Doctor dismisses Hinckley X-rays
NZPA-Reuter Washington An X-ray specialist yesterday said that pictures showing irregularities in the brain of John Hinckley, jun. on trial for trying to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, had no significance in diagnosing brain disease. Hinckley then walked out of the courtroom for the fifth time in his six-week-old trial and watched, the proceedings via closed circuit television. Dr David Davis, chairman of the radiology department at George Washington University, was giving evidence
for the prosecution to rebut defence testimony from other doctors that pictures of Hinckley's brain showed it was likely that he suffers from schizophrenia. The pictures, or CATscans, are computer-en-hanced X-rays of an individual’s brain which allows doctors to view cross-sec-tions of brain tissue in the skull. Hinckley, aged 27, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the shooting which seriously wounded Mr Reagan and three others on March 30. last'year.
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