PONTIAC, Mich. (WXYZ) — The high-profile criminal case against Ethan Crumbley may never get to a jury. While his attorneys have filed notice of an insanity defense ...

NEW YORK — As the murder trial of a nanny who fatally stabbed two small children in her care entered its fourth week Monday, the jury has begun wrestling with one of the most controversial, ...

Between 2001 and 2004, four Texas women became famous — notorious, actually — for the deaths they inflicted on their children. Two opted for drowning, one grabbed a knife and the other used a heavy ...

My daughter was charged for killing her live-in partner inside a rented condo unit. Although she admitted the killing, she interposed the exempting circumstance of insanity. Notwithstanding, the court ...

This week, the attorney for Andrea Yates, the Houston woman accused of killing her five children, announced he would probably seek an insanity defense for his client. Meanwhile, Texas Gov. Rick Perry ...

At the beginning of the year, two major trials featuring the insanity defense were set to demonstrate on a grand stage how we as a country perceive the defense. The first of those cases was the ...

As anybody knows, a classic defense in cases of murder, rape and aggravated assault is insanity. But what about white-collar crimes like tax dodging? Two Manhattan defendants — who also happen to be ...