Hearing Held Regarding Release of John Hinckley, Jr.
BANFIELD: Should John Hinckley Jr. the man who shot Ronald Reagan, be released permanently from the psychiatric facility where he's been treated for more than three decades? Today a federal judge in Washington is hearing arguments about that, about the case for granting him even more freedom than he's been given today.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was March 30th 1981 when six shots were fired outside the Washington Hilton. President Ronald Reagan, his Press Secretary James Brady and two other people were wounded in that attack. 25 year old John Hinckley was arrested at the scene. Hinckley says he was trying to impress actress Jodie Foster with the Reagan assassination attempt. He become obsessed with her after seeing her in the movie "Taxi Driver." After the shooting Foster a Yale University student was asked about Hinckley.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Despite that that you never met him as this whole experience made you feel like you've come to know John Hinckley?</s>JODIE FOSTER: Not all. I know nothing about him.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: In June of 1982 Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity in those shootings. He's been treated at St. Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital in Southeast Washington. And overtime the courts have gradually granted him more unsupervised visits to his mother's home in Williamsburg Virginia. In 2011 a psychiatrist named E. Fuller Torrey told</s>CNN. DR. E. FULLER TORREY, PSYCHIATRIST: If his on medication Mr. Hinckley could move in next door to me as far as I'm concern. If he's not on medication I would do everything I could to block him for moving in next door.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Since 2013 John Hinckley has been allowed 17 day period of off campus visits to his mother's home. He carries a GPS equipped cellphone and he sometimes followed secret service agents. In August of 2014 that former Reagan Press Secretary James Brady died at age 73. His death was ruled a homicide. But in January this year the United States attorney for the District of Columbia release a statement saying they will not be pursuing murder charges against John Hinckley for the death of James Brady.</s>BANFIELD: So how likely it is that he's going to go free and does he deserve that? You're going to hear the legal view next.