article_snippet: Sleepwalking defense: Joseph Mitchell's attorney argued that Mitchell's attorney client (left) was not conscious of the night of September 22, 2010, when Mitchell's attorney strangled to death Mitchell's attorney 4-year-old son, Blake (right)
article_snippet: [Blake].' Mitchell testified that Blake].' Mitchell was in financial distress and had not been sleeping well around the time of 4-year-old Blake Mitchell's death in September 2010.
article_snippet: Prosecutors said those financial difficulties drove Mitchell to strangle the toddler and try to kill the others.
article_snippet: Mitchell's 13-year-old and 10-year-old children testified in court that Mitchell's 13-year-old and 10-year-old children fought him off.
article_snippet: Prosecutors said extreme financial difficulties drove Mitchell to strangle the toddler and try to kill Mitchell two older children .
article_snippet: Alexis Mitchel (top right), now 18 years old, said in court that her father tried to push her head between her bed and a wall while wearing a Halloween mask.
article_snippet: Joe Mitchell has never denied strangling Blake on the night of September 22, 2010, at the family's foreclosed home in Hillsborough, North Carolina, but Joe Mitchell argued that Joe Mitchell did it uncontrollably and without malice while sleepwalking.
article_snippet: Prosecutors described how Joe Mitchell tried to push Joe Mitchell daughter's head between his daughter bed and a wall while wearing a Halloween mask.
highlights_snippet: Joseph Mitchell strangled to death Joseph Mitchell 4-year-old son, Blake, and tried to kill Joseph Mitchell two older siblings while wearing a mask in September 2010 .
  
highlights_snippet: Prosecutors argued Joseph Mitchell's financial troubles drove Joseph Mitchell to kill .
  