US mother Julie Schenecker has been found guilty of the murders of her teenage daughter and son. Source: AAP
A FORMER US Army officer's wife has been convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of her two teenagers, with jurors rejecting her insanity plea.
Jurors on Thursday found 53-year-old Julie Schenecker guilty of killing her 13-year-old son and 16-year-old daughter in Florida in 2011.
Prosecutors say she was sane when she killed her children.
The defence argued she suffered from years of mental illness and was legally insane during the time of the killings.
Julie Schenecker wiped her nose and eyes, then the bailiffs handcuffed her as the verdict was read after just about an hour of deliberations. She started to cry.
Prosecutors chose not to seek the death penalty and she faces a mandatory life sentence. Sentencing was expected on Thursday.
Schenecker, a former Army linguist, fatally shot her daughter, Calyx, and son, Beau, in January 2011 while her now ex-Army officer husband, Colonel Parker Schenecker, was on a 10-day deployment to the Middle East.
Parker and his mother looked sad and exhausted as the verdict was read on Thursday. Julie Schenecker's sister cried softly.
All six mental health experts who testified said Schenecker was mentally ill, but three experts called by prosecutors said she was legally sane when she shot her children.
Defence lawyers said Schenecker is so affected by bipolar disorder and depression that she doesn't know right from wrong. Under Florida law, the inability to tell right from wrong is one of the criteria for a not guilty by reason of insanity plea.
Her lawyer, Jennifer Spradley, told jurors they needed to consider Schenecker's state of mind when she pulled the trigger, that she was suffering from such severe depression and manic depression that she didn't understand what she was doing.
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