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...George Blyther, 38, was the first to offer an opinion. "Not guilty because of insanity," he said. Jackson said that he leaned toward guilty. So did most of the women, including the only white juror, Merryanna Swartz. Some observers thought that Swartz, 31, might be pivotal because she works as a pathology researcher and has dealt with disturbed adolescents. But she remained generally quiet, and shifted her vote to not guilty over the course of the deliberations. As the discussion progressed, everyone agreed that they were still far from decided. "So we took out the evidence and put our personal...
Hinckley's twisted poetry also became a matter of dispute. Asked Blyther: "Could a sane person have written it? Obviously something is wrong with him." Drake, who said she likes to write too, disagreed. "This man is a writer and writers are strange. He is not stranger than they are because he was infatuated with Jodie Foster. He shot four people." The argument turned on whether poetry should be considered factual or if, as Prosecutor Roger Adelman had insisted during the trial, fictional. "Poetry is not fiction," Lassiter argued vehemently. They all tended to agree. To make sure, they...
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