A Florida bill that would eliminate the insanity defense barely squeaked by its first committee hearing Monday amid withering criticisms but only after the bill sponsor promised to make substantial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “To be found not guilty by reason of insanity, that is a very difficult legal hurdle to overcome in California,” Neama Rahmani of ...

Nick Reiner has long been open about his struggles with drug abuse and mental health. But legal experts say it would still be very difficult for his defense lawyers to argue that he is not responsible ...

THE HOSPITAL EVER SINCE. SO GOOD TO SEE WALKING OUT. YES. WELL, TOMORROW THE TRIAL BEGINS IN THE MURDER OF 14 YEAR-OLD RYAN ROGERS, A PALM BEACH GARDENS TEEN WHO WAS KILLED FOUR YEARS AGO. IT ROCKED ...

The defense attorney for Jeffery Smerer has filed a notice of intent to use an insanity defense. Smerer is accused of killing his 17-year-old son and injuring his two other children in a shooting. The ...

A legal defense claiming insanity “only works a very small percentage of the time,” a legal expert tells PEOPLE Rob and Michele Reiner were found dead in their Los Angeles home on Dec. 14; their son ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. The man accused of planning a mass shooting at ...