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...John W. Hinckley wrote, "I have become what I wanted to be all along, a psychotic poet." It took this country's legal system over a year and a half to take Hinckley at his word, and decide that his psychosis was more than just the imagined mask of a calculating evader of justice. Over a fifteen month period-- from the shooting spree of March 1981 to the June verdict of the following year--Hinckley was to emerge as the enigmatic author and protagonist of what he himself called "my melodrama...
...many Americans, though, the complicated medical, psychiatric and legal maneuverings of the trial and Hinckley's subsequent acquittal by reason of insanity seemed neither poetic nor just. The computer printout that served as a mere index to the papers filed in the case stretched to some fifteen feet. The medical and psychiatric interviews of Hinckley climbed into the hundreds of hours. The cost of the month and a half long trial totalled some two and a half to three million dollars, with federal charges at least three times that spent by the oil-rich Hinckleys...
...takes a Hinckley to change the insanity laws and a De Lorean to curtail sting operations, then the case of Geraldine Ferraro may turn out to be a first step back from the piety-in-government excursion Americans have been on since Watergate. One day Ms. Ferraro's vice-presidential candidacy, perhaps her political career, hangs in the balance; the next day, after a tough and gutsy public performance-a Checkers for the '80s-she is back in gear, leaving us all to wonder if we hadn't lost our heads for just a moment...
...NORTH AMERICAN ANIMAL ALMANAC by Darryl Stewart Stewart, Tabori &Chang; 351 pages; $14.95 May is the best month for observing the grizzly bear, from a proper distance, of course. March is the best time to study the turkey vulture, especially in the tiny hamlet of Hinckley, Ohio, to which, like the swallows that regularly come back to Capistrano, the scavenging birds return every year. February, however, is not the ideal time to look for groundhogs. The woodchuck does awaken from his winter torpor earlier than most other ground animals but rarely as early as Feb. 2-unless roused from...
...preposterous to hold creators responsible for the indirect effects of their speech or publications on certain dangerously impressionable members of society. Ought President Reagan to be able to sue Jodie Foster and Martin Scorsese because they inspired John Hinckley? One is reminded of the trial in Florida a few years ago, in which a juvenile delinquent claimed that his crimes stemmed from a Kojak addiction...