Man accused of killing wife ruled mentally incompetent for trial
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A man accused of killing his wife with a sledgehammer in 2004 has been ruled too mentally incompetent to stand trial and will remain in a state mental health facility, a judge ruled.Comment
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Jurors are due to hear evidence against a 49-year-old man who is accused of murdering five women in Suffolk.
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The man accused of kidnapping and assaulting Elizabeth Smart was determined by 3rd District Judge Judith Atherton Tuesday to be competent to stand trial.
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State psychiatrists have determined that a Silver Spring man who fatally shot his two sons in July should not be tried for the slayings because he was mentally unstable when the crime occurred.
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A Scottish man sent to Ohio's death row  in 1987 for setting a fire that killed a 2-year-old girl was  granted a new trial on Tuesday by an appeals court that  described his original defense as incompetent.
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A judge rules former Baylor basketball player Carlton Dotson, charged with murdering a teammate, incompetent to stand trial.
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Dawnette Knight, the woman accused of making death threats against actress Catherine Zeta-Jones was declared mentally competent to continue criminal proceedings.
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WILLMAR, Minn. - A man accused of assaulting his girlfriend and breaking into a home while naked has been found to be psychotic and a judge has ordered him committed.
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A man whose wife is accused of killing the couple's child by cutting off the infant's arms showed a disturbing lack of emotion after the baby's death, saying he felt "a little melancholy," according to a psychologist's report.
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A judge on Tuesday found a  homeless man mentally competent to stand trial on charges of  kidnapping Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart two years ago and  holding her captive for nine months.
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The trial of a man who is accused of murdering five women in Suffolk in 2006 is due to begin.
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A judge today found the homeless man charged with kidnapping Elizabeth Smart competent to stand trial. The ruling came at the start of what had been expected to be a three-day hearing to gauge the mental state of Brian Mitchell, 50.
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The family of a woman believed to have been murdered by her mentally ill husband say the pair were "let down".
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The case of a man who impersonated a firefighter to attack and sexually abuse a woman in her home came down to whether a jury believed he was too mentally ill to be held responsible.
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Former "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla is mentally unfit to stand trial on terrorism charges and physically unable to tell his lawyers what happened to him in a U.S. military prison, doctors who examined him for the defense said in court on Thursday.
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A judge on Thursday ruled that a former Baylor basketball player charged with gunning down his teammate is incompetent to stand trial.
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A man who murdered his wife is in hospital after being found in his cell ahead of his sentence by a judge.