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 ...
Mental competency can become one of the biggest roadblocks in a criminal case, delaying justice for years as courts determine ...
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 ...
De'Lawnte Hardy's lawyers are challenging an Ohio law extending the competency restoration period, arguing it shouldn't ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HAYS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Keeping vulnerable people from sitting in a cell is how Hays County leaders bill the Jail-Based ...
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 ...
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 ...
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