Charles Sell was hospitalized after he was (during his bail revocation hearing) adjudicated incompetent to stand trial. What was his response, when the hospital administered antipsychotic medications to him involuntarily?
A) Sell asserted his Sixth Amendment right to be represented by counsel when in police custody
B) Sell argued that it violated his Fifth Amendment right to "liberty to reject medical treatment"
C) Sell asserted that the Eighth Amendment ban against cruel punishments prohibits the execution of defendants while they are incompetent.
D) Sell took recourse to the Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination and the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and trial
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