Word: hinckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amid all of the controversy over the John W. Hinckley Jr. trial, one crucial detail never received the attention it deserved. Regardless of whether or not Hinckley was insane when he shot at President Reagan, he certainly had a clear-headed impression of a certain school to the south...
...foreman, Jackson, the next morning. "No, it ain't hard," he replied. "Maybe someone else should do it," said one member, pointing out Jackson's stutter. The retired janitor agreed. He was promptly replaced by Coffey, at 22 the youngest juror, who was now firmly convinced of Hinckley's innocence. The deliberations began to stumble toward a conclusion...
...foreman, Jackson had often asked those favoring an insanity verdict, "Y'all know, he shot the President. How are we going to deal with that?" By Monday he had dispelled those doubts from his own mind. "Well, he is a little sick," Jackson noted of Hinckley. Copelin and Brown were still holding firm. Argued Brown strenuously: "The issue is not whether he was a little off, or whether this poem or that one didn't make sense. He shot those people, he shot them on purpose, he planned the whole thing out. He should be punished." When...
...allow me to vote that way," claimed Copelin afterward. Said Drake: "If the people who are being critical were in the jury room with us, they'd come to the same decision." Coffey agrees. "We did the best job with what we had to work with," he said. "Hinckley is messed up. All we can do now is hope he gets the right help...
...Hinckley will be held as a patient at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, in a 225-patient pavilion reserved for the criminally insane, until the court decides that he is no longer a danger to society or himself. In a reversal of roles, Hinckley's attorneys could find themselves arguing that their client is sane to get him released. But his lawyers and parents say they do not plan to make such an argument yet, at least not at the hearing scheduled by Parker on Aug. 7. For the time being, and perhaps for years to come, Hinckley will...