United States Ninth Circuit

A state mental hospital, charged with evaluating and treating mentally incapacitated criminal defendants, violated the due process rights of certain defendants by refusing to admit them in a timely manner.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/06/2003
• Published 03/06/2003

Judges

• FISHER, Circuit Judge., Before: T.G. NELSON, GRABER and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard D. Wasserman, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, OR, for the defendants-appellants., Kathleen L. Wilde, Oregon Advocacy Center, and Spencer M. Neal, Oregon Law Center, Portland, OR, for the plaintiffs-appellees.