During a hearing before U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman, Hinckley's family members said they did not think the man who shot President Ronald Reagan posed a danger and would benefit from getting a driver's license and spending more time with their mother, The Washington Post (NYSE:WPO) reported Tuesday.

Friedman is considering a request by doctors at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington to grant Hinckley more privileges. Court documents indicate doctors would like to increase the number and duration of unsupervised visits by Hinckley to his mother's home and would like Hinckley to be able to get a driver's license.

"There was nothing I saw as a red flag," Hinckley's sister, Diane Hinckley Sims, said about his reaction to their father's death earlier in 2008 and recent unsupervised visits to their mother's home. "He did it well."

Hinckley, 53, has been confined to the psychiatric hospital since he was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the March 1981 shootings of Reagan, Reagan press secretary James Brady, a Secret Service agent and a District of Columbia police officer.

The hearing is expected to last a week.