Nick Reiner has well documented struggles with mental health and drug abuse, but winning an insanity defense is still difficult.

In most states, a person accused of a crime may claim insanity as a defense, meaning that if they can prove they lacked the mental capacity to form the intent to commit a crime, they could be found ...

Aug. 26—The comments of a Hamilton man after his arrest for a fatal shooting inside Fairfield Twp. store caused his attorney to ask a judge to order a forensic psychological evaluation to determine ...

An assessment of Nick Reiner's mental health will take months and could influence whether prosecutors seek the death penalty, ...

Fox 8: Michael Benza, professor of practice at the School of Law, said not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity pleas are rare—filed in only about 1% of criminal cases, and successful in roughly 25% of those.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Charles Patrick Ewing, the University at Buffalo Law School professor considered one of the country's leading experts on the insanity defense, takes readers into the minds of David ...

Charles Patrick Ewing, the UB Law School professor considered one of the country’s leading experts on the insanity defense, takes readers into the minds of David Berkowitz, John Wayne Gacy and other ...

WASHINGTON - How hard can states make it for criminal defendants to prove insanity? The Supreme Court, jumping into an issue it avoided for nearly two decades under the late Chief Justice William H.

The public tends to believe that criminals who plead not guilty by reason of insanity, or NGRI, are taking the easy way out, that they're cheating the system, that they walk away from their crimes ...