KHIEM v. U.S.

No. 91-CO-1028.

612 A.2d 160 (1992)

Tran Van KHIEM, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 20, 1992.

Rehearing Granted, Opinion Amended and Reissued, Rehearing En Banc Denied August 18, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurie B. Davis, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein, Public Defender Service, and David L. Norman, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Thomas C. Black, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., G. Paul Howes and Stephen P. Anthony, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for U.S.

Janet L. Maher, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom John Payton, Corp. Counsel, Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, and Ann O'Regan Keary, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for the District of Columbia.

Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. and David W. Ogden, Washington, D.C., filed a brief for the American Civil Liberties Union of the National Capital Area as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

Armin U. Kuder and John V. Long, Washington, D.C., filed a brief for the Washington Psychiatric Society as amicus curiae, urging affirmance.

Before SCHWELB and WAGNER, Associate Judges, and GALLAGHER, Senior Judge.


SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

Appellant Tran Van Khiem (Khiem) was charged in 1986 with the premeditated murder of his parents. He was found incompetent to stand trial and is presently detained at Saint Elizabeths Hospital (the hospital). He now appeals from an order of the trial court directing that he be treated, over his objection, with psychotropic drugs. The primary purpose of the proposed treatment would be to render Khiem competent to stand trial.

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