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After spending more than 35 years in a mental hospital, the man who failed an assassin attempt against President Ronald Reagan will be released.

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The man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan more than 30 years ago could be released from the mental institution where he has been treated since.

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John Hinckley Jr. — the man whose failed assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981 resulted in the serious injury of the president and subsequent death of White House press secretary James Brady some 33 years later — will not be brought up on murder charges, federal prosecutors announced Friday.

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Could the gunman, John Hinckley Jr., be tried for murder even though he has already been tried and convicted for related charges? The likely answer is no, but for two different reasons.

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