This column reports on several significant, representative decisions handed down recently in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Judge Eric
 Vitaliano granted the government’s application to continue medicating defendant involuntarily to render him competent to stand trial, even though the first course of treatment, with a different medication, had failed. Judge Joseph Bianco found that New York Penal Law §265.01, banning “metal knuckles,” was not unconstitutionally vague as applied to a “Black Cat Keychain.” Magistrate Judge Joan Azrack issued a certificate of extraditability, requiring a defendant convicted in a Brazilian narcotics trial to be returned to Brazil. And Judge I. Leo Glasser held that third-party reliance on defendants’ statements provided a basis to uphold common law fraud 
claims.

Involuntary Medication

In United States v. Decoteau, 08 CR 736 (EDNY, Oct. 24, 2012), Judge Vitaliano granted the government’s motion for renewed authorization to medicate defendant involuntarily for an extra four months to restore his competency to stand trial.

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