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Mentally Incapacitated Oregon Pretrial Detainees Denied Due Process
Loaded on April 15, 2004
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2004, page 36
Mentally Incapacitated Oregon Pretrial Detainees
Filed under:
Injunctions,
Standing,
Federal Statutory Law,
PAMII Act,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Involuntary Treatment/Drugging.
Location:
Oregon.
Denied Due Process
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that under Oregon law, state mental hospitals have a duty to accept mentally incapacitated criminal defendants for evaluation and treatment, once certified as mentally incapacitated by a circuit court. The court also held that the ...
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