Mr. Specter. Doctor, when you say that the state is much less open, do you mean by that, that it is now more obvious?
Dr. Beavers. Less obvious.
Mr. Specter. Less obvious?
Dr. Beavers. Less obvious.
Mr. Specter. But is it present, notwithstanding the degree of how much it is apparent?
Dr. Beavers. In my opinion it is. Yes. The thing that I’m trying to make clear here is that you take a person that has a mental illness which shows itself in delusions, that is, ideas that things that we say aren’t real—they can be very uncertain and changing and very obvious, and which the person will share them with just about anybody, or they can be much more covert—hidden—and shared only seldom, and much more fixed, not shifting around, but fixed.
Mr. Specter. How would you characterize his condition in your opinion as he sat here today during the polygraph examination?
Dr. Beavers. Based on—let’s see if I can give the specific things that make me come up with this opinion—the relationship that he has with the prosecuting attorney, the relationship he has with his attorneys; there are certain kinds of actions and behavior in these two relationships which fit better in my opinion with the continuation of a covert delusional system concerning threat to his race, his family, based on his presumed activity in a conspiracy, then it would fit with rational realistic appreciation of the factors in his environment.
Mr. Specter. Were you present today, Dr. Beavers, during the entire course of the polygraph examination?
Dr. Beavers. Yes, I was.