Madness on Trial: John Hinckley Jr. and the Insanity Defense

Who is John Hinckley Jr.?  How did his obsession with Taxi Driver begin, and why didn't anyone in his life intervene more decisively to arrest his spiral? The crew dive deep into John Hinckley's family, background and descent into madness. 
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In the first episode of Madness on Trial, the hosts go through the bizarre contents of the hotel room John Hinckley Jr. stayed in the night before he attempted to kill President Reagan, and what they reveal about this troubled man. Then they dig into some of history's strangest and most important insanity defense cases. 
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John Hinckley Jr.’s acquittal was the most important insanity defense case of the past century. Join hosts Dan Greenstone, Travis Chandler and Daniel Mokrauer-Madden, as they trace how one young man’s obsession with movie star Jodie Foster curdled into a bizarre assassination attempt on President Reagan. The hosts talk with the country's leading historians, psychiatrists, lawyers, and scholars of the insanity defense to help make sense of this fascinating and momentous story that horrified a nation, started a national conversation about mental illness, and changed the justice system forever. 

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