Donald E. Boyd v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al.

Whether the State of New Jersey’s administration of unreasonably high doses of the controlled psychotropic drug Xanax (i.e., dosages four times the manufacturer’s recommended starting dose) to Petitioner Donald E. Boyd while representing himself during his criminal trial violated his constitutional rights to counsel, a fair trial and due process?

Whether the State of New Jersey violated Petitioner Donald E. Boyd’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel by failing to consider the intervening change in circumstances in drugging him with unreasonably high doses of a controlled psychotropic drug, rendering his prior Faretta waiver no longer knowing, voluntary and intelligent at the time it was made one month earlier?

Whether it is unconstitutional for a state to prescribe and administer powerful doses of a controlled psychotropic drug to a criminal defendant acting as his own attorney during his criminal trial without an in-person or face-to-face evaluation by a prescribing physician or other medical professional?