Insanity Defense

Attorneys for Darrell Brooks Jr., accused of killing 6 and injuring dozens more, told a judge they need to push the trial into 2023. More

March 29, 2022

A former Olympian is on trial for the attempted murder of a promising dressage rider and her fiancé. More

March 29, 2022

Judge grants prosecutor's request that Ethan Crumbley, Michigan teen charged in fatal school shooting, not be named during the separate trial of his parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley. More

March 22, 2022

Ethan Crumbley, 15-year-old boy accused of killing four students at a Michigan high school will remain in an adult jail while awaiting trial. More

March 1, 2022

The Crumbleys’ attorneys have insisted the couple didn’t know their son might be planning an attack and didn’t make the gun easy to find in their home. More

February 24, 2022

The manager of a juvenile detention center says she would have concerns if a 15-year-old charged with killing four fellow students in his Michigan high school were incarcerated at her facility. More

February 22, 2022

Investigators believe Letecia Stauch killed her stepson on January 27, 2020, before driving his body to the Florida panhandle. More

February 15, 2022

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee woman convicted of stabbing her four children to death was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday. Criminal Court Judge James Lammey Jr. found Shanynthia Gardner, 34, guilty last month of the 2016 slayings of the children, ages 4, 3, 2 and 5 months. Another child, who was 7 at […] More

February 8, 2022

She left work and subsequently texted Smith to say, “Andy, he’s going to kill himself. He must be the shooter.” More

February 8, 2022

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