WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Federal prosecutors are opposing John Hinckley Jr.'s bid next week to have four-day unsupervised visits at his parents' home, the Washington Post said Tuesday.
Hinckley, 49, has been confined to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington since being found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 1981 shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three others.
In court papers filed Monday in advance of hearings next week, the U.S. attorney's office said two of the government's psychiatric experts recently examined Hinckley and determined he continues to have a "disturbingly unclear" relationship with former girlfriend Leslie deVeau.
He met her when she was also a patient at St. Elizabeths, committed after being found not guilty by reason of insanity in the killing of her 10-year-old daughter in 1982. She was released in 1990.
Last December, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman permitted Hinckley to have unescorted visits in the Washington area with his parents, John and Jo Ann, who are in their late 70s.
Next week, a judge will consider Hinckley's request to spend four days at their home every two weeks, unsupervised.
