No, not the insanity of law. Although, admittedly, if you’ve been locked within its grasp, the inverse of the notion posited in the title may seem equally apt. But the subject here is insanity as ...

The insanity defense, a bedrock principle of American criminal justice, is suddenly in peril. Aberrant laws in Kansas and four other states have decreed that a defendant can be guilty even if ...

JONATHAN TURLEY is a law professor at George Washington University and a practicing criminal defense lawyer. IT WAS A CRIME that still haunts the nation. On the morning of June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates, ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON AP - Eric Clark thought he was being pursued by aliens before he shot and killed an Arizona police officer nearly six years ago. Clark, a 17-year-old schizophrenic, was found guilty of ...

As prosecutors pursue an alleged double homicide alongside claims of schizophrenia and treatment shifts, a familiar fault ...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) - Jurors in the Colorado movie theater shooting trial must decide whether James Holmes met the state's legal definition of insanity when he opened fire on a movie theater in the ...

Lawyers of accused kidnapper Brendt Christensen filed a motion on Sept. 21 for more time to decide whether they will pursue a mental health defense during the upcoming trial for the alleged kidnap and ...

No, not the insanity of law. Although, admittedly, if you’ve been locked within its grasp, the inverse of the notion posited in the title may seem equally apt. But the subject here is insanity as ...

Daniel M’Naghten. a Glasgow wood turner, thought that Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel was persecuting him. Then he confused Peel with his secretary, Edward Drummond. So M’Naghten shot and killed ...