John Hinckley Jr. 25 years old when he shot US President Ronald Reagan and three others on March 30, 1981.
Fortunately, the 40th US president's escape from death. Gunshot wounds he experienced no fatal. Doctors have removed a bullet that lodged in his chest.
Despite efforts to make the world scene by killing the number one in the superpower, Hinckley escaped from the iron bars.
In June the same year, the jury decided the defendant not guilty by reason of mental disorder. Then John Hinckley Jr. given psychiatric care instead of imprisonment for life. The controversial verdict open up opportunities for him to live outside psychiatric hospital.
And last year, on the orders of the judge, Hinckley spent 17 days a month at his mother's home in Williamsburg, a small town in southeastern Virginia.
Partial freedom that he get phased. And with the stringent requirements: must regularly meet psychiatrists and therapists, as well as volunteers. All become part of a long process, to integrate Hinckley, who is now almost 60 years old, returned to the community.
The trial will be held starting next Wednesday, to decide whether a prolonged stay in Williamsburg Hinckley. Perhaps even permanently.
The question is whether he is ready to undergo?
Earlier, at the hearing before Judge Paul L Friedman, the doctors testified that psychosis (mental disorder that causes a person's inability to distinguish between reality and fantasy), also depression Hinckley has been reduced over several decades.
And, although he still experiencing narcissistic personality disorder or narcissistic personality disorder, the effect has been reduced.
For decades, Hinckley undergoing treatment at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington DC. However, Judge Friedman allow a gradual liberation from 2003.
Starting in 2006, Hinckley was allowed to stay 3 nights in Williamsburg. Then, increase to 4 days.
At the end of 2013, Friedman approved Hinckley's stay to 17 days within one month. The judge argued, "The period of stay is longer might be an opportunity for him to work and engage in community activities."
However, prosecutors argued the other. According to them, Hinckley has a history of deceptive behavior and troubled relationships with women.
During the last hearing, they cited an incident that occurred in July 2011. At that time he was admitted to the cinema to watch a movie, but Hinckle actually go to the bookstore. And then he lied about it.
Secret Service agents, who were assigned stalking, admitted caught him looking at books about Reagan and the attempted murder he'd ever done. However, the man did not take anything.
"Hinckley has not shown itself ready to do the hard work, to move to a new city," said prosecutor Sarah Chasson in 2011.
Experts were not involved in the case of Hinckley said, people like him could come back to the community. And there is a way to evaluate whether they are dangerous or not.
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