U.S. v. Charters, No. 96-5568 (4th Cir.) (863 F.3d 302) (December 9, 1988) (Judge James Dickson Jr. Phillips)
Here the Court held that the determination of whether to forcibly medicate a pretrial detainee was best left to the “professional judgment” of institutional medical personnel and subject to judicial review only for arbitrariness.
This case involved a pretrial detainee found to be incompetent to stand trial and dangerous to …
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