Excerpt
Charles T. Sell was charged with Medicaid and insurance fraud, and found unfit to stand trial. He was ordered to take antipsychotic medicine. Sell argued there is a fundamental right to be free from state-administered potentially mind-altering drugs.
In This Issue
-
Foreword
Read More -
Due Process and Trial Competence
Supreme Court Addresses the Question of a Defendant's Sanity
Read More -
Case Background
Charles T. Sell's Battle Against the Courts and Mental Illness
Read More -
Lower Court Holding
Decision of the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
Read More -
Before the Court
The Justices Weigh in During Oral Arguments
Read More
Pro & Con
Can the State Forcibly Administer Antipsychotic Drugs to a Defendant Charged With a Nonviolent Felony So He Can Stand Trial?
