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...spoke, Kaczynski sat quietly next to her and listened with no expression. Behind him, his brother and mother began to cry. Wanda Kaczynski turned to her youngest son and, with tears in her eyes, said simply...
Well, for one thing, it showed how erratic Kaczynski can be. And once again the more temporal matters of his guilt or innocence, which never seemed much in doubt, have been pushed aside while the lawyers and judges have a long nationwide conversation about just what constitutes crazy in an already crazy world. Never mind all those journals tucked on the shelves next to the Shakespeare and Thackeray; all those carefully constructed bombs and the letters; even when the government has the evidence on its side, other factors seem to conspire to change the subject...
...criminal trial lawyer, the term has several meanings and definitions. "Competent" to stand trial is actually a low-threshold legal matter. One merely has to be able to understand the nature and consequences of the charges and be able to assist in one's defense. It is obvious that Kaczynski should qualify on both counts. But his lawyers argue that the nature of his illness prevents him from accepting--and thus cooperating with--a mental-illness defense, and that, they argue, should make him incompetent to stand trial. As for defending himself, only a foolish or delusional person would contemplate...
...Kaczynski has refused all along to be examined by prosecution psychiatrists because, his lawyers claimed, he has an innate, deep-seated fear of them. But in one of the biggest surprises of the week, Kaczynski agreed to be examined in order to prove that he could represent himself, thus putting himself in the position of a defendant who is probably mentally ill trying to appear normal so that he can escape a mental-illness defense...
Some skeptics see in Kaczynski's maneuvers a simple desire to disrupt the system. "He may be seriously mentally ill, but I think he knows exactly what he's doing," says former federal prosecutor Donald Heller. "This is the ultimate opportunity to take action against society. One man against the Federal Government, the federal judiciary, the FBI, the Department of Justice, creating chaos. What a perfect opportunity for a person with the mind bent of the Unabomber's manifesto...