article_snippet.sent: Steele had pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the August 22 shooting deaths of Steele 39-year-old wife, Ashlee Steele, and Steele sister, 38-year-old Kacee Tollefsbol of Lake Elmo, Minnesota.
article_snippet.sent: Former Wisconsin sheriff's deputy Andrew Steele, pictured in court earlier this month, has been found not legally responsible in the killing of Former Wisconsin sheriff's deputy Andrew Steele, pictured in court earlier this month wife and sister-in-law on Thursday .
article_snippet.sent: A jury deliberated for about 10 hours until all but two of the 12 agreed the verdict early on Thursday.
article_snippet.sent: During Steele’s trial earlier this month Tucker had testified that a rambling note Steele wrote about suicide and sexual relations with Steele wife and sister-in-law was delusional and showed Steele's brain was deteriorating because of ALS.
article_snippet.sent: Tucker said that was the reason Steele killed the two and that Tucker was 'unable to conform Tucker conduct to the law.'
article_snippet.sent: The defendant had claimed The defendant blacked out during the killings.
article_snippet.sent: Prosecutors believed Steele planned the killings.
article_snippet.sent: The State had asked all witnesses if Steele had memory issues before that day in August, and they all said no.
article_snippet.sent: In a mostly incoherent, stream-of-consciousness letter written by Steele the day before the murders, the former deputy claimed the former deputy had had a sexual relationship with the former deputy sister-in-law and enjoyed 'numerous threesomes' with Kacee and Kacee wife, reported the station WIBA.
article_snippet.sent: According to Steele, the women wanted to jump off a cruise ship together, poison the women with carbon monoxide inside a car, or shoot the women with Steele service weapon. '
article_snippet.sent: Dr Tucker testified that there was no evidence to support Steele's claims that Steele had been in a three-way relationship with Steele wife and sister-in-law.
article_snippet.sent: Steele’s defense attorney, Jessa Nicholson, had told the court that Steele client maintained that on the day of the killings her client and Ashlee had sex involving bondage, and a zip tie accidentally fastened too tight around Steele neck, according to WKOW.
article_snippet.sent: Andrew Steele, pictured in court in 2014, penned a rambling note a day before the killing claiming that he had had threesomes with he wife and sister-in-law, and that the three of his wife and sister-in-law had made a suicide pact .
article_snippet.sent: Andrew Steele is wheeled out of Andrew Steele home in a stretcher after allegedly murdering Andrew Steele wife and Andrew Steele sister on August 22 .
article_snippet.sent: If the jury had found Andrew Steele responsible for the double-homicide, Steel could have faced up to a life sentence without parole.
highlights_snippet.sent: Steele, has been found not legally responsible in the killing of Steele wife and sister-in-law .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Prosecutors believed Steele had planned the killings abnd a third sister said Lou Gehrig's disease had displayed inappropriate feelings towards Tollefsbol .