The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, District Court and mental health providers are launching a new local process for evaluating defendants’ mental competency and offering outpatient treatment for ...
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. — People charged with crimes who have been deemed mentally incompetent sometimes wait months in jail for restoration services at the state hospital. The 1st Judicial District, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The deadline to restore competency has been extended in the case of De'Lawnte Hardy, the man accused of killing his own ...
State Sen. Nathan Manning (R-North Ridgeville) and state Sen. Thomas Patton (R-Strongsville) recently gave sponsor testimony on Senate Bill 295, legislation that would extend the timeline for ...
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 ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A northeast Kansas county is launching a new effort to more quickly evaluate the mental competency of people charged with a crime. It’s believed the be the first such program of ...
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 situation ...
Attorneys for De'Lawnte Hardy, the man charged with killing Cleveland Police Officer Jamieson Ritter, are asking a Cuyahoga ...
The Nevada Supreme Court found in a series of recent decisions that a judge was justified in dismissing criminal cases after a state agency failed to promptly transport criminal defendants for ...
"Our goal is to use community-based services to decrease the time needed to restore defendants to competency, thus minimizing delays in moving these cases forward while also reducing recidivism for ...
PRACTICES AND STANDARDS FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS AND MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES SAY THE NEED FOR REFORM IS URGENT. I’VE BEEN WORKING, DOING COMPETENCY EVALUATIONS FOR EIGHT AND A HALF, ALMOST NINE YEARS NOW, ...