John Hinckley

“Who is John Hinckley Jr.?” For most people, they know him as being the man who tried to assassinate former President Ronald Reagan. But why did John feel the need to kill the president and what drove him to do it. While doing the research to answer those questions into why the crime was committed, some information and fact were brought up to the surface that is quite disturbing. To begin, John grew up in a pretty normal household as a privileged child. He had a father, John Hinckley Sr., who devoted

John Hinckley was the man that tried to assassinate one of the presidents of the United States only in regards to impress an upcoming actress. The president that he tried to assassinate was Ronald Reagan and the actress he tried to ultimately impress was Jodie foster. John Hinckley was born on May 29, 1955 and had an erotomanic fixation on this woman named Jodie foster. As the assassination case went on he was found not guilty for reason by insanity. John Hinckley has remained in an institution that

thought that his presidency would almost not make it to day 71. John Hinckley Jr. took six shots a President Reagan on that seventieth day in an attempted assassination. Luckily the President was able to survive the ordeal. Hinckley had an overwhelming and somewhat pathological need to become famous. In high school, Hinckley soon lost interest in the sports he played as well as the few friends that he had (The Biography.com, “John Hinckley Jr. Biography”). He preferred to play his guitar and listen to

While reading chapter 2 of The Insanity Defense we discussed many different versions of the insanity defense and whether or not they’re valid or not. This interested me so much that I decided to actually go online and research the most ‘insane’ ways to use the insanity defense. Within this research I found various cases where it was used and was so shocked at how bizarre almost all of them are that I decided to write a 3-page paper on it, enjoy. The first case I read about brings us all the way

dating all the way back to the Roman Empire. Some of the current tests that determine if someone is legally insane are the M’Naghten Rule and the Model Penal Code. People who would take these tests are well known killers, such as Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy. The insanity defense “is traditionally classified as an excuse defense, in contrast with justification defenses like self-defense. This classification indicates

the common law has also developed in such a way that defendants are afforded various theories and rules that provide the defendant an opportunity to reduce responsibility or even avoid responsibility all together. The above-mentioned case of John Hinckley jr. Who attempted to assassinate President Reagan, illustrates the insanity defense which uses different rules depending on the jurisdiction. In its purest form the insanity defense relieves the defendant of all criminal responsibility for their

In the John Hinckley case, Hinckley tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, while shooting him in the chest and three others that were with the President. Professor at law, Christopher Slobogin, stated that, “The main reason he gave was to impress the actress Jodie Foster. He wasn’t trying to defend himself. He was trying to consummate a love affair”(Harmel). By no means should this be acquitted for by the insanity defense, but it was. Hinckley was fully aware what he was

the prologue of the book it starts with an image of Ronald Reagan on his deathbed pressed close to his desperate wife. It’s a good picture to see what leads Regan to end up being in that position. In the first chapter the reader is introduced to John Hinckley Jr. He seems like a pretty typical twenty five year old man who has a strange obsession with an actress (Dugard and O’Reilly 13). This is only the future, right now, Reagan is having the time of his life, and doesn’t even have a clue that he will

Denise Karina Matthews formally known as Vanity, passed away at the age of 57 from kidney problems. Although Denise is known to the secular world Vanity, the lead singer in her group, Vanity 6 she left that world behind and she became born again. On Jan. 4, 1959, Denise Katrina Matthews was born to Helga Senyk and James Levia Matthews in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Her childhood was not a happy one as her father was verbally and physically abuse to her. She endured his abuse for 15 years, before

In 1981 Steven Steinberg was accused of murdering his wife Elena Steinberg by stabbing her twenty-six times in Scottsdale, Arizona (Guy, 2015). At the time of the murder, Steinberg was the one who called law enforcement to report an attempted break-in at his home, even though no signs of force entry were found at the scene. During that time, the case drew a lot of publicity in the state of Arizona; not only because it was a horrifying crime, but because it was a case that involved a murder while