JORAN TO PLEAD GUILTY!

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DATELINE: LIMA – JORAN van der SLOOT will plead guilty to killing STEPHANY FLORES  but will argue temporary insanity, his lawyer confirmed to worldwide media.

Van der Sloot,  who remains the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway on the Caribbean island of Aruba, will use a "violent emotion" defense in the slaying of Stephany Flores, attorney Maximo Altez told  AP.

Altez said he filed papers three weeks ago informing prosecutors of his intent to argue that Van der Sloot became enraged and killed the 21-year-old Peruvian business student last May 30 because she had learned of his relation to Holloway by looking in his laptop.

The 23-year-old Dutch thug remains under heavy security in the notorious Castro Castro prisons accused of first-degree murder, carrying a 15- to 35-year sentence on conviction.

The "violent emotion" plea is typically used in Peru for crimes of passion

If the trial judge accepts the guilty by reason of insanity, Van der Sloot would be sentenced to 3 to 5 years, and Altez said his client could be freed in 20 months.

Van der Sloot may still be extradited to the US on charges he attempted to extort money from Natalee Holloway;s family in their desperate attempt to learn the fate of their missing child.

The lawyer for Stephany Flores’ family called the proposed plea absurd.

"The manner in which the suspect killed Stephany evidenced disproportionate violence," attorney Edward Alvarez said.

Flores, 21,  – who was killed in Van der Sloot’s Lima hotel room five years to the day after Holloway disappeared – was bludgeoned and asphyxiated, according to the coroner’s report.