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Would-be Reagan assassin John Hinckley Jr. has been cleared to leave psychiatric hospital
Gatehouse Media ^ | September 1, 2016 | Associated Press

Posted on 09/01/2016 8:34:59 AM PDT by Jim Noble

WASHINGTON — The man who shot President Ronald Reagan 35 years ago will leave a psychiatric hospital to live full-time in Virginia on Sept. 10.

Barry Levine, a lawyer for 61-year-old John Hinckley Jr., told The Associated Press the date Thursday.

In July, federal Judge Paul Friedman ruled Hinckley was no longer a danger to himself or others and could leave St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington to live with his mother full-time. Hinckley has gradually gained more freedom over the past decade, spending longer and longer stretches in Virginia.

Levine says Hinckley will be “a citizen about whom we can all be proud.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: assassin; hinckley; jodifoster; reagan; ruling; taxidriver; virginia
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But why did they show him those pictures of Trump with Jodi Foster?
1 posted on 09/01/2016 8:34:59 AM PDT by Jim Noble
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I’m thinking we ought to show him pictures of Hillary with Jodi Foster!


2 posted on 09/01/2016 8:36:53 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Jim Noble

Lol. Yes, just in time to stop Trump. What a coincidence.


3 posted on 09/01/2016 8:37:16 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: ManHunter

That’s the REAL danger to Hinckley-boy.....both of them are LESBIANS!


4 posted on 09/01/2016 8:38:08 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: ManHunter

👍👍👍


5 posted on 09/01/2016 8:42:15 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: Gaffer

Virginia’s sh!tbird governor probably can’t wait re-instate Hinckley’s voting rights. I bet it it has already been done.


6 posted on 09/01/2016 8:42:21 AM PDT by BookaT
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To: Jim Noble

Fun fact:

At the moment he was attempting to murder Ronald Reagan, Hinckley’s parents were dining with George Bush, the vice president at the time.

Reagan always held Bush in contempt.

He was an observant person.


7 posted on 09/01/2016 8:42:36 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: Jim Noble
Levine went on to say that Hinckley's release prohibits him
from ever possessing, or reading, or talking about in any
referential way, the novel The Catcher in the Rye.

8 posted on 09/01/2016 8:42:52 AM PDT by jobim
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To: Jim Noble

I’m sorry, but if you are “crazy” enough to do it once, you can be crazy enough to do it again. If you plead insane, you should never get out.


9 posted on 09/01/2016 8:43:19 AM PDT by RGF
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Hey John, did you hear Hillary been seen with Jodie?


10 posted on 09/01/2016 8:49:01 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment (Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)
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He should have faced a firing squad for what he did.

You can rest assured had it been a Demorat president he certainly would have.


11 posted on 09/01/2016 8:49:57 AM PDT by WashingtonFire
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To: ManHunter

Given the gender confusion with both those broads, makes sense to me! HUMA will be SOOOOO PISSED!!


12 posted on 09/01/2016 8:52:49 AM PDT by Dick Bachert ( THE 4TH ESTATE HERE HAS BECOME A 5TH COLUMN. TREASON TRIALS COMING?)
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To: T-Bone Texan

“Reagan always held Bush in contempt.”

For good reason, I might add.

(Bush DID fight and fly and get shot down in WWII. That, at least, was honorable and deserves to be remembered.)


13 posted on 09/01/2016 8:53:19 AM PDT by oldplayer
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To: ManHunter

LOL!


14 posted on 09/01/2016 8:53:25 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Only idiot liberals believe that disarming the sheep makes them safe from the wolves.)
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To: Jim Noble

Any chance there’s a Secret Service agent assigned to him? That judge belongs in jail or the nuthouse.


15 posted on 09/01/2016 8:53:48 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: Jim Noble

Follow the money.


16 posted on 09/01/2016 8:56:05 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: WashingtonFire

I wonder if he’s on the no fly or no gun List.


17 posted on 09/01/2016 8:56:09 AM PDT by batterycommander (Surrounded? Stay clammed and call for artillery. USNA 65)
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To: Jim Noble

And start in his new job with the Clinton Foundation I’ll bet.


18 posted on 09/01/2016 8:58:27 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: T-Bone Texan
At the moment he was attempting to murder Ronald Reagan, Hinckley’s parents were dining with George Bush, the vice president at the time.

The Bushes had a lot of odd dinner guests. Like members of Osama bin Laden's family.

19 posted on 09/01/2016 8:59:47 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (Nuke Saudi Arabia now)
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Would-be Reagan assassin John Hinckley Jr.

How about "murderer of James Brady?"

When Brady died in 2014, his death was ruled a homicide, caused by the gunshot wound he received in 1981.

Hinkley was found not guilty by reason of insanity, but that was for the assassination attempt and before Brady died. I suppose it's double jeopardy to try Hinkley now for the homicide of Brady because it resulted from the same act, but let's at least call him a murderer and not just a would-be assassin.

-PJ

20 posted on 09/01/2016 8:59:56 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.From Foxnews, May 31,)
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