Expert psychological testimony can transform your criminal defense by establishing whether you possessed the mental capacity to commit the alleged crime. Courts will scrutinize this evidence using the ...

Testimony is underway in the trial of a man accused of randomly stabbing a Lafourche Parish Water District employee and beating another in 2018. Courtney Garnett, 26, of New Orleans, is charged with ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va., Dec. 10 -- The buildup had been coming for weeks. But the moment when a psychiatrist declared that sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo was insane came and went Wednesday with hardly a stir.

LATE THIS AFTERNOON UP IN , COURTROOM 4-C OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT DEFENSE EXPERT, DR. THOMAS HYDE TOOK THE STAND AND TOLD THE JURY, MR. RAMOS SUFFERS OMFR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER, ...

The jury in the James Eagan Holmes murder case in Colorado on Thursday rejected his insanity defense, finding him guilty of first-degree murder after he killed 12 people at a movie theater in Aurora, ...

Liv Morgan‘s accused stalker is pleading insanity. PWInsider has confirmed that Shawn Chan, the man accused of stalking WWE Superstar Liv Morgan, has filed a notice to pursue an insanity defense that ...

States can significantly restrict the insanity defense and still give mentally troubled defendants a fair trial, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. Upholding an Arizona law under which a judge found a ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) ...

WHEATON, Ill. (AP) -- Marilyn Lemak had a vision of reuniting with her children on a beach days after she was jailed for drugging and smothering them to death, according to notes from the first mental ...

AUSTIN — Former University of Texas student Kendrex White, who was accused of killing another student in 2017, will serve time in a forensic hospital instead of prison after a judge ruled that White ...

Ronald Haskell referenced the insanity defense in a text message a few months before he killed six members of the Stay family in Spring, according to testimony presented Tuesday in his capital murder ...