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Bradys fear unsupervised visits for hinckley { November 26 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15847-2003Nov26.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15847-2003Nov26.html Bradys Fear Unsupervised Visits for Hinckley By Carol D. Leonnig Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 26, 2003; 2:39 PM Gun control advocate Sarah Brady said she and her husband, former White House press secretary James S. Brady, feared for their safety if a federal judge grants presidential assailant John W. Hinckley Jr. his request to leave a Washington mental hospital for brief, unchaperoned visits with his family, according to a letter to the court released today. James Brady was injured and partially paralyzed in the March 30, 1981, shooting, in which Hinckley attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. In addition to Brady and Reagan, two law enforcement officers were injured in the shooting. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman has been holding hearings, the final one today, on Hinckley's request. Hinckley, 48 has been confined to the St. Elizabeths Hospital since 1982, when a jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity. In a letter to Freidman dated Tuesday and released by the judge today, Sarah Brady said Hinckley "has wreaked havoc on the lives of so many people, including those of my husband and family. . . . If he were indeed well, wouldn't he feel uncontrollable remorse. To the contrary, he has never demonstrated any sorrow for nor apologized to Jim Brady or the other victims." Brady stressed that Hinckley has been deceptive in the past and has even fooled his own parents and cannot be trusted to say he will not be violent in the future. Brady, who became the head of Handgun Control Inc. after the assassination attempt and led the successful lobbying effort for a 1993 gun bill named for her husband, also said she worried about the possibly that Hinckley could be released permanently. "If these visits are allowed, what happens next?" she wrote. "He ruined Jim Brady's life once. We don't want him to do so again." Hinckley has been allowed to leave St. Elizabeths for brief staff-monitored visits with his family since 1999. Earlier today, the court heard from St. Elizabeths forensic psychiatric expert Paul Montalbano, who testified that unsupervised visits could improve Hinckley's mental health and that Hinckley is of little risk to the public. © 2003 The Washington Post Company

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