Author: Abigail Ronck (Abigail Ronck)

By Seth Berkman During his early days at East Haven Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in the Bronx in 2005, 81-year-old John Phillips would practice karate moves as other patients sat idly. A former judge in Civil Court in Brooklyn, Phillips was diagnosed with dementia five years earlier, but his physical health had not yet deteriorated....

By Abigail Ronck The lawyer for a teenager charged with stabbing her cousin to death more than 30 times will begin making his case today that although the defendant confessed to the murder, she was mentally unfit when she committed the crime. Tiana Browne, 17, is accused of murdering 16-year-old Shannon Braithwaite in September 2008....