Perreira v. State

KELLY, Judge.

The defendants, State of Colorado and its agents, Fort Logan Mental Health Center and Eric Anders, M.D. (the State), appeal from the judgment entered on a jury ver- diet for the plaintiff, Vendría Perreira, finding the defendants liable for the wrongful death of plaintiff’s husband, a Colorado Springs police officer who was shot and killed by a mentally ill man, Seth Andrew Buckmaster, Jr. The State argues, among other things, that it owed no duty to Officer Perreira when it discharged Buckmaster from custody at the Fort Logan Mental Health Center some four months before the…