involuntary-medication
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| 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 | 1) Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's denial of Mr. Brooks' Motion for Unconditional Release. 2) Whether the Fifth Cir… |
| 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 | 1. Whether the State of New Jersey's administration of unreasonably high doses of the controlled psychotropic drug Xanax (i.e., dosages four times the… |
| 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 | In Sell v. United States, 539 U.S. 166, 179 (2003), this Court held that "the Constitution permits the Government involuntarily to administer antipsyc… |