Before a jury could even be finalized, a State Supreme Court judge has declared a mistrial in the case of the schizophrenic man accused of slaughtering a psychologist with a meat cleaver in February 2008. Though David Tarloff was found fit to stand trial in August, today two court-appointed doctors visited Tarloff in his holding cell and found him "catatonic" and mentally unfit to stand trial. "He stripped down naked and was running around the ward," one of Tarloff's court-appointed lawyers told the judge. The Daily News reports that the "unfit" ruling elicited groans from the courtroom. more ›

The man who allegedly stabbed an Upper East Side psychiatrist to death was now found unfit to stand trial according to new psychiatric reports obtained by WABC 7. Though David Tarloff was previously found fit to stand trial, he was re-evaluated after he assaulted a Queens court guard. One psychiatrist said, "The defendant's eye contact is intense and ominous. His mood is irate and very easily angered. Mr. Tarloff does not talk about his Manhattan case but does reference it on several occasions: 'I know the the incident in Manhattan, but I never hit anyone since grade school.'" His lawyer said it's ironic "that you can be found unfit in one county, Queens, but yet come over the border essentially to Manhtattan and be found fit there" and hopes that prosecutors agree Tarloff needs to be in a state psychiatric hospital. more ›