“A federal judge has approved the unconditional release next year of John Hinckley Jr., who wounded President Ronald Reagan and three others outside a Washington, D.C., hotel in a failed assassination attempt in 1981.
“Hinckley is now 66 years old and has been living outside a mental health facility for the past several years, a result of a gradual lightening of supervision.
“His lawyer said the “momentous event” of Hinckley’s full release in June is both appropriate and required by the law.
“”There is no evidence of danger whatsoever,” Barry Wm. Levine said, adding that Hinckley has an “excellent” prognosis.”
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