Corpus Obscura: John Hinckley's lawyer dead at 75

Vincent J. Fuller, the famed Washington attorney who successfully defended would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley, died last week of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Hinckley shot President Reagan, press secretary James Brady and two law enforcers, outside a Washington hotel on March 30, 1981. Retained within hours of the shooting, the lawyer centered his defense on Hinckley's mental state, maintaining the gunman was delusional, insane, and obsessed with the actress Jodie Foster. During Fuller's career he also defended boxer Mike Tyson and Teamster union boss Jimmy Hoffa. He was 75.