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^national Battalion/Page 7 June 8, 1982 Hinckley’s morality studied by witness for prosecution United Press International WASHINGTON — When John W. Hinckley Jr. debated in his mind “Should I? Should I?” while he waited for President Reagan, it was evident he knew it was wrong to shoot him, a psychiatrist testified today. Dr. Park Dietz, a government psychiatrist returning for a second day of testimony, said Hinckley left a trail of evidence indicating he planned and pre meditated the March 30, 1981, shooting attack. “He had, in essence, done a great deal to plan, to premedi tate, to organize his behavior to ward the goal of assassinating the president,” said Dietz, who has testified Hinckley was able to conform his conduct to the law on the day of the shooting. Dietz said Hinckley told psychiatrists who stood outside a Washington hotel in the rain waiting for Reagan, and thought, “Should I? Should I?” The Harvard psychiatrist said those thoughts are an indication that Hinckley appreciated the wrongfulness of his conduct and could have controlled his ac tions. Dietz said the fact that Hinc kley concealed his gun from a hotel maid, picked six exploding Devastator bullets from ordin ary ammunition and left an un mailed letter to actress Jodie Foster saying he might be killed Jn his attempt to get Reagan also 'was evidence that he was aware of the moral quality of his deci sion. It also was disclosed that the only white juror, a woman who plans to get married on June 18, may be forced to quit the jury before the trial is over. U.S. Dis trict Judge Barrington Parker told lawyers in the case he would address the issue if the trial shows no sign of ending by her wedding. Earlier, Dietz portrayed Hinckley as a deceitful young loner who, when he failed at get ting a job or in staying in school, wrote his parents letters seeking their sympathy. “He wanted his family to think well of him and the pur pose of that was to continue to engender their support,” said Dietz, a Harvard University pro fessor who was the first govern ment psychiatric expert to rebut the contention of defense wit nesses that Hinckley was psychotic. The bike as furniture You'll find more services at ON THE DOUBLE Inexpensive high-quality copying on our Xerox 9400 and Xerox 8200. All kinds of typing. Your one stop for reports and dis sertations. 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Prosecutors warn the ruling lingheani ould jeopardize an integral re is a set J art of the Drug Enforcement y problen Administration’s “highly spe- entalShelf ialized law enforcement prog- it.” am” aimed at intercepting drug so will exit touriers in airports, which lei I The controversy began in risdictioiH |979, when narcotics investiga- 1 whetherW or s at Miami International Air- >sources tspxtrt noticed Raymond Place ■awey saidj nervou dy scanning the area will focusg® 1 ^ closely scrutinizing every- f the offefP 116 entering or seated in the n g howi°bby” * . . lustry ani They questioned him before cental he boarded a plane for New happen* ^ or k but did not arrest him. trans# They did, however, notify fed- ^ :ral authorities — prompting have to s' wo agents to stop Place at „ f r0II | Vew York’s LaGuardia Airport e f rawed lnc * as h to searc h his luggage, occuri* ^ey did not have a warrant. s Place refused, and the agents , c j u( ] er (| dlowed him to leave, but kept America 111 the n of his luggage. They took the bags to a narcotics detection dog at Kennedy Airport, and the dog signaled the presence of drugs in the smaller bag. A U.S. magistrate then issued a search warrant and agents found 1,125 grams of cocaine, 25 LSD tablets and a quantity of marijuana in the suitcase. Before his trial, a federal judge rejected Place’s argument that the detention of the suitcase violated his constitutional rights. The agents’ observations and Place’s behavior “were sufficient to raise in the agents’ mind a reasonable suspicion to believe that the bags contained narco- tices,” the court ruled. Place then pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. He was sentenced to three years in prison. But a divided 2nd U.S. Gircuit Court of Appeals in New York threw out the conviction and sentence, concluding the tem porary detention of the suitcase in order to have it sniffed by a dog violated his Fourth Amend ment right against unreasonable searches. 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