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Under questioning by Morris County Assistant Prosecutor Joseph D'Onofrio, hospital psychologist Dr.

Michael Siglag said that Hagen is open to talking about the crime and her personal background, and acts appropriately when expressing differences of opinion with staff and others.Psychiatrist Dr.

Georgina Cid testified that she believed Hagen does not pose a risk to herself or anyone at this time.A Chatham High School alumnus, Hagen graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1973 and later became a nationally respected urologist.

Her first marriage ended in divorce and she made a major life change in 1987 when she switched to being a part-time doctor and moved to St.

Thomas to run an inn with her second husband.

The second marriage ended, and she eventually returned to live with her parents in Chatham Township, feeling destitute and depressed.She was in a psychosis when she suffocated her parents with plastic and pillows, doctors found.

She told doctors who interviewed her: "To me they weren't dead.

They were in some kind of transitional state.

I didn't want to kill them; I just wanted to make them get to the sphere that was supposed to be better." Peggy Wright can be reached at (973) 267-1142 or pwright@gannett.com.

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...ba href=/bipolar disorder/a/b – a point Smith’s defense attorney emphasized during closing arguments.

Some information was kept from jurors, including Smith’s visit to the police department in February 2004 when he asked questions about what could happen if he shot someone in self-defense.

Konkle, a Fort Wayne native whose family described him as having contagious laughter, died at the scene of a gunshot wound to the chest.

His death was ruled a homicide.

He had been planning to move to Texas, where his mother and one of his brothers live, at the time of his death, his mother, Jeanie McKillip, previously told The Journal Gazette.

He was an avid music fan and loved playing pool.

He started a pool tournament in Texas that still happens annually, she said.

Konkle was close with his family and liked to make people smile.

He maintained a Web-cam so he could see his mother when they talked since he lived in Fort Wayne and she lived in Texas, she said.

Fumarolo argued Smith acted in self-defense because he believed his own safety was in danger and emphasized Konkle’s level of intoxication at the time of the shooting: 0.165 percent blood-alcohol content, more than twice the legal limit.

Plus, Konkle had cocaine, Darvocet and two other prescription medications in his system at the time, Fumarolo said.

Fumarolo also argued that Smith, who has ba href=/bipolar disorder/a/b, was insane at the moment of the shooting, meaning he didn’t know right from wrong.

Fumarolo said Smith still b...