WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr. has earned the right to get more time away from a Washington mental hospital, his lawyer said.
Hinckley, who has been at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington for 31 years, was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 1981 shootings of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and three aides outside a Washington hotel.