00:00Her awareness of the illegality and moral wrongfulness of such killing is best appraised
00:06by understanding these acts as a serious suicide attempt combined with altruistic
00:12filicide, killing her children out of love, rather than as a response to command hallucinations.
00:19And did you form an opinion to a reasonable degree of psychological certainty as to whether
00:24Ms. Clancy was able to conform her conduct to the requirements of the law when she killed
00:29her children?
00:30Yes.
00:30And what is that opinion?
00:32That her capacity to conform her conduct to the requirements of the law is, again, best
00:38understood by considering the seriousness of her suicide attempt and her strong desire
00:44not to leave her children.
00:47She demonstrated such self-control throughout the day on January 24th, and her actions between
00:535.15 and 6 p.m. that afternoon were influenced by her depression and her hopelessness about
01:00her life and the desire to end the pain she had experienced since October.
01:06Although this depression and hopelessness influenced her decisions, she retained control over whether,
01:13when, and how she carried it out and the inclusion of her children.
01:20My clinical opinion is that she was criminally responsible on January 24th.
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