Word: hinckleys
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Late in March 1981, JoAnn Hinckley drove her son John to the Denver airport and told him not to come home again. A few days later, John Hinckley shot and wounded President Reagan, along with Presidential Press Secretary James Brady, Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy and D.C. Police Officer Thomas Delahanty. At the trial last May, Mrs. Hinckley said she threw her son out as part of a plan devised by John's psychiatrist, John Hopper Jr., to force him to be less dependent on his parents. Hopper testified that he did not consider his young patient mentally...
Last week Brady, McCarthy and Delahanty joined in a $14 million suit against Hopper. Filed in U.S. District Court in Denver, it contends that the psychiatrist misdiagnosed Hinckley as having only minor problems and rejected his parents' suggestions that he be institutionalized. They had a dozen sessions in his Evergreen, Colo., office, the final one a month before the shootings. The suit charges that the doctor failed to warn police of "the reasonable likelihood that Hinckley would attempt a political assassination," despite Hinckley's admission that his "mind was on the breaking point." Hinckley, judged innocent by reason...
Indeed, within a month of joining TIME in 1981, Andersen found himself writing about the execution of Steven Judy, who had killed a woman and her three children. Subsequent assignments included stories on John Hinckley, the would-be assassin of President Reagan, and last month's first execution by injection...
Since the criterion for selecting the Man of the Year is based on the impact an individual has on the year's news events, good or bad, I nominate John Hinckley Jr. He showed how our judicial process allows a guilty person to be found not guilty. BillKlingJr. Huntsville...
...guilty by reason of insanity prior to the adoption of a guilty but-mentally-ill verdict would also be found legally insane after its adoption. The verdict, in effect, is only a sentencing recommendation to the judge, and is not designed to put more insane defendants behind bars John Hinckley, since deemed legally insane by the jury, could not have received a guilty-but-mentally-ill verdict had such a provision existed in Washington...