Legal Opinion
Disability Law Center v. State
District Court, D. Utah
Decided April 7, 2016No. Case No. 2:15-cv-00645-RJSPublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER
ROBERT J. SHELBY, United States District Judge
This case is about the substantive due process rights of pretrial detainees who have been declared incompetent to stand trial. The State of Utah holds these pretrial detainees—who have been declared incompetent but have not been adjudicated guilty of a crime—in jail for extended periods while they wait to receive court-ordered competency restoration treatment. The question presented is whether the State is depriving these incompetent criminal defendants of their substantive due process rights under the United States…
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