John W. Hinckley Jr. will be released from a government psychiatric hospital to live full time with his mother after a federal judge ruled that he no longer poses a danger to himself or others. The court order ends the institutionalization of one of the nation’s most notorious mental health patients, whose case marked a watershed in the criminal justice system’s handling of mental illness.
   
 
News Alert Wed., Jul. 27, 2016 9:05 a.m.
 
 
Would-be Reagan assassin to be freed after 35 years
John W. Hinckley Jr. will be released from a government psychiatric hospital to live full time with his mother after a federal judge ruled that he no longer poses a danger to himself or others. The court order ends the institutionalization of one of the nation’s most notorious mental health patients, whose case marked a watershed in the criminal justice system’s handling of mental illness.
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