* Barrington Parker; Judge in John Hinckley Trial
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Barrington Parker, 77, District Court judge who presided over the 1982 trial of presidential assailant John W. Hinckley Jr. Appointed to the federal bench by President Richard Nixon in 1969, Parker later barred the Nixon Administration from establishing price controls in 1973. In another famous Administration case, Parker levied a $2,000 fine and issued a two-year suspended prison sentence against former CIA Director Richard Helms after Helms pleaded no contest to charges that he failed to inform the Senate about CIA activities in Chile. Hinckley was acquitted by reason of insanity of trying to kill President Ronald Reagan. On June 2 in Washington of a heart attack and stroke.
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