Insanity project
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- I have a plan to shoot the President that way I get her attention.
- This is for you Jodi.
- What?!
- John Hinckley was a very good student during his early life and did very well in sports until high school things seemed to change for him as he lost interest in everything and started suffering from depression. In around the year 1980, He moved back in with his parents in Colorado as he received psychiatric treatment but didn’t seem to work for him. John tried to make contact with Jodie and was able to get her on the phone twice but she rejected his call and he made all his efforts to make a connection with her. So John’s motivation was to kill the president which he wanted to kill president John Carter first but wanted to kill President Ronald Reagan and the reason why he wanted to kill the president is so he can win Jodie Foster over.
- Due to his mental state. He is not guilty so I plead him reason of insanity
- On March 30th, 1981 John Hinckley tried to get Jodie Foster's attention by impressing. John shot President Reagan and three other men outside of the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. and when John left the hotel after giving a speech to a gathering of union members he fired several shots at the president and his team.The president’s secretary James Brady was wounded in the head along with a police officer who was hit in the back and a Secret Service agent shot in the abdomen.
- As President Reagan was recovering John Hinckley was taken to custody at the scene. He said the reason why he wanted to shoot was for an unprecedented demonstration of love and compared him and Jodie as “Romeo and Juliet”.
- Hinckley was found not guilty for reason of insanity then he was sent to St. Elizabeths Hospital which is a Washington, D.C. The prosecutor found out that Hinckley was suffering from “personality disorders” but did not prove the defendant was not mentally ill but still had a mental illness.
- Later, Hinckley was obligated to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital after his trial ended in 1982. Ahead of time Hinckley showed some strange interests. But years later in the late 1990s, however, his parents claimed that their son (Hinckley) had made progress in his recovery. Hinckley worked in a clerical job within the hospital and was allowed to walk freely around through the institution but for many years he also had a girlfriend, a former patient of the hospital. Years later in July 2016, after being treated at St. Elizabeth's psychiatric hospital for 35 years Hinckley was deemed fit for release to live with his 90 year old mother in Williamsburg, Va.
- Some interesting things I learned from this case is to never impress someone you like or even shoot someone to impress them. I think in my opinion the M’Naughten Rule helps people with a mental illness that pleads not guilty for reason of insanity because the crime that they commited wasn’t right but they have an illness so they don’t know about the crime they commited was either right or wrong and sending them to a mental hospital can help them recover mentally.
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