Jesse Roger Armstrong, 35, a former UF psychiatrist, was sentenced to ninety months in prison after previously pleading ...

Vermont does not have a place to hold people not competent to stand trial and need mental health care, a gap that leaves ...

ATLANTA — The Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities is warning that the state could run out ...

Nick Reiner. Lindsay Clancy. Two upcoming trials are forcing a familiar question: Can someone who allegedly planned a killing ...

There is a consensus among researchers and practitioners that offending behavior is underpinned by a complex interplay of ...

A man on trial for allegedly murdering his mother at her home believed being unable to get medication for his schizophrenia ...

Forensic psychologists make suggestions to the court during a trial and conduct evaluations to determine mental competency to ...

One of Britain’s top forensic psychiatrists has told how meeting Moors Murderer Ian Brady triggered revulsion he hadn’t experienced with any other criminal. Professor Jeremy Coid assessed Glaswegian ...

A Montgomery County, Maryland judge will announce Wednesday afternoon whether a Maryland mother is competent to stand trial for murder in the 2014 disappearance of her two young children, after ...

It's a question that Maryland lawyers and courts have not been able to agree on for more than a decade: Is Catherine Hoggle competent to stand trial for the murder of her two youngest children? Hoggle ...

The families of two girls who a man allegedly tried to abduct in a pair of Macomb County communities in August 2024 are furious that prosecutors are accepting an insanity plea in the case. Macomb ...