Well that pretty much wins the "Sad Irony Championship" dunnit?

CALIFORNIA / Murder charge against former mental patient / He won the right to refuse antipsychotic drugs in '04 ruling:

"An ex-con and former mental patient who won a landmark state Supreme Court decision in 2004 that allowed hundreds of mental patients to stop taking forced medication appeared in an Alameda courtroom Friday on charges that he killed his roommate in September."

[Hat tip Warren Ellis.]