U.S. Fails to Appeal Hinckley Day Trip Ruling
The government has decided not to appeal a court ruling that allows John W. Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to kill President Reagan, to take supervised day trips from the mental hospital where he has been confined since 1982.
Justice Department spokesman Myron Marlin confirmed Tuesday that the government let Monday’s deadline pass without appealing to the Supreme Court for review of a federal appeals court decision. He declined to give a reason.
Hinckley’s lawyer, Barry Levine, said: “He is no longer a danger to himself or to others.”
Hinckley, 43, has been confined since 1982, when he was acquitted by reason of insanity in the 1981 shooting attack on Reagan outside a Washington hotel.
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