Prosecutors say Yoselyn Ortega stabbed herself in the neck after killing a six-year-old and a two-year-old in the bathroom of their family's home on the Upper West Side.
Prosecutors are hoping to prove Ortega was coherent and made a conscious decision to kill the children.
Ortega faces a possible sentence of life behind bars.
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