Read IN RE QAWI, S100099

A mentally disordered offender can be compelled to take antipsychotic medication in a nonemergency situation only if a court, at the time the offender is committed or recommitted, or in a separate proceeding, finds either that the offender is incompetent to refuse medical treatment, or is dangerous within the meaning of Welfare and Institutions Code section 5300.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/05/2004
• Published 01/05/2004

Judges

•  MORENO, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Renée E. Torres, under appointment by the Supreme Court, San Francisco, for Petitioner Kanuri Surgury Qawi.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Pamela Smith-Steward, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Charlton G. Holland III, Assistant Attorney General, Stephanie Wald, James M. Humes and Angela Botelho, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent the People.