At the beginning of the year, two major trials featuring the insanity defense were set to demonstrate on a grand stage how we as a country perceive the defense. The first of those cases was the ...

My daughter was charged for killing her live-in partner inside a rented condo unit. Although she admitted the killing, she interposed the exempting circumstance of insanity. Notwithstanding, the court ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Akin Gump summer associate Jered Matthysse has this summary of yesterday’s decision in Clark v. Arizona: On Thursday, the ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — A man who killed his two teen daughters, as well their mom and great-grandmother, failed Monday in his Supreme Court challenge of the law in Kansas for insanity pleas. The murders ...

As anybody knows, a classic defense in cases of murder, rape and aggravated assault is insanity. But what about white-collar crimes like tax dodging? Two Manhattan defendants — who also happen to be ...

STUART — Attorneys representing murder suspect Austin Harrouff in court Thursday debated Florida's criminal insanity test, referred to as the M'Naghten Rule, and how it relates to his mental state at ...