Table 1

Legal Elements for Involuntary Medication to Restore Trial Competency (from Sell v. U.S.⁶)

Element	Criteria
1	Important government interests are at stake
2	Medication is substantially likely to render the defendant competent to stand trial and substantially unlikely to have side effects interfering with the fairness of the trial
3	Medication is necessary to further government interests and less intrusive treatments are unlikely to achieve the same results
4	Medications are “medically appropriate”