JAKARTA - John Hinckley, the gunman who injured United States President Ronald Reagan and three others in an assassination attempt in 1981, has been released without condition under a federal judge's order.
Hinckley received full-time parole in 2016, after 30 years in a psychiatric hospital in Washington. Dan, lived with his mother in Virginia until her death last year.
A jury had found him not guilty by reason of insanity in his 1982 trial, prompting Congress and several states to pass laws limiting the use of insanity as a defense.
"After 41 years 2 months and 15 days, FINALLY FREEDOM!!!" Hinckley, 67, wrote on his Twitter account," Reuters reported June 16.
Last September, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman ruled that Hinckley was mentally stable, complied with the terms of his parole, which restrict his travel and internet use, so he should get an unconditional release.
Doctors who examined Hinckley told the court the risk of him committing violence was very small, with federal prosecutors agreeing.
However, Reagan's daughter, Patti Davis, opposed Hinckley's release, saying Hinckley was a narcissist, whom she did not believe was remorseful.
Ronald Reagan is recovering quickly after surgery for an injured lung following the Hinckley attack outside a Washington hotel. However, his press secretary Jim Brady was permanently disabled. The first of the six bullets Hinckley fired hit Brady's head, destroying the brain cavity.
The attack itself helped spur modern efforts to tighten gun laws, with Brady and his wife, Sarah Brady, forming the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
After the shooting, it was widely reported that Hinckley became obsessed with Jodie Foster and attempted to impress the cast of the 'Taxi Driver' film.
Shortly after Jim Brady's death in 2014, a medical examiner ruled his death a homicide from a shooting more than two decades earlier.
To note, Hinckley had written songs and released recordings online, but his debut concert at the Market Hotel in New York City this month was canceled on Wednesday after the venue said it had received a series of violent threats.
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