Four years after a jury found John Hinckley Jr. not guilty by reason of insanity in the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, Hinckley started asking to leave the psychiatric hospital where he was confined.
It would take 30 years and an extraordinary legal campaign on behalf of an infamous and confounding figure. But on July 27, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman of the District of Columbia granted Hinckley’s request to live outside the hospital full time, subject to monitoring and reporting requirements.
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