OCTOBER 9TH. A NORWALK MAN CHARGED IN THE DEATH OF HIS INFANT GRANDSON PLANS TO USE HIS MENTAL HEALTH AS A DEFENSE AT TRIAL. LAWYERS FOR RODNEY STOUT FILED PAPERWORK FOR A DIMINISHED RESPONSIBILITY ...
In March this year, a Whanganui grandmother, Lorraine Smith, killed her teenage granddaughter, Kalis. Smith pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced this week to 12 years in prison. Her case is one ...
A doctor has told a murder trial there is "no clear evidence" to support a man's defence that he was suffering from a mental disorder at the time he killed a woman and her two-year-old daughter.
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has failed to reach a verdict in the trial of Stephen Silver, who accepts that he shot Detective Garda Colm Horkan 11 times but denies his murder. The jury were ...
Lawyers are contending that matters surrounding mental health and sanity are not tactics and tools pulled from a box of tricks to free their clients. In fact, they argue that a defence such as ...
A mentally ill prisoner who scalded his cellmate with hot water before strangling him has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility by a jury at ...
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Man found guilty of woman's manslaughter by diminished responsibility to be sentenced in May
A 34-year-old woman who was described as a loving mother was stabbed to death by her ‘on/off’ partner and he will be sentenced for her manslaughter on May 15. This date was confirmed on Monday at the ...
Diminished responsibility was the defence put forward by attorneys representing Keron “Mario” Vernon who was charged with manslaughter in relation to the fatal stabbing of his brother Damion Newell.
A man accused of the murder of a nine-year-old girl "has a defence of diminished responsibility", a psychiatrist told a jury. Lilia Valutyte was playing outside a shop where her mother was working in ...
A man with paranoid schizophrenia who stabbed a woman he was having an affair with to death has been found guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. The 12 jurors returned ...
Jasmine McMonagle was found strangled and beaten to death at her home in January 2019. A 32-year-old man who killed a mother-of-two in County Donegal has been found guilty of manslaughter on grounds ...
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