exactly what my husband would have wanted."
"You planned to kill your father, you had a rouse set up to get your mother out of the house, you knew exactly what you were doing you were not insane then and you're not insane now," Jackson said to Gilbert Jr.
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