you plead? in a clear, loud voice the 26-year-old hinckley answered, not guilty. you know, hinckley is an interesting person, but not 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
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
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. the 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 in mcdonald s and order watermelons. hinckley did not have a lot of disorganization pathology. his was much more the reality distortion, false beliefs, and belief in those and letting those guide his life. it came down to our
at this hour, john hinckley jr. pleads not guilty to charges he tried to kill president reagan, and body his lawyer and the government agree he is economy tent to stand trial. from the moment he was arrested the issue of sanity became paramount to the legal teams assigned to prosecute and defend john hinckley. facing a judge for the first time, hinckley stood while the clerk read the 13-count indictment. among the spectators were hinckley s parents. they watched intently as the clerk asked their son, how do you plead? in a clear, loud voice the 26-year-old hinckley answered, not guilty. you know, hinckley is an interesting person, but not 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
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 psychiatrist versus his psychiatrist.