Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When mentally incompetent defendants sit in county jails without treatment, local officials say the consequences ripple across the ...

The 2021 law only applies to those charged with capital offenses, high-level felonies resulting in death or serious injury, ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — A judge has ordered the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to present a plan later this month on admitting and treating criminal defendants found incompetent to stand ...

• John Stumlin, accused of killing Daniel Riordan in August 2024, was ruled incompetent to stand trial during an Oct. 24 court hearing • Stumlin will return to jail while awaiting placement at Mendota ...

Kelly Carroll’s daughter was slashed to death five years ago — and she thinks the man accused of murdering the 26-year-old slipped through cracks in the system. The Pownal man charged with killing ...

Murder and child abuse charges against a Clinton Township woman accused of killing her infant daughter in 2023 were dismissed because she is mentally incompetent but she could still face the charge ...

RISING SUN — A woman who allegedly stabbed an intervening man in the chest while she was attacking her sister with a knife inside a Rising Sun residence in December has been found mentally incompetent ...

A New Jersey man implicated in the deadly stabbing of a 73-year-old woman has been declared incompetent to stand trial nine months after gouging his eyes out. NJ.com reports a Sussex County Superior ...

Despite being found incompetent roughly six months ago, the suspect in a brutal homicide case could stand trial following a recent evaluation.