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U.S. v. CHARTERS

No. 86-5568.

829 F.2d 479 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Michael Francis CHARTERS, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 18, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Rawles Jones, Jr. (William B. Moffitt, Lisa Bondareff Kemler, Moffitt & Jones, Alexandria, Va., on brief), for defendant-appellant.

Constance H. Frogale, Asst. U.S. Atty. (Henry E. Hudson, U.S. Atty., Alexandria, Va., Melissa Glassman, Third-Year Law Student, on brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge, and KAUFMAN, Senior United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

Michael Francis Charters appeals a district court order permitting medical personnel at the Federal Correctional Institution at Butner, North Carolina (Butner) to medicate him with antipsychotic drugs over his objection.

Charters was indicted in late 1983 for making threats against the President of the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 871. On February 1, 1984, the district court found Charters incompetent to stand trial...

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