Word: hinckley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...testimony seemed a bit, well, schizophrenic. Appearing on behalf of John Hinckley, who attempted in 1981 to assassinate President Reagan, Psychiatrist Glenn Miller said the patient had improved enough during his five years in St. Elizabeths, a Washington mental hospital, to visit his parents without an escort. But at the same time Miller almost casually noted that Hinckley's "judgment is not perfect." Asked for examples by Hinckley's lawyer, Miller testified that the patient had written to convicted Mass Murderer Theodore Bundy expressing sympathy "for the awful position that Bundy must be in." Hinckley had also received a letter...
Federal District Judge Barrington Parker, startled by the disclosures, demanded to be shown Hinckley's correspondence. Justice Department attorneys, who opposed the visitation request, ordered Bundy's Florida cell searched for other Hinckley letters. After the testimony, hospital officials decided that maybe the one-day leave wasn't such a good idea after all and withdrew the proposal...
...years ago, Hinckley became enamored of a one-armed fellow inmate, Leslie deVeau, who was committed in 1982 after shooting her ten-year-old daughter to death and attempting suicide. DeVeau has since become an outpatient, and works as a secretary at the hospital. Hinckley told a visiting psychiatrist he hopes one day to be released in her custody -- an ambition the Government offers as a sign that Hinckley is far from recovered...
...average stay at St. Elizabeths for criminally insane patients is five years. Doctors argue that Hinckley is no more of a risk than the hundreds of others released every day. Were it not for the fame of his victim, they insist, he would probably have already been freed. But Hinckley's case, which comes up for review every six months, will inevitably remain problematic. "There is no precedent for dealing with assassins," says Dr. Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist who testified at the 1982 Hinckley trial. "None have ever been released from custody alive...
Wedtech' s widening web of corruption is an urban morality tale. -- The Government tries to block an outing by John Hinckley...