U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
United States v. Duane Berry
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- Type
- 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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