United States Ninth Circuit

In defendant's appeal from a pretrial order finding her competent to stand trial, the appeal is dismissed where a pretrial competency determination was a non-final order and the collateral order doctrine did not apply.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/03/2009
• Decided 12/30/2009
• Published 12/30/2009

Judges

• FISHER, Circuit Judge:, Before: ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, RAYMOND C. FISHER and RICHARD A. PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Eric Vincent Carroll, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Great Falls, MT, for the plaintiff-appellee., R. Henry Branom, Jr., Assistant Federal Public Defender, Great Falls, MT, for the defendant-appellant.