Curtis v. District Court of the Twenty-First Judicial District

We accepted original jurisdiction of these consolidated cases to address the following issue of first impression presented in Applications for Writ of Supervisory Control: Whether a defendant awaiting trial on criminal charges, who has been determined to lack the fitness to proceed, may be involuntarily medicated or treated for his underlying mental condition during the 90-day commitment period prescribed in § 46-14-221, MCA. We reverse orders of the Twenty-First Judicial District Court, Ravalli County, and the Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County, authorizing such involuntary…