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IN RE BOYD

Nos. 12962, 13045.

403 A.2d 744 (1979)

In re Lucille BOYD, Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 21, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Franklin Burgess, Jr., Public Defender Service, for appellant.

Constantine J. Gekas, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, Oscar Altshuler, and Richard W. Goldman, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on brief, for appellee.

Before NEWMAN, Chief Judge, and KELLY and FERREN, Associate Judges.

FERREN, Associate Judge:

This appeal presents one question: whether — in a nonemergency situation — the court may authorize a hospital to administer psychotropic drugs to a patient adjudicated mentally ill and incompetent, when that patient, before her illness and incompetency, had rejected any use of medication on religious grounds. Because it appears that the trial court did not give sufficient consideration to appellant's religious views as a Christian...

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