Posted on 06/01/2022 10:53:00 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr. will go free June 15
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has granted unconditional release to would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr., who in 1981 shot then-president Ronald Reagan and three others.
U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman approved Hinckley's unconditional release during a Wednesday morning hearing and wished the gunman well, according to reporters on hand for the proceedings. Though the threat to the then-president's life was downplayed at the time, the shooting nearly killed Reagan and left two others with permanent injuries.
Wednesday's release order captures the sharp pro-defendant turn of many courts at a time of skyrocketing violent crime. Friedman and lawyers for both sides said Wednesday that Hinckley's case was a model for mental health alternatives in criminal justice. Such approaches are championed by liberals who say social programs and counseling are a better treatment for crime than prison.
The would-be assassin commands an impressive pro-bono legal team comprised of attorneys from four different law firms, including heavy hitters Blank Rome LLP and Cozen O'Connor. Friedman, a Clinton appointee, in 1987 left a lucrative perch in private practice to join the independent counsel conducting the Iran-Contra investigation. The seven-year, $40 million probe failed to obtain a single lasting conviction
Justice Department prosecutors at Wednesday morning's hearing did not oppose Hinckley's release. Hinckley has been in the care of St. Elizabeth's psychiatric hospital since a jury in 1982 found him not guilty by reason of insanity.
Hinckley has been on convalescent leave from St. Elizabeth's and living in Williamsburg, Va., since 2016. He resided with his mother until her death in September. A psychologist retained by prosecutors warned that his mother's death could be a destabilizing event for Hinckley and noted that the gunman has not lived alone in the 40 years since he shot Reagan.
Authorities at the Department of Behavioral Health took a different view and recommended Hinckley's unconditional release. The department has for years on a regular basis produced reports on Hinckley's mental state and compliance with release conditions.
"Those reports have consistently indicated that Mr. Hinckley has been compliant with all the conditions of his release and has remained mentally stable and asymptomatic for mental disease," Friedman wrote in a September order.
Reagan nearly died of the injuries he sustained in the attack. Three others were wounded—White House press secretary James Brady was paralyzed and used a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Washington police officer Thomas Delahanty retired from the force due to lasting nerve damage. Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy, who put himself in the line of fire to protect the president, was shot in the stomach but survived the deadly encounter.
The release is effective as of June 15.
Suicidal Tendencies anticipated Hinckley’s musical career: https://youtu.be/QvM4MH_VnsQ
Kennedy actually got the ball rolling back in ‘63.
How is it that a presidential assassin can have the best legal minds in the country for free but the president himself can barely find a lawyer anywhere in the country to defend him against impeachment?
His family home was off of one of the greens at Kingsmill in Williamsburg. I think for a time he was visiting his mother there when he was on some kind of weird probation.
“How is it that a presidential assassin can have the best legal minds in the country for free but the president himself can barely find a lawyer anywhere in the country to defend him against impeachment?”
That is how the Deep State works.
If you are their friend everything rolls downhill.
If you are their enemy everything is an uphill struggle.
It’s about time. Look at the usual sentence for just shooting 3-4 people, maybe 10 years.
We should not have different sentences for shooting special people. I’m fine with him serving 40 years if that is what most people serve.
LOL!!
ACLU did it-—they badgered Reagan.
I hope he never finds out that biden has been sniffing Jodie Foster’s hair...
I can’t believe they didn’t give Hinckley the Nobel Peace Prize for...well..you know...
Scum bag Hinckley is a hero to the lefty commies. Had Reagan been a lefty, Hinckley would have been executed a long time ago.
“I am sure the democrats are rejoicing.“
Oh yeah! This guy is gonna be a hero.
They’ll give him his own show on CNN or MSNBC and pay him millions..
They may even run him for office.
He’ll be hosting SNL
Get a deal with Netflix..
Have his face pasted on the box of Wheaties.. if they still even make Wheaties…
The ACLU favors civil liberties for leftists.
Meanwhile they demand everyone else be censored and harassed by the Deep State.
You need to revise your message to Dr. Jill Biden is sleeping with Jodi Foster.
My favorite classic conspiracy movie—if you have not seen it:
https://www.amazon.com/Brotherhood-of-the-Bell-DVD/dp/B00JD9M5IO
” explosive “Devastator” bullet”
Oh please.
Aaron would go on to remove what turned out to be an explosive “Devastator” bullet from the president — though they didn’t know that at the time.
Reagan was shot with a .22. I'd be amazed if there was a truly exploding bullet in .22 caliber. Amazed.
“The blood in this kind of injury would almost always be bright red, and the blood we saw draining out of his chest was very dark,” Aaron said. “The only way you can get that kind of dark blood in a chest wound is some component of the pulmonary arterial system being damaged.”
Arterial blood is bright red. I don't think I would want this surgeon working on me. Assuming he said any of the above.
It was a D.C. jury who acquitted him of attempted murder. There is no rule of law in the District of Columbia.
https://firequest.com/DV22.html
Apparently they exist, but per the accounts of the attempted assassination of Reagan, they didn't work (that time, anyway), and are reputed not to work very well in any circumstance.
Does anyone still wonder why we have so many crazy people with guns?
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