Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colorado is changing how it handles criminal defendants deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial. On Wednesday, Gov. Jared Polis ...

Stanislaus County faces $3.98 million in state penalties after too many felony defendants were determined to be mentally incompetent to stand trial and were referred to state hospitals for treatment.

FOR OFFENDERS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. NEW HAMPSHIRE LAGS FAR BEHIND OTHER STATES IN RESTORING DEFENDANTS FOUND INCOMPETENT TO STAND TRIAL WITH A RATE OF RESTORATION WELL BELOW 50%, ACCORDING TO NAMI. NEW ...

Colorado lawmakers from both parties are backing a bill that would reshape how the state handles defendants found incompetent to stand trial and unlikely to regain competency, aiming to fill ...

DENVER, Colorado — A Colorado bill moving through the state legislature would create new pathways to civilly commit defendants deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial who are charged with serious ...

Stanislaus County faces a penalty of possibly around $4 million for exceeding a state cap on the number of criminal defendants determined to be incompetent to stand trial, or IST. Multiple ...

Pima County officials say they saved $4 million last year by treating mentally incompetent defendants here instead of sending them to the Arizona State Hospital in Phoenix. The program, which attempts ...

The case against a Kaukauna man accused of attacking an Appleton police officer with a knife was suspended until 2026 as the defendant remains incompetent to stand trial. In April 2020, Troy ...

DENVER — Colorado is changing how it handles criminal defendants deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial. On Wednesday, Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill updating the state’s competency laws in an ...