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U.S. v. ECKER

No. 93-3651.

30 F.3d 966 (1994)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. John ECKER, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 21, 1994.

Rehearing Denied August 25, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott Tilsen, Minneapolis, MN, argued, for appellant.

Friedrich Siekert, Minneapolis, MN, argued (David L. Lillehaug and Mary Jo Madigan, on the brief), for appellee.

Before LOKEN, Circuit Judge, BRIGHT and WEIS, Senior Circuit Judges.

BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge.

In 1989 the government indicted John David Ecker for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Because of Ecker's lengthy history of crime and mental illness, the District Court for the District of Massachusetts faced serious questions concerning Ecker's competency to stand trial. Several competency examinations followed, some of which found Ecker competent; other evaluations found him incompetent to stand trial at those times but with...

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