Justice Dept. Won't Appeal Hinckley Ruling

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AP

The Justice Department (news - web sites) will not appeal a judge's decision allowing John W. Hinckley Jr., the man who shot President Reagan, to visit his parents without the presence of staff from a mental hospital.

"While the Justice Department has decided not to file an appeal of the court order, the department will continue to work to ensure that there are significant restrictions imposed by the court, which continues to have jurisdiction, on any conditional releases in the future," Channing Phillips, chief of staff of the U.S. attorney's office here, said Friday.

In a 50-page ruling Dec. 17, U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman granted Hinckley six unsupervised visits in the Washington area. However, he attached some strict conditions and rejected Hinckley's request to travel to his parents' home in Williamsburg, Va., about three hours south of the nation's capital.

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Need I remind everyone that the Hinckley family are friends of the Bushes? No one still understands why Reagan picked up George H.W. as VP overnight, after hating him for so long.

Unembedded.com

[dansolo]

1. Weren't the freepers bashing the judge?

Will those same people now bash the justice department for not appealing the decision?

[Snoopy2]

2. Some Bush - Hinckley connections include the following

http://www.hereinreality.com/hinckley.html

The family of the man charged with trying to assassinate President Reagan is acquainted with the family of Vice President George Bush and had made large contributions to his political campaign, the Houston Post reported today.

http://www.nathanielblumberg.com/neil.htm

Neil Bush, son of the then vice president of the United States, was scheduled to have dinner on March 31, 1981, with Scott Hinckley, brother of John Hinckley, the day after a bullet came within an inch of making Neil Bush's father the new president of the United States.

Even though John Chancellor had let slip out this most remarkable assassination coincidence shortly after John Hinckley tried to kill President Reagan, it was censored by NBC News and the other organs of the national news media during the subsequent 10 years

http://n69n.dailykos.com/story/2003/12/21/191936/83

Neil Bush lived throughout most of 1978 in Lubbock, where he served as campaign manager for his oldest brother, George W. Bush, in an unsuccessful race for a U.S. congressional seat and where young Hinckley also lived while attending Texas Tech University. Both Neil and George have admitted that it was "certainly conceivable" they had met Hinckley in Lubbock.

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3. the bushiosos pay back their THUGS.....this ultimate payback is

totally OUTRAGEOUS....outrageous....

this payback is so transparent...

[fearnobush]

4. Chimp Smacks Martin L. King in Face.

Sad, in less than 24hrs after visiting MLK, Bush furthers the erosion of 30 + years of civil rights. <http://www.democrats.org/news/200401160002.html>