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When the door to the sparse jury room slammed shut on Friday afternoon, this complex task seemed overwhelming. The psychiatrists who had testified for the prosecution and defense seemed to contradict one another totally. Said Maryland Copelin, 50, who works in a school cafeteria: "If the expert psychiatrists could not decide whether the man was sane, then how are we supposed to decide...
...definite possibility that I will be killed in my attempt to get Reagan," he scribbled. Glynis Lassiter, 42, a janitor at American University, argued that Hinckley was clearly insane "if he felt he was going to get killed and then he goes ahead and does it anyway." Copelin strongly disagreed. "Look at this," she said, pointing to letters to prove that Hinckley was conniving rather than crazy. "When he wanted money he would sign his letters 'Love, John.' When he didn't get it, he would write back and sign just 'John...
...Saturday the jurors moved into the now empty courtroom for their longest, and most tense, day of deliberations. A debate flared over whether Hinckley's erratic cross-country travels showed him to be crazy. Said Copelin: "We went in our minds everywhere Hinckley went. When he flew, we flew. When his father met him at the airport and told him to go to the Y.M.C.A., and when he took the bus, we took the bus." They even tried to calculate how much all this cost the rich drifter. To Lassiter, the janitor, the aimless meanderings indicated a mental defect...
Your correspondent, Mr. Copelin R. Day, in referring to Mr. Roosevelt's picture in TIME, Nov. 3, page 5, undoubtedly means the impression one gets at a first glance at the picture that Mr. Roosevelt is engaged in that most uncouth act of "making a nose" at someone. I am surprised that you yourselves did not get that impression at first. It was the first impression that I received when I first looked at the picture, and I had to look close before I realized that the first impression was false and that what Mr. Roosevelt was really doing...