HARTFORD, Conn. — Doctors treating John W. Hinckley Jr. are asking a federal judge to allow the presidential assailant to obtain a driver’s license, spend more unsupervised time in the community and extend visits to his mother’s home in Virginia, according to court records filed last week.
The request by doctors at St. Elizabeths Hospital was revealed in court papers filed by prosecutors and defense lawyers who are sparring over the issue.
Hinckley, 53, who shot President Reagan and three other men in 1981, has gained more freedom in recent years from St. Elizabeths, the Washington psychiatric facility where he has been held since he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Hinckley’s parents lived in Evergreen at the time of the attack.
