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Bronx Judge Finds Mother Not Criminally Responsible for Sons’ 2022 Deaths

The ruling underscores how psychiatric findings can determine custody and treatment instead of prison in cases of severe postpartum illness.

Israeli Court Acquits Settler Charged With Kicking Catholic Nun

Man Found Insane in 2019 Killing Flees U.S. on 48‑Hour Mental‑Hospital Pass

Prosecution Rests as Defense Builds Psychosis Case in Lindsay Clancy Trial

Clancy Trial Spotlights Postpartum Psychosis and Gaps in Care

Experts Clash Over Postpartum Psychosis as Clancy Trial Moves to Psychiatric Phase

Son Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity in 2022 Dismemberment of Mother

Jury Weighs Sanity as Clancy Trial Shifts to Psychiatric Evidence

Hinckley Says He ‘Wishes Jodie Foster Well’ in Previewed Interview

Court Orders Indefinite Psychiatric Detention After Emden Knife Attack

Davis Stabbings Defendant Convicted of Manslaughter and Declared Legally Insane

Lindsay Clancy Trial to Begin July 20 After Judge Narrows Evidence

Convicted 1999 Cinema Gunman Seen in Salvador Mall, Spurring Public Fear

Kentucky Convict Who Admitted Killing 6-Year-Old Is Scheduled for Release on July 29

Ismail Y. Sent to TBS With Compulsory Care for Killing His Mother

Judge Acquits Miami Mother by Reason of Insanity in 2021 Toddler’s Death

B.C. Review Board Grants Conditional Discharge to Man Found Not Criminally Responsible in 2008 Child Killings

Man Found Dead in New Jersey Jail After Insanity Ruling in Brother’s Killing

Fort Worth Judge Acquits Man in 2024 Firewood Killing by Reason of Insanity

Lindsay Clancy Offers to Admit Killings to Seek Split Trial on Insanity