My criminal law practice isn’t dwindling when it comes to representing individuals who have mental health and developmental disabilities. And, the same goes for my criminal defense colleagues who frequently ask where they can get their clients with mental health disabilities help. I am consistently...
July 19, 2014 Denver, Colorado The letter arrived in the mailbox of an Aurora movie theater shooting survivor half a year after the attack. In its six paragraphs of carefully, sympathetically written prose, a woman offered to help the survivor communicate with defense attorneys representing the gunman: questions,...
We all know that Darren Rainey, a severely mentally ill person, should not have been detained in a law enforcement environment. We are all ashamed that we live in a society that would lock this 50-year-old man in a shower for an hour for punishment...
The United States Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a cutoff of a 70 IQ to determine mental retardation is unconstitutional. The standard of error is +- 5, and the decision to execute Mr. Freddie Lee Hall who has an I.Q. of 70 (see my previous blog...
May 15, 2014 Centennial, Colorado In response to several conversations on Colorado Matters this week about sexual assaults on college campuses, a listener wrote in to emphasize that students accused of sexual violence by their fellow students can also be victims. The White House is pressuring schools to...