A Colorado law dealing with a defendant's mental competency that puts the state in compliance with a 1972 Supreme Court ruling is causing controversy . If evaluators determine a person is unlikely to be restored in the foreseeable future, a judge must dismiss charges, or if the individual qualifies, they will be civilly committed to a treatment facility.
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Colorado lawmakers have asked Gov. Jared Polis to intervene. But it turns out that parents could be the answer to change.
It's been nearly four years since Joseph Bowman and his sister's world was turned upside down, after they and their mother were struck by another car while they were driving to their work in Golden.
"We were robbed of justice for ourselves, for myself, my sister, and for our mother,"