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Opinion
Author
John Kenneth Bush
Filed
Dec. 19, 2018
Case
United States v. Duane Berry
Case status
Decided

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JOHN K. BUSH, Circuit Judge. *357 When the government seeks to involuntarily medicate a mentally incompetent defendant to restore his competency for trial, the government's prosecutorial interest must be balanced against the defendant's "significant ... liberty interest [under the Constituti…

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