A Virginia mental health facility has dropped out of a plan to allow presidential assailant John Hinckley Jr. to participate in social group sessions, according to a government court motion issued Friday.
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation threatened legal action over the online sale of a vial purportedly containing dried blood from the former president following a 1981 assassination attempt.
A lawyer for presidential assailant John Hinckley Jr. made an impassioned plea to a federal judge Thursday to allow Hinckley longer visits to his elderly mother's home in Virginia.
A forensic psychologist endorsed a proposal to allow presidential assailant John Hinckley Jr. more freedom away from his mental hospital, giving his opinion that Hinckley "would not pose a significant risk."
David Gergen describes the White House events on the day Reagan was shot. Shooter John Hinckley Jr. is seeking freedom.
CNN's Brian Todd reports on a set of hearings to determine if would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr. gets more freedom.
A plan to allow presidential assailant John Hinckley Jr. to spend more time away from his government mental hospital and eventually to become a permanent outpatient "lacks specificity," a psychiatrist who has closely followed Hinckley's case for over a decade said Tuesday.
Hearings to determine whether John Hinckley, Jr., should be granted more visits to his mother's home enter their 10th day Tuesday, a day after a psychiatrist questioned risky romantic relationships in which the presidential assailant had engaged.
Hearings will continue Monday to determine whether former presidential assailant John Hinckley Jr. should be allowed increased periods of visitation to his mother's home in Virginia and possible eventual release as a permanent outpatient.
CNN legal contributor Paul Callan on whether John Hinckley's request to live outside of a mental facility will be granted.
A psychiatrist who treated John Hinckley Jr. in the 1980s and who interviewed him in recent months described the presidential assailant Tuesday as having "a sense of entitlement" and being "absorbed with himself."
A Secret Service agent who secretly was watching presidential assailant John Hinckley Jr. in a Williamsburg, Virginia bookstore said he got "goose bumps" when he realized Hinckley briefly had looked at a shelf of history books that included some dealing with presidential assassination.
The question of whether presidential assailant John Hinckley Jr. has progressed enough in his mental health treatment to live as an outpatient with his mother in Williamsburg, Virginia, will go unanswered until at least early next year.
A federal judge raised "serious questions" Thursday over giving doctors ultimate authority determining whether presidential assailant John Hinckley can live essentially as an outpatient, saying he wants to decide the matter himself.
The sister of presidential assailant John Hinckley Jr. testified Tuesday that she has seen no sign that her brother represents a danger to himself or others.
Testimony on day three of proceedings about the future of presidential assailant John Hinckley Jr. turned to whether Williamsburg, Virginia, is the right place for him to eventually live as an outpatient.
John Hinckley Jr.'s relationships with women and his difficulties becoming part of a community away from a government mental hospital were spotlighted Thursday during a hearing to discuss whether the man who tried to kill President Ronald Reagan will eventually be allowed to live as an outpatient.
The government mental hospital where John Hinckley Jr. has spent most of the last 30 years since he shot and tried to kill President Ronald Reagan is asking a federal court to allow Hinckley's eventual release to live with or near his aging mother in Williamsburg, Virginia.
CNN's Jim Acosta looks at the insanity defense for those accused of committing violent crimes.
To many Americans, putting Jared Lee Loughner in a mental hospital instead of a prison hardly sounds like justice.
After almost 30 years in a mental hospital, John W. Hinckley Jr., the college dropout who tried to kill President Ronald Reagan, is moving closer to the day his doctors may recommend he go free.
The man who tried to kill President Ronald Reagan is now allowed to visit his mother more, to get a driver's license and spend more time away from the mental hospital where he lives, a federal judge ruled.
Presidential assailant John Hinckley Jr.'s unsupervised visits to his parents' home in Virginia can continue, a federal judge said Monday.
Presidential assailant John Hinckley is asking a federal judge to allow him to continue visits to his parents' home without supervision. Hinckley was committed to a mental hospital after being found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.
The man who shot President Reagan in 1981 -- and who has been in a Washington mental hospital since being found not guilty by reason of insanity -- can start getting out a little more.
A federal judge Wednesday denied a request by John Hinckley, the man who shot President Reagan in a 1981 assassination attempt, to have extended visits at his parents' Virginia home.
A decision on whether the man who shot President Reagan will be allowed to leave his mental hospital on four-night unsupervised visits to his parents' home could come next week.
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