The murder trial of the man accused of kidnapping and murdering Etan Patz resumed Thursday after a nine-day recess.
Jurors got another look at the videotaped confession made by Pedro Hernandez in 2012.
In the video, he tells a Manhattan prosecutor that he stuffed the boy's body in a bag and left it with the trash.
Hernandez says, "I was feeling bad and not feeling bad. It was half and half. Half bad, half not."
He also claims doctors diagnosed him with schizophrenia and manic depression.
His lawyer says the confession shows the depth of his mental illness.
"In his mind, it's not clear - and that was if there would have been follow-up - It's not clear that what he's recounting actually happened. And that's the entire thrust here. His memory is in question as to whether it's reliable and accurate," said defense attorney Harvey Fishbein. "There's no question he's trying to help and he's trying to be truthful. He just doesn't know what's real and what's not real."
Defense lawyers say Hernandez has a low IQ and hears and sees things, but an investigator who was present for the 2012 confession and a relative of the defendant disputed those claims.
Detective Anthony Curtin testified that Hernandez didn't seem delusional while confessing to the killing, while a nephew of Hernandez said he remembered his uncle for being suave and well-dressed, and not for being slow-witted.
The nephew, Samuel Santana, and his family came to know Hernandez when he lived with them for a time in 1979 and in the 1980s.
Defense lawyers pounded away at Santana's memory, pointing out that he was a child at the time.