Up until that point, Braaten said, "No matter what (Montin) said about the events that occurred in 1992, it was viewed under the auspices of him being delusional."

For years, the doctors were saying Montin had delusional disorder. Everybody was saying it, he said.

"We were just banging the drums, and they finally had to start listening," Braaten said.

Then, in 2013, a regional center psychiatrist, Dr. Edward Kelly, found that it was medicine Montin was taking for his back that had led to a medication-induced psychosis.

When Montin stopped taking the medication, which he had done long before he went to the regional center, the psychosis was gone.

Braaten said the treatment team agreed. Montin had been misdiagnosed for years.

And on July 16, 2013, Hayes County District Judge David Urbom issued a two-page order finding Montin no longer was dangerous to himself or others by reason of mental illness or defect and would not be in the foreseeable future.

Braaten called it a great result, his most satisfying, in a case that never should have had gotten this far.