United States Ninth Circuit

A commitment order issued per 18 U.S.C. section 4241(d) is an immediately appealable collateral order; defendant's interlocutory appeal from his involuntary commitment and temporary incarceration would be effectively unreviewable on appeal from a final judgment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/06/2004
• Published 05/06/2004

Judges

• WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge., Before:  T.G. NELSON, W. FLETCHER, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Donald S. Frick, Sacramento, California, Donald Friedman, Butner, NC, for the defendant-appellant., Philip A. Ferrari, Office of the United States Attorney, Sacramento, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.