Judge finds accused Garner-Affleck stalker insane

[March 31, 2010]  LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A judge is sending a man arrested outside a school attended by Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck's daughter to a state mental hospital.

Los Angeles County District Attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison says Steven Burky pleaded no contest Tuesday to two counts of stalking the celebrity couple and their children.

Robison says that after a hearing, a judge found the 37-year-old to be not guilty of the offenses by reason of insanity. Burky was ordered to stay away from Garner, Affleck and their family for 10 years if he is released.

Burky was arrested in December outside a school attended by one of the couple's daughters, a violation of a civil restraining order Garner obtained in 2008.

[Associated Press]

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