Lawyer: Hinckley No Longer Mentally Ill

Lawyer: Hinckley No Longer Mentally Ill
Associated Press
Monday, November 8, 2004; 11:24 AM


A lawyer for John Hinckley Jr. told a federal judge in Washington today that his client is no longer mentally ill.

Attorney Barry Levine says Hinckley should be allowed longer unsupervised visits away from the mental hospital where he has lived since trying to assassinate President Reagan in 1981.

Levine accused government lawyers of fear-mongering by opposing Hinckley's request on grounds he remains a danger to the community.

Hinckley wants a federal judge to allow him to take four-day, unsupervised visits every two weeks to his parents' home in Williamsburg. Hinckley has been allowed shorter visits with his parents in the past year and now his lawyers say he is ready for longer trips.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33967-2004Nov8.html

Now lock his ass up in a real prison...

Must not make completely tasteless and classless joke about political assasinations, phone calls from Jodie Foster, and that year ending in zero curse thing....Fighting urge.

Still fighting.

I think I'm OK now.

Sigh of relief.

in zero curse thing!

That curse and the fact that Nixon got re-elected too are the only things helping me keep my sanity and humor. Without them I'd be in a very deep depression. :evilgrin:

I bet not

1. He is no longer mentally ill (with the illness that caused him to attempt the assassination). People DO recover -- and according to ALL the Psychiatrists/Doctors who have examined him -- INCLUDING the Government's Doctors, he no longer has the condition.

2. The FACT, however much we may or may not like it, is that John Hinkley has been a political prisoner -- illegally held -- for several years now. There is NO legal basis to hold him. In fact, his continued detention at ALL is ILLEGAL under US law. If we don't like it -- we should revise the laws. But we should NOT support the illegal detention of prisoners however distasteful they may be to us personally. His recent years is a testament to the power of the lawless Reagan/Bush era government. They have openly and defiantly advocated breaking the law, denying the facts, as attested to by their own lawyers, and held him as a political prisoner.

I worked on this case more than 10 years ago. And I know the lawyers who are involved in the case. You may say "couldn't happen to a nicer guy" and all that -- but his life is a cautionary tale to us all. Long before the illegal detentions at Guatanamo and elsewhere, the government was breaking the law with him. And (almost) no one cared, because his case wasn't popular. Because he was a "distasteful" sort of guy.


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like Sirhan Sirhan and Mark David Chapman. Wonder what the Hinckley's think of their old oil buddies, the Bushes, after all the legal bills...

nt

And he will never get out to tell his tale. I am suprised he has not had an "incident" with another confinee in which he was killed.

an evil evil man who proved monumentally destructive to our way of life.

a great time

Thanks for that deep belly laugh to end my night of post-(s)election depression.

:)

So far, it's only been used to house a drunk/druggie and his family.

Plz some one send him a photo shoped pic of Jodie Foster
and * kissing or holding hands.

Just because he's a friend of the Bush family and has bucks doesn't mean he gets to be the only guy in the last oh, 24 years who actually gets a "Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity" free pass. Lot's of retarded black men have been executed while this idiot whiles his days away at an "exclusive" facility, and gets passes to go visit mom and dad. Oh please!

George W. Bush is fucking Jodie Foster.

I figure it's a win-win situation, no matter what happens.

Show your support for the president, wear a FUCK BUSH button!

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Neil Bush was supposed to have dinner with Hinckley's brother. The Bushes and Hinckleys were all doing business (more likely stealing and defrauding) together.