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John Hinckley, Who Tried To Kill A President, Wins His Freedom
NPR ^ | 07/27/2016 | Carrie Johnson

Posted on 07/27/2016 6:40:33 AM PDT by GIdget2004

Thirty-five years after he tried to kill a president, John Hinckley has won his freedom.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has granted a request for Hinckley to leave the mental hospital where he's lived for decades, to go live full-time with his elderly mother in Williamsburg, Va.

The release could happen as early as next week, the judge ruled. Under the terms of his order, Hinckley is not allowed to contact his victims, their relatives or actress Jodie Foster, with whom he was obsessed. Hinckley also will not be permitted to "knowingly travel" to areas where the current president or members or Congress are present. The judge said Hinckley could be allowed to live on his own or in a group home after one year.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foster; hinckley; jodiefoster; reagan
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To: GIdget2004

Getting him out for another run?

Obviously they believe Trump will win or is going to win...


81 posted on 07/27/2016 7:49:53 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught (Live with Trump or Die with Hillary)
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To: Go Gordon

well done!! LMAO


82 posted on 07/27/2016 7:51:42 AM PDT by ronniesgal ( Go Trump!!! Kick ass and take names!!!)
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To: GIdget2004

Absolutely unreal. If he’s “good enough” to be cleared from the mental facility, he’s “good enough” to serve life in prison for what he did. More of the up-side-down/bizarro world in which we now find ourselves.


83 posted on 07/27/2016 7:52:50 AM PDT by nfldgirl
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To: Go Gordon

LMAO


84 posted on 07/27/2016 7:52:59 AM PDT by tioga
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To: DoughtyOne

I think he is the only one left that I recall. Squeaky, Sara, Walter are all free too.


85 posted on 07/27/2016 7:53:11 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: GIdget2004

I remember that day very clearly; I was a senior at Indiana University. That evening IU was going to play North Carolina for the NCAA Basketball championship. I came back to our house after class around 1:30 and my roommate told me the President had been shot, and the game might be postponed. Knowing him, my first reaction was “Bull$***.” But it was on the TV and that’s all we watched and talked about the rest of the day.

They made an almost game-time decision to go ahead and play, and the Hoosiers won their second national champtionship under Bob Knight. In my home office, I still have a framed copy of the front page of the Bloomington Herald-Telephone with two large headlines:

“Hoosiers NCAA Champs” and

“Reagan Condition Excellent After Surgeons Remove Bullet.”


86 posted on 07/27/2016 7:57:06 AM PDT by henkster
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To: stars & stripes forever

She lives in the uber-upscale Kingsmill community, as does a family member of mine, who said that she had seen him before at the local grocer during one of his “weekend” visits. Surely his mother is quite elderly by now and it chills my family member to know that this nut case will be living that close.


87 posted on 07/27/2016 7:57:33 AM PDT by nfldgirl
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To: stars & stripes forever
Who exactly is going to care for Hinkley when she passes away?

I nominate Matt Damon

88 posted on 07/27/2016 7:58:34 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: stars & stripes forever

His mother will Norman.


89 posted on 07/27/2016 8:00:15 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: RummyChick

He has been able to be at his mother’s house for overnight visits over the past 10+ years, and that time has increased to 17 days out of each month. He’s been out more than he’s been in for the most recent past.


90 posted on 07/27/2016 8:04:23 AM PDT by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004

I just can not believe this.


91 posted on 07/27/2016 8:04:23 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Google “Hinkley Bush neighbor.”


92 posted on 07/27/2016 8:04:23 AM PDT by WaldenHillSciFi ("That government is best which governs least" - Henry David Thoreau)
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To: leaning conservative

The mistake was that he survived the assassination attempt. Now we’ve supported him in a mental institution for decades and now likely on public welfare out of it. Being practical, too late to convict and execute him so is he a threat to anyone today? Which is cheaper path?


93 posted on 07/27/2016 8:06:37 AM PDT by Reno89519 (It is very simple, Trump/Pence or Clinton/Kaine. Good riddance Lyn' Ted, we regret ever knowing you)
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To: Reno89519

I think he comes from a wealthy family.
It’s likely he has trust fund money to live on.


94 posted on 07/27/2016 8:09:46 AM PDT by Reily
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To: PghBaldy

Wednesday, July 27, 2016
President Obama’s Gives Whities & Republicans a kick in the gut as his term ends - John Hinckley Jr. - who shot President Ronald Reagan, murdered James Brady with a headshot & shot and wounded U.S. Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy, Thomas Delahanty - will be set free.....


95 posted on 07/27/2016 8:12:58 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: GIdget2004

... Another Hillary voter.


96 posted on 07/27/2016 8:14:35 AM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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To: Cboldt

Democrat appointed judges. No doubt they think it funny to let this would be assassin of a Republican President free.


97 posted on 07/27/2016 8:18:55 AM PDT by VermithraxPejorative (HILLARY NEEDS TO ANSWER FOR DEMOCRAT JUDGES SOFT ON CRIME/REPEAT OFFENDERS)
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To: HypatiaTaught
Just shows you how nuts the wacko Left is considering that the Brady Center is one of the prime movers of gun-control and support of Obama.

Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

For Immediate Release: January 5, 2016

PRESIDENT OBAMA TAKES UP MAJOR BRADY CAMPAIGN RECOMMENDATIONS TO REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA WITH HISTORIC EXECUTIVE ACTION

98 posted on 07/27/2016 8:21:53 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: PghBaldy

I’d love to see statistics about these judges releasing these murderers, rapists and child molesters back on the street. Has to be close to 100% Democrat appointed. You’d get an occasional Souter, but Democrats own these injustices.


99 posted on 07/27/2016 8:22:24 AM PDT by VermithraxPejorative (HILLARY NEEDS TO ANSWER FOR DEMOCRAT JUDGES SOFT ON CRIME/REPEAT OFFENDERS)
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To: GIdget2004

What time’s his speaking slot at the DemocRAT convention?


100 posted on 07/27/2016 8:26:01 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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