United States Ninth Circuit

Before a supervised release condition of mandatory medication can be imposed at sentencing, the district court must make on-the-record, medically grounded findings that court-ordered medication is necessary to accomplish one or more of the factors listed in 18 U.S.C. section 3583(d)(1). Per section 3583(d)(2), the court must also explicitly find that the condition "involves no greater deprivation of liberty than is reasonably necessary."

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/10/2003
• Decided 01/26/2004
• Published 01/26/2004

Judges

• BERZON, Circuit Judge:, Before: GOODWIN, HUG, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Steven Jacobson, Federal Public Defender, Portland, OR, for the defendant-appellant., Frank Noonan, Assistant United States Attorney, Portland, OR, for the plaintiff-appellee.