Terry Ex Rel. Terry v. Hill

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that the six-month average wait in Arkansas for a defendant to be admitted to the state psychiatric hospital was “far beyond any constitutional boundary”
• holding that the average wait time of over six months for admission into the state hospital was “far beyond any constitutional boundary”
• holding in a § 1983 action that “lengthy and indefinite periods of incarceration… caused by the lack of space at [the state hospital], is not related to any legitimate goal, is purposeless and cannot be constitutionally inflicted….”
• wait times of eight months for inpatient evaluation and over six months for restoration treatment violated the due process clause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).