Americare Medical Partners, PLLC v. Cardinal Health 108, LLC

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• recognizing that when antipsychotic medication is authorized on “alternative grounds, the need to consider authorization on trial competence grounds will likely disappear”
• concluding that standard articulated in Sell governs issue of involuntarily medicating defendant so that defendant may be competent to stand trial in Connecticut
• recognizing that pre-trial psychiat- ric confinement to restore competence to stand trial may be lengthy
• holding that “involuntary administration of drugs solely for trial competence purposes” is permitted “in certain instances”
• concluding that sentencing a defendant by video teleconferencing, a proceeding to which Rule 43 specifically and explicitly applies, does not comply with Rule 43 because the defendant is not “present”
• holding that defendants have a due process right to avoid the involuntary administration of antipsychotic drugs absent a finding, inter alia, that the drugs administered were medically appropriate

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