Legal Opinion
Hinckley v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 15, 1999No. 97-3183PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge WALD.
Dissenting Opinion filed by Circuit Judge HENDERSON.
WALD, Circuit Judge:
In early December 1997, St. Elizabeths Hospital (“Hospital”) in Washington, D.C., filed a letter notifying the district court that it had approved a supervised six-hour outing for John W. Hinckley, Jr., an insanity acquit-tee, to eat a holiday dinner with his parents and a companion on December 29, 1997, in a designated private home. The Hospital planned to transport Hinckley in a hospital van, in the custody of two Hospital employees, to the private home, where he would…
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