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SENTENCED. Jodie Foster, 21, screen actress (Taxi Driver, The Hotel New Hampshire), quondam journalist (Esquire, Interview), Presidential Assailant John Hinckley's love object, and Yale senior; to one year on probation and a fine of $500 in court costs after pleading guilty to possession of a small amount of cocaine found during a Customs check at Logan Airport last December; in Boston...
ALTHOUGH STUDIES have shown that local gun laws do have some effect in reducing crime, ultimately these laws are undermined by the lack of federal guidelines. Washington, D.C. itself provides an excellent example of how local controls can be nullified by weak laws elsewhere in the country. John W. Hinckley Jr., a man with a history of psychiatric problems, shot four men in downtown Washington with a gun he had easily purchased in a Dallas pawnshop. The absence of strong controls in Texas rendered the D.C. law moot...
...addition, opponents of the bills said yesterday that the media coverage of would-be Presidential assassin John W. Hinckley Jr.'s trial had exaggerated the problem of the insanity defense, which they said is rarely used...
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...