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...story. If poor John Hinckley Jr. [May 24] had lived in an earlier age, he might have run off to sea, joined the Foreign Legion or emigrated to distant shores. After a while he might have found himself. Unfortunately, hardly a frontier remains for these mixed-up kids who believe themselves to be misfits...
...arguing that Hinckley could discern what was real and what was not real, Dietz contradicted the defense testimony of four medical experts, who had said Hinckley had lost touch with reality and was driven by fantasies to shoot the president...
...Marjorie LeMay, associate professor of Radiology, testified recently that scans of Hinckley's brain suggest strongly that he is schizophrenic. LeMay said the CAT scan of Hinckley's brain showed it to be shrunken to an unusual degree for someone his age. The brain abnormality, she added, is found in only two percent of the normal population, but in about one-third of all schizophrenics...
Dietz added that Hinckley had suffered from four relatively minor and "quite common" mental disorders, but had never been psychotic or "unable to test reality...
Dietz and LeMay's testimony followed the testimony three weeks ago of David M Bear, assistant professor of Psychiatry, who said that Hinckley was suffering from schizophrenia. Bear testified for the defense, arguing that Hinckley was not fully responsible for the alleged shooting because his mental disorders had cut him off from reality...