SACRAMENTO A split U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday upheld a panel’s order giving a drug dealer with dementia a new sentencing hearing, denying a request to rehear the matter en banc despite the pleas of eight judges on the court.
Writing for the three-judge panel’s majority last year, Judge Stephen Reinhardt said Riverside County psychiatrist Joel Stanley Dreyer was improperly sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2010 because the district court judge failed to order a competency hearing.
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