Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the House Judiciary Committee appear ready to support a bipartisan proposal to change the state's criminal competency ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left, Jennifer Barela, a public defender for the Second Judicial District, Karl Swanson, deputy district attorney of the ...

What happens during competency evaluation? An expert explains.

Exterior of Whiting Forensic Hospital on the grounds of Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown. The maximum-security hospital has up to 78 beds for patients needing competency restoration. Credit: ...

Professor Kirk Heilbrun, Head of the Department of Psychology at Drexel University, will discuss "Criminal Competency: Inside the Mind of Jared Lee Loughner" at the law school on Oct. 24. The talk ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — In Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s final State of the State address, she made it clear public safety reform is an expectation and not a suggestion. It’s been the same expectation in ...

As New Mexico lawmakers grapple with how to curb high crime rates, a court-affiliated working group has proposed legislation that would give judges more options in cases where defendants are deemed ...

The 60-day New Mexico legislative session ended on Saturday, March 22, and 194 bills were passed out of 1,182 introduced. Here's a look at what public safety bills passed and what did not. This ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Every year judges order hundreds of Colorado defendants to undergo exams to determine whether they are mentally competent to stand trial. The use of such ...