Questions over competency persist in the criminal case stemming from the fatal 2024 shooting of Canton Township resident ...

Defense attorneys for James Barla have filed a motion asking the court to order a competency evaluation.

A lawyer for a former Youth Development Center worker convicted of being an accomplice to the rape of a 16-year-old resident in the 1990s continues to question his client’s solitary confinement at ...

WEST JORDAN, Utah — The judge overseeing the death penalty case for condemned killer Ralph Menzies told lawyers for the state he will not speed up the newly-ordered competency evaluation. During a ...

A former Carroll Schools substitute teacher who is accused of attempting to murder her teenage son was ordered Tuesday to ...

LA CROSSE (WKBT) -- A man accused of attempted homicide is having his competency evaluated. 43-year-old Freeman Cole appeared in court Wednesday. He's accused of beating a woman and trying to strangle ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Judge Matthew Bates has denied a new mental competency evaluation for Ralph Menzies, allowing his execution by firing squad to go forward. Menzies' defense team asked for the ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - In a court hearing Thursday, a Lancaster County judge said he will not order a competency hearing for the man accused of murdering a Wisconsin woman and then leading authorities ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The State Attorney General asked for an expedited mental competency evaluation of death row inmate Ralph Menzies. In the motion, Derek Brown asked that all examiners submit ...

CORRECTIONS MAINTAIN THAT THESE PROBLEMS ARE NOTHING NEW. WHILE HE FEELS HE’S SHINING A LIGHT ON IT, THIS IS NOT A NEW PROBLEM TO THE STATE. NEWS NINE INVESTIGATES HAS LEARNED THAT CRIMINALS WITH ...