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...
Charges of failure to report sex assault of student against East High School staffers dismissed Judge Gary M. Jackson ruled after the court heard from 12 witnesses and after multiple exhibits were filed. January 29, 2019 By KIERAN NICHOLSON The Denver Post Criminal charges of...
January 10, 2019 Denver, Colorado Iris Eytan is ranked in the 2019 Best Lawyers publication in criminal defense practice area....
Colorado Cries Uncle in Ten-Year Fight Over Warehousing of Mentally Ill Westword By Michael Roberts December 14, 2018 Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman has agreed to the appointment of a "special master" to independently oversee the state's plan to address the routine warehousing of...
Westword Michael Roberts A judge has dismissed a case against 27-year-old Coleman Stewart in relation to a 2014 incident during which he was shot twice by members of the Boulder Police Department. But while his attorney, Iris Eytan, is pleased that Stewart is...