Posted on 04/19/2015 7:16:16 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — The last man to shoot an American president now spends most of the year in a house overlooking the 13th hole of a golf course in a gated community.
He takes long walks along tree-lined paths, plays guitar and paints, grabs fast food at Wendy's. He drives around town in a silver Toyota Avalon, a car that wouldn't attract a second glance. Often, as if to avoid detection, he puts on a hat or visor before going out.
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Why is he not in a super-max, eating gruel? Or breaking big rocks into little rocks until the day he dies?
B/c the jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity, instead of guilty, but insane (not a verdict then available to the jury). He still has dead, killer eyes, and likes to go to a B&N bookstore and stare at volumes about Reagan and his assassination attempt. He remains a dangerous loon.
I sure hope no one tells him that obama is boinking Jodie Foster...
“I guess there is a statute of limitation on murder.”
Yes, it is an antiquated common law concept dating back to our adoption of English common law.
The victim had to die within a year and a day of the inflicted injury for the culprit to be charged with murder.
Medical advances have rendered this concept antiquated and it has been almost universally void. However, apparently with the passage of decades in the Brady case the prosecuter either deferred charging Hinckley under this rule, or decided that since this killer did the deed so long ago that it would be difficult proving direct causation of the death (coroners conclusion notwithstanding -remember the NYC I cant breathe case where the coroner ruled homicide but no charges filed) or that since he was found not guilty by reason of insanity, that he would get the same verdict.
Not quite. The law does not regard it as murder if the victim lives for a year after the attack.
The theory being that after that point the cause of death is questionable. Was it the results of the attack, or medical neglect or, old age or...?
Hinckley’s Father was the no. 1 contributor to Bush in 1980. I wonder if he is still around and supporting Bush.
So we have to now feel sympathy for somebody like this now and let him wander aimlessly like he did before he committed his horrible act?
The same thing took place up here in Ottawa when Jeffrey Arneburg, a schizophrenic drifter, senselessly murdered TV sportscaster Brian Smith in the station’s parking lot in 1995. He spent time in mental hospitals until about 2004, he was given an unconditional release. Smitty’s widow was at the hearing and she mentioned that her late husband’s name was only spoken once or twice and that was at the start of the roughly two hour long hearing. Arneburg proved his worthiness in 2007 by attacking a US Customs Officer in Buffalo, NY. Spent another couple of years in jail, then released. Still continues to wander aimlessly with not very much remorse for what he did that so much shocked our community nearly twenty years earlier.
Forgive for the lengthiness of the above, but I can’t help but think a lot about that whenever I hear or read Hinckley’s name.
Maybe the MSM can make Hinckley another Mumia Abu-Jamal, white version.
When in the Wide World of Sports did St. Elizabeth’s spring him?
St. Lizzy’s or the old Lorton prison in Virginia seemed to be gated communities more suited to him.
PING!
Remember to the Brady’s it was the guns fault no the shooter.
……a Jack Ruby?
I'm of the opinion that Reagan's two elections set Globalists back 20 years.
"The Crown Prosecutor took what he could get...better than losing at trial..."
With Hinckley, yes he was, and is nuts, and is still a danger to those around him.
It just tweaks me that this guy wasn’t put to death. And worse, that he is out and around.
I have no sympathy for him. If God wants to save him that is His business, but he needed to be put to death.
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