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Newsom's plan seeks to give hope to families of mentally ill, homeless Californians
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBrian Lungren and his family wonder what could have spared him some of the 13 years he spent at Napa State Hospital in treatment for mental illness and serious drug and alcohol addiction. Since ...
Sampson Oguntope found competent to stand trial in 2012 capital murder case
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA decades-long capital murder case may finally be going to trial after a judge determined that a...
Lake County has had its share of murder defendants pursuing an insanity defense
Daily Commercial via Yahoo News· 3 months agoTAVARES — The experts — lawyers who trudge up the steep, slippery mountain of practicing criminal law — say that the number of clients claiming to be not guilty by reason of insanity is only ...
How This Mother Went to Extremes to Help Her Mentally Ill Son: 'He Knows He's Locked up Because of...
People via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLike many people with serious mental illness who suffer from anosognosia — a condition where the...
Joseph Angel Alvarez sentenced to life, plus-20 years in shooting of Kaufmann family
The El Paso Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoJoseph Angel Alvarez received a life sentence Monday, Oct. 23, on a murder charge in the death of...
After killing his nephews, he fled the L.A. area for China. Was it revenge or a psychotic break?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThere is no dispute Deyun Shi bludgeoned his teenage relatives in 2016, but his attorneys argue...
Sentencing for Brianna Williams will resume Tuesday, judge says
WJAX via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe sentencing hearing for Brianna Williams, the woman who pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder in the 2019 death of her 5-year-old daughter Taylor, continued Friday.
Column: New York will treat more mentally ill people against their will. Should California follow?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoGov. Gavin Newsom has pushed local elected officials to raise their ambition when it comes to homelessness. But New York is showing that the real path to success is about mental illness.