Insanity Defense

A contentious court hearing is set for Tuesday morning in the criminal case of the parents of the accused Oxford high school shooter. More

February 7, 2022

A man who shot and killed four people at a Waffle House in 2018 received a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. More

February 5, 2022

Travis Reinking was sentenced to life in prison without parole for a deadly 2018 Waffle House shooting just miles outside Nashville, Tenn. More

February 5, 2022

Travis Reinking was found guilty on four counts of first-degree murder Friday by a jury that rejected his insanity defense. More

February 4, 2022

Travis Reinking posted videos to YouTube before the killing where he spoke about unknown people who he believed were breaking into his home. More

February 3, 2022

Travis Reinking had written Oprah Winfrey asking for help determining whether Taylor Swift was communicating with him through the Internet. More

February 2, 2022

Kayla Shaw was waiting at Waffle House for her order when a plate glass window shattered inward as shooting started. More

February 1, 2022

Travis Reinking said he believed the restaurant patrons and employees were government agents he had been commanded by God to kill. More

January 31, 2022

Opening statements are set to begin Monday for Travis Reinking, the accused gunman in the 2018 mass shooting at a Tennessee Waffle House. More

January 31, 2022

Thursday marks two years since 11-year-old Gannon Stauch was reported missing by his stepmother, Letecia Stauch. Now, she is accused of his murder, along with a number of other charges. More

January 27, 2022

Attorneys say a teenager charged with killing four students at Michigan high school will pursue an insanity defense. More

January 27, 2022

Police said Travis Reinking, 32, was naked save for a green jacket when he opened fire inside the restaurant. More

January 25, 2022

Florida prosecutors and Circuit Judge Scott Suskauer accepted Hannah Roemhild's plea during a three-minute hearing with the 32-year-old singer appearing by Zoom from her home state. More

January 18, 2022

Corey Johnson will spend the rest of his life behind bars for fatally stabbing a 13-year-old boy during a 2018 sleepover. More

January 14, 2022

A judge has found that a man charged with sexually attacking and fatally stabbing two young women in separate killings nearly 30 years ago near a canal system in metro Phoenix is mentally fit to stand trial. In a ruling Tuesday, Superior Court Judge Suzanne Cohen agreed with two court-appointed mental health experts that Bryan Patrick Miller is psychologically competent to be tried on charges in the deaths of 22-year-old Angela Brosso in November 1992 and 17-year-old Melanie Bernas in September 1993. More

January 6, 2022

Over an 11-hour interview with investigators last July former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo defiantly denied allegations he sexually harassed women and sparred with lawyers questioning him. More

November 10, 2021

Doctors determining whether Ahmad Alissa -- man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket -- is mentally competent to stand trial getting more time to finish their evaluation. More

September 28, 2021

CORONA, Calif. (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting two young people inside a Southern California movie theater last July has pleaded not guilty, and not guilty by reason of insanity, to two counts of murder. Joseph Jimenez, 20, did not speak during Monday’s hearing at the Riverside Hall of Justice, letting his attorney […] More

September 27, 2021

John Hinckley was 25 when he shot and wounded the 40th U.S. president outside a Washington hotel on March 30, 1981. More

September 27, 2021

Hearing determine Ahmad Alissa man charged killing 10 people Colorado supermarket stand trial delayed lawyers believe "mental disability" prevents understand proceedings help defend him. More

September 3, 2021

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A man charged with sexually attacking and fatally stabbing two young women in the early 1990s as they rode bikes near a canal system in Phoenix plans to mount an insanity defense at his upcoming trial. An attorney for Bryan Patrick Miller said in court records last […] More

July 30, 2021

KEMPTON, Pa. (AP) — Defense attorneys say they will mount an insanity defense in the case of a woman charged with murder in the deaths of her two young children found in an eastern Pennsylvania basement last year. Attorneys for Lisa Snyder filed papers in Berks County Court on Thursday citing a number of serious […] More

November 16, 2020