Features

REDWOOD CITY — The Minnesota doctor accused of stabbing her son to death again blurted out in court Tuesday that she was guilty, this time saying she planned to commit the murder, wanted to be punished for the crime and asked for a death sentence or life in prison, according to the prosecution. 

A San Mateo County Superior Court judge did not accept the outburst as a guilty plea and instead had Donna Anderson removed from the court when she refused to stop talking during the hearing. He granted the defense attorney’s request to have a psychiatrist evaluate Anderson. 

Anderson, 48, is being held in the San Mateo County jail’s medical wing on charges she stabbed her son, Stephen Burns, to death on Feb. 24 in her ex-husband’s Burlingame home. She also is accused of stabbing her ex-husband, Frank Burns, while he tried to restrain her.