United States v. Duane Berry

JOHN K. BUSH, Circuit Judge.

*357 When the government seeks to involuntarily medicate a mentally incompetent defendant to restore his competency for trial, the government's prosecutorial interest must be balanced against the defendant's "significant ... liberty interest [under the Constitution] in avoiding the unwanted administration of antipsychotic drugs." Sell v. United States , 539 U.S. 166 , 178, 123 S.Ct. 2174 , 156 L.Ed.2d 197 (2003) (internal quotation marks omitted) (quoting Washington v. Harper , 494 U.S. 210 , 221, 110 S.Ct. 1028 , 108 L.Ed.2d 178 (1990) ). Aside from the potentially…