State v. Jacobs

Opinion

This certified appeal involves the proper standard to be applied by the trial court in authorizing the involuntary medication of an incompetent criminal defendant to render him competent to stand trial. The state appeals from the Appellate Court’s affirmance of the trial court’s order involuntarily to medicate the defendant, Earl Jacobs, who is incompetent. The state challenges the Appellate Court’s conclusion that the defendant’s first and sixth amendment rights were implicated by the trial court’s order. We vacate the judgment of the Appellate Court.

The record reveals the following…