A Florida bill that would eliminate the insanity defense barely squeaked by its first committee hearing Monday amid withering ...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is asking state lawmakers to consider a proposal that would overhaul the state’s ...

A bill sparked by the 2015 killing of a six-year-old would tighten eligibility for a release program and end not guilty by reason of insanity verdicts.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sarah Gonzales-McLinn wasn’t allowed to submit evidence about her dissociative identity disorder diagnosis in her trial for murder ...

A man charged with wounding 19 people and killing two in a mass shooting in July 2024 at a Detroit block party has filed his intent to assert the insanity defense during his trial. Demitrus Shaw is ...

OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WJRT) - The Flint man accused of shooting three people during a Christmas Eve crime spree in Oxford Township plans to use an insanity defense. The revelation came from ...

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, ...

The lawyer for the man accused of intentionally killing a prominent Boston art collector with his car last week confirmed he plans to mount an insanity defense, raising a complicated legal strategy ...