Last week a Cochise County Superior Court Judge ordered the use of reasonable force after the man charged with killing a man on Bisbee Rd. refused to cooperate with treatment through the Cochise County Restoration Program.

Cochise County Superior Court Judge Timothy Dickerson ruled in October that Nathan Banbury, the man charged with the death of Lee Vance, 73, was incompetent to stand trial but was “restorable” and ordered him to be treated through the Cochise County Restoration Program while being held at the Cochise County Jail.

But during a review hearing of Banbury’s case on November 25, the judge learned after a major outburst in the court room by Banbury that led to him being removed from the court that Banbury was not cooperating in the restoration program..….read full story (online subscribers only)