Tag: mental health
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Colorado Springs City Council, Mayor Mobolade at odds over marijuana tax revenues
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Springs City Council and Mayor Yemi Mobolade are at odds over the power to pick who will receive the tax revenues from recreational marijuana sales. Voters laid out the broad framework for marijuana tax revenues in 2022, requiring potentially millions to fund post-traumatic stress…
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Court documents shed light on Highland Lakes fire investigation
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Court documents obtained by the Gazette reveal additional details about the investigation into the Highland Lakes fire that burned 166 acres northwest of Divide and caused over 700 households to be evacuated last year. Lacey Tillitt, 77, was arrested on Jan. 16 for allegedly starting…
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Colorado justices to hear cases on defendant who blamed mom, car rental companies as insurers
The Colorado Supreme Court announced last week that it will analyze whether a person can be convicted of attempting to influence a public servant when they enlist another party to perform the deceit, and whether vehicle rental companies can be held legally liable as insurers when they choose to offer insurance policies. At least three…
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El Paso County sex assault conviction overturned after judge misapplied law
Colorado’s second-highest court reversed a man’s sexual assault conviction last month after finding an El Paso County judge applied the wrong legal standard when assessing whether the defendant was competent to stand trial. Prosecutors charged Micheal Cochran with numerous sex-related offenses, but his defense attorney became concerned that Cochran was struggling to understand the charges,…
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Pueblo County judge wrongly incarcerated man awaiting sanity evaluation, Supreme Court rules
A Pueblo County judge incorrectly believed he had to put a defendant in jail until medical professionals could evaluate the man’s sanity, the Colorado Supreme Court concluded last week in ordering the release of Mario Arellano from incarceration. In November, Arellano drove his car into the food court of the Pueblo Mall and claimed he had planted…
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Advances on the mental health care front: High heels to high schools
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The need for mental health care in the post-COVID-19 landscape means more people than before are struggling with anxiety, depression, stress, phobias, addictions, thoughts of suicide and emergencies such as psychotic breaks — at a time when services and treatment providers are in short supply. Initiatives from an innovative grassroots startup in Colorado Springs to…
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Colorado justices signal intervention in 4 ongoing cases, including jury trials for evictions and Ouray rape prosecution
The Colorado Supreme Court recently signaled it may intervene in four ongoing cases in the trial courts on subjects that include a tenant’s right to a jury trial in eviction proceedings, whether defendants should remain incarcerated pending a sanity evaluation and a judge’s decision to sanction prosecutors for late-disclosed evidence. Although most of the Supreme…
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Northglenn residents decry planned transition home for sex offenders, mentally ill
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Northglenn residents packed a meeting Wednesday to voice their opposition, often tearfully, to a panel of city, county and state leaders over a Mental Health Transitional Living Home planned for an area near an elementary school, playgrounds and a church. Some are so upset by the facility, they plan to move from Northglenn. “If this…
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Northglenn transitional home for sex offenders, mentally ill sparks controversy
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Neither the state nor the City of Northglenn wants to budge in a tug of war over plans for a facility that would house dozens of registered sex offenders and mentally ill residents in a neighborhood near schools and a playground. The Mental Health Transitional Living Home — the subject of the tug of war — is comprised…