From: utzoo!decvax!watmath!jcwinterton Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: hinckley Article-I.D.: watmath.2858 Posted: Tue Jun 29 02:15:51 1982 Received: Tue Jun 29 08:49:52 1982 References: floyd.312 Well, the hinckley verdict is yet another instance of the marvellous, complex, stupid adversary court system the U.S. has, loves and deserves. There would not likely have been a trial here in Canada at all where all participants, including defence and crown counsel are officers of the court and not just hired hax. In the preliminaries, if in Canada, hinckley would have been committed to the looney bin and that would have been the end of it. A lot less anguish for all concerned and unconcerned. John Winterton.