From: Beckie Child

In a unanimous opinion Wednesday, Reinhardt became the latest in a
line of federal judges to express acute discomfort with the government
forcing anti-psychotic medications on mentally ill patients to make
them competent for trial.

"The administration of involuntary medication ordinarily constitutes a
serious and substantial violation of a defendant's liberty interest,"
Reinhardt wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel.
...
After a hearing last year in which government doctors proposed a
medication regimen with a list of side-effects -- nausea, diabetes, an
irreversible facial tick syndrome, to name a few -- that arguably
rival psychosis in terms of sheer discomfort ...

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