California Court of Appeal

Order authorizing the involuntary administration of antipsychotic medications in order to render defendant competent to stand trial is reversed where the record does not contain substantial evidence that it is "substantially likely" that such administration of medication to will render him competent to stand trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/25/2006
• Published 11/09/2006

Judges

• HAERLE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Violet M. Lee, and Christopher J. Wei, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Matthew Zwerling, Jeremy T. Price, San Francisco, CA, for Defendant and Appellant.