Legal Opinion
Charles Laverne Singleton v. Larry Norris, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 10, 2003No. 00-1492PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Chief Judge.
Charles Laverne Singleton appeals the district court’s2 order denying his petition for writ of habeas corpus. The district court rejected Singleton’s contention that the administration of mandatory antipsy-chotic medication to a prisoner, initially constitutional under Washington v. Harper, 494 U.S. 210, 110 S.Ct. 1028, 108 L.Ed.2d 178 (1990), becomes unconstitutional once an execution date is set because at that time it ceases to be in the prisoner’s medical interest. After a divided panel of this court reversed, Singleton v. Norris, 267 F.3d 859 (8th Cir.2001), we…
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