Once-high-profile planner ordered to undergo psychiatric exam
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Bradford C. Bleidt, looking unwashed and haggard and wearing a neck brace, shuffled into a courtroom yesterday with his eyes downcast to face criminal charges of mail fraud in an alleged scheme that investigators said may have defrauded investors of $45 million.
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A judge threatened to jail the head of the state Department of Children &amp; Families if the agency can't explain why it consistently has failed to get mentally ill jail inmates into psychiatric treatment.
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Days after a psychiatrist publicly denounced the state of mental health care at St. Joseph&#39;s Health Care London, hospital officials told employees to sign what some workers are calling a gag order.
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A psychiatrist is to examine whether a woman accused of stalking Catherine Zeta Jones is fit to stand trial.
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A judge ruled Tuesday that a confessed serial killer &#151; set to become the first inmate executed in New England in 40 years &#151; is mentally competent and can forgo further appeals of his death sentence.
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Britney Spears, who has been hospitalized for mental evaluation, will be examined by a court-appointed psychiatrist to determine if the troubled pop star understands the legal proceedings surrounding her, a judge ruled on Monday.
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year after Dr. Elliot M. Gross, a former chief medical examiner for New York City and two South Jersey counties, was banned from performing autopsies in New Jersey, a judge has ruled that he should be allowed to resume his career.
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Commissioner Reva Goetz of Los Angeles County Superior Court appointed a physician on Monday to determine if Britney Spears, 26, is competent to make decisions, The Associated Press reported. While Ms. Spears continues to be held in a psychiatric ward, the judge also barred that troubled singer from contact with her friend and sometime manager Sam Lutfi, and extended until Feb. 14 the conservatorship over her personal and financial affairs granted last week to her father, James Spears, and her lawyer Andrew Wallet.
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A judge has ordered the state Board of Medicine to stop disciplinary proceedings against a doctor accused of telling a patient she was so obese she might only be attractive to black men and advising another to shoot herself following brain surgery.
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A Russian opposition activist was committed to a psychiatric hospital before government protests, supporters said Friday Â the latest in a series of incidents suggesting a punitive Soviet-era practice is being revived.
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Doctors said that the man who caused an international health scare would still require as much as two years of treatment.
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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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Alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla suffers from intense stress and anxiety after being imprisoned in isolation for years and cannot adequately help his lawyers prepare for a criminal trial, a mental expert testified Thursday.
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A man charged with preparing a terrorist attack is due to appear in court.
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A man accused of hacking a Manhattan therapist to death rambled and appeared agitated during his arraignment Sunday before the judge ordered him to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
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Hollywood actor-director Mel Gibson&#39;s alleged stalker, who has reportedly spent a good amount of time in several mental hospitals has been now ordered to stand trial.
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A man charged with trying to hire a hit man to behead the city's police commissioner is mentally ill, and his threats were nothing more than talk, his attorney said.