Health Care & Hospital Law
Jan. 7, 2004
Court Restricts Forcible Medication of Offenders
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that mentally ill criminal offenders locked up in state hospitals cannot be forcibly medicated unless courts find them dangerous or incompetent to make decisions.
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