The state Supreme Court has found that a criminal defendant in a high-profile shoreline murder case can be forcibly medicated in order to be made competent to stand trial.

The decision comes in the case of Lishan Wang, who is accused of fatally shooting Yale University Dr. Vajinder Toor outside Toor’s residence in Branford on April 26, 2010. Wang also is accused of attempting to kill Toor’s wife.

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