The Insanity Defence Shouldn't Be Abandoned

The jury was told that hinkley was insane at the time of the attempted nation, he was suffering from delusions where he believed jody foster, actress jodi foster, was in love with him. So during the attack, three other people were shot, a police officer, thomas de lahanty, and secret service agent timothy mc carthy, there wounded. Many politicians and members of the public call for the insanity defence to be abolished. On the other side, psychiatrists say it shouldn't be a s just revisedcause obviously there's people who truly need it. And he qualifies. Hinkley qualifies the old school style, where if if there was a cop at your