Tag: competency
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Colorado’s $46.8 billion budget nears finish line. Here’s what changed
Colorado legislators on Tuesday adopted a $46.8 billion plan to pay for state operations and programs next year after a joint panel reconciled differences between the House and Senate versions. A small group of lawmakers had resolved those differences. Lawmakers adopted what is called the conference committee report on House Bill 1410 — the budget…
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Susan Blanco, innovator in the judiciary | SUPREME COURT FINALISTS
Less than 24 hours after her selection as a finalist for a Colorado Supreme Court vacancy, Chief Judge Susan Blanco was back on the bench in Fort Collins, moving methodically through the variety of complications she encountered. “Your goatee might grow to your belly button by then,” she quipped to a defendant awaiting the delayed…
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Colorado justices rule Larimer County judge wrongly denied competency second opinion to defendant
The Colorado Supreme Court determined on Monday that a Larimer County judge had no choice but to permit a doctor to give their second opinion on a criminal defendant’s competency to proceed, even though he had received numerous such evaluations in the past. Justice Carlos A. Samour Jr., in the Jan. 12 decision, noted that…
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Parental rights group seeks to repeal competency law
A group of parental rights advocates and Republican lawmakers is urging the Colorado legislature to repeal a 2024 law that made changes to the state’s competency procedures. Established over the summer, the group called We The Parents includes members of the Colorado Parental Advocacy Network and legislators from the more conservative wing of the Republican…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado plays ‘catch me if you can’
It appears authorities have collared the latest criminal suspect to make a mockery of Colorado’s dangerously lax competency laws. The public can breathe a sigh of relief — for now, at least. The Gazette reported on Friday that Ephraim Debisa, 21, had been arrested for allegedly bringing a gun to the University of Northern Colorado…
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Planned Parenthood shooting suspect’s federal case stuck despite mandatory medication
DENVER • A federal judge announced Wednesday that Robert Dear, the alleged gunman in the 2015 Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting that took the lives of three people, remains incompetent to proceed to trial and is likely unrestorable despite being medicated. Dear, 67, was diagnosed with a delusional disorder shortly after his arrest in 2015,…
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Colorado Supreme Court to hear 2 Denver criminal appeals
The justices may also intervene in an ongoing criminal case to determine if the defendant is entitled to a fifth competency evaluation
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Teller County fire suspect competent to face trial, judge rules
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Teller County judge ruled that the woman accused of sparking the Highland Lakes fire that burned more than 150 acres near Divide last year is competent to proceed to trial. Lowa Tillitt, 77, also referred to as Lacey Tillitt in public records, was arrested…
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Teller County fire suspect competent to face trial, judge rules
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Teller County judge ruled that the woman accused of sparking the Highland Lakes fire that burned more than 150 acres near Divide last year is competent to proceed to trial. Lowa Tillitt, 77, also referred to as Lacey Tillitt in public records, was arrested…
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Fatal hit-and-run suspect ruled incompetent to stand trial over childhood brain injury
After several hours of testimony spanning multiple hearings — focused mostly on a traumatic brain injury from his childhood — an El Paso County judge ruled the man accused of dragging a woman 300 feet during a fatal hit and run in November is incompetent to stand trial and cannot be restored to competency. The…