Ninth Circuit on Involuntary Medication of Illegal Re-entry Defendant

 
Photo of Judges Reinhardt and Kozinski courtesy of Above the Law

In an opinion by Judge Stephen Reinhardt, and joined by Chief Judge Alex Kozinski and District Judge Robert Timlin (C.D. CA), the Ninth Circuit held that the government had failed to satisfy the rquirements for medicating a defendant accused of a criminal re-entry offense for the purpose of rendering him competent to stand trial.

It is fair to say that Judges Reinhardt and Kozinski sit at very different ends of the ideological spectrum.  Both agreed on the outcome in this case, however.

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