Feb. 28—Shellie Whitmore has yet to be in a courtroom with the man accused of stabbing her father to death on a walking path in Manchester more than two years ago. The next chance to change that ...

Jun. 30—Every year, hundreds of people across New York who have been accused of crimes are sent to state-run mental hospitals to be treated for severe disabilities or mental illnesses that prevent ...

Should individuals with persistent and serious mental illness, who commit minor crimes, be treated as criminals in our court system, or can we treat their mental illness in a more humane way and offer ...

An Oklahoma County judge has denied a request from prosecutors to allow more time for the man charged with the 2022 murder of Deputy Bobby Swartz to receive competency restoration at the Oklahoma ...

Upon identifying an individual with a documented history of mental illness, the assigned state prosecutor and defense counsel ...

According to the Colorado Office of Civil and Forensic Mental Health, about 230 individuals in Colorado declared mentally incompetent to stand trial are currently in jail, on a waitlist for inpatient ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Though not every defendant in a major murder case in recent years has raised the issue of their competency to stand trial, many have. In most cases in which a competency evaluation is ...

A phased overhaul of the state’s behavioral health system is expanding resources in Kitsap County to more quickly serve defendants who a judge has deemed unfit for trial due to a mental illness. Under ...

As a young girl growing up in Missouri, Megan Jolly loved to read, dance and dress up. For her 20th birthday, she and her mother wore formal gowns to dinner on a cruise ship to Cozumel, Mexico. Jolly ...

Colorado courts are rolling out a new program that leaders and advocates hope will make a dent – even if small – in the long wait times for competency evaluations. The new program, competency ...