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 jury in the James Eagan Holmes murder case in Colorado on Thursday rejected his insanity defense, finding him guilty of first-degree murder after he killed 12 people at a movie theater in Aurora, ...

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 ...

Insanity, as a concept, occupies a unique intersection between psychology, neurology, and law. While it has colloquial ...

The judge in the deadly Colorado theater shootings has denied a request by defense lawyers to declare a state law on the insanity plea unconstitutional. In a ruling released Friday, state District ...

The question of what constitutes insanity for purposes of the law, which has plagued jurists and psychiatrists for a century (TIME, April 4, 1955), got a spectacular airing in Massachusetts last week.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Jurors in the Colorado movie theater shooting trial must decide whether James Holmes met the state’s legal definition of insanity when he opened fire on a movie theater in the ...

Attorneys are exploring an insanity defense for a man accused of shooting three Palestinian American college students in Burlington in November 2023. Jason Eaton’s public defenders disclosed the ...

DENVER – Colorado’s laws on insanity pleas and the death penalty are constitutional, a judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting a key argument by lawyers for the defendant in the deadly movie-theater ...

Having recently shrugged off his inability to get state government employees to return to their normal workplaces, Gov. Ned Lamont may have been lucky to be traveling in India the other day when the ...

HAMILTON — A West Chester Twp. man who allegedly tried multiple times to kill a gas station clerk during a robbery has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to three attempted murder charges. John ...