In most states, a person accused of a crime may claim insanity as a defense, meaning that if they can prove they lacked the mental capacity to form the intent to commit a crime, they could be found ...

Aug. 26—The comments of a Hamilton man after his arrest for a fatal shooting inside Fairfield Twp. store caused his attorney to ask a judge to order a forensic psychological evaluation to determine ...

The wild card will be Reiner’s two siblings. They have not publicly spoken about the murders, but the little they have said ...

Experts say television has skewed the public's view on the use of insanity defenses in court. While details of the crimes can be salacious, the insanity cases that ever make it to jury trials are few ...

The public tends to believe that criminals who plead not guilty by reason of insanity, or NGRI, are taking the easy way out, that they're cheating the system, that they walk away from their crimes ...

Semmie Williams, accused of murdering Ryan Rogers in 2021, is using an insanity defense, but experts say proving such a ...

TAVARES — Jurors on Friday found 79-year-old Morris Reynolds not guilty of killing his wife by reason of insanity. Prosecutors had charged him with first-degree premeditated murder with a firearm in ...

In one case, a man killed two family members with a sword, fearing they were playing with his soul. In another, a father beat his 4-month-old baby after saying he was told to do it by voices in his ...

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Charles Patrick Ewing, the UB Law School professor considered one of the country’s leading experts on the insanity defense, takes readers into the minds of David Berkowitz, John Wayne Gacy and other ...