...the bombing during the trial itself. Her lawyer argued she suffered from depression and was innocent by reason of mental disease. But prosecutors said Riggs hated her son, left the children by themselves while she competed in karaoke contests...

...report prepared by psychologist Steven J. Rubenzer concluded the young mother suffers from "a serious mental disease, not a severe mental disease," assistant district attorney Joseph S. Owmby told the court Wednesday. But lawyers for Yates insist...

...she had thought about hurting her children for at least two years. Defense attorneys say Yates suffered a severe mental disease and did not know the difference between right and wrong at the time of the drownings.

...another time. When it comes to mental diseases (the term seems less judgmental...we should recognize. First, mental diseases - and this includes alcoholism...to our mental health. Third, mental diseases are often as treatable as physical...

...defense attorneys are confusing the issues. "The issue is whether she is presently competent, not whether she has a mental disease," Owmby argued. "She has to have a trial, and she's competent to have that trial today." During Owmby's...

...affair. It makes you wonder. I am afraid that Mr. Wellstone has succumbed to Potomac fever. This is an incurable mental disease that causes one to believe that he is as important as he has been telling everyone that he is while straying farther...