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Arizona. do we know what the findings are? >> reporter: chris, hi. i spoke to a couple law enforcement sources who say they assert, at least these sources are asserting the decision has been made these two mental health exports who evaluated loughner are in agreement. and the judge himself, larry burns, all in agreement on one conclusion, which is that jared la laug fluhr loughner is not going to trial anytime soon. he wrote two letters to judge burns basically complaining reportedly about the a...

Declared him mentally incompetent. to be clear, all this does is stop the process for now. this is different from a verdict finding someone not guilty by reason of insanity. that is a verdict reached after a trial. this is a decision about whether somebody can go to trial in the first place. so this puts everything on hold, the charges will remain in abeyance and well see whether in coming months and possibly years, jared loughner can be treated and his mental competency can be restored, or he a...

Said in the united states senate in our time. it is utterly unpardonable. now there are smart liberals and ignorant liberals and smart conservatives and ignorant conservatives and smart libertarians and ignorant libertarians and then there are demented libertarians. what more evidence would you immediate to diagnose dementia than this. >> if im a physician if your community and you say you have a right to health care, do you have a right to beat down by door with the police escort me away and fo...

Between the antella and passenger side window, clinging to a windshield wiper. police say the van hit speeds of up to 100 miles per hour, during that drive from menteca to pleasant i dont know. carroll slowed down and his wife rolled off. luckily she was not seriously hurt. she was treat fod hypothermia. this was february. christopher, who is 36, is charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and sowsual abuse. there were questions about his mental competency. in fact two days be...

In one lettermaning complained take after he told his handlers sar kas it particularly that if he wanted to harm himself he could do so with the elastic waste band oig of his underwear, they used that as an excuse to take his clothes away during the periods when they slept. a defense accident official tells cnn it was only for a few nights that man hes clothes were kept from him and that he always had a blanket.official says he was not in solitary confinement. the pentagon says mannings mental c...

His mental competency is still being assessed even though he has been in custody a year. p.j. crowley, then the state departments spokesman, said the handling of his imprisonment was counterproducive and stupid and resigned shortly thereafter. i spoke with crowley today. >> any time you have to explain why a guy standing naked in a jail cell you have a policy that needs to be desperately reviewed. the pentagon has done that. >> reporter: i asked former marine judge solis how it may shake out now...

At 5s d, there is a visiting judge. judge rolls name plate is still there, his portrait still there. this clearly a difficult day here at this courthouse. this will be his third appearance, loughners, the first in tucson. we also expect family members of the victims to arrive here shortly to see loughner face-to-face. other things that will be discussed today besides those pleas, mental competency. loughner, of course, had a history of mental illness. and the united states wants him to go under ...

Confirms to fox news he launched investigation into allegation that mentally incapacitated person may be exposed there. 35-year-old james stein suffered severe brain damage in 1987 when he jumped to a river to save his sisters life and court declared him incapacitated. his father is charging that a vulnerable adult was exploited. he says voter fraud crime was committed because james is mentally incompetent and very coachable. its my belief that someone else filled in his ballot for him. he tells...

Wont comment on the tapes but says his client is unstable and the tapes may be used at competency hearings. >> it would be a baseline as to what his mental competency was at that point in time compared to what it might be at the time of the hearing. that would be extremely relevant. >> contacted by cnn on the skro discovery of the tapes, the cia said the agencys past detention program has been subject to multiple reviews by multiple government organization under two administrations. some of thos...

Im wrong, bin alp shibh indicated he wants to plead guilty. >> he intends to plead guilt but an issue not yet resolved because of questions about his mental competency that havent been answered at those hearings yet. >> thank you very much. this coming in from chicago. the breaking news right now were told the juries has reached a decision. the verdict in the corruption trial of the former governor of illinois, rod blagojevich and his brother robert blagojevich. we are expecting to hear the fa...