in 2004. At a preliminary hearing, the county court found probable cause to believe that Laeke committed the crimes and bound the charges over for proceedings in the district court. A trial court is required to hold a preliminary hearing if there has been no grand jury indictment or preliminary hearing prior to the entry of a plea of NGRIL § 16-8-103@8), C.R.S. (2011). This mandatory hearing operates as a "check" on the People by requiring that there be some showing of evidence that the accused in fact committed the acts al leged before proceedings pursuant to a plea of NGRI may begin. T4 At arraignment, Laeke's attorney sought to enter a plea of NGRI over Laceke's objection, pursuant to section 16-8-108(2), C.R.S. (2011). See Hendricks v. People, 10 P.3d 1231, 1240-41 (Colo.2000) (<HOLDING>). The trial court orally reviewed the NGRI plea
holding that defense counsel need only consult and be governed by his clients wishes when the question arises as to whether or not a plea of guilty should be entered trial by jury waived or whether the defendant should take the witness stand in his own defense holding that defense counsel gathered sufficient evidence to make a reasonable tactical decision not to conduct further investigations into his clients mental health when psychiatric experts interviewed the defendant for more than twenty hours and informed defense counsel that they could not find any basis for a mental defense holding that defendants failure to assert the defense in any pretrial motions did not waive defendants limitations defense because the assertion of a limitations defense in the answer preserved defendants right to raise the defense both during the first trial and before the second holding that pursuant to section 168103 a defendant does not have an absolute right to waive the assertion of a mental status defense when such defense is sought by counsel and setting forth a balancing test for trial courts to rule whether the ngri plea is necessary for a just determination under section 1681082 holding that a defendant does not have the right to a jury trial where a plea of ngri is entered and the prosecution concedes that the defendant was insane at the time of the offense