So guilty they're innocent. (criminal innocence and the sanity plea: the case of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer) (Editorial)

National Review | March 2, 1992 | Copyright

A STRANGE new twist is appearing in criminal law. Famous defendants are trying to use their own guilt to prove their innocence: a sort of reverse character defense.

The pioneering verdict here was the acquittal of John Hinckley for the attempted murder of Ronald Reagan on grounds of insanity. Hinckley's (and, incidentally, Mike Tyson's) lawyer, Vincent Fuller, brilliantly invented a legal loophole. It was quite clear that Hinckley had known that he was doing, knew it was wrong as well as illegal, and had planned the act carefully. But shooting a President to ...

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