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Judge defers adjudication for Melissa Taylor, orders special-needs safety program and mental-health treatment

5534112 · August 5, 2025
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Melissa Taylor was placed on deferred adjudication with treatment requirements after the court found mental-health issues and jail write-ups associated with medication problems; the judge ordered participation in a special-needs safety program and probation with monitoring.

A Jefferson County judge on Thursday deferred adjudication and placed Melissa Taylor on probation in two cases, ordering that she enter the county's special-needs safety program and receive mental-health treatment as conditions of supervision. Taylor had pleaded guilty to an assault-on-a-peace-officer second-degree felony and to a state-jail felony for credit-card abuse; the plea agreement capped the assault at five years and the financial…

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