with john hinckley, he clearly understood the difference between right and wrong. the prosecution argued that hinckley had carefully planned the attack. the fact that he was able to travel, the fact that he did look at the schedule, put that type of effort into this event, devastated around, that s premeditated activity. the defense countered with dr. will carpenter s testimony on schizophrenia. general illnesses like schizophrenia, people can do most things in life in an ordinary way. so they re not conspicuously crazy. they don t go into mcdonald s and order water melons. hinckley, his was more of a reality distortion, false beliefs and just belief in those
there. you could not form a rapport with him. he seemed to have little expression of emotion. dr. will carpenter, a research psychologist at the university of maryland was hired to give an expert opinion in hinckley s defense. i believed that i spent about 44 hours evaluating him. most of that would have been in interviews with him. he was self-centered, but he wasn t narcissistic. it was more like kind of a loner who doesn t have much else going on. and then would get grandiose ideas including delusional ideas. he made up a whole girlfriend for his parents for a year. she didn t exist. she seemed awfully real to him at time, but it was very much to manipulate his parents so he could be off and doing what it was that he intended to do without their interfering. in the summer of 1980, hinckley read a story about jodie foster, the 18-year-old
from wrong. and clearly, during my interview with john hinckley, he clearly understood the difference between right and wrong. the prosecution argued that hinckley had carefully planned the attack. fact that he was able to travel, the fact that he did look at the schedule, put that type of effort into this event, devastated around, that s premeditated activity. the defense countered with dr. will carpenter s testimony on schizophrenia. general illnesses like ji schizophrenia, people can do thinking in a normal way. hinckley, his was more of a reality distortion, false
interesting at the same time. there didn t seem to be much there. you could not form a rapport with him. he seemed to have little expression of emotion. dr. will carpenter, a research psychiatrist at the university of maryland, was hired to give an expert opinion in hinckley s defense. i believe that i spent about 44 hours evaluating him. most of that would have been in interviews with him. he was self-centered but he wasn t narcissistic. it was more like kind of a loner who doesn t have much else going on. and then would get grandiose ideas, including delusional ideas. he made up a whole girlfriend for his parents. for a year. she didn t exist. she seemed awfully real to him at times. but it s very much to manipulate his parents so that he could be off and doing what it was that he intended to do without their interfering. in the summer of 1980, hinckley read a story about
understood the difference between right and wrong. the prosecution argued that hinckley had carefully planned the attack. the fact that he was able to travel, the fact that he did look at the schedule, put that type of effort into planning this event. that s premeditated activity. the defense countered with dr. will carpenter s testimony on schizophrenia. in general, with illnesses like schizophrenia, people can do most things in life in an ordinary way. so they re not conspicuously crazy. they don t go into mcdonald s and order watermelons. hinckley did not have a lot of disorganization. pathology. his was much more the reality distortion, false beliefs, and his belief in those letting those guide his life. it came down to our