State officials have agreed to vastly speed up how quickly severely mentally ill people get into treatment after being arrested and will pay millions in fines until they can meet that goal, according to a federal court agreement reached this...
April 15, 2019 Long-running litigation over the time-frame for competency evaluations for criminal defendants resolved with a consent decree. After the issue went through multiple rounds of litigation and settlements, the consent decree is expected to resolve the litigation. The result includes...
Iris Eytan was selected to the 2019 Colorado Super Lawyers list. In addition, she was recognized in the Top 50 Women Colorado Super Lawyers and the Top 100 Colorado Super Lawyers. More About Super Lawyers Each year, no more than five percent of...
Multifirm Litigation Team Enters into Consent Decree to Settle Decade-Long Battle to Protect Thousands in Colorado With Mental Illness DENVER, MARCH 21, 2019 — A longstanding court battle over extensive wait times for court-ordered mental health evaluations has come to a...
March 18, 2019 Denver, Colorado A new agreement to end a backlog at the state hospital at Pueblo is being hailed as a sweeping reform to provide service to criminal defendants who are mentally ill. “This is a big deal for Colorado,” state...
March 15, 2019 Denver, Colorado The state and disability advocates reached a new agreement Friday in a longstanding legal battle over long waits for court-ordered mental health evaluations and treatment that will create a system of fines to penalize Colorado when it...
March 15, 2019 Denver, Colorado An agreement has been reached to end a backlog at the Pueblo state hospital of hundreds of criminal defendants awaiting competency restoration treatment needed so they can proceed to trial. The agreement resolves a long-standing lawsuit against the...
March 15, 2019 Denver, Colorado Colorado must overhaul its evaluation and treatment of mentally incompetent criminal defendants under a watershed agreement announced Friday ending a yearslong legal battle over how to keep them from languishing in county jails. The Colorado Department of Human...
Iris Eytan is proud to have her representation of Coleman Stewart listed on the National Registration of Exonerations website. In 2018, Colorado criminal defense attorney Iris Eytan represented the college age defendant that had been shot by officers in the...
Independent Monitor: State’s Plan For Addressing Mentally Ill In Jail Is 'Scattershot' February 7, 2019 BY ALLISON SHERRY CPR News Colorado Department of Human Services lacks a cohesive plan to deal with hundreds of mentally ill people facing criminal charges who are deemed incompetent...