WHAT???
http://touch.baltimoresun.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-81037306/
Edit: getting old, just realized Sarah will now get a BIG settlement, husband killed on the J O B.
And she gets to add another gun death to her PowerPoint. What a c**t.
On the plus side, it might keep Hinkley locked up for a long, long time. He’s been getting weekend passes and his parents have petitioned to have him released under their home custody. This might very well put the kibosh on those plans.
He has been partially free for awhile. I think now he only has to be in the hospital 2 weeks a month. The rest of the time he is out, though he spends most of his time at his mothers home.
Ridiculous, politically-motivated decision. Completely asinine that someone could live for 33 years after an event, and that event be ruled to have “caused” someone’s death.
What’s next – every death ruled as a homicide because someone punched or spanked them earlier in life?
Agreed.
Yep, by that logic every death is caused by childbirth.
Hinkley lives in Williamsburg, VA … pretty sure I saw his picture in the paper just a month or so ago. Lives with mother in condo complex or gated community… can’t remember which.
double…
Here’s some information (dated December, 2013) I came across:
[i]A federal judge on Friday gave President Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin modestly more freedom, allowing the 58-year-old who has lived and received mental health treatment for more than three decades at St. Elizabeths Hospital to spend 17 days a month visiting his mother’s home town of Williamsburg, Va.
John W. Hinckley Jr., who was found not guilty by reason of insanity in Reagan’s shooting, must prove to U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman that he can better integrate himself and socialize in Williamsburg before his release will go any further. But in a 106-page opinion expanding Hinckley’s monthly Virginia visits from 10 to 17 days, Friedman said he was persuaded that Hinckley “will not be a danger to himself or to others” if he is given more time away from the hospital.[/i] (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/federal-judge-grants-more-freedom-to-reagans-would-be-assassin/2013/12/20/efdd2c60-68e9-11e3-8b5b-a77187b716a3_story.html)
Unbelievable. One more martyr for the cause…
His mom lives in Kingsmill, I have family there so it is a known local story.
WWWHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFFFFFFUUUUUUUKKKKKKKK!!!
If I die tonight, someone please make sure to rule it a homicide from being given an anurisum from this bullshit! And make sure someone pays!!! I am counting on you guys!!!
“Come here mister bottle of Jack!!! Tell me nice things because I want to forget this bullshit!!!”
We have jumped the shark sadly I think the us has had it’s day unless half the idiots in this country die or leave this is the new norm
All deaths will now be from global warming ! And you will see this happen I guarantee it
I suspect they will have their cake and eat it too, death will be ruled a homocide but no changes in Hinkley’s status.
Uh; it isn’t uncommon to have a death ruled a homicide if the death happened due to the injuries sustained during a felonious assault.
Straight from the “B” movies; really slow motion death scene…
Understood, but this one is absolutely, positively, 100% politically motivated. Sorry, but I call BS. :nono:
But 30+ years after the fact? Trust me, if it was a year, two years or one or two more and the guy was a veggie or in a comma then sure, fry the MFer who was the trigger man. But 30 years and functioning, at least somewhat, at the very least I kind of have to call this one as I see it which is to say BS. And worse yet, political bullshit. Does this mean that when my uncle dies I his widow can claim he died from wounds suffered as a marine during Nam and get the benefits from that? I don’t want to sound like I am calling you out, I know where you are coming from trust me, but I just can’t see how this can be ruled a homicide given what we know here now(I say this because there is a chance, albeit small, that there was a bullet, bone, soul frag, ect (ETA wound never healing at which piont I question how he lived 30+ years)and work its way to the brain or the heart and caused the death at which point I again would say there is reason.) Though, again being 30+ years after the fact I think you might have a better chance at claiming medical malpractice for the doctor not catching the issue beforehand since they had ample time to catch it than the shooter.
EX: Are we going to re-rule Reagan’s death a homicide since he was injured too during the shooting?
I don’t want to delete everything I just typed(because I feel I am not perfectly clear and other issues, like I am too focused on you and I shouldn’t be) but I just think it might be stretching things saying 30 years later a person’s death is a homicide because they were injured in a shooting 30 years ago WITHOUT information of that being the cause. And, again, I want to make clear, I am not calling you out, because I know exactly where you are coming from on this, but 30 years is a stretch in my opinion for this baring other information.
That said, if you have precedent of where this has happened before I am all ears, both in this regard and from a professional and academic standpoint and would love to hear it, trust me. Because, while I am aware of deaths related to injuries after weeks, or even months, being ruled homicides, I have never heard of one involving decades.
P.S.
I hope I am making sense.
If you want to take it to PM I’ll clear out the box. Because I have had a few(See previous post, and no I can’t offer you any since the bottle is now empty), but short of other evidence it just appears to me to be a bit politically motivated. Maybe I am coming from this from the standpoint I don’t want to be a political rally point. I don’t know.
Most people go with a political angle instead of a logical one when democrats are involved
x2. I don’t see this going anywhere. Same for Hinckley as he’s already been adjudicated. They could probably bring new charges but as the original trial was a s**t show in regards to the mental health aspect the outcome is not going to change.
As for the political aspect what are they going to say? A crazy guy with a gun killed someone. Not exactly a new rallying cry IMO.