A 92-year-old retired attorney who fatally shot his sleeping son last year after suffering what his lawyer called “extreme psychological abuse” was placed on probation Thursday.
Richard Landis Peck, a former San Diego deputy city attorney, was ordered into home detention, with a GPS ankle bracelet, as a term of his three-year probation.He originally was charged with murder but pleaded guilty in February to voluntary manslaughter for killing his son, Robert “Robbie” Peck, 51, at the Old Town home they shared.
“The victim was psychologically and emotionally abusive to the defendant over a period of months,” Lewis said, adding that Robbie Peck was an “extreme” alcoholic who threatened his father, kept him isolated from other family members, terrified the housekeeper and neighbors and tried to scare his father into having a second heart attack.
Defense attorney Douglas Gilliland said at previous court proceedings that on the evening of the Nov. 14, 2018, shooting, the younger Peck smashed his mostly home-bound father’s phone and threatened “you’ll see me again” before going to bed. Outside of the proceedings, Shim said the shooting was not self-defense because the elder Peck had other options, including obtaining a restraining order against his son.
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