California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Petty, A130605 (Cal. App. 2013):
These excerpts are the closest the record comes to articulating a reason for the medication requirement. Exactly which medications were prescribed for which disorders, what their side effects might be, and whether the decision to decline to take such medications would increase the risk of future criminal conduct were matters that simply were not explored before the condition of probation was imposed. (Cf. People v. Christiana (2010) 190 Cal.App.4th 1040, 1052 [order for involuntary administration of antipsychotics to render defendant competent for trial reversed where exact diagnosis and prescription were not before court].) We find nothing in the record to show what defendant's symptoms are when he is unmedicated, exactly how the medications have benefited him, or (aside from the probation officer's prediction) whether continuing on antipsychotic medications would help him to avoid future criminality.
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