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The Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr.
by Doug Linder (2001)
The verdict of "not guilty" for reason of insanity in the 1982 trial of John Hinckley, Jr. for his attempte
d assassination of President Ronald Reagan stunned and outraged many Americans. An ABC News poll taken the day after the verdict showed 83% of tho polled thought "justice was not done" in the Hinckley ca. Some people ——without much evidence——attributed the verdict to an anti-Reagan bias on the part the Washington, D. C. jury of eleven blacks and one white. Many more people, however, blamed a legal system that they claimed made it too easy for juries to return "not guilty" verdicts in insanity cas——despite the fact that such pleas were made in only 2% of felony cas and failed over 75% of the time. Public pressure resulting from the Hinckley
verdict spurred Congress and most states into enacting major reforms of laws governing the u of the insanity defen.
The Hinckley trial highlights the difficulty of a system that forces jurors to label a defendant either "sane" or "insane" when the defendant may in fact be clo to the middle on a spectrum ranging from Star Trek's Mr. Spock to the person who strangles his wife thinking that he's squeezing a grapefruit. Any objective evaluation of John Hinckley's mental condition shows him to be a troubled young man——not, as one procution witness described him, "a normal, All-American boy." But how troubled? The procution contended that Hinckley suffered only from "personality disorders" of the type affecting five to ten percent of the population, whereas the defen saw the same evidence
as demonstrating Hinckley's rious mental illness.
The Hinckley trial, perhaps better than any other famous trial, reveals the difficulty of ascertaining what exactly is going on in the head of another human being——and then in using that imperfect knowledge to
