The insanity defense and incompetency rulings are being rampantly abused by defense attorneys and soft-on-crime judges, making a mockery of the criminal justice system and the victims of crime in the ...

Nick Reiner has long been open about his struggles with drug abuse and mental health. But legal experts say it would still be very difficult for his defense lawyers to argue that he is not responsible ...

A North Carolina woman arrested in February 2026 after the death of one of her young children and the attempted killing of ...

Jury deliberations resume tomorrow in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts woman charged with killing her three children in 2023. Her attorney is seeking what's known as an insanity defense.

Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Stephanie Dunn listens during the case of People v. Dooley at Fort Lupton High School on Tuesday, April 2, 2024 in Fort Lupton, Colorado. The Colorado Court of Appeals ...

Plymouth Assistant District Attorney Amanda Fowle had called to the stand two Brockton police officers, two state troopers, a firefighter, an EMT, a crime scene analyst, a videographer, a DNA expert, ...

On September 4, 2026, a judge in Plymouth Superior Court, Massachusetts, declared a mistrial in the murder case of Lindsay Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse charged with killing her three ...

WASHINGTON - How hard can states make it for criminal defendants to prove insanity? The Supreme Court, jumping into an issue it avoided for nearly two decades under the late Chief Justice William H.

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