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Psychologists suggest that the killer is a "borderline" personality, someone who can function nearly normally in the day-to-day world. Like John Hinckley, who was also described as "borderline," the Tylenol killer can appear outwardly conventional. He may undergo transient psychosis intermixed with healthy intervals. Herbert Quay, professor of psychology at the University of Miami, notes chillingly: "My guess is that there are people around the killer right now who think he or she is odd, but not a threat to their lives...
Last April before the trial began, the federal prosecutor warned that the jurors in the case would "become celebrities of a sort." And after they decided that John Hinckley was not guilty by reason of insanity,* the twelve Washington men and women were indeed pinioned in the spotlight of press attention. Reporters and TV crews were waiting when they arrived home. Several found the coverage so noisome that they temporarily moved out. Two others took the opportunity to complain publicly that they had been pressured into agreeing to the verdict. Eager journalists flew one of them to New York City...
...experience of the Hinckley jurors may have been welcome to some and unwelcome to others. But it was not unique. Citizens chosen to serve in major trials these days may be well advised to pack some Pan-Cake makeup along with their toothbrushes, for much of the global village is likely to be looking in. A Massachusetts lawyer tells the story of some women who were upset when an extended court session forced them to miss hairdresser appointments they had scheduled because of the TV coverage. Jurors judging Convict Author Jack Henry Abbott received hate calls after announcing their verdict...
Jurors sometimes have their own reasons for talking. Money is one. When journalists declined to pay a fee to one Hinckley juror, her husband complained, "Why should she spend her time so you can make money on her? What's in it for her?" Another motivation for telling their stories is to fight back. When the judge in the Stouffer's Inn case threw out the jury's conviction, the next day's newspapers were filled with disgruntled reactions from jurors defending their verdict...
...editorial, opposing violence in movies, and had it shown eleven times (plus ten airings on the Superstation). He attacked The Deer Hunter, a Viet Nam War drama, The Warriors, a fictional portrayal of New York City youth gangs, and especially Taxi Driver, the film that allegedly inspired John Hinckley's attempted assassination of President Reagan. Said Turner: "The people responsible for this movie should be just as much on trial as John Hinckley himself ... Write your Congressman and your Senator right away, and tell him that you want something done." Despite the fervor of that Citizen Kane outburst, which...