Roldan Rosa, Carmen R v. Manati Auto LLC

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “forcing antipsychotic drugs on a convicted prisoner is impermissible absent a finding of overriding justification and a determination of medical appropriateness”
• holding that a state may under some circumstances treat a defendant against his will to render him competent to stand trial
• holding that “[t]he Fourteenth Amendment affords at least as much protection to persons the State detains for trial”
• holding that an individual has a constitutionally protected liberty “interest in avoiding involuntary administration of antipsychotic drugs”—an interest that only an “essential” or “overriding” state interest might overcome
• suggesting that if medically appropriate, it would be acceptable for the government to forcibly medicate pre-trial detainee with antipsychotic drugs to obtain competency for trial
• noting that, “[u]nder Harper, forcing antipsychotic drugs on a convicted prisoner is impermissible absent a finding of overriding justification and a determination of medical appropriateness”

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