A King County man charged with stabbing a stranger to death in downtown Seattle in 2023 was found not guilty by reason of ...

Austin Tran killed Trey Shaunfield at a Dallas gun range in August 2023. A jury decided his schizophrenia was severe enough that he shouldn't be sent to prison.

Perspective: With 2028 looming, Democrats are eyeing potential candidates for president. And Harris is making moves.

Precious Bland was charged with second degree murder after prosecutors claimed she confessed to drowning her daughter in 2021 ...

In their Trial Practice column, Robert S. Kelner and Gail S. Kelner discuss basic concepts with respect to tolling statutes of limitations for "insanity", how the term “insanity” has been defined by ...

At the beginning of the year, two major trials featuring the insanity defense were set to demonstrate on a grand stage how we as a country perceive the defense. The first of those cases was the ...

A longstanding principle of Anglo-American law is that a defendant shouldn’t be held criminally responsible for his behavior if mental illness made it impossible for him to tell right from wrong. Yet ...