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Abstract: 

Charles Sell has suffered from mental illness in varying intensity since the 1980s, and he has an extensive history of hospitalizations. He was hospitalized at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Missouri, where the staff recommended that he receive antipsychotic medication. When Sell refused such treatment, the Medical Center’s administrators took the necessary steps to obtain permission to administer such medication without his consent. Juan Hernandez was arrested in 1992 after an incident in which he received a number of gunshot wounds, one of which did extensive damage to his hand. For medical reasons, surgeons decided not to remove the bullet fragments from his hand although fragments were removed from other parts of his body.

Keywords: Washington v. Harper, Riggins v. Nevada, Schizophrenic Process, antipsychotics, Hernandez v. Keane, Hathaway v. Coughlin, seizure disorder

Affiliations:  1: Pace University School of Law Library.