KORT v. CARLSON

No. 86SA31.

723 P.2d 143 (1986)

Dr. Haydee KORT, Superintendent, Colorado State Hospital; Dr. Frank Traylor, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Institutions; and the State of Colorado, Petitioners, v. Ross Michael CARLSON, Defendant; the Honorable Edward C. Day, Judge, Eighteenth Judicial District; and the District Court of the Eighteenth Judicial District of Colorado, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied August 25, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duane Woodard, Atty. Gen., Charles B. Howe, Deputy Atty. Gen., Richard H. Forman, Sol. Gen., and Carolyn Lievers, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for petitioners.

David B. Savitz and Walter L. Gerash, Denver, for respondents.


DUBOFSKY, Justice.

In this original proceeding brought by officials of the Colorado Department of Institutions (department) we issued a rule to show cause why orders of the respondent District Court of the Eighteenth Judicial District in a criminal proceeding against the defendant, Ross Michael Carlson, should not be vacated. The district court granted the defendant's motions to appoint a private psychotherapist chosen by the defendant to treat him at the state psychiatric...

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