Sanity Evaluation
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Pueblo County judge wrongly incarcerated man awaiting sanity evaluation, Supreme Court rules
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A Pueblo County judge incorrectly believed he had to put a defendant in jail until medical professionals could evaluate the man’s sanity, the Colorado Supreme Court concluded last week in ordering the release of Mario Arellano from incarceration. In November, Arellano drove his car into the food court of the Pueblo Mall and claimed he had planted…