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U.S. v. Rivera-Guerrero, No. 04-50493 (9th Cir.) (426 F.3d 1130) (October 19, 2005) (Judge Stephen Reinhardt)

Loaded on Sept. 1, 2005 published in Punch and Jurists September 26, 2005
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Antipsychotic Drugs/Forced Medication.

In a brilliant decision by Judge Reinhardt, the Ninth Circuit has issued a comprehensive review of the law on involuntary medicating incompetent defendants pretrial. The case involved the forced medication of an alien charged with illegal entry. After he was initially found incompetent to stand trial, he was committed to ...

 

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