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Mar 6, 2001 - 03:37 PM
Judge Rules Weston Can Be Medicated
By Derrill Holly
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a man accused of killing two U.S. Capital Police officers in 1998 can be forcibly medicated to treat his mental illness.
Russell E. Weston Jr. has a 20-year history of paranoid schizophrenia and for the past 2 1/2 years has refused to take medication that might make him competent to stand trial.
U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan has outlined the conditions under which doctors at a federal prison psychiatric facility in Butner, N.C., can forcibly administer psychiatric drugs. The ruling authorizes doctors to treat Weston involuntarily with the anti-psychotic drugs, despite objections from his defense counsel.
However, Sullivan gave Weston's lawyers until March 19 to appeal - ordering that nothing be done until then. Sullivan's rulings are subject to review by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Weston, 44, is from Valmeyer, Ill., but lived near Helena, Mont., part-time before his arrest. He is charged with the July 1998 murders of Officers Jacob J. Chestnut and John M. Gibson, who were shot and killed as they manned their posts at the U.S. Capitol building.
He is also charged with the attempted murder of Officer Douglas B. McMillan and faces three lesser weapons charges in connection with events preceding his arrest.
In his ruling, Sullivan cited testimony from Dr. Sally Johnson, a psychiatrist and associate warden at the Federal Correctional Institute who examined Weston.
Johnson testified last July that Weston was no longer capable of making decisions about his medical treatment. She also warned that without treatment his condition was likely to worsen.
------------ Joshua 24:15
Is this right? I say OK, how about you?
************
Mar 6, 2001 - 03:37 PM
Judge Rules Weston Can Be Medicated
By Derrill Holly
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a man accused of killing two U.S. Capital Police officers in 1998 can be forcibly medicated to treat his mental illness.
Russell E. Weston Jr. has a 20-year history of paranoid schizophrenia and for the past 2 1/2 years has refused to take medication that might make him competent to stand trial.
U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan has outlined the conditions under which doctors at a federal prison psychiatric facility in Butner, N.C., can forcibly administer psychiatric drugs. The ruling authorizes doctors to treat Weston involuntarily with the anti-psychotic drugs, despite objections from his defense counsel.
However, Sullivan gave Weston's lawyers until March 19 to appeal - ordering that nothing be done until then. Sullivan's rulings are subject to review by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Weston, 44, is from Valmeyer, Ill., but lived near Helena, Mont., part-time before his arrest. He is charged with the July 1998 murders of Officers Jacob J. Chestnut and John M. Gibson, who were shot and killed as they manned their posts at the U.S. Capitol building.
He is also charged with the attempted murder of Officer Douglas B. McMillan and faces three lesser weapons charges in connection with events preceding his arrest.
In his ruling, Sullivan cited testimony from Dr. Sally Johnson, a psychiatrist and associate warden at the Federal Correctional Institute who examined Weston.
Johnson testified last July that Weston was no longer capable of making decisions about his medical treatment. She also warned that without treatment his condition was likely to worsen.
------------ Joshua 24:15