United States v. Shawn Mackey

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the maximum punishment for a crime “is the most relevant objective indication of the seriousness with which society regards [it]”
• finding that involuntary medication “would allow the patient—who was not showering, recreating, or communicating with staff—to ‘have a better quality of life and to kind of move forward’” in addition to restoring his competency to stand trial
• finding a crime with “a maximum term of ten years’ imprisonment . . . [was] ‘serious’ under any reasonable standard” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).