In the most recent "Room for Debate" feature in The New York Times, five scholars involved in law, psychiatry, and criminal justice discuss the current state of the insanity defense in light of the ...

Attorney Dorian Baum says Gary Siders Sr. struggled to describe "even basic facts about himself." ...

TIJERAS, N.M. (KRQE) – The man awaiting trial for the murder of his family in Tijeras is looking to use an insanity defense.

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WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - If the U.S. soldier being held for the massacre of 16 Afghan civilians faces an Army court-martial, his lawyers will likely have a hard time persuading a military jury ...

The gang-linked shooting of Jacksonville rapper Foolio in Tampa has sparked a high-profile murder case, with an insanity defense now taking center stage. Foolio’s death in Tampa outside a hotel on the ...

A federal judge Wednesday rejected an insanity defense and found a man suffering from schizophrenia guilty of all charges for shooting and wounding a mail carrier in Milwaukie on Christmas Eve 2022.

A Miami mother found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2021 drowning death of her one-year-old daughter tells NBC6 she is trying to rebuild her life after what she describes as a mental health ...

There are times when the insanity defense, with all the controversy that surrounds it, is in the news. This is one of those times: It is highly likely that James Holmes, who is facing 142 felony ...