Table of Contents of this Site

• A history of the UNABOM investigation
  • A chronology of the UNABOM attacks and writings
  • Who is Ted Kaczynski?
• The federal trial: United States v. Kaczynski
  • A history of the events of the case up to December 15, 1997
  • Coming soon: updates on new developments in the trial as they occur
• The insanity defense and diminished capacity
  • An important distinction: "Not guilty by reason of insanity" versus "diminished capacity"
    • The Hinckley case: the assassination attempt of President Reagan
    • Colin Ferguson - The Long Island Railroad gunman
    • United States v. Cook, 53 F.3d 29 (9th Cir. 1995) (the Ninth Circuit's interpretation of "diminished capacity")
    • United States v. Brawner, 471 F.2d 969 (1972) (the federal "insanity defense" standard)
    • United States v. Winn, 577 F.2d 86 (9th Cir. 1978) (the Ninth Circuit's insanity defense language)
    • Supreme Court cases on the insanity defense and diminished capacity
  • The tactical issues involved: why does it matter? (herein of the law of evidence and sentencing)
  • Coming soon: Reports on the application of this law to Kaczynski
• Other legal issues
  • The law of evidence: admissibility of evidence
  • Why can New Jersey and California try him? The constitutional law of double jeopardy.
• Related links

Prepared by Michael Peil for the Legal Information Institute. Last edited 23 January 1998 at 18:17.