involuntary-medication
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6021 | Samuel Boima v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-competency due-process governmental-interests involuntary-medication mental-health trial-fairness | How should district courts decide whether a crime is 'serious' within the meaning of Sell? |
| 22-7785 | Christopher Lewis Tucker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process forcible-medication involuntary-medication judicial-discretion mental-competency mental-health pretrial-custody pretrial-detention sell-standard | Whether a district court may order forcible medication under Sell v. United States when (1) record evidence shows that the government has already trie… |
| 22-5126 | Davis Lamar Brooks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof civil-commitment conditional-release due-process fifth-circuit haldol-injection involuntary-medication involuntary-treatment mental-health preponderance-of-evidence standard-of-review | whether-the-fifth-circuit-erred-by-affirming-the-district-court's-denial-of-mr-brooks'-motion-for-unconditional-release |
| 20-1164 | Donald E. Boyd v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process fair-trial fair-trial-rights involuntary-medication psychotropic-drugs right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment xanax-dosage | Whether the State of New Jersey's administration of unreasonably high doses of the controlled psychotropic drug Xanax violated the defendant's constit… |
| 19-6393 | Jean-Paul Gamarra v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony involuntary-medication involuntary-treatment mental-health psychiatric-testimony trial-fairness | Whether the Constitution permits the government to satisfy the Sell requirements based on testimony from a prison psychiatrist who did not examine, or… |