There is no precedent for a case like this:
Johnson, then a senior at Hercules High School, volunteered with several other students to be hypnotized by Cady. But he and his mother allege in a negligence suit filed earlier this month that toward the end of the performance, “while still in a hypnotic trance, [he] proceeded to run out of the building, jump two flights of stairs and continued running through the campus in an incoherent state.”Six police officers were required to handcuff him and strap him onto a gurney for the ride to the hospital, where a psychiatrist “‘reversed’ the effects of the hypnosis and brought Louis Johnson out of the hypnotic state.”
