Once you recognize certain traits and characteristics in a person, you can accurately predict whether or not they will be ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – When someone is deemed ‘incompetent’ to stand trial, how does New Mexico’s criminal justice system respond? It’s the subject of a recent Larry Barker investigation that ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - “Incompetent to stand trial” is a term used often in court for an offender who is not able to grasp what is happening or assist in their defense. However, we rarely find out ...

Until 22 years ago, Alabama's constitution declared that "[a]ll idiots and insane persons" in the state "shall be disqualified both from registering, and from voting." In 1996, the state legislature ...

Mentally ill Iowans charged with crimes are experiencing lengthy delays, ensnared in a bottlenecked mental health system. The state has a significant backlog at the two facilities that currently ...

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge," wrote Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man (1871). Experimental findings reported in 1999 by social psychologists David Dunning and ...

We’ve all run into people who seem completely out of their depth, yet they coast along entirely unfazed. It makes you wonder ...