Driver Who Hit Woman Not Guilty by Insanity
From Times Wire Reports
A man who said Jesus told him to run down a woman in his Chevrolet because she was black was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Judge Mark Seigel ruled that Steven Johnson, 48, suffered from diabetes-induced psychosis when he drove into Eleanor Hickerson last year as she stood at a bus stop. Hickerson, 57, was dragged nearly 100 feet before the car smashed into the side of a building. She was seriously injured.
The verdict requires Johnson to spend six months in state custody for psychiatric evaluation.
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