Punch and Jurists

U.S. v. Cope, No. 06-50441 (9th Cir.) (527 F.3d 944) (June 4, 2008) (Judge Sidney R. Thomas) by Gordon Cope was arrested in September, 2003 by the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department, and charged with various sex offense crimes arising out of their discovery of over 600 images and 20 videos …

U.S. v. Cope, No. 06-50441 (9th Cir.) (506 F.3d 908) (November 5, 2007) (Judge Sidney R. Thomas) by Here the Court held that there are significant liberty interests at stake when a court orders a defendant to undergo forced medication (such as “chemical castration”) as a special condition of supervised …