Dr. Matthew Soulier

At first it would dissolve those thoughts and feelings about killing other people.

But ultimately that gave out and it wasn't sufficient.

And ultimately he then acted on it.

That's disturbing.

That's deviant.

Again, that's the psychopathy in him that really lacks feeling.

He just is unable to feel compassion for those that he hurt at that time in 2013.

And that's scary.

It is a very high standard.

You have to be able to lack an appreciation for what you did.

So, for instance, while you're holding a knife, you think you're, you know, holding a spoon or something that's completely unrelated.

And that you really fail to understand the morality of what you're doing, the consequences of what you're doing.

It's typically reserved for people that have very severe psychiatric illness, psychotic illness, people that are acting under the direction of delusions or voices.

And none of this was true for Daniel.

It shows that he's engaging in logical and linear behaviors.

He's calculating, he's planning in a logical manner.

We might disagree with what he's doing, obviously, and it's terrible, but it's not psychotically driven in any way.

Exactly.

The drugs and antidepressant specifically.

And what I basically told defense is that I couldn't get on board with the idea of the defense of an insanity.