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SACRAMENTO: Jury selection begins Wednesday in the trial of accused Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, and almost no one believes him innocent. Which is why Kaczynski's two attorneys, facing the mountain of evidence against their client, are shifting their attention for now to the jury that will hear...
...mentally ill? Or not? The inquisitive visitors were two prosecution psychiatrists, and the answers they got may not help the "mental defect" defense that Kaczynski's lawyers are planning for his trial, which starts Nov. 12. "I can't imagine anybody saying he's insane," says Becky Garland, 41, who befriended Kaczynski while working at Garland's Town & Country store in Lincoln. "You might say that anyone who makes mail bombs is insane. But insane by law? I don't think he was that...
...Rundell, who gave Kaczynski a bicycle and got a rare tour of the hermit's garden-irrigation system in return, had the same impression. "I always thought that he acted, for a person who was a recluse, well within the bounds of society. He always seemed a little jumpy. But I put that down to the fact that he was not a social person...
...Helena, about 60 miles southeast of Lincoln, the psychiatrists met with Jack McCabe, owner of the Park Hotel, where Kaczynski stayed 31 times since 1980. "They wanted to know what he was like, if he caused any trouble," McCabe said afterward. "But Ted Kaczynski never bothered me any. I figured he was some rancher from up in Lincoln who wanted to get away to the big town for a day or two. Lot of them...
...raise questions about his mental state at some point in the trial, either in the guilt phase or during the penalty phase that would follow a conviction, in an attempt to avoid a death sentence. But proving such a defense is difficult. Instead of arguing that he was insane, Kaczynski's lawyers seem to be planning a defense that he suffered from a mental defect that impaired his ability to form an intent to commit the crimes. Nevertheless, as far as his old neighbors seem to think, Ted Kaczynski, the former math professor, was gentle, soft-spoken and painfully...