Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week, the parents of fallen Cleveland Police Officer Jamieson Ritter testified in front of a Statehouse committee regarding a ...

There's a new push to change state laws regarding competency in criminal cases. The Colorado Parents Advocacy Network has started a new petition that calls on the state's district attorneys to urge ...

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 ...

Professor Kirk Heilbrun, Head of the Department of Psychology at Drexel University, will discuss "Criminal Competency: Inside the Mind of Jared Lee Loughner" at the law school on Oct. 24. The talk ...