GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The man accused of killing his fiancée and her two sons in Grand Rapids late last month will undergo a competency evaluation. Charles Broomfield, 44, is charged with first ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - A judge has ordered multiple mental health exams for Joshua Hite, the man accused of killing Isadora Wengel. The court wants to know if he is mentally fit to stand ...

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: ...

GOSHEN - Three months after a judge ordered a competency exam for a man charged with killing a fellow patient at the Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Center, doctors have yet to file an assessment.

MERRILL, Wis. (WSAW) - Another competency exam has been ordered for a 56-year-old Merrill woman charged with attempting to kill her teenage son. Heather O’Neill is charged with attempted first-degree ...

MATT SMITH IN THE NEWSROOM FOR US. THANKS. ATTORNEYS FOR THE FORMER MILWAUKEE COUNTY INMATE ACCUSED OF STABBING A CORRECTIONS OFFICER ARE ASKING FOR A COMPETENCY EXAM. PROSECUTORS SAY RONNELL HART ...

FLINT (WWJ) - Mental exams have been ordered for three of five teenagers charged in the murder of a man struck by a rock on I-75 last month. The judge a second time denied bond for all five defendants ...

The recent case of Mark Latunski, accused of murdering and mutilating 25-year-old Kevin Bacon, has brought to light an old problem -- long wait times at the state’s Center for Forensic Psychiatry.

Requests for mental evaluations for criminal defendants — commonly known as competency exams — are on the rise in Metro Detroit courts, creating a strain on the state mental health facility that ...