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...Hinckley's twisted poetry also became a matter of dispute. Asked Blyther: "Could a sane person have written it? Obviously something is wrong with him." Drake, who said she likes to write too, disagreed. "This man is a writer and writers are strange. He is not stranger than they are because he was infatuated with Jodie Foster. He shot four people." The argument turned on whether poetry should be considered factual or if, as Prosecutor Roger Adelman had insisted during the trial, fictional. "Poetry is not fiction," Lassiter argued vehemently. They all tended to agree. To make sure, they...
...important event of Sunday came late in the evening when Dianne Ham, 33, went to Copelin's room to talk about switching foremen. They agreed that Jackson seemed uncomfortable in the position. In a nearby room, Lawrence Coffey was awake in bed coming to his own decision about Hinckley. "I lay there thinking about his letters to Jodie and to his parents," the burly hotel banquet assistant recalls. "I felt sure he wasn't in his right mind when he shot those people...
...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...