Shooting Suspect Not Insane, Expert Says

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PORT ORCHARD (AP) -- A prominent forensic expert says a man who shot a convenience store owner last summer does not meet the legal definition of insanity -- a finding prosecutors were hoping for when they hired him to rebut the state's own psychiatric experts.

Park Dietz, best known for his findings that cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer, would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr. and many other notorious killers were not legally insane, found that Wayne Brent Hower was partly responsible for his own mental disintegration because he had reportedly stopped taking his medication and had smoked marijuana in the weeks before the shooting.

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Shooting Suspect Not Insane, Expert Says

"The hallucinations and delusions that emerged and worsened as a result of his noncompliance ...

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