Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first count, not guilty, by reason of insanity." There was a gasp in the courtroom...
...kicked their boy out of the house and this month wept as he testified: "I wish to God I could trade places with him right now." But the dull blue eyes of their wayward son, pasted like wafers on his expressionless face, avoided the gaze of those in the courtroom through the very end. What emotions swirled in his twisted psyche-a mystery that neither psychiatrists nor jury felt they could fathom-were kept inside. John Hinckley had got off-and raised a nationwide furor about insanity...
...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...
...Meet the Press set, which looks like a courtroom lighted by Wurlitzer, the guest faces four questioners arrayed behind a judge's bench. That four on one, according to Moderator Bill Monroe, gives the lone guest the sympathy vote, but Kirkpatrick is not one to ask for sympathy. A former college professor, she has the manner of someone used to feeling intellectually superior to those she talks to, and probably must nudge herself not to talk that way to fellow diplomats or journalists...
...according to his lawyers, drove him to shoot the President.* Hinckley, who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, fidgeted throughout her testimony until Foster was asked, "How would you describe your relationship with John Hinckley?" With that, Hinckley abruptly stood up and headed out of the Washington courtroom, a trio of deputy marshals on his heels. Foster's reply: "I don't have any relationship with John Hinckley...