A judge says a man charged with killing 10 people at a Boulder supermarket nearly two years ago remains mentally incompetent to stand trial.
Proceedings against 23-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa have been paused for more than a year after a judge found him to be mentally incompetent in December 2021 and sent him to the state mental hospital for treatment.
He's charged with murder and multiple attempted murder counts. He hasn't been asked to enter a plea yet. "And that's a struggle that the state hospital is dealing with," Dougherty said."And it's a very real struggle for them. And it impacts and hampers the prosecutor's ability to do justice in cases and for cases to move along."
"And not only are those 49 cases stalled, and we're waiting, but the taxpayers of Colorado are paying a $10 million fine every year, because the state of Colorado is failing to comply with a decree put in place in federal court to speed up and improve the restoration process," he added."And that's been true since 2019."
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