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Question: Do you think Hinckley should be allowed to go and come freely with or without supervision?
No - I believe he should be in prison
Yes - but only with supervision
No - I believe he's mentally unstable
Yes - I believe he's cured and shouldn't have to go to prison because he was mentally unstable


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The man who shot President Reagan
« on: Sep 2nd, 2003, 8:20am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
....22 years ago says his mental condition has improved enough that he should be allowed to visit his parents without psychiatric hospital staff supervision.
 
I find this to be an "accident waiting to happen".  John Hinckley, mentally challenged or not, committed a heinous crime and injured several people, besides shooting the President of the United States.  It's my opinion that if he can be released from the mental institution - then he should be in prison, doing his time for his crime.
 
John Hinckley Jr., (search) 48, has been a patient at St. Elizabeths Hospital (search) since he was acquitted by reason of insanity in the shooting of Reagan and three others outside a Washington hotel in March 1981. Hinckley said he shot the president to impress actress Jodie Foster.  
 
Hinckley has been allowed to take supervised day trips from the hospital since a federal appeals court ruling in 1999. On Tuesday, he was scheduled to appear in court to ask U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman to allow him to have unsupervised visits with his parents away from the hospital.
 
Senior U.S. District Judge June L. Green canceled a hearing on a similar motion three years ago after prosecutors said Hinckley had a "continued interest in violently themed books and music." St. Elizabeths officials reacted by withdrawing their support for the request.
 
In the latest motion, filed in March but only recently unsealed, Hinckley seeks 10 unsupervised visits, five of them overnight trips, with his parents at their home in the Williamsburg, Va., area. Such trips are an "appropriate next step" in Hinckley's treatment, lawyer Barry W. Levine wrote.
 
"It is undisputed that Mr. Hinckley's psychosis and depression have been in full remission and that he has shown no symptoms thereof for over a decade," Levine said in the filings.
 
Federal prosecutors objected, citing Hinckley's "history of deception and violence." They argued in their filings that Hinckley at one point had 57 pictures of Foster in his room, wrote to serial killer Ted Bundy before Bundy's execution in 1989, and had praised Adolf Hitler and mass murderer Charles Manson.
 
St. Elizabeths officials say Hinckley should be granted unsupervised trips. They recommend he first have two unsupervised day visits with his parents in the Washington area. If they go well, then he should be allowed two unsupervised overnight visits in the area. Only if those four visits are successful should he be allowed to stay overnight at his parents' home, which is about a three-hour drive from Washington.
 
"In our opinion, Mr. Hinckley has sufficiently recovered from his mental illness to be granted a limited conditional release without danger to himself or others," D.C. Mental Health Director Martha B. Knisley said in a letter written on her behalf by Joseph Henneberry, acting associate director for forensic services.
 
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,96178,00.html
 
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« Reply #1 on: Sep 2nd, 2003, 10:21am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
whether he was in his right mind or not at the time, he committed a serious crime
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Sadly as far a "crime" goes he was aquitted due to his illness. as far as visit "supervised only" for me. You cant legally put him in prison for a crime he was aquitted of! I read article on this and it seems he still harbors violent thoughts he listens to violent music and admitts admiring Hitler and Mason that alone is enough for me to exclude him from any UNSUPERVISED visits!
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