A hearing has been set to hear testimony from doctors treating murder defendant Carl Roy Webb Boards II for competency to stand trial. Boards faces charges of murder, two counts of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OTTAWA — Travis Soto, who has spent the past 20 years in and out of prison for causing the death of his young son — and has ...

Faced with conflicting evaluations, a judge delayed a determination as to whether one of the teens accused of killing a retired police chief in a hit-and-run is mentally competent. Jesus Ayala, 19, ...

Attorneys for the 26-year-old announced they will no longer pursue an incompetency defense, reversing course after years of ...

A suspect in a home invasion that led to police shooting that killed the homeowner will undergo a competency evaluation, court records show. Alejandra Boudreaux, 31, was indicted last week on charges ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Next week's firing squad execution of death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies will not happen because of a Utah Supreme Court ruling handed down Friday afternoon. In a 5-0 vote, the ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Attorneys for Utah death row inmate Ralph Menzies filed a new petition asking the court to reconsider his competency due to "dramatic cognitive and physical deterioration." ...

Colorado lawmakers want to create a new way to institutionalize mentally ill and disabled people who are accused of serious crimes in an effort to ensure that dangerous people are not set free when ...

The ruling clears the way for a new hearing to be held by a county judge, who has yet to be appointed. HARRISBURG – The state Supreme Court on Monday upheld its prior ruling that directed a new ...

Colorado Supreme Court Justice Carlos A. Samour Jr. speaks to students at Pine Creek High School during a Courts in the Community event in Colorado Springs on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. (The Gazette, ...