squareandrabbet
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Can this even be done in Ada County?Her defense team might have medicated her to keep her from a courtroom outburst was my thinking.
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Involuntary Medication to Render a Defendant Competent to Stand Trial
In U.S. v. Hernandez-Vasquez , 513 F.3d 908 (9th Cir. 2008), the court considered the defendant's appeal of the lower court's order, following a Sell hearing, that he be forcibly medicated to render him competent to stand trial. While assessing the sufficiency of the Sell hearing, the appellate
It seems from a layperson's perspective, at least to me, that the permissibility of this tactic depends upon each jurisdiction and its individual laws and statutes... if this was already discussed at length in the intervening months on-thread, considering we expected she was already on mood-altering medication as part of her evals, excuse it please