United States v. Ruiz-Gaxiola

How courts have described this case

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• using the sentencing guideline range for an offense, rather than the statutory maximum, as the starting point for determining the seriousness of a crime
• using expected guidelines range rather than statutory maximum to determine “seriousness” of crime, as well as additional incarceration that the defendant would face upon conviction
• finding this burden unmet where the government’s “experts rely on generalities and fail to apply their views to [the defendant’s] condition with specificity”
• explaining the difference between considering side effects under the second and fourth Sell prongs
• explaining the difference between considering side effects under the second and fourth Sell prongs
• referring to the magistrate judge ordering \the government to conduct an administrative hearing pursuant to Harper \ prior to considering an involuntary medication order under Sell for a pretrial detainee \[d]ue in part to our admonition that ` Sell orders are disfavored'\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).