Hinckley Drops Visitation Request
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Faced with an unfavorable psychiatric evaluation, John W. Hinckley Jr. withdrew a request for monthly family visits away from a mental hospital where he was sent after trying to kill President Reagan in 1991. A court-appointed psychiatrist and psychologist rejected Hinckley’s claim that he had regained his mental health, defense attorney Barry Levine acknowledged. But Levine argued that government prosecutors had “handpicked” the two therapists for the examination.
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