Feb. 28—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 ...

Exterior of Whiting Forensic Hospital on the grounds of Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown. The maximum-security hospital has up to 78 beds for patients needing competency restoration. Credit: ...

As New Mexico lawmakers grapple with how to curb high crime rates, a court-affiliated working group has proposed legislation that would give judges more options in cases where defendants are deemed ...

Photo snippets from John Maurer's life — from childhood to adulthood. (Los Angeles Times photo illustration. Photos by MaryRose Courtney, Annelle Maurer, Elaine Conrad, Sarah Dusseault.) The reunion ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – It could be a major change in the power judges have to hold mentally incompetent criminal suspects in custody or force them to get help. That bill is a key part of the governor ...

In the Vermont House Judiciary section of the legislative website, two bills dealing with competency are listed. H.251 was ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – With crime rampant in our state right now, one lawmaker is hoping to tackle it with more money for mental health evaluations. There are tens of thousands of criminal cases ...

Every year judges order hundreds of Colorado defendants to undergo exams to determine whether they are mentally competent to stand trial. The use of such evaluations is soaring, stalling even routine ...

Criminal defendants are overwhelming an understaffed state mental health system that, a few years ago, served thousands more ...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KFOX14/CBS4) — Las Cruces Police Chief Jeremy Story hosted a town hall meeting to discuss critical public safety issues as he prepares for the legislative session in Santa Fe that ...

Members of the House Judiciary Committee appear ready to support a bipartisan proposal to change the state’s criminal competency laws as part of a larger package of public safety measures. If approved ...

The New Mexico legislative session concluded with 194 bills passed out of 1,182 introduced. Successful bills included measures addressing criminal competency, firearm protection orders, and telehealth ...