MacDonald the remaining royalties on the book, which are being held in escrow, but would not have awarded him punitive damages.
Lane said that although the jurors never voted on a verdict, five would probably have awarded Mr. McGinniss was telling the truth and they said I had a closed mind.'' ''They said it was unethical, that McGinniss was unethical and that there was sloppy work,'' Mrs. The juror said to have deadlocked the deliberations, Lucille Dillon, said the other five jurors were sympathetic to Mr.
''The court is in a position where it has no choice but to grant a mistrial and I will do so.'' Judge Rea suggested the case would have to be tried again. Joe McGinniss, seen here in 1993, was the author of The Selling of the President 1968 and Fatal Vision, a controversial book about the Jeffrey MacDonald murder case in the 1970s. ''Much to the disappointment of all of us, it appears it's useless to order you to go out and discuss the case further,'' the judge said. Kjp boken Fatal Vision: A True Crime Classic av Joe McGinniss (ISBN 9780451417947) hos. Judge Rea, who flew back from a judicial conference in Hawaii to deal with the matter, questioned each juror individually, then determined there was no point in continuing deliberations. McGinniss had not paid him his full share of the profits on the book. MacDonald said he thought the book was going to be sympathetic to his case, and Mr. McGinniss misled him about the content of the book and that two legal releases he signed in 1983 were thus invalid. Read Stalking the Criminal Mind (Note: if your browser does not display the article properly, simply click on the button in the upper right hand corner of your browser to view the document in Adobe Reader.In his suit, Mr. For those who are interested, we reprint the article, with permission from Harper’s Magazine. My article focused on the philosophical conflict between free will and determinism in trying to understand criminal actions. The August, 1985, issue of Harper’s Magazine published my article “Stalking the Criminal Mind.” A reflection on efforts to explain crime, the article discussed a number of prominent books, but foremost among them was McGinniss’s Fatal Vision, a “true crime” account of Jeffrey MacDonald, an army doctor convicted of murdering his wife and two young children.Īs I wrote to McGinniss afterward, “Of all the nonfiction crime narratives I have read, including In Cold Blood, I thought yours was the most exhaustive and compelling.” We corresponded for a while, and he included some of my observations in the Afterward to 2nd edition of his work, particularly the connection I drew between his characterization of MacDonald and the work of criminal psychologist Stanton Samenow.
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