United States v. Mooney

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHADUR, Senior District Judge.

This Court has conducted an evidentiary hearing to consider whether defendant David Mooney (“Mooney”) “may presently be suffering from a mental disease or defect rendering him mentally incompetent to the extent that he is unable... to assist properly in his defense,” one of the criteria specified by 18 U.S.C. § 4241(a).1 To that end two witnesses testified: Psychologist Daniel Carlson, who is affiliated with FMC Rochester and studied Mooney during a period of observation and study at that institution, and private psychiatrist Richard…