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2022 Colorado Code
Title 18 - Criminal Code
Article 1.3 - Sentencing in Criminal Cases
Part 14 - Competency of Persons to Be Executed
§ 18-1.3-1405. Mentally Incompetent to Be Executed - Untimely or Successive Motions
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CO Code § 18-1.3-1405 (2022)
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- A motion raising the issue of whether a convicted person is mentally incompetent to be executed that is filed pursuant to section 18-1.3-1404 fewer than thirty-five days before the scheduled execution is untimely and shall not be considered by the court unless it is accompanied by both of the following:
- At least one affidavit from a licensed physician, licensed psychiatrist, or licensed psychologist who has examined the convicted person that states the physician's, psychiatrist's, or psychologist's opinion that the convicted person is mentally incompetent to be executed; and
- A statement that establishes good cause for the failure to file the motion in a timely manner.
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- Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection (2), if the court has determined, pursuant to section 18-1.3-1404 or 18-1.3-1406 (3), that a convicted person is not mentally incompetent to be executed, no further consideration of the convicted person's mental incompetence to be executed may be granted by the court.
- A successive motion raising the issue of whether a convicted person is mentally incompetent to be executed may be filed only if the successive motion is accompanied by an affidavit from a licensed physician, licensed psychiatrist, or licensed psychologist who has examined the convicted person that shows a substantial change of circumstances since the previous motion was denied or the prior determination of restoration to competency to be executed was made and the showing is sufficient to raise a significant question regarding whether the convicted person is mentally incompetent to be executed.
Source: L. 2002: Entire article added with relocations, p. 1462, § 2, effective October 1. L. 2012: IP(1) amended, (SB 12-175), ch. 208, p. 870, § 124, effective July 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 16-8-305 as it existed prior to 2002.
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