Mentally Ill Boy Ruled Competent for Trial
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A 14-year-old boy accused of fatally slashing a classmate in a school restroom may stand trial despite having a mental illness, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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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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A defendant in an Old Bailey terror trial should not be jailed just for having "wicked thoughts".
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MIAMI - An appeals court ordered the state human services agency to immediately admit mentally ill inmates into state psychiatric treatment facilities, ruling that the department must follow the law despite its claims that it doesn't have the money.
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J&J gains pediatric approval of its antipsychosic drug.
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A 16-year-old boy is due to go on trial charged with the murder of schoolgirl Jodi Jones.
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A mental health evaluation of former Ohio State football star Maurice Clarett found he is competent to stand trial on robbery charges, his attorney said Friday.
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Psychological testing shows that the former Baylor University basketball player accused of gunning down one of his teammates is not competent to stand trial, his attorneys said Wednesday.
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A psychiatrist who drowned her daughter in a bath has been found not guilty of murder, by reason of insanity.
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U.S. prison doctors have deemed suspected al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla mentally competent to stand trial on terrorism charges, based in part on a review of military interrogation documents that will be turned over to his lawyers, court records showed on Tuesday.
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A judge Tuesday found a homeless man competent to stand trial in the kidnapping of teenager Elizabeth Smart, after the man's lawyers decided not to contest the issue.
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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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Children can be forced to testify against a parent in criminal proceedings if they do not live with the parent, the state's highest court ruled Tuesday in the case of a man charged with raping two of his daughter's teenage friends.
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The state Supreme Court terminated a father's right to raise his 4-year-old special needs son Thursday because they would have lived with the boy's alcoholic and mentally retarded mother.
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A judge ruled Wednesday that serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz, who gained notoriety as the &quot;Railroad Killer&quot; linked to at least 15 murders across the country, is mentally competent to be executed next week for the 1998 rape-slaying of a Texas doctor.
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A man accused at a congressional hearing of molesting a teenage boy has been convicted of charges including enticing a child to engage in sexually abusive activity.
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A former Baylor University basketball player charged with murdering a teammate was ruled incompetent to stand trial Thursday.