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Subcommittee backs affirmative-defense bill for people with intellectual and neurocognitive disabilities, 6–1
Summary
Senate Bill 10-13 would allow courts to consider an affirmative defense when a defendant’s assaultive behavior is found to be primarily caused by an intellectual or developmental disability, neurocognitive disorder or specified mental-health conditions.
Senate Bill 10-13, carried in the hearing by Senator Boyseco, would add an affirmative defense for defendants whose assaultive conduct a court finds was primarily caused by an intellectual or developmental disability, neurocognitive disorder or certain mental-health conditions. The measure also creates the possibility of reducing some charges to misdemeanors in those circumstances.
“SB 10-13 … gives protected people … a potential avenue, with an affirmative defense that if the individual’s behavior is correlated to their intellectual developmental disability like autism or mental health disorders such as dementia, then they would have the ability to have the courts decide if the…
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