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Both Sides Say Kaczynski May Represent Himself
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
January 22, 1998| Author:
William Booth
| Copyright 1998 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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The day before opening statements in the Unabomber trial are
set to begin, attorneys for both the government and defense agreed
suspect Theodore J. Kaczynski has the right to represent himself in
court as he requested.
This raises the specter of a months-long capital case pitting
the power of the federal government and its investigators against a
55-year-old mathematics professor turned backwoods hermit, whom
psychiatrists have diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.
Kacz...
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