231164P.pdf   12/05/2023  United States  v.  Felipe Lorthridge
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  23-1164
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] Kobes, Author, with Colloton and Grasz, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Sell order. The district court did not err in concluding 
   that the government had met its burden under Sell to compel defendant's 
   involuntary medication in order to restore his competency to stand trial; 
   defendant was charged with a serious firearms offense, and the special 
   factors he relies on to defeat the first Sell factor - the lack of a 
   connection between his crime and his mental disease and that he is not a 
   danger to himself of others - do not undermine this interest; further, the 
   record supports the government's position on the second and fourth Sell 
   factors - that the involuntary medication would further the government 
   interest and that medication is medically appropriate and in defendant's 
   medical interest.