United States Fourth Circuit

The district court order to allow involuntary medication of an incompetent defendant is vacated where the district court erroneously concluded that the Government demonstrated that involuntary medication would "significantly further" its prosecutorial interest and was "medically appropriate."

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/12/2005
• Published 04/12/2005

Judges

• Before WILLIAMS and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges, and Henry F. FLOYD, United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Monroe Jamison, Jr., Abingdon, Virginia, for Appellant.   Steven Randall Ramseyer, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Abingdon, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  John L. Brownlee, United States Attorney, Roanoke, Virginia, for Appellee.