stabbing

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier reiterated his plea to narrow the state's insanity defense statute after a 40-year-old man allegedly stabbed a woman in the back at a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Palm Beach Gardens last week. The woman, 65-year-old Rita B. Loncharich, later died after being transported to St. Mary’s Medical Center in […]

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is vowing to reform the state's insanity defense statute after a man who stabbed a six-year-old child more than 20 times to death was acquitted of capital murder by reason of insanity by a Kentucky jury in 2018. "Alleging that you can't tell right from wrong should not exonerate you […]