The reason why the Georgia Supreme Court threw out the conviction was because they claimed that the trial court erred in admitting some evidence. Attorneys on both sides agreed Neuman had an affair with Andrea who was Sneiderman wife during the first trial however in the second trial claimed that the affair was nonexistent. Was Neuman truly mentally ill because he claimed spirits told him to kill Sneiderman, is a hard question to answer because there have been many cases where a killer would claim insanity over receiving the death penalty. However the fact that Neuman was hearing voices inside his head telling him to kill is a strong defends for insanity and if it was proven by a psychiatrist. The attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan was on March 30, 1981, in Washington, D.C. by the man named John Hinckley Jr. According to fox news station the new anchors stated that: Ronald Wilson Reagan, who was just settling into the routine of being president of the United States the day had included morning briefings followed by the usual meetings, messages, and perfunctory announcement; but what began as routine became anything but, what would soon happen would forever, in a flash, change the trajectory of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, life, and rendezvous with destiny …show more content…
There was a big crowd outside with curious onlooker but there stood one unhappy onlooker among the crowd and that person was John Hinckley Jr. Hinckley was carrying a gun however he was a harboring a heavy heart for a young actress named Jodie Foster. John Hinckley Jr had a singular personal goal and that was to gain the attention of Foster in which he was able to succeed. After the shooting John Hinckley Jr was confined at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C and once there Hinckley was given mental tests which was able to found out that Hinckley was an "unpredictably dangerous" man who might harm himself or anyone else. Unlike the case with Hemy Neuman who claimed spirits told him to commit murder, John Hinckley Jr was proven to be a dangerous man and Hinckley didn’t blame spirits for his action but instead, his love for Jodie Foster drove him to do it. David Tarloff was a former mental patient accused of slashing Manhattan psychotherapist to death with a meat cleaver however Tarloff pleaded not