WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge says the man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan will be allowed to leave a Washington mental hospital and live full-time in Virginia.
Judge Paul L. Friedman ruled Wednesday that John Hinckley Jr. is ready to live in the community. Friedman’s ruling comes more than 35 years after the March 30, 1981, shooting outside a Washington hotel in which Reagan and three others were injured.
Doctors have said for years that the now 61-year-old Hinckley, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting, is no longer plagued by the mental illness that drove him to shoot Reagan.
For more than a year he’s been allowed to spend 17 days a month at his mother’s Virginia home. He will now live there full-time.
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I wonder how Jodie Foster feels about this. How is it that one is simply ‘no longer plagued with’ schizoid and narcissistic personality disorders? That’s not how it works.
I guess they couldn’t justify keeping Hinckley locked up while Trump roams free.
Yes, it does work that way sometimes. Minds change and he’s not 25 anymore.
Doctors just three years ago said he was still plagued by his disorders when they testified at the hearing seeking outpatient privileges.
Doesn’t seem like a good time for this, whether there is a good diagnosis or not.