United States v. Michael Francis Charters, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “there is no necessary relationship between mental illness and incompetency which renders [the mentally ill] unable to provide informed consent to medical treatment.”
• reversing forcible medication order and remanding case for further proceedings as defendant’s “federal custodians do not at present have legal authority to detain” him because (a
• competency to make treatment decisions depends on whether the patient is able to make a rational choice based on reason
• “[T]he present case does not present an emergency situation in which violence or the imminent deterioration of a patient will occur in the absence of forcible medication_”
• “The right to be free of unwanted physical invasions has been recognized as an integral part of the individual’s constitutional freedoms . . . .”
• right to refuse anti-psychotic medication

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).