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...Kaczynski Competent The Unabomber suspect is competent to stand trial ? and mentally ill, says a court-appointed psychiatrist. That gives prosecutors impetus to agree on a plea bargain. TIME/CNN Report on the trial...
...Kaczynski Found Competent The Unabom trial is back on track after a psychiatrist clears Kaczynski for trial. Still to be determined: Whether he or his lawyers will do the talking in court. TIME/CNN Report on the trial...
...others dismiss such portraits of a prodigious manipulator. "Part of Ted's affliction is the inability to stop analyzing," says Kaczynski family attorney Bisceglie. "If you go back to the letters and the manifesto, you will see this analysis and re-analysis and analyses of analyses and endless drawing of distinctions and of footnotes. It's almost as if he has no off switch. He isn't in control...
...Even if Kaczynski is convicted, he may avoid execution. Stanford law professor Babcock speculates that he would appeal to the Supreme Court, probably without success, and then, as the execution date approached, would have writs brought arguing that he's too insane to be executed. "We want people to know what is happening to them and why it's happening, and not have any illusions about it," says Babcock. "So actual crazy people can't be executed." Kaczynski, Babcock believes, will have a new hobby once this trial is over. "Being in jail and running his case is what...
With the hearing over, Kaczynski huddled with his attorneys briefly, then stood up, clutching his envelope full of scribbled notes and headed for the door. The marshals have him under 24-hour suicide watch at the jail as the proceedings pause while the experts have a chance to size up his mental state. And through it all, he will probably go on insisting he is not insane even as he manages with each successive gesture to suggest otherwise...