September 1, 2026: Hearing Update

LyriqNeedsHerDadBack | Case No. 24JV30195 | Denver Juvenile Court

Today I walked into Denver Juvenile Court for what may be the most important hearing in this two-and-a-half-year fight to bring Lyriq home.

I did not walk in with a title. I did not announce anything. I did not use any special words.

I just showed up — the way I have shown up for 890 days — and something shifted in that room that I did not plan and could not have scripted.

What Happened in That Room

I argued this case today at a level I have been building toward for 890 days.

I referenced CASCADE — a framework I have been developing to map the systemic failures in this case — while every adversary in that room could not keep up. The City Attorney. The Guardian ad Litem. ORPC counsel. None of them were operating at the level this case demands.

Judge Gomez was.

There was a moment in that courtroom today where she and I both knew it. I was running that room. Not with outbursts. Not with emotion. With language. With documentation. With the confidence of someone who has read every filing, studied every doctor, tracked every date, and refused to let 890 days of separation break what he knows to be true.

I addressed the camera. I did not read from papers. I made one intentional comment — deliberate, controlled, and noted for the record.

What I realized walking out of that room is that what happened today has a name. Sui Juris. It means more than self-representation. It means operating with the full weight of informed, competent, self-directed authority — not because someone handed it to you, but because you earned it through 890 days of doing the work.

I did not say that word in that courtroom today. I did not have to. The room said it for me.

What Was Filed Today

After the hearing, I filed three independent supplemental exhibits directly to the court clerk and the Colorado DHS Ombudsman. All six emails went out before 4:00 PM — timestamped, documented, and on the record.

Exhibit 1: Communications Blackout — Sullivan Exit / Coscia Transition Window

This exhibit maps the approximately 35-day gap between Christina Sullivan's abrupt, undisclosed departure from DHS and Heather Coscia's assumption of the case. During that window, every internal DHS communication, every therapeutic provider contact, and every case direction decision happened without me or my ORPC counsel present or copied.

Sullivan misrepresented the reintegration referral as complete at the June 10 hearing. She then quit without warning the week she was finally scheduled to meet me for the first time — in person — after more than two years on my case. The referral was never submitted. Coscia inherited it as done.

Judge Gomez identified this window herself. This exhibit gives her every date she asked for.

Exhibit 2: Medical Disclosure and Failure to Investigate

On May 2, 2025, I named my treating physicians in writing — by specialty and institution — directly to Christina Sullivan and Kerry Simpson. My cardiologist at South Denver Cardiology. My epilepsy specialist at UC Medical. I have maintained relationships with all of my doctors and their staffs for over a decade.

Not one of them ever contacted a single one of my physicians.

I disclosed again on September 19, 2025 — to Sullivan, Simpson, McDowell, and Adame, all four, copied together. Same result. Zero follow-up.

Judge Gomez asked to see that email chain today. It exists. It has always existed. The same people who never followed up were in that courtroom today.

This exhibit also includes the full Reasonable Efforts dual export — DHS's 22-item list against my 44-item documented counter-record. Their list contains a duplicate. Item 9 admits only "attempts" — not contact, not visits. Mine contains 890 days of dated, sourced, documented evidence.

Exhibit 3: 2e Intellectual Framework — What "My Doctors Worldwide" Actually Meant

During a prior hearing, I made a statement that I work with doctors and thinkers from around the world as part of how I understand and manage my own neurology, nutrition, and case strategy. Judge Gomez raised that statement today. I thanked her for bringing it up, redirected the moment, and committed to supplying the follow-up context in writing.

This exhibit is that follow-up.

A twice-exceptional mind does not consult a single framework. It cross-references. Dr. Tony Attwood documents exactly how 2e people are misread by institutions as non-compliant when they are operating from a principled, pattern-based framework. Dr. Jordan Peterson on meaning-making under systemic pressure. Dr. Craig Childress on attachment-based parental alienation — the exact dynamic present in this case. Dr. Sebi on the nutritional framework I apply alongside my conventional medical team.

The same cognitive process that brought me to each of them is the same process that built every exhibit, every timeline, and every argument I have placed before this court.

It is not a liability. It is the record.

What This Day Means

890 days ago Lyriq and I were separated by a temporary restriction built on allegations that produced no conviction, no clinical finding, and no evidence that held up in a six-person jury trial that I hung — alone, in cardiac rehabilitation, in the middle of an active seizure disorder.

Today the same father who hung that jury walked into court without notes, addressed the camera, argued CASCADE to a judge who understood it, and filed three documented exhibits to the court and the Ombudsman before business hours closed.

Three caseworkers have quit this case. No transition plans. No continuity. No in-person contact for over two years. A reintegration referral misrepresented as complete. A plan written by a caseworker who never met me. Risk language inserted without clinical basis. ADA accommodations never provided. Virtual visits ordered by the judge herself — ignored for 13 consecutive weeks.

And through all of it: a father who kept showing up. Who kept documenting. Who kept sending emails they never responded to. Who kept naming doctors they never called.

Today is the day that record became undeniable.

Lyriq, if you ever read this: I was in that courtroom today. I have been in every courtroom. I have never stopped. Not once.

Case No. 24JV30195 | Denver Juvenile Court | Judge Lisa Marie Gomez Filed September 1, 2026 | Justin Jay Kirscht, Respondent Father, Sui Juris Follow this case: LyriqNeedsHerDadBack