scott thorp was apprehend the same day that laura was killed and he initially was incompetent to stand trial and plead guilty and found not guilty by reason of insanity. under a pencil commitment at the hospital one receives medical treatment. in some ways scott received the worse punishment improvement in his mental condition to the point that he new fully understands and rthsz what he did he has to live with that. his mental improvement and stability and insight, of course, too late for him he'll be forever incarcerated my too late for laura. to nick and i that is totally background we wait until someone does a crime and then they get treatment we thought there was a better approach he nick will talk about the legislation that ultimately ended up with laura's law but we knew and what we wanted to work for was getting treatment green before someone deteriorates and before their imcan't before that he do harm to them or on the we thought it made sense to get it before going to jail or prison doing is not only better for individuals for all enacted by severe mental illness we worked to

she was working at the behavioral mental health clinic, i man named scott thorpe came in and shot her pointblank 4 times and she died instantly. since that time we have come to realize, actually we came to realize rather early on in the process, that there are significant gaps in the mental health services system. we became involved with assembly mental helen thompson in ab 1421 which was eventually signed by the governor and is now known as laura's law. specifically we realized that there was a gap in the continuum of mental health services, specifically, as dr. leery pointed out, there are many individuals have severe mental illness who, because of their condition, are unable to recognize their condition. in other words, they do not realize that they are mentally ill. am i --. >> no, please keep going. >> okay, i will attempt to be a little quicker. there are people who suffer from anasdiagnosia, the inability to recognize their condition and therefore will not seek services voluntarily. and it is this population laura's law is attempting to address by using a court order to get peo