Coleman Stewart Police Shooting Case Dismissal "A Cover-up of a Cover-up" Westword By Michael Roberts November 9, 2018 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 DA seeks to drop charges against man shot by police in 2014 Daily Camera By John Bear Oct 30, 2018 The Boulder County District Attorney's Office is seeking to have charges dismissed against a former University of Colorado student who was shot by...
Why Mentally Ill Colorado Man Has Spent Eight Months in Jail for Spitting BY MICHAEL ROBERTS FOR WESTWORD.COM Oct 5, 2018 A mentally ill Colorado man has been in jail since February because he spit on a police officer. As a result, he...
State hospital in Pueblo can't keep up with competency evaluations for criminal suspects BY ROBERT BOCZKIEWICZ FOR THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN SEP 28, 2018 DENVER, CO A judge said Friday she will decide whether a state agency that operates the Colorado Mental Health Institute at...
Iris Eytan was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers™ 2019 in Criminal Defense General Practice. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled...
Colorado Increasingly In Contempt As More Judges Recognize That Jail Isn’t A Mental Health Answer BY ALLISON SHERRY | SEPTEMBER 11, 2018 Published in cpr.org Almost 300 mentally ill people across the state have been in jail for months — before being convicted...
By Allison Sherry June 14, 2018 Denver, Colorado State officials have been sued for the fourth time in a decade for violating a court order that guarantees mentally ill people facing criminal charges receive treatment within about a month. Lawyers for Disability Law Colorado...
March 26, 2018 Denver, Colorado Iris Eytan was selected to the 2018 Colorado Super Lawyers list. Iris Eytan was named to the Super Lawyers list in 2006-2007 and consecutively listed since 2009. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in Colorado...
Iris Eytan was written up in the 2018 edition of Best Lawyers Magazine for her work in representing criminals with mental illness who have been jailed and are suffering due to a lack of proper treatment for their illnesses. The...
Felony defense attorney, Iris Eytan was recently interviewed by the Denver Post, on account of her expertise in the fields of criminal justice and mental illness, “It has been a decade of false promises by the Department of Human Services,”...