In the Supreme Court case Sell v.U.S.(2003),the Court ruled that

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The Supreme Court ruled in Sell v. U.S. (2003) that in cases that did not involve violence, courts must be very careful in ordering medication to treat mentally disordered offenders who refuse the medication. The Court held that the government has a significant interest in forcibly medicating mentally disordered defendants to make them competent to stand trial or face sentencing but that the medication may only be ordered if the defendant is dangerous, the medication is unlikely to cause side effects that would interfere with the defendant's ability to stand trial or face sentencing, and less intrusive alternatives are unlikely to achieve the same result. The Court also stated that any order for medication must take into account the defendant's liberty and autonomy interests.

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