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>> this hour john hinckley jr. pleads not guilty on charges he tried to kill president reagan and both his lawyer and his fwraeed he is competent to stand trial. >> the issue of sanity became paramount to the teams assigned to prosecute and defend john hinckley. >> facing a judge for the first time hinckley stood while the clerk read the 13 count indictment. among the spectators were hinckley's parents. they watched intently as the clerk asked their son how do you plead? in a clear, loud voice, the 26-year-old hinckley answered not guilty. >> you know, hinckley is an interesting person, but no...

Interesting person, but not interesting at the same time. >> there didn't seem to be much there. you could not form a rapport with him. he seemed to have little expression of emotion. >> dr. will carpenter, a research psychiatrist at the university of maryland was hired to give an expert opinion in hinckley's defense. >> i believe that i spent about 44 hours evaluating him. most of that would have been in interviews with him. he was self centered, but he was not narcissistic, he was kind of like a loner that didn't have much going on, and then would get grandiose ideas. >> he made up a girlfri...

>> the prosecution argued that hinckley had carefully planned the attack. >> the fact that he was able to travel, the fact that he did look at the schedule, put that type of effort into planning this type of event, that's premeditated activity. >> the defense countered with dr. will carpenter's testimony on schizophrenia. >> in general with illnesses like schizophrenia, people can do most things in life in an ordinary way. so they are not conspicuously crazy. they don't go into mcdonald's and order watermelons. hinckley did not have a lot of disorganization pathology. his was much more the rea...

He seemed to have little expression of emotion. >> dr. will carpenter, a research psychiatrist at the university of maryland was hired to give an expert opinion in hinckley's defense. >> i believe that i spent about 44 hours evaluating him. most of that would have been in interviews with him. he was self-centered, but he wasn't narcissistic. it was more like kind of a loner who doesn't have much else going on, and then went to grandiose ideas, including delusional ideas. >> he made up a whole girlfriend for his parents. for a year. she didn't exist. >> it's very much to manipulate his parents ...