Explore how U.S. criminal law defines, prosecutes, and punishes crime — including key elements, defenses, sentencing rules, ...

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 defense attorney for Jeffery Smerer has filed a notice of intent to use an insanity defense. Smerer is accused of killing ...

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 ...

Fox 8: Michael Benza, professor of practice at the School of Law, said not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity pleas are rare—filed in only about 1% of criminal cases, and successful in roughly 25% of those.

On Aug. 13, 2022, Jim Walter lost his wife and his mother-in-law. His grandson, Gage Walter, struck both of them with a hammer multiple times, killing them in his home while Jim on a fishing trip with ...

A jury has been sworn in for the trial of a 55-year-old Kerry man who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of his mother at her home in Killarney three years ago.