A defendant may be forcibly medicated so that he is mentally competent for sentencing, the Third Circuit has ruled in a case of first impression.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is the first federal appellate court to extend the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Sell v. United States, which established the parameters within which the government can forcibly medicate a defendant in order to stand trial, to the sentencing context.
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