Hoggle’s Mental Eval Could Alter Murder Trial | Baltimore News

Catherine Hoggle, the Maryland mom accused of killing her two young children in 2014, is now facing a mental evaluation that could unlock a dramatic defense: an insanity plea. After nearly a decade of legal limbo—including being deemed incompetent to stand trial—she was finally found competent last year, paving the way for a murder trial set for October. Her lawyers are pushing hard for “Not Criminally Responsible,” arguing severe schizophrenia drove her actions, even as her ex-husband once hinted she may have been faking her illness. Released from a psychiatric hospital just weeks before her arrest in 2017, Hoggle remains jailed at a Jessup facility, and this upcoming evaluation could reshape the entire case.

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