STUART (CBSMiami/AP) — A Florida judge has rejected a constitutional challenge to the state's insanity defense law made by the attorneys for a man accused of killing a couple and chewing the husband's ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Prosecutors called the murder of 11-year-old Gannon Stauch “deliberate and thoughtful” as they challenged the defense’s insanity claim during opening arguments Monday in Letecia ...

DENVER Colorado's laws on insanity pleas and the death penalty are constitutional, a judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting a key argument by lawyers for the defendant in the deadly movie theater shootings.

Next week the justices will return to the bench for the first time since the end of June. The new term is already full of interesting cases, including the very first one on Monday, October 7: Kahler v ...

The judge in the Aurora movie-theater-shooting murder case has rebuffed an effort to declare Colorado’s laws for insanity pleas unconstitutional, just days before suspect James Holmes is due to enter ...

DENVER (Reuters) - Attorneys for accused movie theater gunman James Holmes are asking a judge to rule on the constitutionality of Colorado's insanity defense law before they decide whether their ...