US V. Hinckley Case Summary

The name of the case is US v. Hinckley, 625 F. Supp. 2d 3 - Dist. Court, Dist. of Columbia 2009 the case was decided in the year 2009, the court that heard this case was the United States District Court, District Court of Colombia. This case is a continuation of the original. On March 30, 1981 around the time of two thirty in the afternoon John Hinckley Jr. shot at current President Ronald Reagan as he left a Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C after a conference. Hinckley did not directly injure president Regan from a gunshot but seriously damaged the president from a bullet ricochet off the presidential limo which struck the president in the chest. Aside from the president being wounded, Hinckley wounded a police officer named Tom Delahanty, secret service agent Tim McCarthy and white house press secretary and Ronald Regan’s

where John Hinckley was charged with 13 offences, eight counts from Hinckley committing the same two crimes, assault with a dangerous weapon and assault with intent to kill while armed, against each of the four victims. Hinckley was charged with two additional crimes which were and carrying a pistol without the required license and assaulting a police officer in the line of duty. The court later found John Hinckley not guilty by reason of insanity. The defendant was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and schizoid personality disorder. The defendant has an actus reus of shooting into the crowd with the president of the United States. The Mens rea of the defendant was that he intended to with purpose to harm the president of the United States. The concurrence of the crime was that the defendant’s mens rea wanted with purpose to shoot and kill Ronald Regan, in which with his actus reus he shot his revolver at him. The defendant caused a harmful result by shooting into a crowd with his revolver which led to a harmful result which was the defendant severely injuring two people and wounding two