SALT LAKE CITY — Brian David Mitchell, the man charged with snatching Elizabeth Smart nearly eight years ago, could finally face a jury after a federal judge ruled Monday that Mitchell was faking mental illness and is competent to stand trial.
SALT LAKE CITY -- Prosecutors on Monday dropped state charges against a woman in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart in exchange for a guilty plea related to the attempted kidnapping of Smart's cousin.
SALT LAKE CITY -- A mental competency question related to the woman facing state charges in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart could soon be resolved.
SALT LAKE CITY -- Defense attorneys for the man charged in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart say the issue of his legal mental competency is unrelated to the facts of the case.
SALT LAKE CITY -- Ten days of testimony in a federal court competency hearing shed new light on the man charged in the abduction of Elizabeth Smart but also raised some persistent questions about his mental state.
SALT LAKE CITY -- A court-appointed forensic psychologist says the man charged in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart isn't faking a mental illness to avoid prosecution.
SALT LAKE CITY -- A forensic psychologist says the man charged in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart has a delusional disorder and was engaging in pre-psychotic behavior as far back as his teen years.
SALT LAKE CITY -- The man accused of abducting Elizabeth Smart used religion and his exaggerated sense of his relationship with God to justify his actions in the same way as a priest who commits sex offenses, a psychiatrist said Monday.