Insanity Defense In Taxi Driver

Under the Model Penal Code (MPC) test, a criminal defendant must be found not guilty by reason of insanity if he is diagnosed with a relevant mental defect a person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease or defect he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law. My client Hinckley suffers from a severe, chronic mental disorder. My client did not act on his own volition, but that his life was controlled by his pathological obsession with the movie, Taxi Driver, starring Jodie Foster. In that movie, the title character stalks the president and fights in a shootout. Hinckley's saw the movie
I believe the Insanity Defense Reform, made it more difficult for the defense to prove the insanity defense. Also with limiting conclusive opinionated “expert testimony” by so called experts in the field on mental disabilities. Without the expert witness in the Hinckley trial giving his opinion as to the insanity defense, jurors would not get conclusive or opinionated statements as evidence of the case. Now, is I were to use a hand writing expert that can produce hand writing samples and demonstrate to a court room that with his training and experience in the handwriting field he can match a particular writing sample to another, then that would be an expert testimony with proven facts that are not